The Democrats biggest weakness is that they care what Republican voters think about them.

Agree 1000%. The GOP is in no position to be calling the shots and the Democrats should hold fast and not budge.

Republicans are going to take the brunt of the blame for the shutdown. They control the House the Senate and the Whitehouse. Democrats should not hand them a lifeline especially when they don’t do something about DACA now.

I thought they were both stupid as fuck, and I said it in the post. Like total waste of money. How Adam Sandler manages to keep getting deals is a fucking mystery.

Absolutely true but because we (men) are stupid, simple-minded creatures, her point about how men may get to that line of thinking may have some validity. Not about the “get over it” part but the negative backlash from those already in privilege who don’t want to change and will do whatever necessary to remain in…

“Or! Or... Icing out women is a super obvious thing, and all the men dumb enough to try this strategy will get hit with a civil rights lawsuit so hard their ancestors apologize.

Or! Or... Icing out women is a super obvious thing, and all the men dumb enough to try this strategy will get hit with a civil rights lawsuit so hard their ancestors apologize.

They’d need self awareness first.

Rice said she didn’t want “to get to a place that men start to think, ‘Well, maybe it’s just better not to have women around.’ I’ve heard a little bit of that. And it, it worries me,” she said.

Running a government for 300+ million people is a pretty complex task. I do think it’s a bit naive to think that it doens’t require any specialized set of skills. I don’t think it’s impossible for an outsider to successfully transition or that policians shouldn’t have any work experience outside of politics, but for…

This is what galls me, people who think inexperience is great when it comes to a politician, especially president. Like, we don’t want “an outsider” flying our plane; we want a pilot who knows what he’s doing. And if we need an operation, we want a doctor and medical staff who are experienced with this type of…

There are minimum age limits that prevent a younger person with no health or mental deficits from serving, why is a maximum age limit any different? A 28-year old can’t be a senator (but can be a house rep) but a 30-year old can. This would be no different.

Is it ageist if the goal is to have representatives who, you know, represent and understand the population?

Term limits on Congress would only work with significant campaign and lobbying reform. New Congresscritters are easily swayed by lobbyists especially when they are legislating on things that aren’t their particular wheelhouse. Term limits happening before lobbying reform will pretty much had the US over to who ever…

Too old. My vote is for 65.

How could someone possibly not know that Howard U is a predominantly black university? lol I’m a white guy in Canada, and even I know that... I’d be calling shenanigans on that as well. I’m not all about violence or anything, but I’d say they are lucky that their hat being stolen is the worst thing that happened to…

White woman born and raised in a mostly white town near Chicago. So, sheltered and ignorant. Aware of my ignorance, biases, and bigotries, though not as a teen.

Oh, well... yes. Carry on, good sir.

Years of therapy.

Dood... you were sexually assaulted for months. How can you talk about it so casually?