The same group of people who elected Bush the Lesser than claim not to know him?

I think you’re absolutely right. What’s more, a lot of them have quietly already decided that a blue wave is imminent that’s so big that it’s not worth fighting. If you take your average Conservative, they’re more likely to not vote than to vote in an election they think they’re going to lose just to sidestep having…

these people don’t change their minds, they just change the subject

“Who? Oh, yeah, Trump, but eh I’m not really big into politics.”

It’s like, motherfucker I work with you, I’ve been hearing this shit all year.

Anyone else with Trumpers in the orbit of their personal lives noticing some kind of corner has been turned?

I have to interact with a reasonable number of them on a daily basis because of work; because about half-ish of the office is over-50 white people in the southeast, they feel pretty free to discuss their…

“....came to us and gave all the employees thousand dollar tax cuts*. And with those we were able to pay our doctors*’ bills.”

I think he’s been a good strategist (for selfish purposes), and that he is now strategizing that the best thing he can do for himself is GTFO. I think that putting another speaker in his place right away will put a target on their back for their reelection campaigns, no matter how safe they seem, and Ryan staying in…

Much like medium rare steak, I used to hate chicken thighs, until I was broke as shit and realized how cheap they were. I fried some chicken thighs for me and my fiancee and I haven’t looked back.

Probably none of the above. My assumption is that he believes he would win reelection, but there’s a solid chance of the House losing its majority, and he’d like that to be the president’s legacy more than his own.

My (Republican) aunt and uncle lived in Canada for a while and they told lots of stories like this....that they had trouble getting into a doctor etc. Except they were talking about non-emergency and non-urgent stuff. They were talking about having to plan ahead to schedule a checkup or routine test.

Your children deserve better than you.

Legend? It’s not a chart. It’s a spreadsheet with the indicator clearly labeled “Intentional Homicides (per 100,000 people)“

The truly ironic thing is that right-wingers like her have spent years calling on people to boycott various companies and products. See stupid things like the Starbucks Xmas cups boycott. It only becomes a First Amendment issue for them when they’re the ones on the receiving end. Funny how that works. It’s almost like…

Next step: have one of Mr. Satan like this where he’s holding up my headphones like the Championship Belt:

I have been told stories of a family member of mine that disappeared in East Texas. The only thing they did was “eyeball” a white person. Another had to leave everything they knew and move to California because the klan knocked on my family’s door and told them “don’t let us find his ass”. So for any white person to…

Hammer them with enough examples and most concede the point. The problem is introspection isn’t something we encourage these days. It takes work to admit you benefited for no reason and that it’s not an attack on you, but an observation of the reality.

You should try to teach a classroom of white kids about white privilege. Pure blindness.

I agree. When I first heard of it, a confused college student, it felt it was personal, like someone was accusing me of actively oppressing people and downplaying my struggles as somehow faked. Too many white people seem to get stuck on that phase, probably because they are in all-white bubbles where they can’t see…

People who can’t accept the concept of white privilege are such whiny little cowards. Have some spine and just admit maybe you sometimes benefited from something unearned. It only makes you a bad person if you don’t have the strength to confront and admit that.

I assume a Frosty is just soft serve ice cream, and I can tell you those machines breed funky bacteria in no time if they aren't sanitized regularly. I never saw anyone get sick when I managed a DQ, but if we slacked on sanitizing it the soft serve tasted like it came from a petri dish.