It’s kinda thrown me into an existential crisis that these two perfect avatars of idiocracy now believe we’re living in idiocracy

Looking forward to reading this

Always an option in the ol back pocket. I hold out hope for a Greater New York, if things go that way I’m going to get real revanchist over Jersey and CT

What the fuck is this country coming to

Still a lot of work to go - the defectors on the shutdown did full Mommy Party interviews (Shaheen in particular) that merely stood for the prop that democrats are “responsible”. But being “responsible” is clearly insufficient standing alone, you do have to show what you are against

Not many young people know this but it is generally pretty unusual for the president to outright call for the mass executions of elected members of the opposition party

I think we were right that they should have gone Agro in February - what would have actually gone worse? I think the election is convincing us that there wasn’t an opportunity cost, and maybe not. But the brand could have started healing even faster than it has with more aggression

Pretty clear that since the 60s, one party has been anti discrimination and one party has been pro discrimination.

“Can you at least aim away from my shoes please Mr President”

Gonna hear that line in my head all day now

there is no peaceful path to the eradication of patriarchy. the closest thing we have ever achieved is routing it in election after election, as the US managed until 2016

we can go back to this, but patriarchy is aided by supposed liberals who don't recognize patriarchy will never go peacefully

I am prepared to die on the hill that my daughter must be treated the same as my son, and the observed reality that most dads do not feel that way sickens me

I don’t think of my children as my property, and can’t comprehend the idea. I’m on a journey with these kids. They’re on a journey with me. We don’t where it’s going, or who they’ll end up being. Similarly, I completely fail to comprehend how father’s of daughters remain so fucking sexist

In my household, we consider what he did to Sally in France to be among the most depraved acts in history. Just a sick person