You’re disgusting.

“Born in Tooting, South London, to a working-class British Pakistani family, Khan earned a law degree from the University of North London.”

Your impulse to pontificate on literally any interpretation of the situation other than the one that’s readily apparent says...a lot. Never mind your unwillingness to afford the same empathy to the woman in this story.

I mean Jordan Peterson is the patron saint of acting like he knows things he doesn’t!

Well, yeah! That’s the foregone conclusion, hopefully, for any rational America right now; if he’s the nom, I’ll obviously vote for him too. But you seemed to take serious issue with critiquing and vetting his policies and behavior at this stage. That’s what I thought we all were discussing here, because it really is…

Then we need to let those who aren’t hopeless assholes prove it, not send in an elderly white man who doesn’t reflect our current values JUST in case the racist assholes MIGHT change their mind.

...appealing to their “Worst Angels” and giving them voice. Biden can give them a voice without doing that. I think Bernie can too. But their “Worst Angels” make it hard for people like AOC or Ilhan Omar to resonate with them.

I get what you’re saying, and I appreciate your perspective. It’s totally valid. My theory and fear, though, is that the easiest way to lose the GOP’s farcical game is to play it at all. I think the Democratic establishment, represented by people like Biden and - I hate to say it - Nancy Pelosi, at times, is way too…

Is your username supposed to be ironic? If not, you really are a pro.

Trump is a symptom, not the disease. He hasn’t and won’t destroy anything that the GOP hasn’t already; he’s just wary more brazen than even the most ham-fisted Republican politian. Centrism isn’t a salve for this - ask Claire McCaskill how that worked out for her! The midterms were highly indicative of the fact that…

Name recognition is a hell of a drug. Oprah probably polled pretty well, too, at one point. 

I’m struggling to find where desertbruinz says that they won’t support Biden if he gets the nomination. The “this is how we got Trump” mindset is so played and impotent and just gets in the way of of the real evolution that the party desperately needs, regardless of Trump. Getting rid of Trump shouldn’t restrict us…

What a dick thing to say. Ignorant, too. Anyone who knows teachers or are teachers know that those statistics are bullshit. Teachers may spend (minimum) eight hours a day IN THE CLASSROOM, but grading, lesson planning, spending their own money on supplies, all eat into time outside of the classroom. 

This sounds a lot like the conservative/Republican criticism of welfare, where the people taking advantage of the system are, statistically, little more than strawmen. So what if dipshits partied through college get loan forgiveness? You don’t know where they are in life right now, but they certainly don’t have shit…

And yet, most offensive lines in football are one step removed from a Klan meeting.

There is not a racist bone in her body

And leave his or her team high and dry, including some athletes who decided to play for that coach and now have to decide whether to stay at the program as it goes through a coaching staff change.

I am consistently blown away by my cat’s ability to adapt and find new ways to wake me up. Right now he seems to have landed on knocking something off my nightstand that will be loud when it falls, then sprinting away before I can reach the squirt bottle. Or, literally, just standing on top of me.

This reminds me of the mid-major school I used to work for, when it either banned or *discouraged* a journalist from the local paper from press conferences for a short while. It was thin-skinned on the administration’s part, but honestly the reporter was insufferable and the coach was an asshole who’d get fired a…

I guess, but when I ran track in high school, I was always recruited by schools who’d seen me compete; plus, there are a lot of different databases for times/marks/etc. They’d come to the state meets looking for athletes. Same for basketball, but at national tournaments and whatnot. Especially for the latter, it would…