One of the things that the episode handles really well (I say this as a cis-het male married to a trans non-binary bi/pan afab) is that it really explores some of the more esoteric gender and sexuality terms and how... at a certain point all these labels start to seem silly.

Yeah, except the character who gave the pansexuality speech was an adult, and a teacher at that.

If we’re being fair, the bit really works a lot better in the context of the episode as we see more of Ally’s character and her background. She has a reason for coming out so aggressively.

That’s a good campaign public finance reform option.

I like this. It’s something that the DNC could do unilaterally to cut corporate influence on the party.

I’m just so glad this Hunter Biden shit came out when it did. None of these wild conspiracy theories about CrowdStrike or Biden’s motivations for targeting that prosecutor are true of course*. But they can still be damaging, and if Biden had been allowed to ease through the coronation nomination without this coming…

At this point, a mass murder/suicide in rural compound is seeming more and more likely.

The choice before the global community is to stand by and watch Turkey commit another genocide, or to intercede and risk a host of economic and political backlash.

And so here we are with the Kurds in Syria. We backed them, they fought IS with the help of some of our special operatives, and now just as things are really about to get hairy, we’re ghosting on them.

This operation is almost certainly going to look more like an invasion

It’s not just intimidation, it’s not just a threat, it’s a stone cold promise. He wants these two people dead, and he wants anyone else thinking of coming forward to know he wants them dead too.

If he’s being really honest with himself, I think he should know that this will really undermine his “electability” by presenting a huge vulnerability for Trump (or Pence, or fuck it, maybe Mitt Romney or Nikki Haley at this point) to exploit.

(1) if the left leaning vote is divided between Warren and Sanders, that allows Biden to get momentum

I don’t even think this can be considered a “conspiracy theory” at this point. It’s well documented that white nationalists and dominionists have been actively infiltrating local law enforcement, border agencies and the military for nearly a century.

There’s more concern over the safety of the Trump whistle blowers, in the media, than there was for a young man, who did his civic duty and testified about what he saw and heard in regards to someone being murdered and who lived in fear that he would be the victim of gun violence.

Meh, I’ll never forgive Chuck Todd for 2016. He went after Clinton like Kamala Harris went after minor drug offenders and the mothers of truant children. Meanwhile, with Trump he acted like a star-struck local entertainment reporter interviewing Brad Pitt at a press junket.

I’m sure that he feels a great deal better than before.

To be fair, Dick Cheney has had 8 heart attacks and his overall general health and lifestyle are far worse than Bernie’s.

This would not be another civil war. What we’d likely have is a whole lot of the innocent and the defenseless getting killed in schools.

True, but normally that info is unearthed because the guilty parties hid it. Trump’s willingness to violate federal law in plain sight helps him. When he claims that what he’s doing is legal, for the people who don’t understand the law the fact that he isn’t hiding makes them more willing to believe him.