I can forgive him for not seeing Kamala coming, because I sure as hell didn’t.

I have slept on her abilities as a candidate. Tonight, I saw someone who could go toe-to-toe with a grumpy old man and just lay waste to him. Can you even imagine her and Trump in a debate? It’d almost be unfair. Almost.

“Unlike Chump who makes me embarrassed to be an American.”
 

Joe: “My time’s up”

“States’ rights” - where have I heard that before?

The second half of that interaction, wherein he valiantly tried to equivocate support for a state’s right to choose whether it would or would not create bussing policies with actual support for bussing policies, and then shut down and literally ceded the rest of his time because he couldn’t come up with a good way to…

This tweet wins everything. I’m dying here.

It started off as a “Right on, sister! Preach!!” for the first few seconds and then it made a screeching right turn into crazy-town. By the time she was done with her first sound bite, I was all:

I mean, if George figures out at age 10 that he’s gay, he’s gonna learn in a hurry that he’ll have to decide between being King one day (and his kids being in the line of succession) or living an authentic life. Even though most members of the royal family don’t want the throne anyway, that’s an awful choice to make…

I would assume William’s concern is how they’d be treated by the tabloids. The British tabloids are savage and homophobic.

Usually I hate this condescending question, but do you have kids? Because once you have kids you know that you worry about EVERYTHING. I don’t see anything snark-worthy in Wills’ comments. It’s still harder to be gay than to straight, and whatever advantage being rich and royal gets you is offset at least in part by…

This is such a bad take. Would you make the same argument if Obama worried about the barriers his daughters would face as black women? 

Yes because having “anything in the world that they want” means you will always be so well-adjusted and never having any problems whatsoever!  

They’re not like the US first children. They’re being groomed to be King or Queen one day, and also the head of the Church of England. That is supposed to take precedence over everything. As long as they’re living in a homophobic power structure, there will be enormous pressure on them to sacrifice their personal…

What does having anything in the world they want have to do with bigotry?? So, they could have thousands of people gay bashing them all over the damn place but it’s ok because, money?? WTF is wrong with you??

Yeah I don’t blame him for thinking of how the tabloids would tear them apart. His kids aren’t quite like Kanye’s kids or even Jay Z and Beyonce. Look at the horrible things Meghan has had said about her. I understand him wincing at the idea of what the first gay royal (especially that close in line to the throne)…

Well said, I created an account just to give you a star :)

Yes. He did grow up with wealth beyond the dreams of 99% of us, yes, but also with a level of scrutiny and rage-focus beyond those dreams too. I can only imagine the filth and grossness that would be aimed at a non-het child in this family with no breaks, 24-7.

Thank you for saving me the time of typing out an equivalent comment... and more elegantly than I would have managed, too!

I’m not sure I get the snark over William’s comments (beyond the legitimate discussion about the word “decision”). He acknowledged that the issues would be the result of society’s failures and that’s something we all need to work to change. Given the scrutiny Meghan has faced, undoubtedly in large part because she is…