Or an empire being born, as in Trump sees himself as an emperor and is doing everything he can to establish himself as one. The only thing that usually keeps me from worrying is how incompetent he is at everything, however if they keep letting him get away with what he is doing...

People getting offended at the use of OK just sounds like made up fake outrage to me. I wouldn’t worry too much about it if I were you, but then again, I too am an introvert.

I don’t think you can blame a lot of the terrible things that happened then on any one person, including the former president. Trump is a whole different creature, unilaterally making terrible decisions that benefit only him and his cronies. That said, I’m not going to make sticking up for Bush my hill to die on.

It turns out that when you drain a swamp, all you have left is algae and rotting plant matter festering in the sun. 

You know the saying. If it’s stupid but it works, we’re all doomed.

I’m on board with the theory that he is a staff member. I have been here since the 00s, and am grey everywhere except the Root.

Cheese curds.

You raise a few decent points, but the fact that this is your knee jerk reaction to an article about a school shooting proves to me that you are part of the problem. This is coming from a liberal who is also a gun enthusiast. 

In other words, genocide.

I’m from SC, and I used to like Lindsey Graham for one reason. He used to be a political moderate who annoyed the hell out of conservatives here because he was always the strongest Republican candidate, leaving them in a position to where they were forced to vote for someone they hate. This man has never had a…

I hate pretty much everything about this comment.

I find the point you make here interesting specifically because many of my fellow liberal friends have reacted to the far right gun nut crowd by becoming gun nuts themselves. I don’t need or want them personally, but I kind of get the fear that one day widespread organized violence could break out. Right wingers have…

This is the US. Try to throw an egg at a senator and there’s a damn good chance you’ll get shot.

Also, people love to gloss over the fact that it’s possible to do wrong without doing something that is illegal. There’s already enough evidence to prove Trump did dirty, even if he was careful to avoid personally breaking any laws.

That still makes Trump being an ignorant moron the best case scenario for Republicans. Congrats on that if that turns out to be the case, I guess.

One that greyed all her exes.

I was a Bubba fan back in the day, but I quit listening to him a while ago. He generally tries to stay out of politics, but he tracks a bit left of center when he does talk about it (or sometimes straight Libertarian). The problem with guys like Bubba is they are not racist themselves, but happily enable guys like…

I had the exact same reaction. I thought it was just me and I was reading too much into it. Generally speaking, vikings are cool and I like learning about them along with learning about history in general. That show just came off as white power fantasy to me.

The problem is people are completely ignorant as to what any of these words mean. Socialism can be a form of government, but it can also just refer to policy. I believe Hitler did actually implement socialism (kind of) as a way to balance economic disparity (I’m referring to before the Holocaust), but he was never a…

I really want to see someone make one of these for Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton. It would be fun to watch conservatives heads explode because apparently they believe anything presented without context and in a meme format.