perhaps, too, we can encourage all of our parents and older relatives to approach YouTube with caution and to—for the love of all that is good—not use it as an engine to research the Talmud.

(I will note here that I too am Jewish, and having spent 32 years on Earth, I feel fairly confident that I can identify both veiled and outright anti-Semitism.)

I have a tendency to call him Senator Liberace. Wholly unprogressive of me, and people should live as they deem appropriate, but his flamboyant histrionics just slay me. 

I told them about Andrew Jackson claiming that John Q Adams killed his wife, but not the others. I hate the sensationalizing of this election cycle. Trump is fucking awful and the press were dumb as shit--but we’ve always had politicians be downright disgusting towards each other, so pretending like it’s new is really…

He looks very promising. He has my vote.

Democrats accused Grover Cleveland of cavorting with prostitutes and fathering a child with one of them.

My humor was too dry. I meant we aren’t joking when we point out he’s gay. “Sky is blue” sort of thing.

Have you ever read what John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had to say about each other? That’s a fun read. Or, more readily understood by your students perhaps, the fact that Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel by the VP of the United States, Aaron Burr? That would kind of be the equivalent of Mike Pence killing a…

right ... like anyone would vote for someone with that kind of name.  

I’m right there with you, he’ll always be Senator PittyPat to me!

that is arrak bobama. He is a new guy we swear,

I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t make fun of raging hypocritical asshole closet-queens.

This is an excellent point. As nice as it would be to embrace “when they go low, we go high”, the fact is that strategy has not worked in delivering actual benefits to people. We see this in places like Michigan and North Carolina, where even when Republicans lose they try to pass laws preventing others from…

THANK YOU!!! All semester, students wrote about how the political rhetoric was at its worst this year, and I had to explain to them that for a long time this is ALWAYS how it was and I gave them examples like this, too. This doesn’t diminish what’s going on, but when journalists hype the divisions as being…

As long as he doesn’t produce a slick video proving his heterosexuality (a la Warren’s native ancestry) I’m fine.

OK Dems & Progressives, listen up. You wanna FUCK UP 2020 you go with Booker. Please, please NOT, N-O-T this guy. I’m cool with Cory for NJ Senator and I’m even cool with Cory in a WH admin, but I am NOT cool with Cory running and losing as POTUS.

Nobody is making jokes about Lindsey Graham being gay. We make jokes about his hypocrisy, sliminess, and how he backstabbed the Keibler Elf to try and get his job. 

Not a chance.

Well, let’s see. It’s obvious this will be a problem for people on the right or even Democrats in more conservative parts of the country which, let’s face it, is most of the country.

Sigh. The Democrats are going to fuck 2020 up in spectacular new ways, aren’t they?