This should be highlighted and repeated. There is virtually no difference between the Trumpers and the #NeverTrumpers. They are all Republicans. They support the exact same shitty regressive Republican policies.

“some V.A. type nightmare”

Yeah, I always laugh when a conservative starts lecturing me about what Democrats need to do to win. Oh, you don’t say - if they start just BEING REPUBLICANS they’ll get Republican votes?!

It’s called concern trolling and it’s the worst.

What annoys me the most about this column - and the works of Stephens and David Brooks in particular - is their insistence on couching their bullshit purely as impartial advice for Democrats. It’s always “the party will lose elections if they don’t say/do this thing that I believe in” instead of “the party should say/…

I enjoy that he employs the conservative method of, “I’m very smart and enlightened but most Americans are dumb rubes. So when I discuss them, I just envision the dumbest most dog shit idiot and say that is who you must win over."

I don’t know why so many people are looking for Never Trump Republicans to suddenly seek some great absolution for their lifetime of evildoing simply because they profess to not like Trump. They’re still exactly the same arrogant, disingenuous pricks they were before; that’s what they’re paid to be. It’s literally…

One thing I hate about writers is when they write something that causes a swift and broad backlash, and their defense is “You misunderstood what I meant,” as if that is a valid defense for a person whose job it is to convey ideas to third-parties via the written word. I write for a living, and if someone who is…

“They come here to eat our delicious roast beets and sausage stews that we eat for our single meal a day. They take our jobs shucking iron in the Steel Crop Fields of which we make our careers. When we come home to listen to the daily radio telecast, they are speaking a different language.”

“Today I wrote a piece attempting to explain the view of ordinary people (i.e. people who agree with me)." -Posted from inside a luxury bunker penthouse, eating raw oysters on furniture made of poor people standing very still. 

Owner of one of the all-time best Wikipedia quotes:

Her fetus and bullet necklaces would definitely help lighten up the once quarterly press briefing. 

Inevitable sure (a friend’s AIM profile: “Want to go grab a pizza before the war?”), but it was way worse than this. Right now, not going to war is at least considered a respectable position in the mainstream. Before Iraq, it felt the like the mainstream sentiment was that if you didn’t want to go war you were a naive…

People keep arguing with me about this but I stand by it - I think another war will be unpopular with his base. Now, do I think that they would abandon him over it? No. But I think he is weighing that in. The wars we are already in are unwinnable and unpopular, and a huge percentage of military personnel and families…

Hillary wouldnt have halted our ever lasting love affair with foreign intervention but that headline is ludicrous. But looking at the author, it's not surprising. She'll keep her obsession with the clintons and jacking off to every bad piece of news about them until she dies

Is this what the build up to the Iraq War felt like?  It’s all so dumb, yet it feels inevitable.

HamNo, you and Tom McKay need to speak to each other on the Gizmodo slack channel or something. McCay dropped this tidbit on twitter the other day:

I say this as a former Army officer, but war is too cheap now. With drones, cruise missiles, and near impenetrable tanks, it’s just dollars down the hole. As Robert E. Lee said “It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.” We’ve made war cheap and cheapened lives in the end.

It would be so cool if we could actually learn from our past mistakes.

Speaking of the NYT: