What is wrong with you? If you can’t have a conversation without carrying on like that you need to grow the fuck up. Anger issues here and you’re one of those people who shouldn’t hit kids.

I remember similar discussions on deadspin about hitting kids, and they came to an agreement that even if they didn’t get the shit beat out of them, it was still fucked up. Negative reinforcement is a shitty way to shape behavior.

Any parent who beats a kid is admitting that they are a shitty, shitty parent who doesn’t deserve to have kids.

I’d like to suggest folks take a look at the comments on the “will you hit your kids” article from a few weeks back. All y’all talking gleefully about how your moms had them quick hands and you’ll be doing the same thing? This is the shit you support. Please do us a favor and don’t have children.

Damn, I just can’t wait to have to hold my nose and vote for Cory Booker only to see, a few hours later, Trump and/or Pence take the election.

Sure. But, as the kids say, the “optics” of this are especially bad. While these appointments are about patronage, they’re also about signifying to the rest of the party what sort of course you want to take. And what this shows is that Clintonism — which worked great for the Clintons (at least until it didn’t), but…