YOU WOULD THINK that after the freeze of '21 completely collapsed our grid, they would have FUCKING WINTERIZED IT SO IT COULDN'T HAPPEN AGAIN, but this is Texas. Abbott doesn't have time or resources to protect Texans, he's got migrants to drown!

on the other hand, Sarah Palin already demonstrated how absolutely repellant GOP voters find women on the ticket, and Ross Douthat clearly agrees, so maybe Haley as VP would just be a repeat of 2008?

just like the rest of the Dem moderates in 2020, the race for second place still matters because they're running for VP. and if Trump taps Haley for VP we are in SERIOUS trouble. because Haley as VP checks ALL of the same boxes as Harris, and I don't doubt there are some independents stupid enough to think "I don't want Biden to be president, but I do want a WOC to be VP to ascend to the presidency when the extremely old white male president dies."

and Trump will never die.

I feel like we need to be more specific in describing the GOP base. it's not a simple as "working-class" - there's a LOT of POC who are working class and they're not voting Republican. you can also have a college degree and still be working class, they're generally not Republican either.

the GOP isn't working-class, it's TRAILER TRASH. white, uneducated, gay-bashing, self-loathing, "the Bible is the only thing I understand and I don't even understand that" TRAILER TRASH.

how the hell is Trump not "ideologically conservative"?!

how the hell is a conservative party "disproportionately conservative"?

arrest those national guard members for murder. federal agents' authority supercedes state militias, that's the entire point of a federal government. they had no grounds to deny CBP access and their intent was clearly to ensure the death of those migrants.

is it racism? it's racism.

hot take: I liked Skyler White. and not in a "waiting for her to redeem herself" kind of way. the moment in which I connected with her the most was when she was screaming "SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP" at Marie. I felt very much like she was me in that situation, at every turn, and she consistently did what I would've done and she was right to do so. she navigated an impossible situation in the most pragmatic way she could.

Biden needs to listen to "I got mine, fuck you" slam-the-door-behind-them Latino voters instead of people with an ounce of actual fucking compassion

this is just hilarious. "your honor, my client would like to take the stand." "to give testimony related to the facts of the case at hand?" "no, to ramble incoherently about his many grievances and regurgitate self-serving propaganda like the court is one of his MAGA cult campaign rallies."

65 on Thursday. Snow on Monday. SHUFFLE HAS ARRIVED

because of terminal velocity, a 16000-foot fall isn't really any more impressive than, say, a 100-foot fall, and an iPhone's overall mass and air resistance means it wouldn't have that much impact force even at terminal velocity. I'm not good enough at math to plug in all the equations but I'd bet money any big-brand smartphone would've survived that fall.

I don't know whether to laugh or scream.

black women are 3-4 times more likely to die as a result of pregnancy or childbirth EVERYWHERE in the US, not just NYC. I wonder how many of those "deep-rooted obstacles" include things like "the belief that black people have thicker skin and don't feel pain" or just flat-out not believing their self-reported symptoms.

this officially makes Texas the worst state, right? like it was a toss-up between Texas and Florida but even Florida raised their minimum wage above $7-fucking-25 an hour so that makes Texas the absolute worst, right?

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you mean to tell me it IS possible to stop corporate greed?!

might as well take the fucking plaque off the statue of Liberty right now