God, the fucking greys -trying to say calling out racism is racist. Fuck you people.

Ugh. This is just a bad marketing decision. I agree with you, Ashley, that a better way to honor diversity would have been to promote the work of diverse authors.

An honest apology would be, “gee, we’re sorry. We thought our racist display was more subtle. We will try to hide our racism better next time.” Not better by any means, but certainly more honest.

And they had better pay a consulting fee. At least a gift card.

I’ll admit it, I avoided reading this for a day because I knew it would just be awful. Then I clicked on the link. Wow. I am deeply saddened and angry. Did some moron think this would be a subtle way to “own the libs?” Did NO ONE look at this and say, “let’s come up with a better display.” I mean, it is SO OBVIOUS.…

And yet tried to use a lot of nods to black folks to (unsuccessfully) shield his noxious, racist policies. It was the old, “but I have a black friend” times 1000.

The Frozen II was not great. When it got to, “OK, snowman has a carrot-dick. That is it. That is the joke,” the end could not come soon enough. Apparently, this was the deuce that Bigfoot left in the bathroom.

I agree, and am also hoping Chloe Fineman gets some more chances. She is solid when she is on, but has not found that breakout sketch yet.

Chris Rock will always have the best take on Black History Month, courtesy of Nate X.

The cold open was - meh. Pete was a nice addition, but the problem is the tepid material, so I agree with you there. But NO good athlete hosts? Forget athlete, Peyton Manning is one of the better hosts hands down. JJ Watts was game, but the reading was so obvious it took me out of nearly every sketch. I half expected…

From your link:

Coming a bit late (followed a link from another VS story), but found myself baffled by this:

Victoria’s Secret is bad through and through, no doubt. But every Auntie Annies should be razed for claiming that the carbohydrate product they sell is really a pretzel. #fuckmallpretzels

Oh hell, that is an awful story. I had not heard of Charlotte’s demise. PETA needs to just STFU and stay out of the public eye after their offensive “Take a Knee” ad. As for the groundhogs, maybe a secret marmot council convened hundreds of years ago and decided,” hey, it’s time we fucked with the primates’ minds.”

Oh great, the feline is a concern troll... (reading below. I try to avoid responding directly to trolls if I can avoid it).

Yes, but who exactly gets to meet the candidates? And who can really participate?

We are talking about selecting the party candidate, though. Why should California not have a larger say in that? PA should certainly have more say than Iowa, but perhaps equal to California.

You have to love the “my biggest fault is not being tolerant of your negativity” crowd. Yes, silence allows oppression to continue, but defending oppression by gaslighting is not a good alternative. How about next time, at the very least, you just respond with a bland, generic statement of support, huh?

When you wrote this took place near Stone Mountain (i.e. Confederate Mt. Rushmore), I thought, “oh hell. Here we go.”

Reagan did still “run” and got one or two electoral votes.