What if this is all some weird Manchurian Candidate type deal and Kanye actually plans to off the president? Weirder things have happened.

Real talk: I’m pretty sure Kanye is off his bipolar meds again. Like, sure he’s a musical genius, but he’s also legit mentally ill. Unfortunately most of the people in and around his life are more concerned with benefiting from his illness than him managing it.

This from the guy that complained when a sandwich shop didn’t take cash and they STILL gave him the sandwich!

I didn’t say it was believable, I’m just trying to look for the best case scenario in our current dystopian hellscape.

So, for maximal benefit of the doubt, we don’t know how long this student has identified as transgender. Perhaps it’s been a while, perhaps they came out this week. We just don’t know. So while in reality actually giving a shit which bathroom you send them to is in fact incredibly stupid, we don’t know how much if any…

Lol, boy howdy if you think I’m a Democrat, you’re in for a shock. I just appreciate the position they’re fucked into given how skillfully Republicans have manipulated things while Democrats have stood around for years, dick firmly in hand.

Then Manchin will lose, an actual Trump sycophant will get the seat, and Democrats will have an even narrower avenue for taking control of the Senate. Congrats! You’ve successfully cut off your nose to spite your face. Progressives should vote for the most liberal candidates they can get if they actually want to have…

This has to be about the dumbest thing to come out of the whole trans/bathroom issue. If there’s a real emergency situation is anyone going to be denying someone access to a designated shelter area just because of the junk in their pants? Like, if there’s a tornado bearing down on the school and a male student is…

Has he actually said he’s running on the WFP ticket though?

Let’s see, Hillary Clinton muffed the biggest presidential election of our generation and learned nothing from it, and Bill Clinton is a sex predator. Yes, these are definitely people that should still be talking and telling the rest of us what we should do.

Yeah... I don’t think Pence not having to vote on this budges which side he ends up on to future historians. Unless of course those future historians are Christian Scientists trying to understand what happened before The Collapse.

And unless he was a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-level orator, it would have accomplished nothing as Republicans had enough votes without him. It would have been 50-49 instead of 50-48. So his masterful oratory would have had all the effect of a loud, wet fart.

Basically? Because he says he is. It’s like how Bernie Sanders calls himself an Independent even though he caucuses and votes with Democrats.

Interesting that WV Democrats would highlight that fact to their own voters, was that during the primary?

No but if cynicism is going to make someone stay home on election day, they probably weren’t that invested in voting to begin with. I get that pragmatism isn’t cool, but sometimes it’s necessary to lick your wounds and back off on a fight you can’t win to be ready for one you might be able to win. They weren’t winning…

In this case I would define worse, at least as far as the Democrats are concerned, as having someone in that seat that votes 100% or near as makes no difference against their interests and even more importantly, someone who doesn’t caucus with them in a midterm where they have a slight chance of flipping the Senate if…

And even if there are physically enough people, it’s an entirely other prospect actually getting them to turn up at the polls and cast a ballot. Old white people show up to vote reliably. Young idealists do not. Find a way to flip that and maybe you’re on to something.

Fine, because I don’t have any skin in the game either way, most of all because I don’t live in West Virginia. If it was up to me they’d all get voted out and replaced with people with very different views and goals. But that doesn’t mean I can’t analyze the situation he’s found himself in. In fact it probably makes…

Beto hasn’t “done it” yet. Got to actually get those college kids to show up on election day for it to mean anything.

Probably the fact that in the case of West Virginia, where the hell are you getting all these “progressives”? I don’t think as many bastions of progressivism exist outside of NYC as people think there are.