No, she still doesn’t. She is not the GOP nominee. She’s just someone who put her name on the ballot for governor, which is pitifully easy to do in California. (It costs a little south of $4K and you fill out some forms.) I’m sure coming up with the filing fee was not a problem for her.

We probably shouldn’t when our purpose in so differentiating is to say we didn’t think it was a big deal.

I suspect they lost quite a lot of that energy when their lawyer sat them down to explain the plea deal, and what the alternatives are if they don’t take it.

He wouldn’t know what ANY daycare was if it bit him in the ass. He’s a Thiel hedge-fund choad and his wife is in BigLaw. People like that have au pairs or nannies, not anything so low-brow as daycare.

It’s 2021. We can drop “but other men have done WORSE dick-related nonsense!” as a defense.

I can kind of understand why Mann didn’t turn them over, if he was unable to identify them and was waiting for them to be properly claimed. But WTF was Monge thinking? Using them in a “case study” like they were a movie prop?

Though when you’re at the point of not being able to tell what side of the line he’s on, doesn’t that effectively erase the line?

Same reason Rush and 45 were popular despite being stupid and unfunny: they get away with saying the shitty, bullying things their fans wish they could say 24/7.

But, but, then how are we going to pretend that fat-shaming is “just worrying about your health”?!

It’s a troll - jumping from “well I have a SEKRIT medical history!!!” to throwing up the specter of groups who have legit reasons to be suspicious of the medical establishment (while carefully not claiming to be a member of those groups).

How dare you compare Big Boy to this chud.

The feds are not above that, but the thing is, so often they don’t have to; stupid, arrogant, guilty people are happy to talk themselves right into a seat on that railroad.

Please stop calling them hypocrites. They aren’t hypocrites; they’re just liars and sociopaths. They would be hypocrites if they genuinely believed in the things they pretend to believe (the Bible, strong families, whatever). They don’t. These are just things they all agree to pretend they believe so they can use them…

You didn’t! What you did find is someone who wasn’t an eager, uncritical audience for “let’s try and retcon some way this awful person’s bullshit supports a tangential point I was eager to make.”

(I would have said “uncontroversial” before this conversation,)

It’s also a fact that correlation and causation are separate issues, and that people who already have problems that limit their ability to exercise “all the time” may be more vulnerable to comorbidities because of those problems.

The guy who wrote Leverage pointed out that nobody is immune from con games, and in fact being smart and educated is a great way to get fooled, because you only think you’re immune.

Yeah, and that’s the problem. We can’t have a serious, neutral discussion about potential vaccine side effects (like whether it affects a vaccine recipient’s menstrual cycle) because these idiots drown us out with their screeching about vaccine cooties.

The alternative-medicine community has always had these bozos. 

She thinks she’s going to pull off the same trick Schwarzenegger did of appealing to both her own party and to moderate California Democrats who aren’t thrilled with the current administration. She seriously underestimates how bigoted the California GOP is, and she has no clue how much he leveraged his connections and…