When I was eleven years old I walked up to the other team’s coach and said the harshest, most inexcusable thing to him. They were just words, but those words got me a punch on the top of my head. More of a hammer strike really.

To be clear, I’m not trying to argue. I’m only saying that we cannot become the extremists we oppose. Rep Tlaib, though what she’s saying may be factually correct, needs to exercise self-restraint. There are facts, and then there are facts that do not need discussion. She dabbles too heavily in the latter.

The important points I’ve touched on are that traffic on the Kinja sites has fallen dramatically since 2019, which was already a massive decline from a few years earlier.

I’m not saying that we have double standards but that we should avoid having double standards by admitting that much of what Rep. Tlaib says is inflammatory and primarily for her benefit.

This article’s comment section is mostly trolls, and none of them are any good. Probably a waste of my time.

“Freedom of Speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.”

Has there ever been a bigger nothingburger than the overturning of Roe v. Wade?

Laura Bassett has been confirmed as Crystal Jewell. Laura resigned from Jezebel and 48 hours later Crystal Jewell’s threads were scrubbed from the site. That can’t possibly be a coincidence.

I guess. I don’t mind strange writing as long as I can understand it. Laura Bassett wrote her Crystal Jewell posts to be charmingly zany yet also cogent and relatable. That was some weird Jezebel writing I could get behind. But this Dakota Johnson stuff just leaves me befuddled.

This article is strange and confusing to me.

You know Gaetz and his faction can keep repeating this removal procedure, don’t you? Each time the new Speaker will be to the right of the one before. At what point do Democrats decide voting “present” would be more prudent than collaborating with Gaetz’s shenanigans? Do they wait until the exhumed corpse of Benito…

You’re rationalizing. Not one Democrat needed to vote for McCarthy to prevent his removal. All that was needed was for 7 Democrats to vote “present” — then the removal vote would’ve been 209 for and 210 against. McCarthy would still be Speaker today.

Pffft. The vote to remove McCarthy was 216 to 210. Democrats supplied 208 of the votes for removal, the Gaetz faction supplied 8. Which means 97% of the votes for removal were supplied by Democrats.

Matt Gaetz: Hey Democrats! Kevin McCarthy is not conservative enough a Speaker of the House for my liking. Will you help me oust him so I can replace him with someone further to the right?

Stop.

You only call me a troll because you still believe I wrote all those Crystal Jewell posts. The truth is Laura Bassett created Crystal Jewell to generate reader engagement, so please stop. Besides, Crystal mixed in some really insightful social commentary with her tomfoolery. No harm was done, and we all learned a…

Lack of ethics in politics is a BIG problem and it afflicts both the Left and the Right.

I feel bad for all the American girls who wear lifts to emulate their favorite tennis players Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina, both of whom are 6 feet tall. These brave American tennis girls deserve to grow and be tall instead of crying at night and using lifts to pretend to be tall. But how many will ever achieve…

Congressman Adam Schiff dishing some top-shelf snark on Steve Garvey this morning. This is the caliber of snark I once expected from G/O Group writers and commenters but rarely see anymore. Sad.

Letting actuaries from big corporate insurance companies decide who can serve the American people in Congress is not my idea of democracy.