Let us not forget that Darth Cheeto is a teevee media man first and foremost—he is an abject failure at literally everything except for manipulating people, particularly audiences. Unfortunately for everyone, he is extremely talented at that one thing.

I’m white, so does that mean I get to keep eating the fuck out of all of these things?

I wish you all would’ve had the opportunity to talk to Elijah Cummings...he’s been out for heart surgery though. He kicks ass.

Was he even able to force Congress to do their job?

That’s exactly what I thought!

There’s no white response that would’ve been a ‘good’ response—I don’t know if it was ever possible. Making something big and just disruptive enough to grind the status quo to a halt so that the white establishment *has* to respond is effective, if only incrementally so. The NFL has to maintain that veneer of…

I don’t think Klepper is very funny, but a thing that did happen when The Colbert Report initially aired was that most of the neo-cons at the time didn’t actually get that they were being mocked. Colbert was invited to the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, in which he delivered a ballsalicious roasting of Dubya…

As a sort-of outsider, it was interesting, because I saw Black men react to being confronted with the sexism Black women deal-with (in which Black men are complicit) somewhat similarly to how white feminists react to the racism Black women deal-with (in which white women are complicit)—though the offended men seemed…

How do we not have a copy of this in Bawlmerese yet?

Wow, I didn’t think we’d get to “sanctimonious patriotic bullshit” so early in the thread.

I get what you’re saying, but wasn’t that the idea with Liberia? It hasn’t turned out wonderfully.

If you just have to sing the damn song on karaoke night, why not just shut your mouth for that *one* word? I realize white people (particularly white men) aren’t down with being told “no” about anything, but *why* is this so important to white people that they have to be able to say it? It means nothing to a white…

Most likely.

He’s throwing his white supremacist base a racist bone to devour in order to distract the public from a bunch of serious, dangerous shit— such as the Graham-Cassidy bill to repeal the ACA, the woeful mishandling of the disasterous hurricane in Puerto Rico (not that Houston is a whole lot better), and the threat of…

The “welfare queen” stereotype is racist and untrue. It implies that ALL people on welfare are Black women, living high on the hog on white people’s tax dollars, having more children so they can get more benefits, using the money to buy Cadillacs and fancy TVs. It is the face of welfare recipients created by…

Nobody said you couldn’t. But white people don’t usually make that distinction. The “Welfare Queen” isn’t white, of course. It wouldn’t have worked if she was white. St. Ronnie and his legion of rabid flying monkeys knew well that you can conquer the poor by dividing them against each other, in the time-honored…

I live about 15 miles from and work in Gettysburg. You wouldn’t believe how many (white) people seem to be there for the unspoken yet ‘understood’ purpose of making a pilgrimage to mourn the loss of the Civil War. Confederate reenactment as a hobby is plausible deniability, usually justified with “but I was born in…

I always thought “race-baiting” was something that white oligarchs did to white poor people—as in, they made some issue into a Black vs. white issue to use white people’s own racism against them. Like, by turning poverty into a “Black people problem”, they effectively manipulated poor white people into agreeing to cut…

You probably have decent health insurance through your job, but Maryland decided to implement the ACA in the way it was designed to be implemented, so health insurance is a lot cheaper here than in PA or VA, if you have to purchase on the marketplace. The Orange Menace and his legion of lizard people haven’t managed…

I assure you that no one who voted for Hair Hitler held their nose. Despite being a spoiled draft-dodging billionaire from NYC, who has repeatedly squandered his inherited fortune on failed businesses, cheats and swindles people out of money, married a porn star, cheated on several wives, and even had a child out of…