Last I checked, no one was calling to pave over Civil War battlefields or dig up the gravesites there. Those would be the actual sites where a memorial would be appropriate, not a Jefferson Davis highway in San Diego.

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There are a lot of Civil War battlefields spread throughout the South that usually have specific information about the common soldiers, the conditions they endured, the bravery and tenacity they exhibited in battle (misdirected or conscripted though it may be), and some kind of memorial to the dead. These should be…

And I doubt anyone’s conservative uncle is going to take time to click a link with John Oliver on it. He inspires the same antipathy that Hannity does on the other side of the spectrum.

oh American education

where Confederate president Robert E. Lee

You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into

Honestly, I think the average person would probably name George Lucas or Walt Disney, nevermind the facts that one no longer runs a studio and the other’s been dead for a half-century.

So you dislike it when a sexual abuser raises money for a presidential candidate, but don’t care when a sexual abuser is a presidential candidate?

...So it’s somehow Hillary’s fault than Weinstein harassed these women? Or that the fact that she has appeared in photos with him at public events somehow suggests that she knew about it and covered it all up, or something?

Ahem.

And? What’s your point exactly? The current president is the same disgusting pig as Weinstein.

And to think all it took was 20 years of a clear pattern of continuous sexual harassment and abuse.

He might not have invented the word “fake,” but he’s certainly perfected it:

So Trimp invented the word “fake” and the phrase “priming the pump,” and he trademarked NEITHER?

I keep hoping one day soon he’ll rip off his mask to reveal an aged, grinning Andy Kaufman.

Oh, he knows from fake. He’s the original fake. His picture is in the dictionary next to the word fake. Bigly.

Presidents don’t need to know what they’re talking about any more. Apparently.

The more things change ... . Only 125 years ago:

I hate this shit.