I’m glad you corrected the Marie Antoinette comment because I was almost about to declare war in defense of someone who has been dead for a couple of centuries! I know she is the go-to as an example of the careless rich, but she really hated living at Versailles and all that pomp, and never told the poors to eat cake.

My comment isn’t fair, actually. Marie Antoinette had class and actually wasn’t the shallow spoiled tart society made her out to be. Linton tho...

When I hear rich people bitch about taxes, I can’t even fathom it. I’m proud that my taxes go to things that my fellow patriots need, like Obamacare, and I guarantee that the dollars coming out of my paycheck mean a lot more to me than the dollars from their... paychecks? Estate taxes? Whatever you call the taxes rich…

#PowderedWigs #SilkShoes #Cake #PoorsAreJustJealous

Yeah northern racism is much more institutional than overt.

Racism in the north is definitely more subtle, but just as bad. It’s “I have to move to the suburbs because the schools in the city are so bad” with the unspoken-but-implied part being “because they’re full of children of color.”

I literally died.

Yeah,,,,am with you on this. We shouldn’t get too excited.

Unsolicited advice from someone who survived a very necessary estrangement from her own mother: beware of anyone who attempts to convince you that you should be able to look past this. I wish someone had told me 20 years ago that “blood is not thicker than safety.” Thank you and good luck.

That’s the look of a man who just realized that what he thought was a Barry Goldwater sitch turned out to be Goebbels by way of my grandmother’s nursing home.

I saw a tweet awhile back along the lines of “I know when I need my car fixed, I want someone who hates cars and has no experience working with them.”

Yeah, I think we’ve pretty conclusively proven the whole “elect an outsider that will shake things up” might not be the best idea.

Oh I’m so over people blathering on about wanting outsiders in government. I’m finishing a degree in public administration, and it makes me crazy that wide swaths of Americans think it’s beneficial to have someone in office that knows absolutely nothing about the field or profession. It’s like saying ‘GE should really…

Juror No. 52: When I walked in here today I looked at him, and in my head, that’s a snake — not knowing who he was. I just walked in and looked right at him and that’s a snake.

Honestly didn’t know that. All the more reason to make it happen

The fun for me is seeing on social media all these pressed white guys writing about how “history is being erased” and listing things like Taney’s accomplishments.

Another bonus is that you don’t have anyone criminally charged with their removal.

They should melt them down and create statues to MLK, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and other abolitionists OF COLOR.

This is how they should all be removed...with as little fanfare as possible. Make the decision, take them down, and don’t give Nazi and Confederate fanboys time to make sad eyes over their lost heroes - or use them as an excuse to spread death and destruction.