I am probably twice your age. Anyone this old understood exactly what she meant, which was NEVER USE SOAP ON YOUR FACE. For 40 years I have moisturized with Nivea, two seconds, removed make up with a cleanser, three seconds, then troweled on the Ponds at night, 2 seconds. My face feels like that of a baby’s bum and my …

Even if you’re ignoring Congress and governing by legislative order the results are limited.  Take Trump.  While there’s stuff we’re going to spend years, perhaps decades trying to repair (like our relationships with our allies) all his regulatory stuff can be reversed immediately.  Bernie can do whatever he wants in…

Only because of Trump and a favorable court ruling.  As designed it was supposed to be insulated from political influence like that.  So it speaks well to Warren’s judgment.  Even so it’s much much more than Sanders has ever accomplished, despite having spent much longer in politics. 

Would it kill you to admit that Comey screwed her over and America elected Trump because they were still reeling from electing a black president? Hillary helped get more substantive legislation passed AS FIRST LADY than Bernie has in his entire career. If he’s the nominee I will vote for him. If Barney Fife is the…

For me, one of the biggest indicators of the cult of personality wrt Bernie is the lack of support for Warren.  She believes in the same kind of shit that he does, but is much more skilled at actually getting things done.  Hell, she created the CFPB even before she entered Congress and that’s much much more than…

There’s a legitimate debate about incrimentalism vs #revolution, but that’s not what she’s saying in this quote.  Whine all you want, but achieving actual legislative and legal accomplishments isn’t about sloganeering.  Bernie is very good at sloganeering.  But Clinton is making the case that he’s terrible at the…

I actually feel that way (more or less) about Sanders. Wasn’t that excited about Clinton’s candidacy, voted Sanders in the primary. And I’ve regretted that vote ever since. The more I know about him, the less I like him. And the fact that I am subjected to a daily/weekly/monthly drumbeat of “Sanders would have won.”…

She does speak some truth though. He was a johnny come lately to the Democratic party, just to self servicingly win the presidency, who then complained that he wasn’t treated like a long standing member. His tepid endorsement of Hilary followed by his bros spouting “Never Hillary” nonsense certainly didn’t help her…

She’s the most exonerated politician in maybe the whole history of the world. I think any effort to promote public knowledge about the often criminal conspiracies to defame and destroy her from 1992 to this very day is worthwhile. I’m going to watch it.

It’s a mess of Susan Sarandons up in here. There are people who will blame HRC for anything. They are ready to blame a potential 2020 loss on her for not “going away”. Meanwhile she is so relevant that if she were to announce she is running today Biden, Buttigieg and Klobuchar will be done and Warren’s support wouldbe…

Stop asking Hillary to “fade into obscurity/go away”. She doesn’t owe you jack shit. Election win or no, she’s still arguably the most prominent female politician in the country, save Pelosi, Warren and maybe AOC. That’s an interest all the whining in the world won’t erase. And claiming she’s going to ‘lose us the…

I’ll be the rare one. I voted for Hillary because I’d admired her for decades. I remember being a little kid and visiting my extended family in Arkansas and hearing the adults talk about how scandalous it was that she hadn’t taken Bill’s name until pressed to do at Bill’s second go round as Governor. 6 year old me,…

I know exactly what it is. He’s a progressive who prefers to speak in terms of class exclusively while disregarding “identity politics” as having much importance. Therefore attracting progressives who are aware of class dynamics, but not necessarily self aware or introspective enough to see how their own pre…

I often find myself wondering what it is about him that he attracts that sort of person, or that he activates that in some people. Obviously Bernie appeals to plenty of people who don’t see misogyny as the appropriate reaction to a political disagreement. I’d say that type of person (male and female) who lash out with…

Here ya go

This is the most intellectually dishonest argument I have ever heard.

And yet, it’s in character for her to lie? At best, I could see this as Bernie saying that he thinks that it would be more difficult for a woman to win due to endemic sexism in the American populace, but he didn’t respond or clarify in a way that leads one to think that. A flat denial does nothing except to polarize…

I go back to what a feminist author once said:

Yeah, literally the (paraphrasing) version of “She brings no new base beyond those coastal-elites and upper-class who will vote D no matter what and only I can bring in a different group” was really, really as close to dogwhistling “That’s a nice party you have there, it would be a shame if anything were to happen to…