And your point, you troll? And does your opinion matter? Nice to know people like you are around to be assholes.

Not gonna lie, if I was a freedman back then I probably would have sided with the British. I mean, how much worse could they have been? What are they gonna do, clap me in irons and ship my ass halfway around the world to an inhospitable hellscape?

You said it so perfectly.

I mean, how can a slave be classified as a traitor? Slaves, by definition, aren’t citizens. Or even fully human — they’re “property.” It isn’t *their* land of the free. So how can Key think of them as traitors when they want the same freedom he wants?

This is a bit awkward for me, because my plan was to just cosplay as a white European woman whenever I went back in time.

When people ask me when I’d go back to (and I’m a white European woman) I’m like, ‘errr... 1997 was quite nice, maybe?’. Because being a woman before around 1990 pretty much sucked compared to how things are even now.

Holy shit. Francis Scott Key is an ancestor on my mother’s side, and this upsets me. Now I fully support anyone who wants to kneel at the National Anthem. It is your right to protest.

It’s a bit complicated. He did free his slaves, he did teach freed slaves, and he worked pro bono for slaves attempting to gain freedom in court. He was also highly critical of slavery as an institution in public. But, it’s important to note that he was also anti-abolitionist, and rejected the idea of freeing slaves…

Luke Perry? Linda Perry? Perry Farrell? Perry Como? There are many more qualified Perrys in the world. And not all of them are even alive.

I’d rather have Katy Perry as head of energy department. Or Steve Perry. Or Richard the refrigerator Perry or even Fred Perry and I think he’s dead. Dig him up.

My special-needs kid is on the path to Eagle now and both my wife and I have already discussed that there’s no way in hell he’s doing benches or flower boxes. And he’s earning at least one merit badge beyond the minimum or even, I hope, an Eagle palm.

Frankly, my kid has been kind of lackadaisical about his project and even participating in troop activities in general (especially since the median age of his fellow scouts is now around 13 - as he puts it, he feels kind of weird as a 17-year-old hanging around them). I have sworn to not be one of those moms who does…

I don’t buy from the BSA due to their homophobia, but always buy from the GSA because my mom was a Girl Scout. This year I’m buying even more. If they could slap “Fuck Trump!” on their cookie boxes, I’d buy even more.

I’ve cut out every member of my family who supported Trump, even my daughter’s grandparents. They haven’t seen her since before Christmas and are starting to get desperate. Too bad, motherfuckers. Elections have consequences.

“crass and rude and way out of line” sounds like a good description of the trump presidency.

Gotta make sure young boys start hating women and anyone who disagrees with them early on.

Is he officially one of the worst Americans alive? I mean, sure murders, gangsters, people who beat up old ladies, but... this Trump, amirite?

My comment about this over on Fusion/Splinter

Their Facebook page has been flooded by a lot of scouts, both current and former, absolutely furious about this stunt. It’s been an interesting read.

I just unfriended and blocked a long time friend on Facebook because she was “LOL, I maybe wouldn’t have given that speech but it’s great that scouts got to see a President”. Nope. Fuck you. And fuck every single cousin-fucking dirt leg who voted for or supports this clown.