It’s the simple truth. Black women are the base of the party. As much as young, white progressives want to lay claim to being the base, the base is the foundation upon which the coalition of the party is built. To trade black women for young, white progressives would be to trade a concrete foundation for one of sand.

Two years out of date, but my honest suggestion is start with Rule Zero: what do you like to do in a group? Do you like to be the guy who knows things, and can offer up obscure lore? Then while you can play against type, you’ll probably have better luck as a wizard then as a warrior or paladin. Want to be that sage,…

I don’t know how many times progressives need to have this explained to them, but if you’re not the most reliable voting bloc of a party you will never lay reasonable claim to being that party’s base.

Today’s Politico thinkpiece “Waiting on Obama” focuses on the idea that former President Obama might also be mucking about having a good long think in a cave before emerging to save the 2020 election.

And he certainly doesn’t owe it unwavering support to Bernie Sanders or a socialist America, no matter how many idiotic “Obama has betrayed us!” pieces this site comes up with, ignoring the fact that Obama has always been a liberal, not a socialist.

The main reason, I suspect, is that someone did know about Conan’s gender, but then also knew Donald Trump. And Donald Trump was therefore purposefully not alerted to the gender, on the grounds that you, and I, and everyone else, know exactly what would have come out his mouth.

Male ducks are gigantic assholes:

Except there was no pay off. TFA raised many questions involving Rey’s parentage. It wasn’t just about who they were in relation to how strong in the force she is. It was also, why they abandoned her in the first place. Why they abandoned her where they did. Why they never made an attempt to find her. There are many…

I’m not sure any of these things are “cancelable”. And even if they were, that only tells us what she was yesterday. Do we know what she’ll be tomorrow?

As is true of most horror stories, I’m fairly certain that call came from inside the proverbial house.

Yeah, they won’t say it out loud, but the reason why the Republican base is so panicked by the thought of Democrats taking control is because the Republican Party is the party of white people. It’s not Medicare for All that panics them. It’s not “socialism” that puts them in a tizzy. It’s the thought of what might…

*Sigh* Rebecca, we haven’t even had a cup of coffee together . . .

I’ve talked about this before, but I had a pretty disastrous Thanksgiving two years ago. Just by way of background, most of my father’s side of the family is completely working-class white; my dad and his children, including me, were all “the ones who got out”, so to speak.

Exactomundo. It’s not like there’s anything necessarily bad with the standard Hollywood action scene. It’s not like you can’t create something unique and creative within that framework. Just within the Marvel stable, Winter Soldier’s frenetic fist fights, or Doctor Strange’s creative subversion in the “Dormammu, I’ve…

Yeah, if we’re being fair, then it’s important to be fair to all parties.

Yeah, if we’re being fair, then it’s important to be fair to all parties.

Consider this your Baby Yoda name thread prompt. Yoghurt is cute, or maybe Yindle. Yudu? Yabbie? Yomba? (I’m assuming that Yodas are like the Kardashians here, and all their names have to start with “Y.”)

Agreed in full; it’s equality without any attempt to beat you over the head about its equality, for the very simple reason that the characters make the choices they make because they are trying to survive, and don’t have time for this bullshit. There’s no great and grand moment where Max hands the rifle to Furiosa to…

It has been nine years since Martin’s last book, and time to be honest, he is never writing another one.

Depends on how 2020 shakes out. If the Democratic Party gets the trifecta (House, Senate, Presidency), I could see either it passing on a party-line vote, or being shot down by Manchin + one other conservative Dem eager to prove their bonafides. It might also be traded away in exchange for something else; if they can…