There are a couple of places in the article where ‘Scott’ appears and it should be ‘Slager’.

I predict that Trump will win with 132% of the popular vote.

Like clockwork he just whined about the “academic ivory tower” (I’m not in academia, I just went to grad school at, gasp, a university) and how I was dismissing his 30 years of experience in the workforce and military (which have nothing whatsoever to do with the conversation.) Also, he was in my high school class so…

I get sucked into the not wanting to be a know it all thing too. I’ve had some guy arguing with me on Facebook this morning that it’s easy to know who rapists are because they are all brought up on charges (what the ever loving fuck??) He gave me a whole line about “now I only have (whatever education level) and…

He probably thought Pakistan and the Taliban were one in the same, but was willing to overlook it since the PM made him feel special.

I hope future history text books use your words here verbatim to explain what happened.

As an aside, I initially read your comment as referring to “idiot thing Trump” and it gave me a good laugh.

Pakistanis speak English. There’s no translation or interpretation issue here.

This is going to happen and it’s going to be way worse than whatever we’ve all been speculating. I don’t even know how we could push back. It’s like fighting a ghost-nothing is real to him or his supporters. There’s no amount of evidence or fact that they can’t just brush off as lies and none of our institutions,…

I’m sorry that you’re feeling that way. Once the shock wears off and people start going about their business, hopefully you won’t have to be hearing about it quite so much. I am happy right now to be so safely ensconced in blue that I have seen only one Trump bumper sticker and I purged facebook a long time ago. I…

I was so happy to see that Chelsea seems to have flourished. She is a few years younger than me and I remember very well how horribly she was treated. If I had had grown men calling me ugly on national media when I was 12 years old I’m not sure I would have bounced back. She is lucky to have such a strong role model…

In any other version of reality that graffiti would be seen as an ugly attack on Trump. But no, in this horrifying reality being compared to a nazi is a point of pride for him and his supporters.

I’m horrified by my Mom but she gets all her opinions directly from my Dad, so she isn’t able to explain them (I know this sounds mean, but it’s true). My Dad is a racist, homophobe, bigot, misogynist, you name it. They are both immigrants, as am I. Thankfully my siblings are in agreement with me that our parents have…

My mother is one of those white women (an immigrant, but white, so one of the good immigrants) and has been repeatedly telling me to “just give him a chance. You might be surprised.” She believes that all the crazy was just talk and he won’t do any of those things. I am still waiting to hear back on what she was…

Aside from immediate personal events like the death of a loved one, only September 11th felt worse. But there was an element of hope during that time that is not here today.

I know what you mean. I recently had dinner with two friends, both of whom are educated, well traveled, generally decent people and they both stunned me by saying they were voting for a third party candidate and whined about how both Hillary and Trump were equally bad. I don’t understand how a person with even a…

I had the same thought, and then I realized that he’s probably, though not consciously, demonstrating how he actually grabs women. This is not an abstract concept for him at all.

I didn’t start to realize how pervasive these behaviors were until at least my thirties but I now do the same thing as you. I will even fold one arm a little across my chest so I will only shoulder check them with rather than have full boob contact. And when I’m walking with my dog, who through no fault of her own is…

Exactly. Stewardship of tax dollars requires that the profit motive be removed. We are of course concerned with optimizing the cost/benefit relationship but the difference is that out calculation of benefits does not include making a profit for the agency/ourselves. Otherwise we would just be managing an investment…

And yet not healthy enough to serve in Vietnam.