Give me five dollars and I can modify a mad lib for his statement: This was out of character for me because stress/ drugs/ personal emotional struggles. I have Black friends/ respect all races/ good Christian values. I just want to put this issue behind me/ get closure/ heal.

This is the corollary to the racist explanation for the existence of racism: Racism only exists because people like you won't stop talking about it.

“He lamented that being against gay marriage is now a sign that one is an asshole."

My experience is anecdotal, and my opinion means jack shit, but here goes: I grew up in a small SC town (population when I lived there was approximately 400). There's zero chance that "nobody knows what happened." I'd bet my thumbnails that a shit ton of people know what's up. There are no secrets in a town like this.

Agree. I don't want to understand in order to reconcile. I want to understand to be better equipped to keep an eye out for that trumpian brand of fuckery.

Jemele Hill made roughly the same point yesterday, I believe. It's a farce that Biden's voters need to understand Trumpers. Fuck that. Trumpers don't give a shit, and as much as I love Mrs. Obama, her "When they go low, we go high," advice didn't do a whole lot for anyone. 

I know Facebook is a cesspool, but I'm all for seeing the trumpers in my feed crowing about fraud and desperately clinging to the belief that Trump will prevail while simultaneously exposing the corruption that's rife within the system. Fucking delusional, just like Trump himself

Furthermore, AOC tweeted that the repubs who enabled the Trump fuckery should not be allowed to fade into the background. Naturally, a ton of people hopped in to call her a commie and to rip her for saying they should be punished, which of course is not what she said. They absolutely should not be punished, per se,…

I'm taking a lot of joy from the ceaseless dragging on social media and elsewhere. Not sure who else saw it, bit the Pennsylvania AG was asked about legal challenges, and he replied, in effect, that Trump had lost every challenge, and he's going to continue to lose. Not content to stop there, he then murdered Rudy G…

Fuck it. I had St Louis gooey butter cake

That idiot Bill Carter, a grey whom I just dismissed, is proof of your thesis. 

This point cannot be emphasized enough. I'm fifty years old. I'm guessing I'll be somewhere in the neighborhood of seventy before the damage is properly mitigated.

I have no doubt that he's going to leave the White House the same way people trash apartments after they get an eviction notice and quit giving a shit.

There are times when violence is the only rational answer. 

The only problem with your comment is that I can only give you a single star

There's always that chance

And any conservative asshole signal boosting the bullshit claim that voting should be over (knowing damn well that voting has ended while counting has not) should be held accountable for aiding and abetting this treasonous nonsense.

It's a circle, no doubt.

Another reason why we're a lost cause: people, including folks I've called friends for over twenty years, think his erratic nature is an asset. He's so unpredictable that they're afraid of him! Yes. That's it.

To quote Dennis Green, "They are who we thought they were."