Right. And the EC was only invented because Hamilton didn’t trust people with a direct democracy and wanted a failsafe in case they picked someone crazy.

I live in California, too. Our votes do not count. :(

This is why, in the final accounting, I’m still more upset about the third party voters than others who didn’t vote. That smugness, that insistence that their conscience or Hillary being a “warhawk” mattered more to them than Trump being Trump. Christ, the times I was told I was a “sheeple” because I didnt take…

Yes. Revolutions suck. They almost always fail. Even if they succeed, poor people in revolutions suffer a thousand times more than rich people in revolutions.

This is so so true. It’s so annoying when people try to explain it by saying “these voters felt left behind by the economy.” I live in Kentucky. Most Trump supporters I know are relatively well off (it is true, in my experience, that many do not have college degrees, but work trade or own businesses) and white. It’s…

Omg I found out the same way! Gotta love assholes and their sloppy email. One of the doubters told me I must have suspected something because I snooped in his emails. The truth is, I was presented with an opportunity and I was just being nosy. *shrug*

Tangentially related:

You know, I’m gonna say something I think we all need to remember. It’s good to have an adversary, and better to have a worthy one.

Another gem.

I don’t really care for Miley Cyrus or Mariah Carey.

I hope you learn the truth soon. For yours and the children’s sake. For him to say, “oh you’ll read into it too much” means there is something to read into. Don’t let him make you feel crazy!

Sam Bee is not obligated to support your quixotic dream of remaking our democracy at the expense of our actual democracy.

Lately I’ve been really feeling this conflict surrounding the Brock Turner case (and the other ones like it). Because on one hand, I’m 100% against rape. On the other, I’m not the wrath and punishment sort.

• Bill and Hillary Clinton are driving in the country near Hillary’s hometown. They are low on fuel, so Bill stops at a gas station. The man at the gas station comes out and looks into the window.”Hey, Hillary! We used to date in high school, do you remember me?” he asks.They talk merrily for a few minutes. Bill pays,…

It might be equally unlikely that he would have been president without her. They support each other’s ambitions and like most couples, drive each other’s destinies.

I have always found issues of diet have always been an upper-middle class obsession. Everything from Atkins to this gluten-free vegan craze is usually the product of people who worry less about the money needed to purchase than the origin of their leafy green or their eggs. I grew up around mostly poor people and I…

Can we stop using “pussy” as a word to mean weak though? My vagina has birthed three god damn kids.

I caught one episode where she was renovating this gilded age STUNNER (that had been completely gutted) and really enjoyed it, but she never seems to be on!

She should just have her cow kick over a lantern and burn the whole studio down.