Damn! That opening shot of Washington D.C. looked almost as empty as Trump’s inauguration.

Great post...

I give the film a lot of praise for that, because by the standards of the Bond franchise a cool take on the traditional female depiction is a big deal. Plus, whatever else its faults (and I personally disagree with most of your complaints), Quantum is a far better Bond film than the risible Die Another Day, the last Bo…

The justifiably angry liberal who’s nonetheless inarticulately confrontational when overwhelmed with the world’s stupidity and cruelty

Like I keep saying, a female Bond already exists and is just begging for a new film franchise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesty_Blaise

I’ve never understood all the hate for Quantum of Solace.

100% agreed.

I think Chris Rock, who supposedly coined the phrase ‘punching up, not down’ when it came to comedy, has a lot more to say about progressive politics than a vast majority of the comics that have come after him.

I’m nobody’s ‘saviour’. I’m an ally and supporter of The Root. They can take it or leave it. I’m not giving my support to get backslaps. I’m giving it because I support the site’s overall agenda and worldview.

That would be a shame.

I’ve been an outcast, but I don’t need a privileged wealthy celebrity who will never live in my shoes and no clue what it’s like to be poor and marginalised to ‘feel my pain’. In fact I regard such platitudes from pampered celebs as a slap in the face that simply exacerbates my sense of pain and grievance.

Why is my racial outrage, ‘phony’?

Reading between the lines (“we may never find a candidate or party with whom we agree 100% on every issue”) it appears Taylor is another rich ‘socially progressive liberal’ who still abhors the type of progressive taxation and welfare spending diehard leftists who always vote progressive regard as fundamental to our po…

No, but the people at The Root aren’t stupid. They’re certainly smarter than ‘Tay Tay’.

The Root has more of a fucking clue about the real world than some blonde pampered celebrity rich girl, so yeah maybe Taylor Swift and some of the rest of you should all check your white/WASP privilege before telling black people that they’re wrong.

Why do some people give such a shit which way celebrities vote?

Canada and New Zealand are still reasonable options. Apart from that, nope, I’ve got nothing...

This guy is even worse than Trump.

Reading up on this guy’s pronouncements on everything on the LGBTQ community (he’d disown his children if they ever came out as gay), women (he laments the fact that he has one daughter, in addition to his four sons, describing the former’s conception as a rare ‘moment of weakness’), black people (who he entirely dismi…

But you’re still supporting an anti-foreigner, American supremacist narrative.