I specifically mentioned the phrase Lost Cause propaganda because this is a well known and thouroghly academically debunked narrative about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Redemption. Google the phrase and you’ll find all the properly sourced scholarly refutations you could wish for.

Before the war: obscenely rich slave owners own everything and dominate politics.

“The North found every way they could to humiliate and punish the South for the assassination, the war, everything.”

Eh, I don’t think anyone here doesn’t think Glenn Beck is a piece of shit. But she chose to use her voice to support his bullshit, then got punished when she tried to be independent the same way they try to punish all women who don’t conform to their standards. The feeling I’m seeing is that Tomi and all the other…

Maybe she’s right, maybe not, but all her evidence was bullshit, either saying that liberals were silent about things they absolutely were criticizing Obama for or drawing comparisons between Obama and Trumps behavior that do not track in the slightest, like equating Trumps blatant and constant lies with “if you like…

Th conservative media machine has been continuously one upping itself with its outrage and propaganda since the 80's in order to keep making money, I’m not surprised it’s finally reached 1930's fascist levels.

“historic levels of... something...”

Not like we can use them for medical research anymore, so fuck it lets eat em!

I wonder how many in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan “knew” their state would go blue.

Yeah except for that tax return bullshit, I kind of wonder whether it was her call or her producers’ call to put that on her show and overhype the crap out of it. I would have thought she’d be smart enough to see how that’d play out, but her producers wouldn’t give a shit as long as it got more eyeballs on the screen…

Ok but considering how difficult it actually is to vote in this country, especially for the working poor, and how the Republicans intentionally make it as difficult as possible for non-retired people to vote, we can’t just claim all of that 40% were just lazy. That 40% should be a call to work to increase ease of…

The conversation can’t go anywhere if it keeps getting derailed into “is this person’s article too mean to men?” The subject of this article is this woman’s experience in this community, it’s about the belittlement and harassment she experiences, not the men who mistreat her. I don’t see any judgement or anger or hate…

I even forgot to mention it was a moral disaster. We tortured people. What the fuck even was that? Before Bush that was unthinkable, now people cheer Trump for promising to torture bad dudes, what the actual fuck happened to make TORTURE a partisan issue.

You’d think W. would have been that moment, seeing how he ended with disasters on all fronts, foreign, economic, and environmental. Maybe we’ll learn this time, but if the Dems don’t have the balls to prosecute Trump for his crimes in office, the same thing that happened with Bush is going to happen with him. The…

If Trump is committing treason it’s going to be the trial of the century. I read an article the other day where someone made the case that all of Comey’s actions are consistent with someone who is building a case against Trump and is making sure he does nothing to give Trumps defense cause to get evidence dismissed.…

My favorite ironic fact is that the phrase “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” was originally a saying that meant “do the impossible”.

No, I think they are aware of that, on some level, they’re the poor whites that want their piece of the cake the system of white supremacy has been promising them while only delivering for rich white christians, as you say.

They think the alt right isn’t part of conservatism because they don’t support the economic bullshit that was supposedly the point of conservatism, they only support the racism, bigotry, and socially reactionary bullshit conservatives have been pushing as their main message to voters for the last 30-40 years. Own your…

That’s the Karl Rove strategy, don’t fall for it. They shout these accusations with no legitimate basis in part to delegitimize that line of criticism in the minds of moderates when it is justifiably leveled against the Republicans. Don’t give credence to any criticism of resistance that starts with “if the…

NBC shilled for 45 all through the election, must be something in the Apprentice contract. Fuck them so hard.