A lot of these people don’t actually care if Russia held improper sway over the election. This is what they cared about: Retribution.
A lot of these people don’t actually care if Russia held improper sway over the election. This is what they cared about: Retribution.
Let’s see, who could Trump replace John Kelly with? Someone who embraces the core Trumpism philosophy; someone who embodies Trumpism. Such an embarrassment of riches to choose from!
From a friend who is far more eloquent than I:
The whole “Merry Christmas” debacle is a perfect illustration of how sociopolitical discourse has degenerated in the United States.
Shakespeare: “Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.”
I don’t know how long this is going to stay up on, but right now Wikipedia is showing this gem:
I went back to look at her picture and she really should’ve gotten a better chin.
Making it less uncomfortable for men to get cosmetic surgery sounds entirely reasonable. Decorating your medical office with sports memorabilia and naming your treatment rooms things like the Bear’s Lair, as the linked article describes, is ludicrous and also seems it plays into the culture of toxic masculinity. If…
“Trivial dispute” is legalese for “please, for the love of God, don’t dig into this story any more. There’s ugly shit in here that we don’t want to get out.”
As far as I’m concerned, Taibbi and Ames are dead to me. Would you have the same kind of reaction had their satire been racist? Why is misogyny okay if he didn’t actually end up raping someone, but spent a decade talking about how much fun it is to rape, degrade and threaten to kill women? Had he made satire about…
Honestly, fuck the South, fuck racism masquerading as Southern pride, and fuck their stupid feelings. It’s enough. First of all, from its inception, the United States BENT OVER BACKWARDS to accommodate slavery, up to and including Lincoln. The Constitution provided for slave states to have their fucking slaves counted…
You would, but economic conditions are so dire (in a very hidden way) these days that sentiment against immigrants is up, and that is short-circuiting people’s natural response to odiousness like this. As the state security apparatus grows and grown, and the police become more and more violent and out-of-control,…
Oh for fuck’s sake, and I thought the first part of that sentence was utter nonsense.
Now all I can think of is Dinosaur Comics.
There’s some of that. There’s also the fact that, despite the fact that conservatives are convinced that they’re hard-nosed realists, they have no idea about the realities of many social issues until they’ve been personally affected by them.
I remember thinking this about Megyn Kelly when she decided to speak up for maternity leave and her attitude is exactly what’s wrong with many conservatives:
Yeah, James. All thirty-eight women are lying because you have diabetes. We believe you, despite your constant movies about guys who like to manipulate women.
The problem with most white folks is that many of them will apologize or excuse this kind of behavior. They see it as an anomaly instead of its true endemic nature. When white people decide, en masse, that they need to hold themselves to a higher standard, hopefully we will see less of this kind of behavior. There’s…
Build the wall, they’re streaming in. Ban the Muslims, they’re coming to massacre us. Cops, you gotta get rough with the suspects. Sluts are murdering babies. The bad hombres are running wild – deport them all. Sanctuary cities will turn into the Thunderdome. MS-13 are coming for your beautiful, beautiful daughters.…
This is what I always ask when people insist that women lie about sexual assault to get ahead in their careers. Can you name one woman — even one — whose career has benefited from making sexual assault accusations? They never can, but they usually mumble something about how there’s lots of women we don’t know about…