I’ve smacked my own head so much in the past four years there’s now a dent in my forehead.

I asked my then mother-in-law (who is white, for the record) in the summer of ‘16 why she liked Trump. The only thing she could say was, “I think he has a lot of really good ideas!”

Congratulations for getting yourself out! 

Reasoning? I believe it’s purely emotional.

I’ll buy that for $1. At my current place of employment (white as white collar gets) it’s all about the Benjamins.

It was God’s will.  

I recently went through a nasty divorce from an alcoholic, abusive woman, but after several months of hell my kids are now with me full time. I am fortunate to be able to work from home, so I am using my newfound time at home to spoil my kids: I make them breakfast lunch and dinner, we exercise together, we take our…

As long as it takes for the “important” people to start dying.  The rest of us can be sacrificed on the altar of capitalism.  

That’s funny right thar! I don’t care who y’ar!

It was negative in the positive direction.  

This, exactly! “The people around us do not have it together.” My family and I appeared to have our $hit together for years, but sadly, mental illness destroyed everything. LW, don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides.  

Who? 

I always wanted to travel after I retire, but after this administration I’ll be too embarrassed to admit that I’m from the United States. Can I pretend to be Canadian? Maybe I’ll just say I’m Californian - would that be good enough?

As I said upthread, it’s an abusive relationship. I even doubt that an intervention would even work when you are dealing with willful ignorance.

Nope - the deplorables are in an abusive relationship with the rethuglican party.  They all have selective memory when it comes to Orange Julius.  

Have you ever heard of the only coup d’etat to ever take place on American soil?  Wilmington, NC

My high school history courses in Virginia never mentioned Reconstruction, as far as I can recall. I actually took a course on Reconstruction in college as part of my history minor, and I was blown away.

Totally agree - the story was mapped out before filming began, which is the recipe for success, in my opinion.  Heck, even parts II & III were filmed at the same time.  I wish modern trilogies stuck to this type of tight story telling.  

I was a freshman in college, engineering major, and failing out of school because I couldn’t handle five hour calculus. I spent all my time studying math and no time on Chemistry, Psychology, English Lit, Engineering Fundamentals, etc. I was advised to change majors because it was only going to “get tougher from here…