Also, all the people in here saying “she’s not wrong” are hilarious. So what. 1) Maybe she is, 2) even if she isn’t, this isn’t the time, and 3) her first reaction was to equate the worth of given areas of the country, and more importantly the people who live there, to their GDP. Point 3 is the one that is most…

God almighty, I love the #StillWithHer types fighting the 2016 primary in the Splinter comment section in March 2018. It’s telling, imo, that a critique of HRCs words invites defenses, but more importantly, invites counterattacks on Bernie. The implicit thesis in these responses is that Bernie is the figurehead they…

lol so you’re a centrist dad or a blue labour melt. your responses can be summarily dismissed.

Bernie Would Have Won

Hi, leftist here. 1) We tell Romney to shut up a lot, because he sucks. You’re thinking of #Resistance libs who are looking for any honorable Republican to lash themselves to. 2) We don’t tell Bernie to shut up because we like what he’s saying and believe that it’s the best way for whatever nominal left party exists…

lol this take is so bad and so wrong that I wanna find your elementary, middle, and high school social studies teachers and interview them to find out what went wrong.

TBH, I just saw an opening to make a TABOR joke for all the true CO-heads in the comments. I’m a Blackhawks fan from Golden, man. I’ve got no legs to stand on when it comes to bandwagoners filling the building and acting like shitheads. Big teams from big cities will always have their traveling fans, and people from…

Yeah, my theory is that the original sentence just read “regional rivalries” and Lauren’s editor added “semi-” in order to avoid pedants like you and me coming in here to be like “TF do you mean; do you even remember the Norris Division? What the fuck is the Flortheast?”

(That said, even the vastly superior “Named…

If you were really a sucker for regional rivalries, you’d hope for 2 conferences, 4 divisions of 4 in each, when Seattle arrives. And a massive reshuffle. Fact is, these over-large divisions, as compared to the Actual Names for Divisions era of the NHL, dilute the heads up intensity of what most older hockey fans mean…

Damn, I know TABOR fucked up our school funding pretty bad, but the number of adult and middle-aged idiot high schoolers we have is embarrassing.

Counterpoint: who were those people in Lakers gear I saw at the Pepsi Center last Friday?

Thank you for your service, but if this is what you feel, then please seek a new job.

No

The fact that you’re tossing around commie like it’s an insult, like we’re still living in the Reagan 80's, proves how far American liberalism has fallen.

When the comments were literally put into the public record, through the public comment process. This is, like, the only input we get when the sociopaths currently in charge of the regulatory bodies... decide to stop regulating.

I’m Trevor Marsden. Like, literally. Thanks, uh, for the write up, Libby.

(And seriously thank you for continuing to keep this story in the public sphere.)

Keep in mind that, to date, there’s been zero claims—with proof—regarding the effectiveness of all this bullshit: the DNC hack and the fake news. Some of us remember when HRC visited MI once, WI none, and only visited Pitt and Penn in PA. Some of us remember that ballots with the top of the ticket left blank, but the…

Jesus, what a horrible take. The ‘16 election clearly broke y’all’s brains. If your response to a primary challenge from the Left is “RUSSIA, #TRUMPRUSSIA, #TRUMPPUTIN,” then you should consider your priors.

Which word? Putatively or synecdoche? Those are the only two I can pick out that are above baseline, and I’m 90% sure I used them correctly. Putative=“supposedly” in this context and synecdoche=“component part of a larger system that becomes a metaphor for the larger or total system in-itself.”

Compared to 37%, yes; yes it is.