Whistlebritches

Mayor Pete needs to start polling above 0% in the African-American demographic before he can be taken as a serious contender.

I don't think Texas congressman Dan Crenshaw thought this tweet all the way through. He's apparently loaning out handguns to people who can't be troubled with going through the proper steps to obtain one legally.

There's a kind of interesting second part to this story. The only thing here that is actually illegal is the off-duty firefighter using his ccw handgun to hold this person at gun point. Under current laws in Missouri the guy with the rifle, ammo, and body armor had done nothing wrong and should not have been detained by a civilian. What do you do if you're the firefighter? It's an impossible position.

But what if next time it's the Saudi's providing info to the Trump campaign specifically so they can get their hands on more nuclear tech? Or the Iranians offering whatever they could find from Trump's kids phished personal email account to the Dem candidate so the US doesn't bomb the s#!t out of them. I'm not so naive as to believe it doesn't already happen to some extent but I'm really bothered by the idea of it happening so freely.

What an interesting question. I'm an Xer and my first thought is that no, I wouldn't trade. The crap kids have to put up with today on social media isn't worth it. Thanks for giving me something to think about tonight while I walk the dog.

The majority leader in both houses of congress have way too much power in regards to what makes it to the floor to get voted on. I realize they need a way to not spend all their time on BS bills but something needs to change. Maybe something like....if a bill passes one house the other has to address it. Take HR1 for example which was designed to address voting right, campaign finance, and lobbying. It passed the House and then the Senate leader simply squashed it without it ever making it to the floor.

If they had actually found NOTHING the full report minus grand jury information would have been released to the congressional judicial committees 10 days ago and we wouldn't be having this dog and pony show this morning.

Following this line of thinking we can assume that Republicans in the near future will: Let every industry self-regulate like what is proposed with pork. Reduce the corporate tax rate to 0%. Kick everyone off health insurance that doesn't turn a profit.

How can you tell when you look at a page on the internet if it's controlled by Hydra the Uni-party?

At every town hall and every debate the Dem candidate in the general election of 2020 needs to remind voters that Donald Trump wants to eliminate the ACA. They cannot let voters forget.

Pence either doesn't trust himself around a woman in a 1-on-1 situation or he doesn't trust her to not make false accusations. I'm not sure which is worse.

Yeah, gotta Bing it.

Surely you took some pictures with your phone. Please share.

People have been asking for Trump supporters to join this part of the board to have some back and forth. Well, here it is.

They'll back-load the cuts so they take place after the election like they did with the tax code changes coming up this year.

Don't hate the player, hate the game....or something like that. Nicklaus has a pet project that needed funding and he figured out how to get it.

It's like the front page of Infowars in text.

I don't think about gun violence when I go to the movies but the active shooter drills at my kid's and wife's elementary schools certainly weigh heavy on my mind.

I would argue that an internet enabled video camera in everyone's pocket, the rise of social media to the masses, and the 24-hour news cycle played a much bigger role in race relations during Obama's time in office than anything else. Things that people (myself included) didn't want to believe were happening could no longer be ignored when there's video evidence.

He's a self proclaimed lifelong Democrat that thinks the party is moving too far left. He should run as a Democrat and try to push the party in the direction he thinks it needs to go. If his ideas are worthwhile people will vote for him as a Dem. If he really wants to make a difference how about pushing a national initiative for ranked choice voting. Right now there's nothing a third party candidate for POTUS can accomplish aside from playing spoiler.

I'm sure you know this but since Schultz is running as an independent he doesn't have to prepare for the primary. He can keep talking in vague platitudes until Nov 2020 and siphon off just enough votes to make sure Trump wins a second term. It's not that people are upset that he's rich; they're upset that him being rich is the only reason he's getting attention because he certainly doesn't have any concrete ideas. If he didn't have a billion dollars he would just be some dude running for President that nobody had ever heard of and would have never had a CNN townhall.

I think you're upset at the wrong people and I'd absolutely be looking for a new job. Especially if their hiring decisions are putting you in danger. Your company clearly doesn't give a damn about you. You can substitute a lot of different things into a similar scenario and it sounds ridiculous. Something like....A company hires dump truck drivers to operate a backhoe and then get upset when the truck driver doesn't want to operate a machine they aren't trained for. If the drivers don't follow through with their training they don't just get to sit on their a$$ and do nothing, they get fired.

It's all hearsay but there are other reports that the Kaep story is fake.

All those lucky poor folks that don't make enough money in a year to have a tax burden.