Listen, there’s one axiom that I tell people all the time: If you don’t know how to do your job drunk, then you don’t know how to do your job.*

I don’t know if it would’ve been enough either, but it sure as hell wouldn’t have hurt. A few thousand less votes on the coasts would have barely registered. A few thousand more votes in the Midwest would’ve swung the election.

Except where progressive candidates ran outside of decidedly liberal areas, they lost. So a progressive running in an already liberal district can drag their district further left if they’re the only liberal option, but they aren’t doing the same thing in rural Alabama. The idea that there’s all these secret…

Some random thoughts I had while reading this article:

Clearly, not enough. Time spent in New York and California would’ve been better spent in other places. Like maybe, hey, all these states that had voted for Democratic presidential candidates for the last 30 years but have slowly become more and more Republican? Those might be places one would’ve wanted to invest…

Jesus. Hillary didn’t lose because she was a centrist candidate. She lost because people on both sides were sick of the last 30 years of Hillary Fucking Clinton and she ran the most entitled lackadaisical campaign in recent memory. Whomever was feeding her polling data and telling her where to go really screwed the…

I absolutely loved my 3.0L V6 A4, but damn did it find ways of costing me money. If I made twice as much as I do now, I would get another A4 in a heartbeat, but that’s the only way I’d feel comfortable keeping up on the maintenance and repairs.

I lost the title to one of my cars and it didn’t even occur to me to sell it without getting a duplicate title first. Like, I’m the one selling it, it’s my responsibility to have a title for the buyer.

Most people could probably survive a week furlough with minimal discomfort. But how much longer could you go? Two weeks? A month? A year? Realism dictates that eventually even the most well intentioned person is going to reach their breaking point. You might be in the position that you could transition to the private…

Or, for those that don’t work for the Federal government or don’t directly depend on money/services that comes from the Federal government, they’d look around and see that their lives are almost entirely unchanged by a shutdown and it would reinforce their views that they don’t need a bunch of out of touch fat cats in…

I find it more likely that his tax returns just show how embarrassingly little money he actually has rather than any tangible fraud. Trump doesn’t give a shit about people thinking he’s a cheat, and he’d just blame it all on accountants making mistakes or being fraudulent anyway, and not anything he personally did…

Under normal circumstances, if Congress presented the President with an insane, unworkable budget, he would be duty bound to veto it and tell them to come back with something better.

You say that like they would act any differently regardless.

Exactly. If the Democrats can manage to not completely trip over their dicks in the next two years, that will be a marginal success all things considered.

And he will say it’s because they wouldn’t deal with him on building a wall and they don’t care about border security and people will believe it. Right now the best thing Democrats can do is figure out what the least amount of money they can commit to it is and then hope it gets tied up in normal government red tape…

It’s like they thought Democrats taking a majority in the House was going to magically fix all our problems without taking into account that Democrats in the House don’t have a 2/3 majority and don’t even have a majority in the Senate much less getting a 2/3 majority veto override there. Republicans not controlling…

He shouldn’t, but he will. So, you either accept that it will happen, or you negotiate to make a bad deal more palatable. One of Trump’s few skills is that he makes his problems literally everyone else’s problems to solve.

And yet, which will harm more people? Allocating what is, unfortunately, a trivial amount of the budget to his stupid wall, or the government literally not functioning for a protracted period of time? Like I said, there’s virtually nothing that a Federal government shutdown would do that would significantly impact my…

Even after January, they don’t have the votes, because they don’t hold a 2/3 majority in both the House and Senate to override a Presidential veto. Trump can keep rejecting spending bills until 2020 if they don’t include any funding for his dumbass “wall”. He literally has no reason to move on this point, the…

While I wouldn’t personally care if the government shut down, there are plenty of people who would be negatively affected, so I’m just curious what strategy you expected them to employ in this case? Democrats don’t have enough votes in either the House or Senate to override a Presidential veto, so the only thing…