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Many she should have sold steaks or phony degrees instead.

And then when we explained why black voters didn’t trust him at all, they would lecture us like we were children (which, thanks for proving our point) and called us part of the problem. 

“Economic insecurity! Everything will be fixed when we break up the banks!”

He backtracked quick when he thought he might offend his beloved White Working Class. He’ll throw us darkies under the bus to avoid saying anything bad about white folks.

Seriously, why are there no articles calling for Bernie to sit his ass down?

Poor Scott Walker lost and he can’t demand a recount because of a law that he signed.”

No I saw it he karate chopped her arm and broke all of her arms and now she’s in critical condition thoughts and prayers

JIM ACOSTA did not put his hands on HOPE HICKS LITHO #5* she grabbed him - at the direct instruction of Trump.

But what if it’s her giant diary where she writes all of her thoughts at the end of the day? “

Once again, no one in New York City is going to call the police and delay their own ride for something like this, white or black. You call the police on something like this, everyone would know they were either a transplant or a tourist, and we’d hate them for ruining our commute. 

spontaneous my ass.

I don’t want this stupid birthday party on my commute. Nope. And I don’t want the Showtime dancers either. I want an uneventful ride where I sit quietly with my headphones. I never want to be smacked in the face by a flying Showtime foot, but I ESPECIALLY don’t want to smell your train lobster. Beat it, all of you.

People from other cities make fun of the rules on the DC Metro that prohibit food and drinks.  Imagine, though, if the above described party ended with a group of transit police officers handcuffing and frog marching the birthday girl and her friends off the train.  Come on, admit it.  You’d have cheered for the cops.

The Venn diagram of the Free Birthers and the Anti-Vaxxers must be a circle.

My heart breaks for her but this is like anti-vaxxers for me. I have no use for people who reject science because of “reasons.”

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

this radical work of healing the deepest wounds on this earth

I get mistrust of the US health care system. I really do. But it wasn’t THAT long ago that childbirth was a leading cause of death for women. Forgive the expression, but don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Home birth can be great for some women, but the fact that this group deletes any advise that counters their beliefs and doesn’t make room for other treatment options makes them a cult, and a very dangerous one at that.

WTF is the point of living in modern times if a person doesn’t avail herself of some of its luxuries, like a freaking pre-natal appointment to a midwife or something? Yet she will chatter on FB about the “primal instinct” that takes over. Guess what? Birthing can be pretty deadly, just look at history. But no, the