The overriding sentiment of the last election was anti-establishment; that sentiment was so strong that it was sufficient to overcome an extremely well-funded Democratic operation staffed with the “smartest” people in politics and elect a man who was, as even many of his supporters could see clearly, a moron

Looking forward to all the emphasis placed on poorer women, who can’t afford a day off.

You are very wrong.

Nah, but DeRay and BLM do have donors. They get paid to do their work, they get speaking fees.

There are plenty of people out here doing the work in pursuit of social justice who have far less than these white rural plumbers, electricians, and shop owners.

Hell, why don’t white people who claim not to be racist set their racist friends and relatives straight when those friends and relatives say racist shit in front of them?

“And it’s time that you self-segregate your dollar, close off your virginity in terms of letting the dollar go out. We need to start taking the example of other successful communities and emulate it,” he preaches. “If we were as faithful to other black businesses as we are to black barbershops and black beauty shops,…

I’m not sure that is the point. The point is to get them to actively stop trying to persecute black people, not necessarily turn them into college students who talk about ethnic hair and wear scandals all day.

I think its more about how the young BLM activists actively rejected his work and he wasn’t expecting that. Like he knew he what he was getting into when he went to talk to the Klan, he knew they would be assholes. But then having a bunch of kids tell him his work is unimportant or even counter-productive was just not…

I was also struck by how he seemed to have more patience with the the KKK members than with other black men.

Also, after hearing (white) progressives talk so much about black people watching our tone to win allies, you can miss me with this whole preoccupation with redeeming bigots.

Once those rear wheels brake free, they

It’s sort of like how Corinne and Nick will end up together on the Bachelor: assholes find each other and then won’t let go.

“I can totally do more pullups that you, Paul!”

I really want Melissa McCarthy to do a skit as Sean Spicer and use this line now.

I do this all the time and Ms AnotherOne gets really angry. In my defense she travels for work and takes her iPad and we could actually watch these together while on Facetime instead of waiting for weekends or nights where she isn’t busy.

However, so much of what I hear calls for what is essentially the complete dismantling of Israel as a country, that it’s difficult to have any kind of nuanced conversation.

Oh, gotcha. Yah lol the idea of Donald Trump being “upper crust” HAS TO BE a running joke in the actual upper crust. Like Donald Trump is at best a poor man’s make believe version of what a rich person acts like.

I was with you until here:

This is why I don’t truck with BDS anymore. There are legitimate criticisms of Israel: but so much of the BDS and Palestinian Solidarity movement is tied up in crazy conspiracy theories and legitimate anti-semitism. It’s like the Republican Party: most don’t behave or believe like Donald Trump, but Trump still is the…