Tucker Carlson has failed at every TV hosting job he has had in his career prior to this one. Every single one of his shows has been cancelled due to bad ratings. When he took over for Bill O’Reilly people actually laughed that Carlson was getting yet another show to drive into the ground. What is different this time?…

Something else pretty awful is going on here. I saw a report on NBC yesterday about how in some cases the owners of these businesses actually self report and work with ICE to organize a raid just before paychecks are due so they can avoid labor costs.

The problem with that is it just hurts Gearbox and hardly touches Take Two. If the game flops due to a boycott, Gearbox will end up laying off employees and Take Two’s CEO will still take home a multi million dollar bonus after laying off some support staff. Boycotting is the only real tool we have at our disposal, it…

The irony is when the violence comes it’s going to be their own people doing it. They cozied up to the crazies for a last gasp at winning elections and have unleashed something up they can’t control. It won’t be long before these psychos start shooting Republicans who in anyway stand up to Trump, or even Trump…

So here’s how the rest of this week is going to go. Trump is going to scream on Twitter tomorrow morning that Elizabeth Warren is responsible for Dayton and demand she take responsibility for it and you will hear echoes of it from every elected Republican. The media, in their obsessive quest to show both sides, will…

I would argue that the 30% you describe aren’t the most disappointing. I have just come to accept they exist, they are psychotic, and nothing can be done about them. It’s the 20%+ who look the other way for tax cuts or less regulation on business and join with the crazies to vote Republican that have really allowed…

I really want John Delaney in the next debate. He can actually articulate the centrist argument unlike all the other “which way is the wind blowing” centrists which gives Warren and Sanders a better opportunity to contrast their views while actually debating them with someone. If we’re going to have the center vs…

He’s an 80's blue dog Democrat who thinks he still lives in that world

At first I was angry at CNN for framing every question the way Republicans will, but the more I thought about it, the more I liked it.  If the candidates can’t take the onslaught from CNN reporters, how are they going to take it from Trump.  Warren confirmed she can absolutely take the fire tonight.

I think the problem in gaming is the same problem that is hitting every other industry to some extent in the capitalist world: Wages haven’t gone up in 20+ years as prices have. People won’t and can’t pay more for goods, so the prices stay the same but the costs are continuously cut to make up for this, until the…

Political books like this are usually a way for mega donors to support and thank the people who have been doing their bidding. A person connected to the President writes a book about how great the President is and they buy 10,000 copies of it.  Repeat a few hundred times and you have a New York Times #1 bestseller…

I sometimes think we just have to let conservative areas of the country burn themselves to the ground. Time and time again they cut taxes and all local services then demand state and federal services to take care of their people that just cut those services. More progressive higher governments always give in and give…

He thinks this is his winning issue and has replaced everyone on his staff who will tell him otherwise. I think he genuinely believes the negative press and polls showing Americans are against this really is fake news and that the people are on his side. There have been reports he believes he didn’t go hard enough on…

The point of 24 hour news as originally conceived was to give people the news at any point in the day, not to keep them watching all day. If you want to see what that still looks like go turn on BBC World News America for a bit.

If that was going to happen in Oregon it would have happened in 2016. I can’t imagine a more perfect storm than 2016 to flip Oregon, and he still lost by 11 points.

Puerto Rico was the one issue where DeSantis criticized Trump.  He made a huge push for Puerto Rican voters in Florida and it paid off for him.

Warren is actually in a decent place. Primary politics is all about performing above expectations. Warren has been climbing consistently in the polls for the last few months and now sits in a firm third place. If she can outperform expectations for the third place candidate she should keep moving up. If Warren…

Honestly the centrists scare me more than the progressives, because if the centrists don’t get their way a lot of them will actually vote for Trump to protect their money. Voting for Trump hurts twice as much as voting third party or not voting.  I don’t want to reward that behavior by giving them their preferred…

The poll wasn’t asking if people wanted him to be re-elected, it was asking the question “Do you think Trump will be re-elected.” I worry that the centrist or progressive sides of the party are going to blow up the party if they don’t get what they want out of the primary, which could lead to Trump being re-elected.  

I love the idea of replay. Getting all the calls right seems like a great idea on paper, but after watching it for a decade or more now I can say I really don’t like it either. I don’t enjoy the big moments in games nearly as much as I used to, because I have to wait and see the replay to know if it’s going to stand.…