He definitely misplayed the primary, and even though the primary system is fucked up, he needs to abide by the results. And anyone who didn’t vote in the primary can only blame themselves for passing on that opportunity. But you can’t say the results of a primary that consisted of less than 10% of the total registered…

Choosing not to vote means your will isn’t strong enough for voting to be a priority. The article states that Lieberman running as an independent subverted the will of the voters. It turned out that he subverted the will of only a subset of voters, because he won the general election.  Keeping the most popular…

You see, the “handful” of people who showed up are the will of the people.

That’s exactly what they’re talking about doing, running as a third party candidate. This article takes the position that the people have spoken, and the numbers say that’s not exactly true.

She won 16,000 out of 28,000 votes cast, in a district with a total of over 300,000 registered voters across all parties (over 200k registered Dems). Let’s not confuse the will of the handful of people who bothered to show up with the will of the people.  If she has the will of the people on her side, it shouldn’t…

What a little bitch. For someone with his military background, he’s quite the coward. Be a goddamn adult and either stand up for what’s right, or at least do your fucking job. Sneaking around behind your boss’s back is the worst possible bitch move.

You stay in college to develop in order to improve your draft stock. He was already a projected top 5 pick (who fell to 7th). Another year at Kansas wouldn’t have made him a better NBA player than actually being in the NBA did. In the NBA he got better and more coaching, more opportunities to play the NBA game (which…

I’ve been able to provide critical, unpopular feedback to bosses in the past, but I’ve never worked for Donald Trump. My bosses have also never appeared to side with Russia over US intelligence, either. I don’t doubt they’d be shitcanned. My point is that they’re more worried about keeping their jobs than preventing ou…

But it’s also not Trump’s fault, at least based on what we know now.

“Everyone around him is afraid to tell him he shouldn’t do these things.”

I tend to agree that a social media campaign to influence the election isn’t that big of a deal, and I’m extremely skeptical of anyone who says it changed the outcome. But there are the aspects of hacking into private servers and releasing confidential information, as well as the collusion angle, that are very…

Are they most mad that Trump is siding against the American national intelligence community, which has a bloody legacy of influencing elections abroad when it suits its own interests and trampling its own citizens’ civil liberties?

Walsh turned on Trump a while ago. Of course he still supports the legislative agenda. But at some point within the last year, he determined he could get more mileage out of criticizing Trump, and that’s been his deal. Unfortunately I don’t think anyone who still supports Trump will care about what happened today.  We…

This is by far the most apt analogy I’ve seen on the subject. Utterly perfect.  Thank you for that.  I needed it.

I don’t expect those guys necessarily to vote for Kavanaugh, but in a state as conservative as Indiana (where I live, FWIW), it doesn’t do Joe Donnelly any good to go all in with Chuck Schumer, who is very unpopular.

Yes, because progressives would have any chance at winning a statewide race in North Dakota, Indiana or West Fucking Virginia.

If they don’t do this for the Democrats, they aren’t Democrats and should be treated as such. I understand that a statement like that looks like one against interest and one that is likely to hand the GOP more of a majority, but, when the time comes, it’s put up or shut up and those fuckers owe Schumer.

Like most on the left, I’ve been critical of the press for failing to hold him accountable. But in their defense, when you ask a pointed question, and he unloads a dizzying array of bullshit like he did here, it’s gotta be awfully difficult to stop your head from spinning and maintain your composure enough to pin him…

There are still cassette tapes at my parents’ house from when I used to tape the Hot 9 at 9 in the late 80s, so I could have all the songs I liked.

I’m tired of it, too, but to me the kicker in all of this is that there’s no way Trump will be indicted while he’s in office, and there’s even less of a chance he’s impeached.  I do think it’s useful to continue the investigation so that everyone’s crimes are uncovered.  And I expect Trump to go down for money…