I think you’re vastly underestimating just how personally disliked Hillary Clinton was. She could’ve promised free puppies and Federal hand jobs for all and there still would’ve been people that wouldn’t have voted for her.
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This wouldn’t be an issue if we weren’t bombing people half a world away on a daily basis. Taking on international terrorism is a policing action, not a military one.
I’m guessing you don’t like too many of Laura Wagner’s blog posts then.
Lol, by all accounts this is an actually not terrible possibility, especially compared to the other possible candidates you rattled off. So what, are you trying to pull some sort of reverse psychology here, as if anyone who has the president’s ear would tell him that Splinter thinks it’s a bad idea so he better for…
Mass shootings in schools are also a statistically non-existent scenario, yet here we are discussing what, if anything, we should do about them. The difference being, mass shootings in schools have happened. All of your hypotheticals could just as easily happen right now with any teacher that privately owns a gun.…
Except virtually every year since the 90’s the number of guns has gone up and the number of gun deaths has dropped. So no, your statement is factually incorrect.
Just a minor quibble, according to the Sun-Standard article, the report calls for allowing teachers to arm themselves if they so choose, not arming teachers. A minor but important distinction in my mind. It’s the difference between saying “You carry already in other aspects of your daily life, we’re not going to stop…
It’s really quite fascinating to see someone stick so doggedly to using gaslighting as a form of debate. Unfortunately the result is he never has anything actually valuable to say and just creates noise rather than actual discussion, which often times just distracts others who might actually have something of value to…
If you don’t have fresh seizures though, store bought is fine.
That may be so, but tell me who currently in the Senate could lead the Democrats better? And if they could, why aren’t they?
The nearest analogy that springs to mind is like if you had a dad that’s an alcoholic and everyone around you felt the need to remind you of that fact, all the time, and make sure to tell you how shitty your dad is at being a dad, while also doing nothing to address that with your dad whatsoever. Like, you know that…
If that was the model we were following, it would be better. Not great, but better. Unfortunately, we just deficit spend all the time, so unfortunately you get to a point where you either enact something like pay as you go in an attempt to reign in bad spending, or when the next bad time comes around, you’re really…
Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t realize we were moving goalposts now. We were talking about the participatory electorate, not all the people that couldn’t be bothered to vote or register to vote. I thought that was clear given we were talking about how individual states voted, but I can see how in your zeal to automatically be…
I couldn’t give two shits about Schumer. Don’t confuse the recognition that he’s a buffoon who also has no viable options distract from the fact that he doesn’t have the same playing field Senate Republicans did during Obama’s presidency. They could to a certain degree count on moderate and Blue Dog Democrats to, from…
That’s a fair critique, his leadership ability is probably most fairly described as milquetoast, but Democrats always have the problem of being an umbrella of competing ideas, whereas Republicans have a much easier time falling in lock step behind the leadership. Republicans are like a pack of dogs, Democrats are like…
I’d like you to point to the place on the political map where Schumer can actually do a goddamn thing to stop anything the Republicans actually want to do. Our best hope was way back before anyone had the idea of doing away with needing 60 votes for cloture, but apparently the rules that were meant to keep the Senate…
And if I had a nickel for every time I had to explain to someone how more than 50% of the electorate not voting for the candidate that won with a plurality of votes reflects badly on that candidate, I’d be able to fund a campaign for ranked choice voting to be on the next ballot in all 50 states.
Trump won Utah because Hillary Clinton split the vote with... *checks notes* Evan McMullin, who was even more conservative than Trump and a virtual unknown outside of Utah. More than half of Utah voters voted against Trump. He also won Utah with the lowest percentage of any Republican since 1992. Trump may have won,…