I have a friend who is Jewish and who I am coming to realize is quite racist. She has always been reliably liberal, but she is quite blind to her privilege (rich family, private schools, no school debt, etc). I suspect she voted for the tangerine sex pest. I am afraid to find out; I’m running out of friends!

Save us, Idris Elba! You are our only hope.

Install the one that replaces his name with tags that Jezebel has come up with for him over the past 2 years.

Nah we get Louisiana and Quebec. Franglais for the win.

I hope “Nasty” or “Nasty Woman” is among the options.

44% of Americans get their news from their facebook feed. It doesn’t matter how much good coverage is out there when people don’t see it.

Parks and Rec. It is the refreshing balm that soothes.

Closer to 100 years, not 8. Older people have a much stronger negative reaction to the word “socialist” than younger people. As a slur, it’s power has been decreasing, not increasing. However, your main point stands.

Tangerine sex pest has my vote.

Worse, people attribute their own personal beliefs to a candidate, regardless of the candidate’s stated views. I wonder how many of his supporters believe he is against cutting SS?

Nope. Your complaint about people voting on emotion is valid but your solution is wrong. Voter knowledge tests were a key component of Jim Crow, and would inevitably become a tool of disenfranchisement again; there will never be the resources available to prosecute every small-time big dick that tries to jam up…

Where do your numbers come from? I have seen a similar analysis for specific regions in Ohio and the uncounted burden of coal based air pollution, specifically in Barberton and, I think, Lorain? Just curious because it is an important topic that doesn’t get much attention.

There isn’t a single answer. From the comments in another thread, this election is what finally propelled some people to ditch toxic relationships. But I also respect the choice to hang in and do the long, hard work of changing peoples’ opinions. Right now, criticizing a Trump supporter is like telling your friend…

I admire your optimism but I do not share it. While the coalition between religious conservatives and the Republican Party was built on opposition to abortion, there are plenty of other targets to turn on the hate cannons, most notably, LGBT. When abortion wa decided as the glue to hold the coalition together, gay…

W’s first election was also a popular vote loss but he declared it a mandate, and governed as though he had a mandate. While your thought is logical, recent history does not bear it out.

It has been quite successful for republicans. Time for the democrats to become the party of NO.

I suggest you build a wall.

This is the country you fell in love with. Those good things still exist here because kind, decent and wise people live here. But this is also the county that imprisoned Japanese citizens for the crime of being Japanese (my German grandparents, in contrast, were not sent to an internment camp), exterminated thousands…

Do you blame the weatherman for the rain? They do the best they can with the available models, but most people still keep an umbrella in the car, just in case. Fucking vote, people. It matters.

Why let sixty-three percent of white men off the hook? That is the white whale of a problem, not the couple percent voting irrelevant parties.