This is America dammit. Any white Christian able bodied over 6' tall hetero full of head of hair Ivy league educated man body can be president.

I think we’re talking at cross-purposes. I don’t deny the inherent sexism at work; I was merely pointing out that Hillary is/was not the first woman to get this far - Chisholm and Smith rarely get their fair due as trailblazers.

this is like the classic ruth bader ginsburg quote, when asked when there will be enough women on the supreme court:

Uterus: starts with u and ends with us.

MY God watches PBS.

Can someone help me out with presidential math. So, if Obama can not act as president 11 months before the end of his term and appoint a new Supreme Court Judge BUT President Clinton was responsible for the attacks on 9/11 8 months after the end of his term, what’s the point of an inauguration? Or an election at all?…

They are also implying that somehow Obama hired an assassin competent enough to kill a sitting Supreme Court Justice without anyone at the lodge being the wiser, but incompetent enough that they suffocated him and left the evidence for everyone to see.

Holy shit I recognize 5 of these names. Time to die.

I believe he’s saying that he doesn’t understand gravitational waves (the “So...” part), but he wants to know if they are beneficial to his every day life (the “it brew my coffee faster?” bit). Some mirth arises from this cosmic confusion.

have you read Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman? the devil does not show up, but he is definitely around...

She’s not totally wrong. Feminism IS about getting to choose who you want to be and to live exactly how you want. The problem is that you also don’t get to tell other people who they get to be/how to act/what they should do with their body.......

IME, being an American is hardly exotic or even desirable to most Europeans. I couldn’t order coffee without someone informing me that my country sucks.

I spray my comforter down with Lysol

“I’m most afraid of the same as the last four years. Nothing in life is free, and that’s what really needs to be fixed here and in the whole country. The people are living off the system. The people that are coming in and we’re helping out more than we’re helping out our own. And school has to be fixed, we’re paying…

That’s why I make sure I’m awake by 11:00 AM. It’s really that 30 minutes of peace and quiet that makes being a morning person so rewarding.

I find it delightful that she eats all that ridiculous shit, yet her name is Bacon.

This is an amazing story. I'm so sorry but I can't stop laughing.

This one, from the original piece at the New Yorker, is almost unbelievable:

Bernie is a shill for democratic rule. I'll take that shill any day.

the outsized political hope that “youth” have before they realize that every politician is a shill, nobody with real values is actually electable, and also that God Is Dead.