The problem is defeating Trump isn’t enough. We have to take back the HOR and the Senate and all the state governorships and legislatures that have been lost since 2010 and put an end to all this gerrymandering bulkshit And even then we have to hope that no other SCOTUS openings happen in the next years.

a) Starting a comment with “putting on flame-retardant clothing” is never a good way to begin. It tells us that you’re pre-emptively putting yourself in a place of victimhood (as a straight white cis man) against the mean and nasty women/POCs/trans folk.

Popularity ratings way down! No one likes him. Failure!

Exactly. You chip away/discourage even half-a-percent of his base, and you’d be talking about President Clinton, right now. Like, do people realize how lucky he was not to even speak of the possibility of rigging?

It’s important for defeatist liberals to read this stuff. Just today I was berating yet another liberal reciting the mantra that “it doesn’t matter, his supporters don’t care what he does wrong”. His supporters don’t represent the majority of Americans. So yeah, it does matter. It’s our job to chip away at him by…

But his job approval rating is a dismal 37 percent, with 51 percent saying they disapprove of the job he’s doing. Rather than being an effective political tactic, Trump’s habit of frequently saying untrue things has led Americans to conclude by a 53-39 margin that he is not honest. Fifty-two percent say that Trump…

Legit tho, fuck Jonathan Chait. This was the weirdest TwitRant I’ve seen an adult make in a while. I hope he chokes on his self-importance.

I’ll just leave this here

Reading this report www.thespectrum.com/story/news/local/2017/01/09/mother-arrested-allegedly-locking-son-bathroom-malnourishing-him/96356610/ it appears the father and other children don’t live with her, which is starting to paint a possible picture for me. My assumption now is that the other two children were…

In the Elisabeth Fritzl case, supposedly the mother did not know her daughter had been kept in the basement for 24 years. Granted, when her father captured her and locked her up there, she was 18, so it was easy to be like “oh she ran off and never wants to talk to us.” The rapes she endured from her father produced…

When somebody I know brought her adopted daughter home from Bulgaria, she weighed 10 lbs at almost 10 years of age. It’s the most heartbreaking thing you can imagine - and it’s incredible that children manage to survive these conditions.

WTF is she only on $20,000 bail? What in the actual fuck yall? Her child was 30 pounds.

That’s a really good question. I’m not excusing the mother’s actions AT ALL but I do not see how the father could live in a house with such horrific abuses against one of his children for years and also be innocent of child abuse himself.

and what about the other kids? how did they process all of this? And why did this child get singled out for this horrific treatment? This story is awful and confusing

Yeah this is all kinds of not making sense.

So, the father lived in the house and only now discovered that one of his children was locked in one of the bathrooms for two years? Did he think his son was on a really long field trip?

I had to go back up to see what age he was. 12 was a long time ago, but I’m pretty sure I was in the 70s-80s. And I was a SKINNY kid.

I can process a lot of human depravity, but that made me gasp out loud. 30 fucking pounds and 12 years old.

Fuck this woman forever. What kind of person does this to their own child?

The boy weighed 30 pounds when he was found