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An Example of the Tolerance of the Left

This is really amazing. One tweet is from election night, and the next tweet is two days later–it’s literally the 4th tweet after the first one I show. We are now under total Republican rule. Textbook fascism. Fuck you, white America. Fuck you, you racist, misogynist pieces of shit. G'night. — Laci Green (@gogreen18) November […]

Is It Smart to Vote Immorally?

I say no. Some of you were expecting me to gloat, weren’t you? Well I’m not going to. (I was somewhat snarky on Twitter, but only because of people who were so confident beforehand.) Indeed, for those of you horrified by President-Elect Trump, I can say that I was telling people not to vote for him […]

Trump’s Final Appeal to the Voters

This is a really good ad. I think this is what he had to work with, and he swung for the fences. I think future politics classes will look at this ad the same way they will study, say, the Goldwater campaign. The only other commentary I will make is to note the points in […]

John Oliver on Third Party Candidates

I had never heard Johnson talk about Mt. Everest like this before, and I didn’t know Jill Stein had dropped a dope album back in the day. This video made me like Johnson slightly less, like Stein a lot more, and like John Oliver slightly less. Oh and the tiger guy is a riot. P.S. […]

My Thoughts On Trump’s Tax Return

For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you know that this issue has absorbed a large portion of my sanity since Sunday. Hopefully this post will get it out of my system. An excerpt: If you still feel like Trump is cheating, realize you too can take advantage of this “vast benefit.” I’ll […]

Sarandon Is a True Progressive

I can respect Susan Sarandon, even though (of course) I disagree with a lot of her policy views. But I think this is incredibly brave of her. So I respect her the same way I respect Glenn Greenwald, who was totally anti-Bush because of the war and civil liberties, and then was consistent when Obama […]

Johnson Supporters Inventing Their Own Reality

I did some soul-searching recently asking myself, “Is it true what they say? Do I just go out of my way to tear down the best chance for liberty in this election cycle?” And no, that’s not what I’m doing. In my professional outlets, I don’t engage in libertarian catfighting. I have a podcast (co-hosted […]

Unfortunately Scott Adams Isn’t Even Keeping Up With His Own Schtick

I follow several bloggers with whom I disagree (sometimes strongly). Indeed it is a virtue if they have different conclusions, because perhaps my own view is wrong. But what makes me start losing interest is when these bloggers aren’t even internally consistent. For example, back on June 28 Scott Adams (the Dilbert creator who has […]