And I’m just telling you that is how most of us view ourselves. We are baffled by this shit too. I feel like the Trump era has done one thing - laid bare the levels to which our nation is a plutocracy and how broken our institutions are. I am hoping that an energized voting base can turn this around, but I am not…

We Americans don’t “allow” it. Our voice carries little weight in our modern plutocracy, so what can we really do? You’d think voting, but here we are, looking at the exact example of why voting has been undermined.

Something like this, I am guessing:

The people that call in the false report should be arrested and tried for attempted murder

This. Because professionalism.

Added to my list of things to try, for sure.

Bacon? Does that look like a whiskey drink? No. Citrus and/or cucumbers are common for gin. Read a book!

None of this excuses Russian interference in 2016. But we also need to stop covering up what our country has done around the world.

Which is amazing, because the birth of “rednecks” was born out of what amounted to a small-scale war between unions and the coal companies... like... their own voting bases forebears shed blood for the right to have unions and here they are shedding blood - by slitting their own throats. It is painful to behold.

That dreaded “economic anxiety” striking again?

I ain’t even mad. <3 Stanley.

What blows my mind is that the GOP managed to get their voters to stand against unions, which have historically represented so many of their blue collar voting base! Fucking idiots.

I specifically mean the talking heads on the Left, obviously.

I was listening to the talking heads. Congressional Dems may have done more, but nothing I saw. The issue has always seemed pretty damn polarizing (thanks, NRA).

... lol wut?

What the politicians did (or more accurately - didn’t do) is not exactly what I am talking about so much as the kneejerk reaction that seems to come from talking heads and pundits on the Left. You aren’t wrong, I think I was just talking about something else.

This is a good take.

If Obama did it, he will undo it, no matter how effective it may or may not be. Fucking Trump, man.