Oh for fuck’s sake, stop it. Every. single. story includes this progressive passive-aggressive nonsense in the comments. No one is saying you shouldn’t advocate for the policies you want to advocate for. We’re just saying be smart about it, so you don’t alienate voters you need to win over in order to be in a position…

It astonishes me how badly us lefties are at this type of stuff. As has been pointed out by folks far more clever than I, this is something that the righties are super good at; they find an easy to remember and repeat slogan and they FUCKING HAMMER IT until their base hears it in their dreams.

When I hear ‘defund’ it says to me zero dollars whatsoever toward policing because ‘defund’ has been sloganed by anti-choice nutjobs to mean that organizations like Planned Parenthood must close and receive no federal funding for anything, ever.

So who is Obama’s lecture for?

Obama is right.

He’s not wrong, though. “Defund the Police,” snappy as it might be, is a vast oversimplification of what that plan often entails (depending on who you ask)—redistributing funds to services that the police shouldn’t be involved with to begin with, like welfare checks and mental illness interventions.  Yes, explaining…

I’ll break this into two parts:

It’s amazing just how dedicated the Trump admin is to being a “A hot mess, inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck” until the very end. On Biden’s inauguration day, we will probably find out Trump has been selling state secrets to the Saudis or some shit.

How many students inherit land they can mortgage to pay tuition?

HOLD UP....THIS JUST IN:

Be nice if that couch was made of metal and the PJs were actually a cotton/polyester blend dyed orange.

Barr leaving the sinking S.S. Trump is really the last shoe. It’s a declaration that the DOJ is not going to side with Trump, which means there’s virtually no chance any other elements of the federal government – particularly the military – will do so in the event Trump tries to do anything too nuts.

Haaaa. Perfect. I mean they interviewed MLK, Joyce Carol Oates, and they often featured great writers like Vonnegut, Stephen King, on and on.

Why? If you don’t like him in that role fine, but given that there’s no shortage of cis men playing both trans and cis women (hello John Travolta and Tyler Perry), why shouldn’t Elliot continue playing a cis woman if he wants to? It’s not like there’s a shortage of female roles and that trans men crowding women out…

I mean, you are what you are, and Elliot is what he is.

He should’ve held this until January - we’re not supposed to get nice news in 2020, are we? /s

We have come a long way from making fun of Chaz Bono (I know some people have not). I’m so happy for him!

Finally a more famous trans-person than Caitlin Jenner who can be a better representation for the trans community. Caitlin has done a terrible job and even supported trump, Elliot is a way better spokesperson.

I run a book club for queer teens, and they are currently LOSING THEIR MINDS. Like. Happy tears and talking about role models and god I am *so glad* they have people like Elliot to look up to.

Chris Brown is basically the first 5 entries on the Worst POC Chris list.