Who’s lumping them together? You are. This is just a reference to what Damon said. Come on now. Oh and if they re lumped together so what? This is not in reference to them as people but to the fact that they have all been on the political stage at the highest levels and there’s probably a kinship ( not a love match…

There’s only a handful of people on the face of the earth who know what it’s like to live in the White House. I will never begrudge any of them for bonding with each other. Bushes, Carters, Reagans, Clintons, I don’t care.

“Killmonger level questions” + Perfect Key and Peele .gif = dead me :)

“If the Republicans are so bad and evil and the Democrats are so good, why did Barack Obama eulogize John McCain? And how did Michelle Obama and George W. Bush seem to become such good friends?”

Re: Obamas/McCains/Bushes: Mature people can put aside the things they disagree on and find common ground and act like adults. Politics didn’t used to be like this and it doesn’t have to remain like this, you can agree to disagree. Tell him that, but don’t let him think that it’s ok to not vote when people died (not…

It’s a bad situation for parents. I sometimes feel like you can’t blame parents because it’s hard to figure out what to do and even if the accommodations received are up to bar. 

I honestly dread the electoral implications of a quick attempt to push through single payer. It will make 2010 look like a walk in the park. It will be our Gallipoli. When single payer is polled, it does well. When anything approaching it is voted on, it gets smashed. 

You mean back when he had people in his own party sabotaging efforts to even introduce a Public Option into the discussion?

Obama was consistent saying that he believed that if they were to start a new system from scratch, single payer would be the preferred system. As it were, he saw the obstacles in the way of installing single payer legislatively, and decided to try to achieve it incrementally and came away with a major achievement.…

These kids want to do the “I’m above it all” thing, and make a point of disagreeing with this-or-that press event and its significance. Problem is, it makes you look INCREDIBLY stupid to pretend to be “above” your president becoming an unindicted coconspirator, or to be “above” an historical event during which a…

I’m not trying to lionize the guy—nor am I seeing anyone else who is.

I think he’s a sleazebucket, but he’s a sleazebucket who may hold the keys to getting Trump out of power.

That is an exchange I am willing to make.

The current crisis has definitely made some strange bedfellows, for many of us who are accustomed to viewing certain figures with fear-and-loathing when we were 20— but now find ourselves agreeing with them and cheering for their efforts.

Who is calling him a hero?

I want to like Splinter, as I was a big fan of Gawker-proper, but there’s just so many of these kinds of posts. Katherine had a post last night basically telling Twitter to chill out about the Manafort/Cohen news, because while it’s important, the news media was over-hyping it. IT’S A HUGE FUCKIN’ DEAL, MAN.

Honestly, the “only people of unimpeachable moral character are allowed to have any function in public spheres” thing reminds me a lot of how I used to think when I was, oh, twenty or so.

It’s really easy to look at the world as containing only “right” and “wrong” when you’ve never had to weigh ethically difficult…

I mean this is the only legitimate take to me. I don’t like the guy, but I don’t need to like the guy. To be honest, I don’t really care about the guy. I just want to see how this all plays out, and in that capacity Lanny Davis has my full support. We have a bad habit in this day and age of jumping to whatever the…

Short answer: Yes, because it’s necessary to look past his past in this moment.

Longer answer: Yes, because allowing perfect to be the enemy of good is what got us Trump in the first place, and continuing to bang on about, “So-and-so did bad stuff before,” when they are ranged against someone who is actively committing…

Also, white racists are cowards so they usually only spew their shit when they have a significant numerical advantage.

I think it’s a safe assumption that there was a behind-closed-doors attempt to get him to step down. Once it was clear he wasn’t going to, he left his colleagues with no good option. 

This, times x 1000.  There’s a great book about politics in my homeland, called “Soprano State,” after the TV show.  It is, unfortunately, non-fiction, and very well researched.