I replied to another commenter about this, but when I was young I wanted to work for NASA and maybe even be an astronaut, and I had a guy tell me to my face that women can’t be astronauts because something something anatomy. That was like 15 years after Sally Ride went into space. There are actually people who…

When I was in my early teens, I wanted to be an astronaut or otherwise work for NASA, and I literally had a guy tell me to my face that women biologically can’t be astronauts because of something to do with anatomy and g-forces. (That was quite a few years after Sally Ride famously went into space, but sexists dudes…

Yup. 45% tariffs mean that either: 1) the cost of computers, cell phones, furniture, and everything else made overseas will go up in price massively, or 2) the factories will come back, and be almost completely automated.

Yep, and one rich black man. Diversity! (Edit: Forbes says Ben Carson is worth ~$25m, just FYI.)

Lindsay Graham says they hacked his e-mail too, not just the RNC. Which makes me doubly impressed at him actually standing up to Trump and trying to investigate the hacking, because you know the Russians have enough evidence to out him.

WaPo is a *very* credible newspaper with a lot of high-level insider sources. They’ve broken many stories this way.

I’m not sure that’s where it’ll end up. I think it’s quite possible that Putin is manipulating Trump through intermediaries, rather then the two of them directly colluding. There are a lot of possibilities. But the Trump camp had to have known something shady was up.

I know socialists and anarchists, and poke my head around that part of the internet sometimes since I’m to left of the Democrats on some issues. I have never seen anyone actually on the far left say that. I’m talking about people that considered Bernie a compromise candidate who was more conservative than they’d like.…

Social Security is extremely popular even among conservative voters, and gutting it will be a really hard sell for the GOP.

On a related note, I’m interested to see what happens when Trump 1) finds out he can’t make government employees sign NDAs to protect his image, the way he does with his employees, 2) politicians and officials leak classified/secret info to the Washington Post on the regular like they always do, and 3) he realizes…

Russia and Iran were very close before the nuclear deal. Which probably explains some things about the opposition to it.

In US history, there’s only been one bachelor president and IIRC his niece was First Lady. It’s possible to go without one,  but it’s never been done in the US.

The problem is the *business* and the conflict of interest, though, not her being First Lady and using the office space that’s normally used by the First Lady. The latter is weird, but has precedent. The former is a major problem and likely source of corruption, whether or not she’s First Lady - though admittedly,…

If she’s acting as First Lady, that’s not nepotism, because that role normally falls to a family member (wife or otherwise). And we’ve certainly seen First Ladies be politically involved.

Let’s stop going back to the same old guys and come up with some new potential candidates. There are lots of Democrats who are current or ex-governors and mayors and congress members, as well as people outside the government in unions, non-profits, etc.

I think that after 4 years of Trump, people will probably be in…

Speaking of Zemo coming back, how much you want to bet they’re going to do Thunderbolts?

Plus, I suspect he had some contingency plan, like kill everyone with poison gas, in case the video thing didn’t work out like he wanted.

C’mon, Trump probably doesn’t even know who those guys are. He likes *famous* rich people.

Trump and Pence are almost certainly the poorest people at that table, for whatever that’s worth.

Without knowing what they were doing, it’s all speculation. But you must know that the Secret Service and the Pentagon are coming up with a boatload of contingency plans for how to control the airspace around Trump Tower and how to rescue the future President and his family out of their home in case of military…