从**关门35天开始，到众议院弹劾总统唐纳德·特朗普结束，2019年将永远被称为美国政坛“狗屎撞粉丝”的一年。今年发生了很多糟糕的事情，包括几个州努力通过反堕胎法，以及LGBTQ员工在工作场所的权利状况不明等等。

鉴于当前的政治现状，每个人都需要时不时地对事实进行核查。下面是一些我们最喜欢的2019年政治解释。

“交换”到底是什么意思？

It’s a transaction. I go to the grocery store, I give them a couple of bucks, they give me a gallon of milk; quid pro quo. I babysit my friend’s son for a couple of hours, she brings me a homemade banana bread in return; quid pro quo.

绿色新政到底是什么？

In the months since the Green New Deal entered the public c***ciousness, it has been called many things: Zany. Unrealistic. Wildly popular. A socialist Christmas list. It has provoked strong reacti*** from both the right and ostensible left, and is already being regarded as a litmus test for the scrum of Democrats jockeying for the 2020 nomination.

对富人征税的理由越来越多

So far, many of the Democratic candidates for president want to raise taxes on the wealthy to fund their policy plans. But what does that really mean? There are two opti***: Tax the money they earn, or tax the money they have.

在facebook和libra的国会听证会上发生了什么？

Libra’s in trouble. Since Facebook announced it this June, things haven’t gone well. Seven of the 27 other partners backed out earlier this month, including Visa, MasterCard, eBay, Stripe, and PayPal, before the Libra Association’s first meeting, but just after senators sent them letters boiling down to ‘You are entering a world of pain.’ Zuckerberg spent today in that world.

你无法预测总统对股市的影响

A new president doesn’t move in and immediately enact their new policies. Nor does Congress instantly convene and say “Yeah, that all sounds good, let’s do that,” before proposing new laws in line with that new president’s policy goals. But recent reports about how an Elizabeth Warren presidency might impact the stock market could have you second guessing every rational thing you learned about the three branches of government providing checks and balances for the United States.

总统在任期间从外部企业赚钱是否违法？

Last week, Vice President Mike Pence visited Dublin, Ireland to attend several meetings—but confusingly, stayed at a Trump hotel nearly 200 miles away. Just yesterday, the U.S. Air Force came under scrutiny for overnight stays at a Trump hotel in Scotland while refueling. And Trump himself recently proposed hosting the next G-7 summit at his hotel in Doral, Florida.

你喜欢的一切都是宣传

Propaganda is everywhere, coming from every entrenched power in the world, especially in America. Social media gave normal people a voice in the conversation, but most of us waste our voice promoting the same shit we’ve been fed for a century through mass media.

一位专家认为，为什么2020年美国人口普查会改变一切

Today, the Supreme Court blocked a crucial citizenship question from being added to the 2020 U.S. census—a question President Trump couldn’t help but chime in on.