He wants someone who is going to make a lot of noise and fart in some GOP faces but not be able to accomplish anything legislatively, apparently.

The problem is this: if you believe that the country is in imminent, irretrievable peril as a result of Republican one party rule—and I do—then whatever hurts Democrats in the short term hurts EVERYONE in the long term. I sincerely believe we are 2-4 years of uninterrupted Republican control away from the death of the…

His actions that no one cared about up until the last few months when people got hysterical about it? Sexual harassment was acceptable up until very recently, so don’t act like it’s his own actions. You, like everyone else, didn’t care until the media thought a witch hunt would be profitable.

This is acting under the assumption that the GOP holds any of their past actions accountable in their current legislative goals. How many clips have we seen of Mitch McConnell from just a couple years ago directly contradicting shit he says today? And does anyone care? Does it stop the GOP in the least? It’s great if…

A simple fact that some Democrats/Liberals will never understand: change is only possible when you win elections 

If we could trust people to do their civic duty, Trump wouldn’t have won, Neil Gorsuch wouldn’t be on the court, Roy Moore would never have sniffed elected office, and Bush wouldn’t have gotten re-elected.

Fuck that. You stand with Nazis, pedophiles, and traitors you are an evil person. I’m sick of pretending a decent human being could still support Trump and the Republicans after what they have done.

I don’t want to make excuses for anyone, but seeing how one party is lining up solidly behind a pedophile and the other wants the resignation of one of their more popular members, well, I think I’m beginning to see why one of those parties is running every branch of the government and the other isn’t. The one gun law…

Rapaport is inarticulate, but happens to have a point.

When you said “high-profile voice of support” I thought you meant this.

That’s a completely specious comparison. The only way in which the two are alike is party-line voting. The ACA, regardless of what you think of it, was presented as an actual honest-to-god piece of legislation that included panels, revisions, extended periods to debate and discuss measures, and a modicum of…

Yes, agreed. Japanese pop culture was incredibly popular for about a half decade run there. I got pretty into anime and manga as well. Though I never made up a fake Japanese persona, I definitely went out of my way to participate in the “Cool Japan” fad. I’m not gonna rake this guy over the coals for a mistake like…

While weird and such I’m not pulling out my pitch fork and marching on this guys castle. Writing under a pen name isn’t exactly a new thing. If it came out that he dressed up like Mickey Rooney in Breakfeast at Tiffany’s for his job interview then maybe that would change

Now all that history is nearly gone, replaced by scrape-offs & shitty smug-ass coffee shops. Denver is an utterly soulless town due to gentrification.

If you open a business it’s gentrification. If you don’t it’s discrimination. Either way you’re horrible because someone else said so. The only choice you’re allowed to make is how.

I’m neither fat nor old, but would the hugs be any less uncomfortable if they were given by a slim young black guy? Or is there an ageist and sizest gauge to hugs I’m not yet aware of?

That’s an interesting tidbit. If only there were some pop-culture website writing about this incident that could have provided me with such background info on the song, or maybe spin it into a longer piece looking at other past pop hits about 16 year olds, such as those discussed elsewhere in the comments. Alas.

Ah, yes. The ole’ “The Beatles Told Me To Do It!” defense.

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