“the people who actively run our government now have no idea how google works, buy into the conspiracy that google’s making conservatives look bad, want to know how google got a picture of them onto an iphone game and demanded a phone line tutorial on how to use google”

How many of you make a comfortable six figures?

You can’t even bother here.

I mean holy fucking shit right?

“Maybe because he speaks to and fights for the needs of the [young mostly white] people (including the poor) instead of looking for ways to sell them out.”

Completely and totally comparable to a man whose policy positions on matters involving race are somewhere between ignorant and willfully ignorant. Probably closer to the latter.

“What it means is that the notion of Sanders having some special problem with nonwhite voters isn’t actually a thing.”

Ok?

Bernie Sanders is two years removed from his complete and utter failure to speak to PoCs derailing his campaign and he’s still fucking it up. The fact that you, in 2018, believe it might be cognitive dissonance that minority voters passed on the guy that demonstrated and continues to demonstrate that he has zero clue…

“But what actually matters about this story is that O’Rourke broke a campaign promise that he made to environmentalist organizations, at a time when climate change is more threatening and immediate than ever.”

Putting on a good show for all the Splinter progressives whose primary interest in politics is divorced from political reality (and math)?

Ding ding ding ding.

The party of “the federal government can work” does not get to involve itself in government shutdowns. Period. That is the consequence of taking that position.

“Unlike most nakedly ambitious presidential contenders”

“Framing motherhood as voluntary is fairly problematic for a lot of reasons, not least of which is the tricky economic/policy situation that sub-replacement birth rates result in, and framing the prioritization of family over career in service of motherhood comes perilously close to equivalency with the former.”

If the gap were evened out this hypothetical average American woman would likely be making very different decisions compared to an actual, average, American woman.

It’s not nearly as childish as what you’ve described.

The amusing part of this is that spending money on ignorant crap is a great example of why most people don’t end up wealthy despite having the means to do so. It’s not so much a reminder of income inequality as much as just how stupid a lot of people are with money.

“In the U.S., healthcare is very expensive. There’s a bevy of statistics to prove this—we spend $3.5 trillion a year or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as other countries, for example—but you already knew that.”

“Not true if you have a match or your employer doesn’t offer after tax contributions.”