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This is why I miss my old roommate. She was a doing her MA in Religion on lynching as religious ritual in the South, and so many days involved us drinking bourbon on the kitchen floor, just saying “Fucking white people!” “Fucking patriarchy!”

Did you see Ben Carson’s map of the US? It’s like they all trained at the Second City!

Yes. Someone somewhere around here gave the best explanation for how this feels.

Jeb looks like a guy that really doesn’t want to be here but his family is expecting it out of him, so he’s just shuffling his feet through this campaign.

I think what's most insulting about this is that Jeb expects us to believe it. Political outsider? Suuuuuure.

I can’t understand why Carson and Trump are leading the polls. But then I see anything about any of the other candidates, and I gotta think that Republicans are all like, “Fuck it. Trump I guess,” when they get polled. Is there even a mildly reasonable candidate in the field? Have they even had a reasonable candidate…

I actually imagine that dubya is dialing Jeb three or four times a day all: BRO DON’T DO THIS!

Dear America,

Listen Jeb, we all know it is hard to be open and admit to others what your true feelings. Will I be ridiculed? Will I be bullied? What will my family say? But at some point you have to live your true life in spite of others think or what roles they try and force on you. Jeb, it’s OK, you can admit you don’t want to…

Yes, yes - but who was the model for early sapphic hero George?

omg are we internet synched because I just destroyed two chocolate candycane donuts.

They’ve also had some problematically racial cluing for the word “thug,” which Rex has addressed as well. (Which I just noticed was addressed in the article... Good reading skills! But it’s actually been used more than once in the past couple months, with equally bad cluing.) I read Rex’s blog a couple times a week. I…

GOP

Bra.

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