I honestly needed to read a news story about the One Percent’s maids and manservants in charge of this party starting to worry.  I feel for Krueger and her blood pressure, but this cheered me up immensely.

Trump is the best thing to happen to Democratic Party fundraising since George Bush. The party’s leadership is in no hurry to see their golden goose go away.

I was getting worried about the number of progressive candidates splitting the votes of decent human beings, allowing a Diet Republican to sneak through to the nomination.  Lo and behold, the Clintonoids are splitting their vote as well.  Run, McAuliffe, run!

It was clear from the outset that there was never going to be an outcome where the current generation of Democratic Party leaders cracked down on the influence of foreign governments in American elections. The recent bit of performance art they staged over Ilhan Omar’s comments about AIPAC was proof of that.

Gabbard’s usefulness to the party’s conservative wing, as a potential decoy to draw primary votes away from real left wing candidates, seems apparent enough.  Her usefulness to me, if her run for President ever happens, will be in the way conservative Democrats and the media operations sympathetic to them will out…

I saw Puerto Ricans marching with signs in front of Univision’s headquarters once, because the channel’s content was supposedly “too Mexican.”

Oh my God, the edit at 1:20 to show that time has passed, and Karen is still fucking with that turkey, trying to get it to chase her so she can be performatively scared. I can’t breathe. Send help.

My favorite part of this is the cover that Stewart is providing Tim Kaine, by trying to frame him as pro-antifa instead of as the deregulation-happy bank stooge that he is. The parties really do seem to play Good Cop and Bad Cop deliberately.

Probably whenever they get a new prison manager, looking to polish his resume by being hard on the inmates.

The fakeout of putting a “Christian customer getting harassed by atheist business” headline on what’s actually a “black customer harassed by white business owner” story is clever and appreciated. Well done.

They trusted the Thin Blue Line not to leak that footage to the press. Which tells me that this wasn’t their first time assaulting someone for no reason with the cameras rolling.

This is a fundraising measure. It’s an attempt to tell corporate sponsors that they’ll be better contractors than the Democrats will.

“How dare you ask me that question, just look at all the women subordinates I surround myself in my office, would I do that if I was a sexual harasser”

The turning point in the show after Archie’s life was saved by a blood transfusion from a black woman was so profound that they ended up just cancelling All In The Family and creating a new show around the transformed Archie Bunker character. Comparisons to Rosanne are like apples and oranges.

The classic “pimpin’ ain’t easy” defense.

My take on what the film depicts is that, as Bowman becomes aware of each older version of himself, and as each older version in turn becomes the point of view character, we’re watching a wiser and more advance layer of mind come online and awaken within him. It’s not a montage; his evolution takes as much time as the…

“Kushner is a proponent of correction-system reforms and more lenient federal sentencing”

You made the right choice. I kept hoping that the Gap novels would get better (I got them as a set), and the closest that the protagonist ever gets to justice is when her son (the product of one of her rapes) punches her first rapist in the face one time for her.

I had a company commander who was a fuckup at land navigation. He got his company lost in the woods in a training exercise, Captains are held to a higher standard than that, and the resulting letter of reprimand from a General meant that he’d never command again. He finished his service obligation as a staff officer…

At the leadership level, the Democratic Party would rather lose to a Republican than win with a liberal. This is not a new problem or a local one. It’s the reason why they hold their presidential primaries in southern states first, to give a false sense of momentum to the war hawk candidate.