I think a lot of it has to do with the circles these people see themselves in. They’re the epitome of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner clique - they rub elbows with and suck up to power. It just comes naturally to them by now. I think they look at things like Single Payer and just recoil because it goes against…

Yeah, I get what you’re saying, and I’m not proposing that everything the mainstream media does is part of a sinister plutocratic plot to stamp out progressivism. As you say, the vast majority of their actions are driven by profit and market share.

MSNBC’s job is to offer confirmation-biased based programming for the range of “liberal” archetypes. They consciously promote a number of personalities that give voice to the progressive argument ... when it’s not an election year.

I’m not really talking about the political feasibility of any of these plans, because that isn’t really the frame of the argument, but John Delaney’s health care plan has just as much a chance of passing a Congress in which there are at least 41 Senators and a filibuster as Medicare-for-All does.

Yes, she’s a woman. Biologically though it’s a little more complex because she’s intersex and has XY chromosomes.

Caster Semenya Won’t Be Allowed To Defend Her 800-Meter Title At The World Championships

And if you think Semenya is the first woman ever to have naturally elevated testosterone and compete in pro sports, I have a bridge in the Hudson river I would like to sell you.

Perfect analogy. He’s a Republican egg in the Democrat nest.

The fact that basically the same rogues gallery that runs the for profit insurance scam owns the corporate media works well for the profits of both industries.

The only thing you can “win” in these debates is an uptick in polling and increased campaign donations. He was polling at less than 1% and there are a hundred other centrists that nobody cares about so...maybe he won a percentage or two. Everybody knows his name.

You can tell the corporate stooges are REALLY fucking afraid of Bernie and Warren with all those shit questions.

I like Slate’s take the best:

Yes / No answer needed. Does she have a penis?

“Cis females are powerful enough to get a niche carved for themselves in sport, intersex and trans females aren’t.”

Bullshit. More of us would have turned out for Clinton last time if what you say were true. I couldn’t stand her, but showed up to the polls, voted for her, and then vomited.

Thats the thought experiment. And then you say, well thats not fair, we want women to be able to compete in sports, and then we say, OK, well WHY are women not as good at sports as men? Oh, its because mens bodies tell them to produce more testosterone and build more muscle mass.

“Slight” advantage? She produces 3x as much testosteron as the average woman. I’d say that’s a bit more then a slight advantage.

Testosterone levels.  I don’t feel I need to address your confusion with sticky as I feel it is not honest.

are you saying that she is anatomically a man?

Doesn’t it seem a little problematic that a woman whose testosterone falls within the allowed range isn’t allowed to compete?