Thank you for saying that there is no right budget. Of course the wrong budget is one that runs you into debt on optional expenses. But if someone wants to spend their entertainment budget on Precious Moments figurines, you do you.

Move to Iowa. Insurance is crazy cheap here. Downside: Iowa.

Agreed. I lived in the Bible Belt for 15+ years and attempted to go to church off and on. No matter how cool or modern it was, there was eventually the sermon about gay people going to Hell. Nope.

I bet she’s dynamite in the sack. Also batshit crazy.

They are ALL rioting there. Destroying EVERYTHING.

I feel like there has been a lot of half-hearted sad liberal masturbation taking place over the last few days.

What level of difference could you tolerate? I have ended a friendship with someone because her husband gets drunk and says horrendous racist shit. I called him out on it regularly, and once called her out for never challenging him. (She doesn’t say the stuff, but sits there while he does.) She claims that she’s…

FDR was a benevolent dictator. We look at him favorably because it all worked out, but he pulled a lot of stunts that violated check and balances. Term limits seem silly when you look at FDR - but what if Trump’s people want him in place for 16 years?

I went to buy ice cream and cried at the store when I saw a pint of Americone Dream.

Maybe a hippie liberal view here, but I believe most of our domestic issues would resolve themselves if we provided comprehensive sex ed, access to healthcare including birth control, quality early childhood education, and care for the mentally ill.

Same. Sadly I know they’re racist because at some point I was close enough to them the be in their inner circle where they felt safe letting the n words fly.

I’ve posted versions of this reply to a few people, but I’m amped up and want to say it again.

I cannot wrap my head around how someone can hate Hillary so much that they decide to vote for Trump after all of his racist crap. The people who voted for Trump had to decide that racism was not a top issue for them, or that it’s an excusable character flaw when compared to distrustworthiness or elitism or whatever…

This is what concerns me: Saying that we as a country care about the rights of Muslim Americans is not saying that we don’t care about white Christian Americans. But Trump supporters heard that. There’s such a racial and religious divide that any support, progress, or attention given to the “other” is being perceived…

I’ve had minimal sleep but a bit more time to think about this. Maybe racist isn’t the word to use— or maybe it is. Many white Americans look at the headlines from the last eight years and they see too many issues that aren’t important to them, or that are going the other way from what they believe. Many white people…

There was unbridled excitement around Obama— from white and black Democrats. The best case for Hillary was, “She’s not perfect but she’s better than the other guy.” That doesn’t exactly make people want to sprint out of their homes to support her.

He’s referenced punishing women who have abortions, setting up special prosecutors to go after Hillary after she’s been cleared of all charges, and changing libel laws so he can win lawsuits against the press who criticize him. He encouraged people to go out to polling stations to intimidate voters. I know there are…

Well, we don’t actually know each other so it’s tough for you to say that I “blame everything” on white people. White people are the majority in this country, and therefore they have the biggest impact on the presidential election. From an anecdotal point of view, I only know white people who voted for Trump.

Not to be confused with “dumbfuck white trash in denial about being dumbfuck white trash” who say he was the best option and that he’ll be different now that he’s been elected.

No, they’re just people who “don’t trust that woman.” Or they’re pro-life.