In Miami. They caught him visiting Jackson Memorial Hospital. He came home to teach a class at FIU tonight, instead of going to the townhall in Tampa.

Brave Sir Rubio ran away.
(“No!”)
Bravely ran away away.
(“I didn’t!”)
When danger reared it’s ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
(“I never!”)
Yes, brave Sir Rubio turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
(“You’re lying!”)
Swiftly taking to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat.
Bravest of the brave,…

Meanwhile, numerous Republicans continued to avoid townhalls by hiding. Take Marco Rubio, for example. He went to France and Germany to talk to people about “Russian aggression in Europe,” but was unable to identify who he met or where he went.

I hate that salt-of-the-earth narrative. The working class didn’t give Trump the win, college-educated whites did:

To people of color:

My mom, friends, cousins, future-mother-in-law, future-sister-in-law, and just about every other woman I know didn’t vote Trump (my mom is a die-hard Republican and went for Gary Johnson, small victories I guess).

You can understand the concept of it, but unless you experience it, you don’t really “get” it.

Yeah, between that skit and my friends of color saying the same thing on Facebook, the realization hit me pretty quick. Nevertheless, I am still trying to adjust to viewing my position in that light. I thought I was doing OK on the empathy side of things before but we white people will never be 100% and just have to…

None of the white people who thought “Trump was going to rain jobs on us” and etc read TheRoot. So.

As a white dude in a white state that went for Hillary (narrowly :-\), the Chappelle skit on SNL where he watches the results with his white friends really nailed the point home to me. Until then, I had always been aware of all of these issues, but I had never really felt what it was like to look around in a crowd and…

Spencer has actually advocated for “peaceful ethnic cleansing”.

“see we got rid of this guy so when we continue the school to prison pipeline you can’t possibly think it’s because of racism.”

Even the Joker hates Nazis, kids!

or being eaten BY their own spawn. I’m sitting here with my popcorn waiting to see how this all shakes out.

The American right spent 40 years courting and nurturing hate and divisiveness and now their next gen stars are scaring even them. It’s rather entertaining to watch Republicans now, like alligators eating their own spawn.

Dave Brat moved his townhall to a small town 60 miles from where the majority of his constituents live and held it in a venue that barely holds 200. There was a crowd of hundreds more outside. He literally didn’t think there were people who cared enough to drive an hour.

Cotton changed the venue five times in three days in order to confuse his constituents to try and make sure they wouldn’t show up (or that only his most diehard fans/supporters showed up). Thankfully the media was on it and people found out the right place to go.

You know things are about to take a turn for the Real when Cotton is getting attacked by his own constituents.

They can mock it all they want, I love it. We’re in a very scary time and a bold motto is appropriate. Frankly, if Fox News came out with it four years ago the Republicans would be cheering for it.

“Donald Trump makes Mexicans not important to people who are in Arkansas who like Mexicans, like me and my grandma and all my family,” Toby Smith, age 7, told Cotton to loud cheers from the packed auditorium. “And he’s deleting all the parks and PBS kids just to make a wall. He shouldn’t do that. He shouldn’t.”