If you can’t win, you can at least retain a bit of self-respect while you go down in flames. It’s futile, I know, but I’d rather not be complicit in my own demise.

And apparently nothing to be gained from protest either. Basically this was Republicans saying “Oh, you’re going to block our nominees? That’s cute, we’ll just do away with the rules!”

Tim Kaine voted yes on every nominee? WTF?! Our almost vice president, ladies and gentlemen!

There is literally nothing to be gained from any amount of cooperation.

Democrats need to understand that there is no good will to be gained from Republicans by trying to appear reasonable, hopefully this has made that crystal clear to them moving forward. Props to Kirsten Gillibrand, it appears she learned the correct lesson from the Iraq War authorization vote.

I remember when I first got my immigrant visa - it was a nice morning in November and I celebrated with a venti mocha frappucino at the Starbucks near the US embassy.

That read then like a fever dream of someone’s idea of a CPB agent. It still does now. I’ve dealt with port of entry agents and while all those interactions were uniformly unpleasant, this strikes me as a keyboard warrior facsimile. Dole is a very uncommon word in the US, when talking about people suckling off the…

This from a group of people who are choosing to ignore the law—or at least the judicial branch—and inflict something quasi-legal, at best, on people who are guilty of absolutely nothing.

My great-grandparents were among the many Armenians who escaped Turkey in advance of the genocides - I believe it was in 1909 - and made a new life in America. Syria accepted many Armenian refugees at that time as well.

He even outright said that the goal of 9/11 was to draw America into a long running war of attrition and make the Muslim world resent us.

The fact that law enforcement is already defying the legislative and judicial branches and saying (incorrectly) that they only take orders from the president is fucking terrifying. Every jackass trying to downplay this as no big deal is horribly ignorant of history.

This was always OBL’s stated intentions. He was never going to win a physical war. He didn’t have the armament or the people. He knew that. So he set out to completely disrupt our way of life and have us make choices based on fear rather than intelligence.

Never let terrorists change who you are.

The AVN Awards is a gathering of professionals who take pride in what they do and have every right to do so. Shaming porn stars, sex workers — anyone in the sex industry for that matter — is wrong and has no place here. And we can discuss Melania Trump without slut-shaming her; that is never appropriate. Thanks.

This is the problem right now, and why Trump is winning this war for the actual power in America: people are still dealing with him in civil and normal terms, as if both sides of this fight were operating inside the same boundaries of democracy and public accountability. As this Senator is doing, expecting that such a…

SeaTac is owned and operated by the Port of Seattle, a government port authority. It is not private property.

Let me just throw this out there. There are a lot of us in blue who don’t like what we are seeing and I did not vote for this clown. Sometimes, hard times and experiences make us stronger if we approach it the right way and find the positive.

Not resisting is important. So, I’m not in the US but I have been a part of many rallies etc and this is advice I was given and passed on to everyone I have ever known wrt police and political action.

It’s pretty disgusting really. Police have been taught to say “stop resisting” whenever they arrest someone in front of cameras, even if they aren’t resisting, because they want to use that as a way to charge them with resisting arrest. It’s a shitty tactic. The guy in the pink shirt handled it well by saying “I’m…

This is how a police state is established, by law enforcement agencies refusing to obey the law, and make no mistake, when an executive action is unlawful, particularly if there is a court order staying the executive order, then refusing to obey said court order is unlawful in itself.