I honestly like Joe Biden and think he’s done a lot of hard, good work for this country. Obviously he’s made some mistaken that were EXTREMELY costly, but he isn’t a bad dude.

“... something which definitely would have escalated the situation had the troll been an actual constituent struggling with mental illness.”

Trump—like every armchair lawyer that ever vomited a profound legal opinion into the ether of the Internet—does not seem to understand that it is not necessary to say “I am committing a specific, actionable crime at this moment, and this is the word or phrase used to describe that crime” in order to commit a crime.

If…

They seem to think the real scandal is that AOC didn’t berate a woman who appeared mentally unwell.

And with that, we’re officially in the “live-testing the ‘shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose a single supporter’ speech” phase of the Trump presidency.

This reality is then further compounded by the fact that people, on average, would rather cling to a comforting lie than accept an unpleasant truth.

The real question is: how many convicts has the judge hugged after sending them to jail? That really bothered me. You know judge wanted Guyger to walk out scot-free.

How does one manage to convince themselves that they’re the inflluencer when they’re doing Kim Kardashian cosplay?

Jean hugging Guyger doesn’t bother me. If that’s what he needs—regardless of whether “that” is extending genuine forgiveness or performative pandering—in order to heal, then let him have it.

He did what he felt he had to do to get to wherever he felt he had to get to, and I greatly respect that. Personally, I don’t think I’m that big.

My friend went on an Instagram crusade against all the influencers who were influencing by stepping all over/lying on/crushing California poppies. Then she expanded it to other people doing harmful things on public lands. (And made friends with @publiclandshateyou!) So no, their harm isn’t just contained to being rich…

Influencing requires an almost impossible plethora of skills since it’s “a hybrid of many jobs,”

Being a Kim Kardashian impersonator is hard damn work.

The US is situated about 7500 miles from Iran. Iran has never directly attacked the US. The Shah was not a US “ally”, he was put in place by CIA facilitated coup that overthrew the elected government. He was a murderous ruler who tracked and killed people around the world as well as in his country. He was put in…

The “God given rights” thing always cracks me up.

I think a lot of people banked so hard on faith that the systems of checks and balances work that they are dumfounded when they aren’t because it requires actual effort by those in power. People have become complacent that the systems and rules just work and don’t become civically engaged and thus it allows the shit…

You'd have to be a moron to believe Trump or vote for him. So, yeah, we're fucked because his minions now think Antifa is going to March on Washington. 

Given the average American’s understanding of basic Civics concepts—or their understanding of the founding documents they swathe themselves in (having had to memorize the Preamble in eighth grade doesn’t count as having read the entirety of the founding documents, folks)—it follows that Trump’s using the “if the…

He’s an asshole, but I understand the hatred of these.

Some of the comments here are goddamned appalling. It’s OK to hate on scooters - a visit to DC convinced me of how terrible an idea they are. But cutting brake lines its grotesque and its a bit of a miracle no-one was killed. If you sympathize with that then frankly, there’s something wrong with you.