re: #492 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because he is the GOP nominee and thus entitled to be taken seriously even when spouting horseshit to degree never seen or heard before in a presidential campaign. The system is just not equipped for this situation

The system is not equipped by design. It’s engineered and calibrated for balance at all costs, even when it means normalizing unabashed racism and mendacity, because the alternative is having to say ‘hey, maybe the Democrats are actually objectively right on something’.