This is so heartbreaking in so many ways. It reminds me what an absolute blessing the gift of sobriety is.

Having just spent last week at the hospital detoxing my dad, this is a depressing read. I’d like to think he might actually stop drinking this time, but it is so unlikely.

I think that’s over-hyped. Typically it’s the capital requirements over teh regulatory barriers. It depends whether it’s regulatory capture or not. Seems like some of the worst capture is stuff like cosmetology licenses.

And remember guys, this is a Democrat thing as much as a Republican thing. Matt Stoller’s article in the Atlantic talks about how Dems dropped the ball on anti-trust (Thomas Frank has written great stuff as well about Dems and anti trust as well)

Your post (and most of the others in this thread) are missing the point here. No one is surprised that political operatives (especially campaign staff) are worried about the impact on the election/her choices to be elected.

I saw this on the interwebs somewhere - not sure who it’s attributed to - but god damn it is spot on and worth a re-post elsewhere.

You think staffers care about congress? They care about making everything about their candidate spin positive. Thats how they keep their jobs.

I know right. Emails showing she has a public and private stance on policies. Emails showing the Democratic party undemocratically (if thats a word) pushed Bernei out of contention and nominated Hillary. Emails showing Waserman calling Latinos “taco bowl voters” Hillary referring to Bernie supporters as basement…

This might not be a big deal, but your take is objectively wrong.

“Nativist ham ogre”

But thats my point. Don’t say “smart people are in denial” if their reasoning lines up more with someone else’s math. Say “here’s my case for why my kung-fu is the strongest”.

This is the problem. All of these sites publish their data methods. He should be poking holes in their assumptions or algorithms, not bringing in unfalsifiable just-so stories. It’s his web site’s job to replace those modes of explanation.

It’s amazing how the media has whipped up a horse race JUST IN TIME for the debates, this has to be perhaps the most coincidental set of circumstances of all time! 

That’s exactly what they want if Hillary is forced to start everything she says by that’s a lie and correcting lies, she spends all her time correcting shit spew and very little time on anything meaningful.

While there are opinions, there also exists reality. Things that have and have not happened; things that do and do not exist. This sounds very obvious, but people seem to be increasingly forgetful that reality exists.

Do they like sports? A debate is no different. Two teams or two athletes play each other. Each team or athlete has an offense and a defense. The same for debaters. Their offense is their own views. Their defense is responding to their opponents’ views.

A debate in which that is the case requires that some base level of commonly accepted facts exists. This is not the case with Trump, who continues to insist on provably false statements like “I was against the war in Iraq” (he was for it, until later he was against it when everyone was realizing it had been a bad…

The problem with the ‘let the candidates sort it out’ approach is that corrections by the candidates themselves are seen as more partisan attacks. They are ‘within the game’ of political dispute; it is expected that the opposing candidate would object. The result is that differences over clear falsehoods look no…

Particularly frustrating that so many well-meaning, progressive people seem to define racism purely in terms of attitudes and language rather than structural economic forces. You can’t solve this by yelling at people for using problematic language on Twitter. But that stuff sucks up such a huge portion of the…