Why Teachout? if you’re looking for a proven progressive for AG we got one. I haven’t always been a fan of Tish James, and I was conflicted between my values as a private citizen and my duties in my job, but if you want someone who is going to rock the boat for people on the ground, she’ll do that. Tish is a pain in…

Damn.

I also want actual leftists in power, but if she were a republican would people be calling it “issues with telling the entire truth?” Or would they just call it what it is: lying to win an election?

Success of the insurgent left is amazing. And anything that shakes up the complacent democrats is great.

But how many Republicans (which I am not one, just bringing up a point) were demonized on this site for for flip flopping and being “sorry” about things they did in their past? “Democrat Socialist” or otherwise, they need to be held to the same standard. 

I dunno. I always considered the Tea Party to be alienating, ignorant and generally a cancer to our political system. Not sure if you want to compare it to that.

What’s to lose? I’d wager about the same as making the Terf and borderline whackjob Rose McGowan and rapist Asia Argento the most prominent faces of #metoo.

When the two races you were really hanging your hopes on go to shit, you take the W where you find it.

Does she regret them because she feels they were misguided; or does she regret them now that she realizes they impeded her aspirations for political office?

That’s all it takes? Admit that you’re regretful and move on? Lying about her financial background, her religious upbringing, her purported blue collar family and what not is what now passes as ‘openly admitting’?

Is it a good thing though? There’s been little in her campaign to suggest she values honesty.  

How many “Remember when...” articles have we been subjected to about anyone’s slight deviation from Jez orthodoxy in the past? But no mention of the fact that this woman headed Columbia’s pro-life group a mere 5 years ago? Way to stick to those principles. Along long as you can say your state senator is DSA I guess it…

They did foreshadow it in the show. Camille was talking to the cheerleader gf of John Keene about what was going on, and the cheerleader says something to the effect of “They did it to be popular. Why would anyone do something like that if not to be popular?” Amma was the most powerful girl in school because of her…

I don’t agree with this take. I’ve never read the book and felt like it was pretty obvious that Amma was capable of the murders. She indicated that her friends would do anything for her, she’s manipulative and cruel often, and her motive is strengthened throughout the series. Think Calhoun day when she stops receiving…

Ah, I missed the scenes in the end credits! I remembered in the book that Amma’s roller skate buddies helped her with the killings, and was surprised they didn’t explain it further in the show.

Following orders in the face of torture and threat of death is, in fact, heroic. That doesn’t say anything about his politics (which were real bad!), but if heroism means anything it’s willingly suffering for a cause.

While I don’t like the purity demands of Ocasio-Cortez’s critics here, this is a phenomenon that, particularly since Trump, has been far more of an issue for the Right. In many corners of the Right, McCain has been enemy #1 since he voted against Obamacare repeal (if not since Trump attacked him for getting shot…

Yup. She made one standard issue statement on somebody’s passing and people are roasting her alive for being to generous with the adjectives. Jesus Christ people, it’s just a forgettable boilerplate press release.

Jesus Fucking Christ. All these people on the left falling all over each other in the name of purity can go fuck themselves. I’m so beyond sick of this. 

Yeah, fuck everyone shitting on her. Being decent isn’t the same thing as being “weak” or “complicit” when someone dies.