He’s calculating, that’s what I pick up. The fact that he’s been given all this attention when Booker and Castro have the same pedigree makes me look at him side-eyed. He’s NOT getting my vote. Period. 

but you seem to like sniffing up under his ass otherwise you wouldn’t be here. what stormfront has no more room for you?

Why is it the least a white man can do is listen? It’s always a passive action with them, then they get to go on forgetting about it all.

You don’t have to do this.

No, you don’t. Not when he’s had eight years to do something -- anything, especially as he brags about his “record” as an executive even when his constituents have plenty of evidence that all he’s done is throw them repeatedly under the bus — and he literally did nothing.

“There’s been no word on why Roper was terminated.”

My problem is that it’s a hack song written by a hack songwriter who made his bones writing ‘coon songs’ at the turn of the century. The worship of Irving Berlin is wrong on so many levels.

On behalf of countries who are routinely blown apart every other week, many due to the Petyr Baelish School of American Foreign Policy, I’m gonna pretend you didn’t say that about other countries and 9/11. Tragedies happen everywhere and they suck everywhere; we just had to AmericanExceptionalism(tm) ours into “OUR…

I agree. It’s stupid, sort of coerced patriotism. Also, it seems a little too jingoistic for my liking. Plus, as many others have noted, the National Anthem and God Bless America are shitty songs, anyway.

At the opening ceremonies of the Olympics every country’s flag bearer dips the flag in a sign of respect when they pass the host country’s head of state except for 1 nation. Try and guess which one doesn’t?

Nah. He was more of a blackface kinda guy.

counterpoint: all songs espousing any pro-american patriotism are garbage and cancerous 

“Anyway, “God Bless America” sucks in general and should be replaced with a better song.”

It is time we stop singing any patriotic songs at sports games. No other country sings their national anthem before every single (non-international) sporting event no matter how inconsequential. God Bless America during the 7th inning stretch just plain sucks.  

Ya’ll savage. Especially with all the black nerds in your lineup who amongst you doesn’t have an ineffective dap sullying your record. Don’t lie now. Cut Corny & Lemon some slack.

Think about the term “guilty pleasure” and what’s often cited:  things women are “supposed” to like such as romantic comedies, pop music, chick lit.  Have you ever heard of anything masculine-coded as someone’s guilty pleasure?

The other day, my husband said to me, “I decided not to try to reason with you about buying Jagged Little Pill on vinyl and bought what was in our Amazon cart.” I gave him a pitying look and said, “It is an amazing album. You’ll see.You’ll see.”

People who share this viewpoint become senior staff because people who lack it get drummed out over time

when rich people hear that we want everyone to get equal access to healthcare, they naturally assume that means they’ll have to suffer the way we do, because they know that their extreme wealth depends fundamentally on our poverty

Since it invariably is going to come up, I don’t understand how people can scream “this is a witchhunt” or “people are too sensitive” or “this is SJW nonsense” when time and again big gaming/tech companies have proven to be navel gazing, bro-clubs who alienate anyone who isn’t a straight white male.

It’s not…