I got that- in theory. But in my reality, I can’t picture anyone who doesn’t embrace his or her racism being on the fence about voting for him. I legit thought being pro-Trump was essentially a way to ‘come out’ as a racist. If you feel that you aren’t racist, how could you stomach the thought of him?

Commentor Busslayer upthread summed it up best. It’s not about black voters, it’s about white voters. Specifically, it is about the white voters who are on the fence about casting their ballot for Trump due to his racism. This gives them the “out” they want. It soothes their nerves when they can say he reached out to…

The good news is that those White folks can go back to being ironically/casually/unintentionally/just sayin’/only asking questions/actually racist after the election and all will be right with their world.

Real question, not a joke: why is he bothering? His supporters don’t pretend to care about us, he damn sure never has, and he can’t really think any negro outside of Sheriff Selfhating Asskisser’s family will vote for him. Why spend a second on this speech? It’s done. At this point, I envision even Ben Carson will…

He isn’t trying to play to black voters. He is pretending to play to black voters so white voters that he has horrified with his open racism will give him a second chance - “oh look, maybe Donald isn’t a raging racist asshole after all, I guess I can vote for him without having a guilty conscience.”

Some days this election makes me wonder if I’ve inadvertently taken acid and I’ve just been on a bad trip for like a year.

Dear Trump,

Her heart is killing the Great Barrier Reef

Is there something inherently nauseating about describing one’s own love? Is it the navel-gazey hyperboolic rapture of it? The sameness of it? I’m honestly asking. I mean, I read a lot, so descriptions of two characters’ love for each other is something I come across frequently, but I never find it irritating in that…

Blah blah blah I’m happy for them but those quotes are god awful attempted poetry. Like real bad. Her heart is full of deep ocean minerals? What does that even mean??

I think TWD has repeated the same cycle so many times that “unrepentant insane dude” is kind of the only card they had left to play. We’ve already had the Villain Who Thinks He’s Doing Good and the Villain Who Tried Good and Got Screwed So Now He’s Bad, and had several random Evil, But Human Evil type of people in…

They have no idea what this word means, its not written in American language. 

Even if you don’t know Spanish, contra is used as a prefix in English. It still means “against” or “opposite of.”

I saw this earlier today and it gave me my single biggest (non-hysterical) laugh of this cycle.

Of course. His/the GOP base is made up of demographics in decline. White men, mostly uneducated, and white evangelicals. White men are slowly losing majority, and white evangelicals are no longer the majority, they continue to lose members due to their stances. So they cling to those stances harder (logic!).

I adore Obama and his family. I have been in a state of shock, horror, and fear by all the horrible racist shit that’s been flung at them and the threats to their safety. I am so disgusted by it I am ashamed of this country. We should have progressed beyond this backward hateful shit.

I voted for Obama. I don’t like how he’s been treated these past 8 years.

It’s like the Brexit meme - ‘Not everyone voting for Trump is racist, but every racist is voting for Trump.’