Republicans think Democrats have it better because the Republican definition of free speech is ‘I can say whatever I want and you can’t respond.’ So, when they get called on it, they whine about how oppressed they are.

Not to mention that we don’t need any more old white men in office. Do we really want to spend 4 years (minimum) wondering if a slip of the tongue a momentary memory lapse is normal or signifies developing dementia?

Some people really are so short-sighted that they’d vote for a stupid, proudly ignorant, grifter who’ll run the nation into the ground if they knew he would let them have all the guns they could afford, or outlaw abortion, or decree the death penalty for LGBTQ people, or round up everybody darker than a manilla folder…

I think, if the trajectory is right, he doesn’t need that much force. Which is just as well, because otherwise he’d hurt himself.

Jeremiah ‘Liver-Eating’ Johnson. I think they may have played down that aspect of it.

Apparently, Europeans have a good laugh at the idea that American liberals too far left.

“We need a graphic of the women’s soccer team. It has to have a lot of people on it. A lot of people. More people than are on the team so that something something gazpacho. Get on it!”

At best, it’s a garbling of what happened. That ancestor had to raise the money for their passage and for anticipated expenses on reaching the States. That legendary small amount (never more than a dollar) might have been the price of the first apple or sandwich or pair of socks they purchased in their new nation.…

It gets the idea out there and the next candidate proposes it. Maybe this time people aren’t so scared and it’s either passed or the vote is close, then the third candidate picks it up and this time it passes because everybody’s had time to think about it and examine their reactions (and the old guard has retired or…

Yes, you ARE saying she shouldn’t have even tried to improve her life.

Yes. They think ‘privilege’ means everything drops into their laps on command when, in the case of us white folks, it’s the privilege that comes with our skin color: the warning instead of a ticket (or a ticket instead of an arrest); the bank loan on excellent terms; the bank account opened without interrogation;…

Yup.

They’re the ones that the GOP can hold up to say, “See? We aren’t racist.” They say all the ‘right’ things and will move if a white man wants their seat (and rationalize why they did so). What their parents forgot to tell them was that their success doesn’t matter when stupid white people get angry over something.

These ‘I want my leader to be just like me’ types don’t — won’t — understand that their leaders CAN’T be just like them. Even though they know plenty of people they wouldn’t trust to lead them across a room, they still believe that the best leader is one who is exactly as educated and experienced as they are. As you…

The only way his mental health is relevant is if he can’t control himself or he’s so addled he literally doesn’t know he did anything wrong. He had a job and a car, and he knew he’d broken the law.

And they’re bleating about protecting themselves. They can hire a security firm. I’m sure they can find one that’s white enough for them.

That’s your fantasy and you’re welcome to it.

They don’t even care. Inadequate food, no heat, no air conditioning, insufficient toiletries and other necessities -- that’s a feature rather than a bug.

They didn’t fix anything. Black people will still be disproportionately punished for breaking the law. If I get pulled over by police, I will definitely survive the encounter and not even be yelled at, unlike a black woman of my age and income. I will be able to give the officer lip, but she could be polite and…

I’ve woken up from a night’s sleep and taken several seconds to remember I’m at home — and the only things that disturbed me were the cats or my alarm clock.