We can make up for not providing black GI’s with financial aid. Let’s pay for their grandchildren’s education and provide financial aid for them to buy a home. Part of reparations. And let’s provide everyone who is a decedent of slaves with reparations, including pay for all of the work done by their ancestors…

Although I general hate people who treat other people badly (‘paying customer’ status does not justify being an a-hole), I do derive some pleasure from the thought that she maybe gave Drumpf all hell.

I pretty much go to Trader Joe’s to save money. Is that something you dislike? :-)

I thought of this.

This is my favorite video on the internet.

In case you missed it the first time, Tracie’s piece on the rise and fall of Lisa Frank was one of the most interesting things I’ve ever read on Jezebel. It’s long but totally worth it.

This. We need to stop being such wussies. We ALLOWED the Right to turn “Liberal” into a dirty word. This shit has to stop.

Apparently he’s friends with the producer.

YOU MEAN BLACK PEOPLE DO OTHER STUFF AND JUST LIKE LIVE THEIR LIVES AS BEST THEY CAN LIKE EVERYONE ELSE?

Good ol’ Asimov:

Conservatives make absolutely NO sense in the things they get outraged about - IMO.

I have a cousin who lambasted him for not insisting the flags be at half staff after a shooting - she’s no dummie - and yet had to be told that governors, states, made those individual decisions and she still wanted to blame the POTUS. People just want to blame the black dude.

There might be a perfectly logical explanation for the full fridge:

This is absolutely it.

At least with regards to your example, there is a legitimate basis from which their insanity stems. It IS much harder for the middle class today than it was 50 years ago. We don’t have defined benefit retirement plans anymore, people have to constantly fight health insurance companies to cover everything, and we get…

There was an interesting article on 538 recently about the psychological differences of being uninformed vs misinformed. Uninformed people respond to facts by learning. Misinformed people react to facts by backing themselves into a defensive posture and screaming about liars rather than deal with the emotional aspects…

If you can’t afford to put food in your fridge, you aren’t middle class and would likely benefit from.....WELFARE! Don’t blame the people who understand that and signed up for it, blame your asshole bosses who pay you “middle class” wages of $9 an hour.

“I like him because he’s a businessman,” said North Carolinian Linda Wilkerson. “He does what he says he’s going to do. I’ve seen him lose a ton of money and bounce back. We’re in terrible financial debt. I hope he can bail us out.”