This is the fight that we wage against ourselves and each other, because America is not natural. Natural is tribal.

Eh, I wouldn’t be mad at them.

It’s legitimately embarrassing to think I live in a country where enough people would vote for a human being capable of making these statements publicly that they could win a seat in what is one of the 3 most powerful institutions in the United States.

No, there are plenty of options for punching them in the teeth besides starting a war. For starters, we could reaffirm our commitment to NATO and focus on both economic sanctions and on providing aid to countries that have a harder time turning away Russia as a trading partner than we do.

Yet another great example of the comforting lie being substituted for the hard truth.

I disagree that a $15 minimum wage is the last war. If you fight that war absent of fighting the conditions that allow companies to pay less than a living wage and still find job candidates by the truck full, which is that our labor force needs to be reshaped to fit the needs of our economy in 2016, then there are…

Yet that is the vision that Trump peddled, and if we’re being honest, it’s the vision that Bernie Sanders peddled and to a lesser extent, Hillary Clinton.

I mean, so what you’re saying is that because the US’s election meddling and regime change has been a parade of failure, we should just stand by and let Russia meddle in our affairs?

Now that the election is over, I imagine the belching volcano of election-themed games and DLC will recede back into slumber.

I think the bigger issue is the contract in question, because as others have noted, the law is sort of mushy on this front.

Go back to earth and be a female astronaut working for NASA in the Trump administration, or accidentally miss the return shuttle and have to wait another several months for the next one?

You mean $350,000 openly and legally sent to an organization that operates out in the open and does a plethora of things?

Eh, jail, not so much, but hopefully the judge lifts his leg, gives a big wet fart at Mr. Loeb’s excuse for not revealing the names, and dismisses the case.

Right? Dwight Eisenhower would be rolling in his grave if he could see the state of the Republican party right now, for more reasons than just Trump’s horrible foreign policy ideas.

I pass no judgement on Russia for doing what it can to get policy more favorable to itself.

And? You act as if that isn’t something that those governments don’t get understandably pissed off about.

Climate change is another great example. On this front, Democrats are a bit more realistic than they are on trade, but at the end of the day, the narrative tilts so hard because Republicans refuse to contemplate any meaningful action.

And yet Trump’s positioning as a teller of hard truths was—and is—identity politics

Boiling the election results down to Russian interference alone is ridiculous, of course; we’re dumb and racist enough to have shot ourselves in the dick all on our own. And Clinton has blamed the loss, in part, on the the FBI reopening an investigation into her emails.

Happy enough that he’ll realize you are in fact the one he wants to marry.