The DC ape are generally pretty chill about demonstrations, and I think their behavior (and the number of hired goons,) during the Inauguration will be much lower, and they will be much more law-abiding this time around. Certainly, Trump and his horrible buddies have been alerted to the terrible optics of…

My mom’s a high school English teacher at an extremely mismanaged school in an extremely shitty town - where like, you either graduate and work at Walmart or go to college on a football scholarship. Their football field is gigantic and state of the art.

This is exactly why I quit sports. I was always bad at them, and after a certain point people didn’t find that cute anymore. By middle school I had already gotten the message: either you bring us glory or you get the fuck off the team. This is not about fun anymore.

“In some ways, it’s the smart thing to do all around. Being a six year old in kindergarten means feeling really successful in just about everything you do, including math and reading.”

Athletics, which used to be something lower income people could excel at, has become yet another upper class stronghold. Like, instead of excelling at sports in high school and getting a college scholarship, you have to have been playing since you were a toddler. And the younger (rich) people start their kids, the…

The misconception that young athletes can just walk it off is brutally persistent in this country’s sports programs; the idea the kids “bounce,” that they heal in no time, etc. Yes, a child probably can recover more quickly than a forty year old from strained muscles and bruises, but damage done young doesn’t…

May I present, this map:

This is sports culture in America. Sports teams get amazing funding as teachers are struggling to keep pencils in their classrooms, many of our colleges rank sports as more important than classes, sports are being pushed onto kids younger and younger, and they’re only getting more extreme. And I don’t mean like fun,…

At this point, I’d legit settle for this (very good) dog as president.

Yep. Normalization of the regime because too many Republicans were leaning toward impeachment, and the ability to distance himself from the neo-Nazis without actually having to apologize for supporting them or changing his support. Just wait.

I hope he ‘cranks the outrage’ waaaaay past 11. I want them to all be foaming-at-the-mouth, bat-shit-crazy right in front of everyone. I want their hatred to force their true selves in to the light of day. I pray they don’t actually hurt anyone else, but the more we allow them to show who they actually are, the…

Also, it’s not like anyone ever really leaves Trump’s orbit once they’re in it. They just get shuffled in and out in different capacities.

Totally. This is obviously a “throw the card-carrying neo-Nazi under the bus so the rest of us will look good in comparison” move, but hell, we could use the good news anyway. Let us bask in how Bannon got fired and is also likely to start spilling gossip about the administration like never before just for a bit…

Exactly. And also? Trump has a track record of still being in close contact with the people he’s fired. So his influence is really just moved to texts.

Agreed. Just cause he’s technically out doesn’t mean his influence is going away or ya know, Trump himself isn’t just as evil.

My (overvalued) $.02:

This is window dressing, a meaningless gesture to appease ‘traditional Conservative Republicans’ and the Generals.

Bannon will say he will continue to support the Circus Peanut’s agenda, early Redditors/Breitfarters will be mad initially but briefly, and the bullshit will continue.

I read this article, about/by a guy who just rethought his support, and I flipped off my monitor. He said monstrous, racist shit and turned out to be a monstrous, racist shit ... and you act like you couldn’t have known that? Whelp, welcome on board, grab a bucket. The arms of the people who were able to see the…

He’s toast. The only reason he’s not gone within the next year is that the Dems don’t want Pence. It’s better to have an annoying but fairly powerless Trump. I mean, he has no allies ! No one likes him. He demands loyalty but is the first one to throw his friends under the bus. His agenda is dead in the water. …

Also, isn’t he considering eliminating a bunch of national monument designations? If he’s so concerned about preserving the beauty of parks...