I listen to NPR over the air pretty much all the time. So I guess I am no one.

There’s two reasons: systemic sexism and anti-intellectualism. She’s smarter than 95%+ of the electorate, which makes a majority of people hate her because they think that any sign of intelligence is either elitist or insulting to them; and of course the underlying fear and hatred of successful, outspoken women.

“Critics find her...” is code for a rhetorical construct created by those who fear her very strength. Warren doesn’t lack charisma; to the contrary, she’s got it in abundance, and that’s precisely why this canard is repeated constantly - to convince people that they’re not seeing the very qualities they are seeing.

Charisma is useful for getting elected, but it doesn’t appear to have much advantage when it comes to governing.  See also “authenticity.”  We as a polity have some really messed up prioties in terms of what qualities we value in people who are vying for important jobs.

How to disarm America: Require all weapon owners to carry a minimum $1m liability policy for each weapon they own, with non-compliance being a Class A misdemeanor (6mo-1y, >$100k). At the same time, implement a generous over-market-value buyback program.

You know that scene in Groundhog Day where Bill Murray’s character is desperately trying to recreate a spontaneous snowball fight that had happened on one of his earlier ‘days’ .And just ended up running around ,fake laughing, trying to look excited but just looking terribly desperate . Well thats the VMAs.

I don’t get why there’s such a drive to defend the right for everyone to drive everywhere all the time. The high rate of car ownership hasn’t been around since the inception of the USA, or other countries, and it wasn’t around for the majority of the 20th century either. Car ownership really kicked up in the early…

Thank you for this write up. Its perfect and ill just link to it when i see some racist asshole (is there any other kind?) on Nextdoor cite this WSJ post.

I have long thought that LEDs could be used to enhance car-to-car communication. “Your high beams are on”, or “you have a flat tire”, or “your Murano convertible is hideous with those eyelashes”

I get why they’d choose 45, but isn’t that sort of a toxic association right now?

Not to mention, every manufacturer surely knows that the second a Democrat takes over (or possibly even some other republican), those emissions rollback are going to be rolled back... And they're only going to get stricter over time.  Either trump thinks he's going to be president for life, or that no one would dare…

Ok, but legit question for Air Force folks - How do I rewing the 30-50 feral Warthogs that fly into my yard within 3-5 mins while my ground troops play?

There could be much dumber moves than picking Julian Castro as VP for the sole purpose of having him work the Latino vote in Texas hard in the run up to the 2020 election.

If Texas and/or Florida shifts to reliably blue, the GOP is fucked as far as the WH goes. 

Clicked on the link, very heartwarming.

Glaude is spot on...I’ll give the folks at MSNBC some credit for just shutting the fuck up and letting the man speak. More of this, less of the other bullshit.

Let’s be real: on this very website, with a “supposedly feminist”/progressive readership, the comments section on posts advocating for paid maternity leave (without Google as a Big Bad) always have many commenters-“supposedly feminist”,  progressive commenters-complaining about maternity leave, usually along the lines…

I (a female POC) learned, through my last job in tech, to not trust HR with a complaint. My male boss made inappropriate comments to me during a one-on-one. I reported it to HR (a female POC). The next week MY performance was called into question as, in the interim, my boss had gone to 6 of my female (possibly 1 male) …

This is why I liked Beto in his senate race. To be clear, I don’t think he has the intelligence, temperament, or skills to be president, but he could have been a good senator because he listens, he’s on the ground, and he’s representing his voters. Maybe he’ll run for Congress again, someday.