Is the director's cut better?

I'm honestly a little disappointed that the guy got banned so fast; I was having fun with him. I had a whole six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon routine worked out in my head that I was going to use to make fun of him bringing up unrelated people. Now I'll never get a chance to use it.

Hey now, let's not insult Pee-Wee Herman by claiming that whatsisname is on his level.

But enough about Cerebus!

What? This changes everything! That means Hillary Clinton and Brianna Wu are totally relevant to this conversation about Pepe the Frog, and you're not an obsessed, misogynistic lunatic at all!

I bought it; I liked it. It was whimsical.

Yeah, I remember all that time Hillary Clinton spent talking about Brianna Wu. It's fucking weird how some people, by which I definitely mean Hillary Clinton, are obsessed with Brianna Wu, and keep bringing her up in conversations, as a complete non sequitur. It speaks to some weird, deep-seated issues that don't…

How dare a pop culture site talk about a comic?

Like relative privation?

Yeah, whoever heard of a successful Kickstarter based on a thing that's old?

Strictly speaking, Sanders is pretty good about emphasizing that democratic socialism isn't the same thing as socialism.

The arc with the evil Jerry was pretty good.

They play that for laughs, though. Like,

He's got massively high disapproval ratings, but that doesn't necessarily translate to "want him out of office", and I don't think we're anywhere close to "want him out of office badly enough to convince 14 Republican senators to vote for impeachment" yet.

I think there's a balance to be struck. A steady drumbeat of Russian collusion news (and news about associated issues like Comey's firing and the obstruction of justice investigation) reinforces that the story is real and it's not going away. That's a good thing, and I think polls are indicating that an increasing…

True, but what happens after that is very much down to public opinion. Even if Trump has committed an impeachable offense, there's no impeachment without a House majority, and no *successful* one without two-thirds of the Senate. Realistically, public opinion has to favor impeachment by a significant enough margin to…

I agree that's part of it, but I think we were already well on our way to that kind of siloing. There are Trump supporters who will never believe anything negative about him; that's for sure — but there are also a lot of people who voted for him but are wary of him, and we need those guys on our side. CNN just made…

I do think there's a problem — and not just at CNN — with emphasizing scoops over vetting. This breakdown was foreseeable; guys like Taibbi have been warning the news media for months that they're overexcited about the Russia story to the point of sloppiness, and they're risking their credibility.

That was exaggerated. Rather's plans to retire predated the National Guard story.

How come Brutus doesn't dance anymore?