Except that Krugman does not believe that free trade is the bogeyman that Bernie (and Trump) makes it out to be. He’ll admit that there are winners and losers with little impediment on imports and exports but argues (correctly, if you ask me) that overall there are more winners than losers thus free trade is a good…

Agreed, and it’s what I suspected during the interim between the election and the inauguration. I think Obama realized that being connected to any revelations that our incoming president and his team and (and seemingly the entire Republican Party at this point) were compromised and likely colluding with the fucking…

I’m honestly not sure how Cillizza still has a job. Who is giving him clicks? I honestly don’t understand it. There’s no insight, he’s not a provocateur, I’m not sure he has ever said or written anything that you couldn’t hear in a freshman policy seminar.

My favorite thing about conservatives who get upset about celebrities “getting political” is how they trot their own token conservative celebrities out the first chance they get:

Of course “State’s rights” Republicans are always keen to play that “Party of Lincoln” bullshit when Lincoln himself carried out the ultimate act of letting states know their wishes didn’t come before those of the country.

Because once upon a time, not that long ago, actually, as recent as the 1980 when I registered to vote for the first time, the Republican party’s primary chalice was fiscal responsibility and state’s rights, not hate. So I am a registered republican even though I haven’t voted for a republican for a national election…

How do people like this (and this age) call themselves “lifelong” Republicans? What values are today’s Republicans espousing that someone like this associates himself with? And are the subtleties between those positions and that of the Democrats enough to override the clear disagreement he would have on the values…

Give it up. BOTH the content and the source are important. When the source is a foreign country trying to influence a Presidential election that is important, every bit as important as the content itself. When the source is the administration’s own people, that is... well, it’s important in a whistleblower kindof way,…

Trump doesn’t need foreign hackers to leak his stuff, he inspires honest, hard-working white Americans to do it.

Every single Republican, and I am not just talking politicians, but regular people too, who doesn’t, at the very least, back away slowly from this lunatic, is a traitor to this country. That sounds like hyperbole, I know, but it isn’t.

There is an article in the NY Times about farmers in California who votes for Trump and now are just *shocked* that he is actually going to build a wall and crack down on immigration. They say (correctly) that doing so would just destroy the ag industry in California. Guess they should have thought of that before…

My crazy pro-45 FB friends are posting about how they don’t want to talk about politics anymore...you know, because their position is now indefensible.

Alternatively, run it three times up the middle for no gain, and miss the field goal. Coaches get hammered for going conservative and assuming that a ~40 yard FG is an automatic when it is not.

To be fair, what’s fighting another straw man to Curt?

Like everyone, I’m grasping for positives, so here goes another one.

Norv is great when he has exactly what he needs, which he doesn’t. He doesn’t adapt well at all to changes. If I had to see Bradford take another 5 step drop I might have cut my own dick off.

Yeah, but according to John Smoltz, the Cubs should be encouraged by loading the bases with no outs and coming away with zero runs.

this is all very high level strategy, tactics, and execution on Cleveland’s part, but what if the cubs have a pajama party or have a bunch of alpacas in the locker room before a game? what then?

I mean, what can the left realistically do? Isn’t it up to more moderate republicans to take back their party?