This. Run for mayor or your state senate or even the Board Of Ed, then start thinking bigger. The idea that some stupid celebrity can just slide right into the White House and do a competent job is insane. We need to start taking government seriously and stop treating it like it’s just another tentacle of our dumb…

They probably think, “Man, if Gopher can do it. . . .”

You’re spot-on.

also good point, I assume when she talks about holding political office it’s not “community organizer”, it’s “Senator Witherspoon”.  If you’re really interested in politics and helping people, get into the trenches first and get your hands dirty, learn what you need to learn and then move into positions of greater…

Agree 100%. It sounds like gatekeeping, but career civil servants or lawyers only. Anything else sounds like potential for Trump 2.0.

I didn’t even click through, I just took it as fact until I read your reply.

I feel like that last four years should have driven a stake through the heart of “government needs to be run like a business.”

Sorry, from now on I only want nothing but qualified career civil servants in office. The problem with celebrity politicians is they never want to start at the bottom and work their way up. They want big jobs first and think city council, or state house is beneath them.

I think she’d be great on city council. Local politics is underrated.

Did you even listen to the podcast? She said so much more that would have made her sound much less silly and flippant than your quotes. Plus, instead of boiling her down to “famous person” perhaps you could list her other accomplishments, which are actually relatively impressive. And I don’t even particularly care for…

I just moved to a swing state and, dismayed by all the conservatives and “moderates” (not a thing in 2020) on the dating apps, added a selfie that I got with AOC a couple years ago. I’ve only gotten one response to it so far (about two weeks in) and it was “Best way to weed out quality and accomplished men, congrats…

I read this latest one, and frankly find this review bizarre. There’s no BLM “subplot” at all; it’s a brief story from his past that takes up maybe two pages and has no overall impact on the book. This is such an odd take on the book. Don’t let it turn you off from it.

This article was all over the place. I had no idea what point was trying to be made. Americans in the 1800s celebrated the end of a harvest which would mean bountiful food through the harsh winter when most people had to grow their own food? But that was bad and made up. Now most Americans don’t grow their own food,…

The errors in this article are so galling and obvious. I am seriously only still coming here for the commentors now.

“[Martha Stewart] also normalized the idea of fall decor to celebrate the season itself by treating pumpkins and corn husk wreaths like decorations.”

Why are you acting like America is the only nation with fall celebrations? There have always been celebrations around the autumn harvest. The autumnal equinox is auspiciuos AF in pagan traditions. Thanksgiving does, indeed, have problematic roots, but America didn’t invent fall. Good grief.

I think the issue is the tendency to only call out these things when they’re associated with white women and not the overall issue, which is Americans’ love for self-mythologising propaganda, and the fact that that American propaganda always features white people.

Exactly the point I wanted to make, but far better than I could. This article was so US centric it made my French teeth hurt.

Paragraph 5: “Thanksgiving was only a regional holiday and celebrated largely in New England. It had no actual link to Pilgrims and Native Americans” [goes on to explain that the Pilgrim connection is bogus]

I’ll go on to read the rest but I had to stop... what the fuck is a premature beanie?