Those are totally valid concerns (not that you need me to tell you that) and I am sincerely sorry I judged you through that comment. I definitely hang around here trying to display my lame-ass knowledge for validation and that is dumb as hell.

I know what you mean and yes, by all means call me and others out on it. I’m not immune to criticism of my lifestyle, honestly. I personally just really care about the diamond issue because as a Black woman it’s really hard to see a lot of folks in my community more concerned with bling than paying their college loans…

I’m old enough to remember when it was illegal, but it didn’t stop women from getting abortions. I heard horror stories from my friends, and from my mother, who was a nurse in the 1930s. Back then, before penicillin, most women who had botched abortions died from infection. You can’t stop abortion, you can only stop…

Hot take alert:

I think I have to disagree here. The ability/power to vote is a right, not a privilege. As long as you’re 18 and older and an American citizen you are allowed to vote in American elections. Driving a car is a privilege: when people turn a certain age they aren’t automatically issued a driver’s license with a cheery…

It’s not irrational, it’s just a system that was designed to empower states instead of voters. The founders knew what they were doing: making damn sure rural states with large slave populations would have as much electoral muscle as industrial states. It’s the same deal today, minus the slavery. The system sucks…

EC is affirmative action for flyover states.

I don’t think any of us expected the recount to actually change the outcome, but I do think it was still important because there were in fact discrepancies- there were 3 precincts that admitted to errors with the counting machines and in Greenfield 400 ballots were found that hadn’t been counted. While this may not…

I am both going to agree with and profoundly contradict you here: Ballot Stuffing and Election Rigging Through Vote Manufacturing Is Extremely Rare. Voter Fraud and Election Rigging Is Extremely Common and Indeed Has Been a Factor In Every Single Election Since the Civil War. Suppression of black turnout through poll…

But gerrymandering and voter suppression are very real things that shouldn’t be dismissed.

Indeed. The electoral college no longer functions in the way it was originally intended, so I say we get rid of it. It’s only function these days is to disproportionately negatively affect the democratic party.

The speed and the severity of the turnabout from “Crooked Hillary is rigging the election, folks,” to, “We won, and this Russian business sounds like just another excuse,” should be giving us all collective whiplash--but I am convinced that Trump is actually Howard the Duck in a meat suit.

...certainly, nothing sticks…

This made me laugh, but you skipped my two favorite steps: He walks his contractor through a house that is basically collapsing on itself and covered in mold and guesses it will cost $30k to flip, doing purely cosmetic renovations; the flip costs between $80k and $120k and he learns nothing from the experience that…

It just amazes me how much time was spent on emailz, Benghazi, and the Clinton Foundation, when everything with Trump is objectively a million times worse. I just hope that now the Democrats grow a spine and give Trump the treatment that Republicans gave to Hillary.

I’m really getting tired of all the defensive Trump voters that are all, “hey, I’m not racist.” You know what? Even if you personally aren’t, you’re totally okay with electing a racist that talked about enacting racist policy and appointing other racists so practically, what’s the difference?

I was discussing (in a nice way) with a FB friend who was gleeful that MI was passing voter ID laws. I pointed out (again nicely) the hypocrisy of the recount being called off due to Trump making the argument there was no voter fraud, but apparently we need voter ID to prevent this nonexistent fraud. She basically…

Yesterday some asshole was on CNN saying that it didn’t matter that Tillerson has ties to Russia. According to her, it was ok because he was the CEO of a business. As Secretary of State, he will prioritize American interests. Its as if those years of business relations to Russia will just up and disappear!

I didn’t think I could loathe Trump apologists more, but these people who answer every global concern with “Ha, ha, you lost!” are moving me toward violence. Yep, we lost. Guess what? So did you.

Yes.

Her Mom’s side is all Rooneys. Art is her great-grandfather.

A whole lot of Gatsby-esque fuck parties is what I’m thinking.

Sure they’re close, but if this investigation isn’t dropped one of them could find themselves pushed in front of a moving train, and it’s not going to be Rooney.