I don't think it's due to some deficit in the American character, but I think one could argue that American society at large suffers from affluenza

I think about this quote all the time, not just for how true it is about comedy, but how succinctly it delineates how we perceive things in first-person vs third-petson

Given how there have been a few comedy weirdos coming up through Adult Swim who are RW freaks (eg Sam Hyde) I'm really glad that Heidecker has taken a consistent no-joking approach to uninterrupted support for trans ppl

He's so clearly Just A Guy that it really throws into relief how fucking perverse the persecution is

I'm not sure if the famous flying Ottoman scholar Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi was actually as fabulous as this painting by Adem Başpınar makes him look, but legend has it that he did manage to fly over the Bosporus strait in 1632.

Whereupon he was sent into exile for being "scary."

Time's person of the year is the extra Lucy in this grok-generated Peanuts animation I could not escape yesterday at the doctor's office

PA Democrats and Independents have been captured by Blueskyism

total mismatch with the attentional serving size of microblogging sites

n=5 over 7 months (for House specials specifically). That is in fact an average but I don't know that I'd hang my hat on that sample size as representative. Especially for (as many have been saying) a highly nationalized race that had Trump doing "tele-rallies"

I hear this but I guess what I'm trying to communicate is that based on the claims in the post, everybody in this thread has thought through the facts of TN-07 more thoroughly than Bazelon

Why not? Suggesting that a different candidate in a nationalized race could swing an R+22 district an *additional* 10 points is a claim that, I think, needs a little more substance!

This is appropriate caution for the analysis. "Might have been winnable with the right candidate" is really not

Kinda hate that I'm familiar enough with professional transphobe journalists that I knew exactly which name-searcher you're referring to

What's the evidence behind the claim that the underperformance was due to candidate or campaign, rather than a voter turnout much closer to the midterms (where differential turnout patterns are going to be muted?) seems like a bold assertion to make, and I don't think ideology/platform is driving it