I'm glad to see some push-back against this - the Democrats need to be super-careful with this kinda thing; if they keep foaming at the mouth over every goddamn thing Trump does, they run the risk of looking like thin-skinned whiners who are always angry about everything, which would essentially inoculate Trump from…

I actually agree with you, save for one tiny thing - you can't make them offer up that honesty, and any attempt to do so is engaging them disingenuously, and they'll sniff it out right away.

My original comment was supposed to promote the idea that these people deserve as much empathy as we can muster, even as we continue to condemn their speech and beliefs as wrong. The pro-tip was supposed to be kind of an extrapolation of Lyndon Johnson's idea that if you give a person someone to look down, they'll…

Eh, fair enough. I didn't think it really held up to scrutiny, either.

I'd like to believe that, but come on - your name is "catfish." Just sayin'.

Please don't speak for me.

[giggles]

So I've clicked on three different newswires, and they all took me to the comments section for "Congress wants Trump to stop deleting his Twitter typos." You say if I don't wanna read it I shouldn't click on it, so I don't. But what to do now…?

Mute it - but make sure you keep watching, right? The Silver-Haired Fox needs a new pair of shoes!!!!

^^^^ I vote we dunk this skunk. Now who's with me????

"Fringe" is fun, and it does improve sharply in quality post-S1, but to be honest, I'd be hard-pressed to recount even a couple episodes for you - and that's after having watched the whole thing twice all the way through (once by myself, the second time with Mrs. Trace).

mmmkay.

… friggin' turd.

FRIGGIN' FIRST!!!!!

That's a false equivalency.

Okay, so, there are two options here.

Largest-illegal-surveillance-state-ever-constructed-says-what?

I'm just not seeing the benefit of this belief. The earth is flat and the government hides it from us in order to __________, exactly? Does it prove the government's evil and/or untrustworthy? We have plenty of other evidence for that, and plenty of other reasons not to trust our government. It just seems like a…

I don't know anything about all that - I just keep hearing this guy is really bad, everyone's talking about it, and it really scares me. I heard on the news that there's some kind of Resistance movement, and I just want to make sure we're all doing our part. :)

Thank you! We all need to make sure we're doing our part for The Resistance. So good to have a friend in such a scary time. :) <3