Okay, but ... if you never listen to anyone else, then you never learn anything, which leaves you stuck in the same spot you always were.

You don’t show up to protest his rallies, because that’s exactly why he’s doing it. His whole schtick is to provoke and provoke until he gets a reaction, then he cries his crocodile tears over freeze peach, and then rinse and repeat. Without that, he’s just some asshole spouting off ridiculous nonsense. 

Counterpoint: trolls thrive on conflict and getting a reaction, and so resorting to violence and/or vandalism as protest is giving him exactly what he wants. The entire scheme is to poke the bear and get people angry enough to provoke physical retaliation, and then say “oh look how violent these ‘tolerant’ leftists…

Pieter Sittler, a spokesperson for the Berkeley Campus Republicans clarified that “he gives a voice to repressed conservative thought on American college campuses” and uses “levity and humor” to get his point across.

You invite a nazi to Berkeley and you don’t see this coming?! In any climate, let alone this one?!

I have been watching the various incarnations of the nazi punch pretty much non-stop for the past day or so and they still have yet to get old. Personal fave:

What kinds of deals can black people score with a man who would nominate Jeff Sessions as his attorney general? How much faith can you place in someone whose campaign reportedly actively sought to suppress the black vote, only to later smugly thank black voters for lower turnout? Can you really achieve much from a…

That these people gave nothing but platitudes at the end of these meetings speaks to how inconsequential these meetings were. Was nothing of substance discussed? Its like going into one of those pizza joints where there the owner has his picture taken with all the “celebrities” that stopped in for a slice and puts…

I pull this up every now and then so people can see what bullshit the American Humane Association is. (They’re the one who “certify” films with animals and hand out the disclaimer, “No animals were harmed in the filming of this movie” or whatever it is.) Disgusting.

Inauguration day is my late father-in-law’s birthday. He would have been 72. So Mrs. Funk, her mother, and I will be doing what he would have wanted us to do: Getting shitfaced drunk, listening to Al Green, and not watching the inauguration.

Hey Chicago Jezzies - we’ve got a March for Abortion Rights coming up. Be there or be square....ly screwed when they try to take our reproductive rights away.