I think my favorite part of ole’ Abigail’s incoherent nonsense (and I’ve read every one and enjoyed each more than the last) is that she seems to be implying that people in the comments don’t constantly rip other people in the comments for their opinions! Like, is it her first day? Did she miss the primaries around…

I’ve read a lot of terrible things in 2017, and that is the most terrible.

And the expectation is always that *others* should move. “But why don’t black people just work harder if they want a better life?” they said, while refusing to move out of decaying Pennsylvania.

Okay, but John McCain was speaking in 2008 and now we’re speaking about 2017 and in both times, mass migration was a thing. I agree that unions are great, and that the current system abuses the undocumented, and I still stand by what I said.

I think we actually agree but maybe are just coming at it from different angles. Or at least, I agree with you.

I think all of those things are true, and I also think that LBJ’s quote is true: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

Sure, but we hear arguments all the time from Rust Belters about how their daddy, and their daddy’s daddy all worked in the same Ford factory and how by God, they are not moving to find a job, the job has to move to find them. And that’s the same part of “there are jobs, just not the jobs you’re willing to take.”

John McCain almost always sucks, but he (probably) wasn’t wrong in 2008:

No no no no.

Please don’t blame DC for them. None of them are from here, they don’t know the city, and they don’t represent us. :(

Oh, fuck off.

I think the other comments about the lack of depth on the Democratic bench are valid, but there wasn’t exactly a best-of-the-best field in play.

He was a “Dem” but he wasn’t really a Dem. Lifelong Republican who switched parties so he could fuck with George Bush (which, you know, no judgment on that one), but he was exactly a committed party member.

Have you read Al Franken on Barb? I can’t remember which early 2000s “the Republicans are destroying America” book it was, but he went in on her.

Oh god this gif hurts me so much.

Fair enough!

On the other hand, passing the work day in an OTC-induced haze isn’t, like, the worst case scenario.

If you felt like it worked better for you, though, and you can get it for the same price, why not? Even if it’s just psychosomatic, feeling better is feeling better.

It’s not even an “over time” thing. From the very beginning of unions in America, they excluded Black people and women from membership, which amplified wage gaps and meant less generational wealth. The racist past of unions is still impacting people today.

I think you may be the only person Netflixing correctly.