Here’s the thing I don’t think Ryan understands: Trump doesn’t need Congress to do whatever the fuck he wants about setting up a deportation force.

You’re right, we don’t. Which brings us back to my original point in all this: we have to do our own research. We have to get the facts for ourselves. When the media reports something, we need to follow-up on our own, and we need to spread truth, not guesses. We live in an era where the whole of human history, from…

I don’t think you remember his first campaign very well if you think that’s all they hit him with. And you certainly don’t remember his second.

It’s not a matter of caring about the Bush administration, or about the other guy doing something worse. The narrative was that Clinton did something that no other Secretary of State ever did and that she should be jailed for it.

You started this. You opened up this thing by defending your statement with “I’m comfortable guessing [...]”

Sorry, I like the dark gray and dark red combo. They do work together.

Is it? Because the Bush administration lost 22 million of them and I didn’t see any Trump supporters calling for heads to roll over that recently.

I think it’s fair to say that it likely was.

I’m pretty comfortable guessing

True, and that would solve the problem of conscientious objectors - they would have to just show up and spoil the ballot. But it doesn’t solve the issue of people who can’t, for whatever reason, show up. For reasons as mundane as “my car broke down” to “I couldn’t get out of work” to “I couldn’t get a babysitter”.…

I disagree. Mandatory means penalties for non-participation, and that hurts people that can’t participate, don’t feel that they can because they don’t know enough about the candidates, or who want to be conscientious objectors. It would disproportionately affect low-income and low-education citizens.

50% didn’t see a need to show up at all, which is frightening.

My sister-in-law, whom I adore, won’t be coming for Christmas this year. She won’t be able to be around her husband’s, my wife’s, parents. And I don’t blame her.

What I’m seeing here is that we liberals need to move inland. Start affecting those central red states a bit. It’s fantastic that we basically own California, Oregon and Washington, but that’s not helpful if the entire middle of the U.S. is so homogenized that it basically becomes White Guy Central.

My in-laws voted Trump. My wife and I voted Clinton, so we at least had a canceling effect here in Texas. I won’t talk to them about it because I can’t stand them, but she had lunch with them yesterday and managed to get them to explain themselves.

You know what, Ashley? Fuck you. Just fuck you.

ProTip: get some rubber gloves on (trust me) and pull it out. It’s disgusting - especially if you’ve never cleaned it before. Do that right before you run the dishwasher and just throw it in with the dishes. No muss, no fuss.

They don’t have to be. You guys are really downplaying how easily this can all go away.

The Tea Partiers in Congress do. And as soon as Trump wants something this is leverage they have on him. “You want that project funded? Fine, authorize the DEA to crack down on the dispensaries.”

And he’s working with a re-elected Tea Party extremist Congress. But sure, if you want to go with the argument that Trump will be a dictator and having those extremists in Congress won’t matter, we can roll with that, too.