White faux liberals desperately want to create a world in which racial virtue is easy and requires no sacrifice or real challenge. In a world where slavery still exists, there are no sticky arguments about All vs. Black Lives Matter to make white folks feel guilty. Milquetoast racial progressivism is magnified to…

“She’s quite a curious LUHVAH...”

Not for the first time, last night’s Real Housewives of Orange County displayed a woman on the verge of (to risk sounding like Heather Dubrow Pedro Almodóvar) a nervous breakdown.

U DONT UNNERSTAND THE TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE/WERE “VERY ANGRY” W/COASTAL ELITES LIKE YOU SO THEY SHOWED YOU. BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU ARE ANGRY, YOU GIVE A HUCKSTER THE POWER TO TEAR DOWN A CENTURIES’ OLD EXPERIMENT IN DEMOCRACY AND SELF-GOVERNMENT, OUT OF SPITE. BECAUSE THAT WILL SHOW COASTAL ELITES LIEK…

My friend, let’s be reasonable here: you’re speaking to someone who calls his or herself “Poopfan.”

Sincere thanks on using this phrase properly. So few seem to: I perpetually see it used on the internets to mean “a large volume of tears,” rather than its actual (folklore-based) meaning.

Counterpoint: Proposition 63 was yet another in the now acknowledged-to-have-failed efforts—like the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban—to legislate against things that look scary to people with no exposure to or knowledge of firearms...but have virtually no impact on making the public safer.

It’s such a goddamn relief to hear these views espoused here so eloquently—if for no other reason than to show the assembled kinja commentariat (whom I dearly love) that not every LEO or service person is a part of some single, dark monolithic culture...whether it’s NRA paranoia/opportunism, or genuinely scary…

Case in point: your example of “open carry” numbnuts in a coffee shop, swaggering up to the barrista while flaunting heavy artillery. The entire posture is based in a perception of the world that’s pure fantasy.

Thanks! Hugely informative.

Dude...I’m pretty much on your side of the argument, here—so why don’t you at least respond to the fact (pointed out by Enkidu 98001) that his weapon was secured IN THE GLOVEBOX at the time of the shooting?

Between the classic rock, and the faithfully trope-y shots of flashlight wielding, square-jawed men exploring basements and standing by open fires...it’s clear what they’re up to here.

To have served on a jury is to realize of the (appalling) truth my dad always repeated to us since we were young: “If you’re guilty, demand a jury trail. If you’re not guilty, try your luck with a judge.”

YOU WOULD TOO IF YOU WERE THAT FAR ALONG THE BRIDGE, SIR.

(Srsly, tho...can you imagine an Oprah candidacy? She’s would have all of the media salience/hey-I-know-that-person-because-the-TV-is-two-way superpowers of Trump with the vast cohort which we politely call “low-information voters.”

Hmm. Your argument is thoughtfully conceived, elegantly stated, and objectively accurate.

Saw this last night. And as is clear from the article/interview, this is NOT a “horror” movie in any conventional sense.

GAWD, it all looks so awful.