My mom likes to introduce a political topic and then when I start disucssing it, telling me “well I don’t know enough about this to have a debate. But you’re wrong because XYZ” - lather, rinse, repeat.

I know - even conservatives are still doing this. I posted someone about the repeal of the gun control order keeping guns away from mentally ill people, and my uncle was like “DO YOU THINK HILLARY WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER” and besides the fact that, yes, yes my answer will always be yes, you’re not actually defending…

Exactly. She seems to be doing the right things and actively helping people. To me, that is the appropriate use of privilege.

Ah ok, I get it. I am not operating with that level of optimism in my mind, haha.

Yep. And he can write these anti-establishment screeds all he wants, but he is essentially saying he won’t vote for anything less than perfection. I’m sorry, but for those of us with rights to lose, we need to play the game to survive.

I think they ultimately want to put it back to the states because they think they won’t shoulder the blame. We will alllllll be paying attention to that lack of Medicaid expansion, folks.

I think we’re all a little delirious. Just keep fighting the good fight and let yourself crazily laugh every so often. :)

...those of us who need those rights and like it when there are people with power supporting us?

This part actually gives me some relief, because there are Republican members of Congress - Deficit Hawks - who refuse to cooperate with literally anything unless it does something to improve the deficit. The CBO not even crunching numbers won’t fly with them...I hope.

That would be fine with me. Don’t want these guys getting laid!

DO NOT FORGET that this is what they wanted. This is what his supporters wanted. They talked about criminals and rapists and shit but they just wanted everyone brown GONE. Don’t wait for them to be horrified at what they have wrought.

No - they are pretty much put in jail for a long ass time, and then just dumped at a border.

..but she’s not...

No one is saying don’t be informed; only that you don’t actually have to watch it.

I don’t ever watch him. He just lies. Everything out of his mouth is a lie. I wait and read about what he said, with fact-checking and other information available to me, but sure enough, I don’t need to give him the ratings or my emotional energy to spend time being lied to.

I know - as if you have to be CURRENTLY in the Cabinet to commit perjury at your hearing to be confirmed in the Cabinet?

Dude, in the fourth season (the one released much later on Netflix) there is even a plot line about a wall at the Mexican border (making fun of its absurdity).

Actually, Pelosi is not what we’re looking at - it’s basically all Republicans until you get to James Mattis (#6) who is technically an independent. Impeaching Trump and even Pence would be good news for us in the sense that we’ve kind of decapitated their neo-nazi movement, but we’re not going to get a President we…

Yes definitely! But they don’t even have like, a deceptive selling point when you’re outside of a city.

Agree! And these are not people I would necessarily choose as friends, as much as people I grew up with just being there by default.