Hillary Will Run in 2020
Monday, Nov 12, 2018 9:59PM
This came up over social media.
Hillary Will Run Again Reinventing herself as a liberal firebrand, Mrs. Clinton will easily capture the 2020 nomination.
Look, Hillary supporters. I'm going to be honest with you. We're done with corporate shill candidates. We were done with corporate shill candidates back in 2016, but you -- YOU -- refused to listen while the orange buffoon capitalized on populism, which is what Hillary should have done. She didn't swing toward populism because she is not a fucking liberal !!! She is a center-right 1960s era Republican and she lost to a Republican extremist pretending to be a populist.
"But her e-mails..." I hear you bluster condescendingly. You all sound like the Trump...
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Brett Kavanaugh: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Monday, Oct 1, 2018 3:15PM
John Oliver discusses the ongoing controversy surrounding Brett Kavanaugh, the sexual assault allegations against him, his Supreme Court nomination, and what that could all mean for the highest (mostly-dog) court in the land.
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Dating Habits Are Not Evidence Against Racism
Tuesday, Sep 11, 2018 6:44PM
So, a British conservative asked me, "How can Donald Trump be racist against black people when he dated a black model, Kara Young.
I explained that a man can be rabidly sexist against women and still willing to date them. Racism (and discrimination in general) is not necessarily about groups of people you hate. It's about groups you arbitrarily disrespect or hold in lower regards than whatever arbitrary group in which you place yourself, which may or may not lead you to socially despise them.
Slave owners in pre-Civil War United States were classically known for having sex with their slaves even though they were most decidedly not respected as other citizens. Moreover, slave owners were -- to say the least -- reluctant to lose...
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Free Speech
Tuesday, Aug 7, 2018 5:36PM
Online comic, xkcd, explains how getting banned from social media is not a violation of the 1st Amendment. Do we really need to explain this!?
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