I’ll never forget an argument I got into with a former colleague back in 2008, who INSISTED that I (and all liberals) were hypocrites unless we voted for McCain, because he had chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate. When I told him that it didn’t work that way and that Palin was awful, he really thought he caught me…

But it is satisfying to yell at their answering machines. Also, if you call regional offices, the staff haven’t been trained the same way they are in DC, so they’re not as polite. So that makes it even more fun.

What do you expect her and others to do?

It’s what happens when you don’t have a majority in the Senate. All of those House bills have died because of such (and Yurtle). It’s very hard to be a Democrat in the age of Trump because you get shit on for EVERYTHING that Obama “did” in his 8 years, plus the Hillary shit and…

I don’t know for sure but I would assume that she “does it” with a lot of paid help, which her and her husband can easily afford, Senator Lee. Maybe you should be asking the same of all the parents in this country currently struggling to “do it” after losing their jobs and their stimulus relief.

That quote is also condescending as fuck, and I don’t think it’s even superficially nice (I copied the same bit to respond to, but you beat me to it). She’s empathetic insofar as she frames her opinions like she’s *speaking to children*.

I am not a fucking child, and I don’t want or need someone on the fucking Supreme…

Well, the system of checks and balances should have done this, but I don’t know if the Founding Fathers that today’s Republicans love to flog so much ever envisioned a party as craven and power-drunk as the GOP as it currently stands.  

Oh her daughter could get one.  She just doesn’t want any other woman to be able to get one.

as messed up as it is, we need a system in place where neither side can just change the entire course of the country by having someone die at a lucky/unlucky time and maybe this is part of what gets that ball rolling. If it’s a shitty system we should be looking to change it, not just spend our time hoping the…

She’s my assemblywoman...she deserves better...we all do. 

No, no. I can see why you’d think this, with all the talk about protecting “life”, aka the “babies”, but what they mean is “fetuses still in their fleshly housing units”. Actual mothers and actual babies can go get fucked and die.

But I thought they cared about babies and mommies! /s

That seriously sucks, especially since the newborn baby can’t exactly wear a mask and they’re apparently more vulnerable than children to serious complications from Covid. 

Oh for sure! But, let’s not let Democratic men off the hook here. The CA Assembly is 76% Democrat currently. This is not something we can hang around Republicans’ necks, even if they probably are the festering tip of this particular boil.

“The speaker understands that members are committed to performing their legislative duties, while still trying to minimize risk of Covid-19 exposure. The house resolution pertaining to proxy voting is very specific, in that only members at a higher risk from Covid-19 will be considered eligible for proxy voting,”

Fuck Republican men in particular.

All these blow hards saying “oh, she’s not descended from slaves! Her father was from Jamaica!” How do they think Black people got to Jamaica? 

Gotta say, I also wouldn’t hold it against a woman who was having sex every day. Good for her, as long as it’s all mutually consensual and pleasurable. But yeah, it’s amazing how little professional conservative blowhards seem to understand about women’s sexuality. That’s probably one of the reasons they hate and fear …

Someone who has been detained for trying to smuggle Viagra into the country without a prescription should be more circumspect in attacking other people for their sexual histories. Limbaugh, like the rest of the GOP, is scared, and when he’s scared he goes to the same old racism and sexism that has always worked for…

The Catholic church has rarely done right by its nuns. 

As someone raised Catholic, this saddens me. Nuns always played 2nd-fiddle to priests (or even further down the line of importance depending where your parish was). They were considered a bonus, an afterthought, and an expense. The extreme vows of humility and sometimes silence mean their worries and fears may not be…