are you fucking insane

At least for The West Wing and The Newsroom, I think it’s because all of his characters have insane levels of memory recall that most people (other than high-functioning autistic people) don’t have. They’re all smug, winning arguments fixes problems in politics and media in his shows, and everyone has some list of…

I mean, no they haven’t. She has a Super PAC that’s being run by a former c-level from a fossil fuel group:

Sure, but again, that’s not Nazis doing Nazi shit for the most part, that’s Americans (and to a lesser extent, Soviets) scooping up fascists for their own purposes. If you wanna talk about secret Nazi operations, check out the CIA’s masterful Operation Gladio, an attempt to foment terrorism in order to stifle…

The issue is that it misses the whole fucking point. In Austria, one of the main parties (the super fashy one) was started by an SS officer after the war. In West Germany a shit ton of Nazis sat in the government as elected officials after the war. The Nazis we failed to hunt weren’t in some secret cabal. The ones who…

Great write-up, that show sucks so much shit! If you want really great insights into what working class people put up with, as well as a look into what the Midwest is like in the era of Trump, I highly recommend the Street Fight Radio podcast. Just a couple of dumb-smart guys in Columbus, Ohio talking about what life…

I have my doubts about whether people whose career interests benefit from hating Bernie Sanders will ever change to support him, but I appreciate your efforts not to have a backlash, to really embody what Fred Hampton discussed about not meeting racism with racism and reaction with reaction, but meeting them with…

Say what you will about Biden, I’ve never had a Joe supporter try to threaten or dox me.

On-screen talent is the window dressing, which is why - despite massive increases in representation of women, people of color, and gay people in media - the racial economic makeup of this country has not shifted in any meaningful way and the gender economic makeup has also barely shifted. The foundation is the payment…

Wade’s script is incredibly smart about the way classism can intersect with feminism, limiting the bonds of sisterhood along particular social lines. The wealthy, well-bred Katharine represents the kind of woman who’s willing to operate within a sexist system so long as she can make it work to her advantage.

That is legitimately one of the biggest problems we’re facing. People like Joe Biden like to say “oh we’ve got ten years to cut it in half and then 2050 to go completely neutral” and that is interpreted as “we can start work in 2030 and then start going completely neutral in 2050" when the truth is we’re just trying…

Okay well pay attention, because Jon Podesta and Barney Frank who are both hugely anti-Bernie, were just given top leadership spots in the DNC. So idk, maybe there’s not exactly an interest in playing fair!

He won a ton of states in the 2016 primaries, and nearly won Iowa, where this poll from NYT just came out. Give it a few weeks.

That says nothing of their material politics. Pete is being touted, like this guy, because of his resume, but when he actually tried to run in a red state’s state-wide election (his own, Indiana) for treasurer he got fucking trounced. And the people who can win like this are almost universally shitheads like Joe…

Jesus, are we seriously doing the “Rally to Restore Sanity” style bullshit in 2020???? The politics of this trailer are the most West Wing-brained shit I’ve ever seen. The sort of radical centrism here where coastal liberals in NYC and DC think we need to find someone who’s a Democrat but has just the right amount of…

i don’t think he loves it, these are the actions of a man who has it all and isn’t satisfied because his show is also mediocre as fuck.

You underestimate the number of earnest liberals who have attached their ships to this anchor of a family. Despite the Epstein stuff, despite the sexual assault stuff, despite the Libya and Haiti and Iraq stuff, despite the TERF stuff, despite the racism, despite the welfare “reform” stuff, all that, there are a few…

Yeah the chances anyone says “hey so how proud do you feel of your actions in Libya now that they have open slave markets?” to her in this documentary are basically zero. The chances they address her support for regime change in Haiti that have completely fucked that country are zero. Hillary Clinton is a politician…

She marked herself as Native American on everything and then refused to back Standing Rock protesters, then did race science to prove to Donald Trump (a moron who should never be engaged with on his own terms) that she is a Native American, which is exactly what Donald Trump has tried to force Native Americans to do…

They don’t give a shit; they’re either completely institutionalized or extremely cynical. This site wouldn’t exist otherwise, the editorial staff are still convinced Black Capitalism can and will save us all someday.