This is my feeling. Pence is no doubt terrible, but he seems less likely to unravel the fabric of democracy. He also doesn’t, AFAIK, have the same ties to literal neo-nazis as Trump.

What worries me is that Putin will move openly against Ukraine, and Trump will do nothing. There are already over 1.5 million internally displaced people in Ukraine. The Russians roll in and take Kiev like they want to, and a whole new flood of refugees streams into Europe.

Yes. Pence is a pile of shit, but Trump is a mountain of shit. As much as I hate Pence, I’d rather have him than Trump.

A friend of mine put it best, in D&D terms: Lawful Evil is always better than Chaotic Evil.

This. So much this.

Challenge for the next 4 years: Find a story about Donald Trump where ‘this is horrifying’ is not a context appropriate descriptor of what is happening.

The full quote is more chilling and makes what this is about much more explicit, I think:

Dont do it if you don’t want to but don’t be a buzzkill. Bread and roses, bread and roses.

Something about this seems… infantilizing. Can we not show solidarity without resorting to wearing silly looking hats in a gender-stereotyped color? If we want to be taken seriously, I think the worst way to go about it is to make ourselves look ridiculous.

As a southerner, I find it disgusting that so many of my brothers and sisters continually treat the flags and names of people who did not want to be Americans anymore with almost holy reverence. We lost, we deserved it, and it’s better to leave whatever “legacy” the Confederacy gives us in the trash. The fact that so…

This. I can’t explain why the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is a good thing if things like, oh, “improved life expectancy in developing countries”, “fewer orphans” and “fewer babies born with HIV” don’t sway you.

People keep asking me why these things bother me so much, and why we should keep doing things like send aid or provide healthcare, and it’s seriously like, “I literally cannot explain to you how not to be asshole. Because that’s what this is, your gross inability to care for other people.”

Good. It’s ridiculous that the “he wanted to be white” myth is still hanging around. We’ve had enough proof of his vitiligo to have some damn sense about it. I get that it’s a weird situation, but come on.

I didn’t realize that I’ve had a clothing line since 1996 when I first found out about ink-jet t-shirt iron ons. I have quite an extensive collection in my line! How exciting, I should add this to my LinkedIn.

This made me laugh.

And like anyone on the subway in New York is thinking you voted Trump because you’re a white woman. Get a fucking grip...

White women who want to broadcast their politics (in addition to actually taking action, ahem) could also just wear a t-shirt from Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, Amnesty, SPLC, CAIR, BLM, NOW, NPR, DNC ... the possibilities are endless. Just anything at all besides almost literally #notallwhitewomen.

I assume that will be in the fall collection.

But does it come with a key fob that declares “I have POC friends” ...?

That was awkward as fuck. I’m so glad I’m not single and I don’t have to text new people anymore.