Juliajms

Yes. Also, I think some of them thought they could ride the ratings wave, but he couldn't really win. I remember they were being accused of pretending the race was closer than it was just to keep people interested, but really they were underestimating him the whole time.

This is the kind of wrong that can never be made right. Those people are gone forever and it didn't have to be that way. It's really frustrating to watch this incompetent and spiteful administration cause so much damage. Absolutely disgusting. What an ass. He'll claim he didn't mean it "that way", but I'm pretty sure I haven't heard that expression in 30 years.

Do you think he can beat the Republican? I haven't lived in Florida for six years, so I haven't kept up with the political situation there. Florida seems like a place where demographics must eventually lead to more democrats being elected. I'm not one to believe demographics alone can save us on the whole, but dare I hope Florida is at a tipping point?

Here's hoping it stays that way in the months and years to come.

^ Yes, it is, although it sounds like they taking others as well now.

^ Good news. I had no idea about this was happening. How awful and I doubt any human rights agency or government will be able to step in and save them. "The sheer scale of the internment camp system, which according to The Wall Street Journal has doubled in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region just within the last year, is mindboggling."

Ugh.

Yes. I'm not one to idealize people simply because they are ill or even dead. I was planning to keep my mouth shut on McCain, but I will say that he sacrificed more than I ever have (or ever hope to) for this country. My favorite story is how his wife brought their baby daughter home from an orphanage in Bangladesh. She never even discussed adopting her and told him it was happening at the airport with the baby in her arms. She had a developmental problem (maybe cleft palate) and they got her treatment and he acted like a new father right from the start. That's a real man and that's honor. I won't even bother to make the obvious comparison to that monster we have in the white house.

Yes. I love that Trump is besieged by gadflies on all sides. He is being dogged on so many issues. It has to be driving him nuts.

Are we still pretending that being honored or praised by 45 is to be desired? I can hardly think of a greater honor for someone like John McCain than being reviled by that man.

Remember the baseball game where those congressmen were shot? Even being the victim of shooting doesn't seem to wake some of these guys up. It's insane. Maybe they care about their money more than their lives. As to why men commit the vast majority of violent crime, I think it has to be an interplay of sociological and biological reasons.

It's not the reason, even if it's the "reason". That's like saying a man punched his wife because dinner wasn't on the table on time. No, he was f*cked up and unstable and this set him off. If it hadn't been one thing it would have been another. Normal people don't shoot others because things aren't going their way.

Is this real life?

I can't deny, especially because:

I try so hard not to call other human beings trash under any circumstances, but this woman tests my resolve regularly. https://twitter.com/KyungLahCNN/status/1033107021896146944

The war these people are waging on the poor is endless. It really makes me sick.

That is pretty scary. I suppose these types of machinations have been going on behind the scenes forever, but when the veil is lifted and you see the extent of it, it's just terrifying.

People always assume I mean NYC when I say I'm from NY (Well, I did live in Bensonhurst those first three years, but it was the sticks after that). I've run into people out west who don't even realize there is anything to NY, but NYC. That shouldn't be surprising, but it always is because the rest of the state is so big. I lived in San Francisco for many years and it's true enough that I never thought much about the inland part of the state. I did drive through once and the people are very rural. Just like NY, it's a completely different world. I had no idea until I saw for myself.

^ I grew up north of Albany. I'd say a lot of people consider upstate NY figurative fly over country. It was very Republican when I was growing up. Really the Adirondacks are very nice, although I could never live there again. We had to drive about 20 miles just to get to a real grocery store. The guy who drove my school bus was a diary farmer and the western part of the state is full of farms.

I wonder how long it will take this fact to permeate the news cycle, if it ever does.

And let's never forget that the mad king might just say burn them all. I bet there are a few people on his staff worried about that.

I read most of it. I really wonder what she could have been thinking? We really need to teach people from the ground up what is and is not ok in the work place. It won't stop everyone, but when I look back at some of my first "real" job , good lord. Few of us were behaving professionally. There wasn't harassment, as far as I know, but there were things going on that should never have happened at work. I'm embarrassed for all of us when I think back on it.

^ Overall, this day just keeps on giving. I know Trump will never actually do time. It will almost certainly have to be enough that everyone around him goes down. Still, it's such a lovely thought after all the pain and danger he has brought down on our nation.

Thank you captain obvious. Ezra is usually better than this.