I can only dream of having an actual conservative party with real ideals that they hold to, and that tries to find and propose solutions to the problems facing the country (never-mind one that even recognizes those problems in the first place). Instead we have a bunch of amoral power hungry white supremacists and…

The surest way to tell that someone’s about to say something racist is when they start by saying “I’m not racist, but...”

This brings something to mind. There’s no such thing as a racist dog - just a dog with racist owner/handlers. Dogs pick up on cues from their humans that we ourselves would miss, that we think we’re keeping concealed. In this case of course the dog was explicitly ordered - which just comes back to the fact that the…

Clearly the joke fell flat. (Yes, they’re quite lovely, and arguably would be more fun to drive since the difference between a top speed of 165 and something north of 200 isn’t going to matter unless you’re regularly track-ing them, but...)

Is it really a Maserati if it can’t do 185 though?

No, the right way is to do 185, lose your license, get a limo, and ride in the back.

Vote as early as you can - but I’d also say if possible, get your ballot hand-delivered. Trump is doing everything he can to underfund and undercut the Postal Service, and delivering it yourself means not only do you know yours got there, but that’s one less ballot the overburdened USPS has to deliver, so it’s more…

And that’s not even starting to scratch the surface of things like how much harder it is to even get the opportunities for education, experience, and so on, that would even qualify someone in the first place, when you’re a minority. They scream about “affirmative action” at colleges like Harvard, but things like…

She was chosen, at least in some part, because she represents a core constituency. That’s probably one of the oldest and most common reasons to pick a Vice President. Sometimes it was because the VP pick was popular in a given key state or region. Sometimes it was because they were champion to a particular wing of the…

Swamp has gotten a bit overused - and besides, swamps are vital ecosystems that don’t deserve some of the hate they get. A fetid morass, on the other hand...

The next Republican presidential field is gonna be a real doozy - Tom Cotton, Trump Junior, Ted Cruz (you know his ass won’t step aside), and lord knows what else is gonna slither out of that fetid morass.

It’s worse than that - it’s a vote for basically letting Trump run wild remaking the entire Federal government in his image. You think we’re worried about a fair election in 2020, can you imagine what 2024 would look like when he’s had four more years to replace anyone and everyone with his sycophants and…

Yeah, this isn’t a choice between policies of one party or the other, this is a choice between letting Trump have another 4 years to burn down whatever shreds of accountability and professionalism still linger in the Federal government. After 2020 there will be no more checks on his power, because there will literally…

Shit, with all the criminality that’s been going on in the Trump (mal)administration, we’re gonna kinda need a (good) cop or two (or more) to go through all that morass.

Yeah, I mean he could chose a total reprobate for VP and I’d still vote for him, because the alternative is just so unthinkable. If Trump wins, that’s pretty much it - he will lock down control of the Federal Government and purge everyone but his lackeys and lickspittles, even in the ostensibly non-partisan civil…

Agree on Warren getting replaced by an interim Republican being a big problem. The legislature might be able to fix it, but it’s still an unnecessary difficulty. The only thing about this scenario that interests me is the possibility that Ayanna Pressley could then step up and run to replace Warren in the Senate…

I do think there’s an outside chance, even despite Republican fuckery. That said I sure wouldn’t bet the rent payment on it, and I wouldn’t count on Abrams to be able to deliver any significant boost there either.

Biden is too much of a careful calculated sort to pick Abrams. As interesting a choice as she would be, she carries a lot of risks and unknowns, without a clear payoff in terms of constituencies or boxes to check that another choice couldn’t cover as well.

One interesting aspect of a potential Warren VP scenario would be Pressley moving to replace her in the Senate, potentially. Granted, she wouldn’t be the only one out for it, but...

The trouble with Warren’s seat isn’t that the Democrats wouldn’t likely win the special election, it’s that the Republican Governor would get to make the interim appointment, so the seat becomes R until that happens (barring the intervention of the legislature somehow, Massachusetts has definitely seen this come up…