How many public figures from the world of sports do you know who can prompt this kind of discussion? If Curt fucking Schilling can attract attention and debate with his inane Twitter bullshit, why not Kareem?

Goddamn, why don’t people talk about Kareem Abdul Jabbar the scholar more? The man is astonishingly well-read and conversant in a ridiculous number of things, and has a number of academic publications. Why haven’t we drafted this guy as one of our leaders in public discourse, I do not know.

They’ve been in power for centuries. And they rage against challenges to their power. I don’t know. Maybe when they are finally no longer in control, and finally a minority, they, or at least their children, will chill the fuck out and just work with everyone else?

liberal centrist media can ignore him all they want but look at the numbers for conservative TV and radio

But his power also comes from the thousands and thousands of actual American voters who want him in office. Like if he were just a pundit or a talking head or whatever this would be true—but his existence as a political candidate with a lot of support reflects his ability to catalyze a certain kind of ultra…

Scapegoats are popular in times of economic turmoil. When the populace sees no hope with the current system it is easy for a demoagogue like Trump to come in and play to people’s base instincts and fear. People are disenfranchised from the political establishment because of their corruption and graft and therefore we…

Exactly. While I understand what Anna is saying, we also need to acknowledge that it’s evident that Trump has no core beliefs other than as you state. It’s like the Yeats poem

It’s a false comparison. I don’t think we should ignore Trump because he’s bad, I think we should ignore Trump because his power *ONLY* comes from his media presence. Shitstains like Westboro Baptist and Isis and whateverthefuck else actually have ideologies and deeply held religious beliefs, however twisted and…

Trump is, and always has been, a terrible human being. The alarming part is how many other, apparently terrible, human beings there are out there that agree with him. Constantly. Link to a bunch of morons voicing their support of banning Muslims from the USA:

When are these White males gonna stop raging? They raged against freeing Black people in the 1800’s because it threatened them in some way, they raged against the Italian, Irish and Jewish immigrants in the 19th and 20th century, they raged again against giving any equality to Black people in the 1960’s because (?),…

Like a trash monster that feeds on sewage, it only makes him stronger.

You know, maybe you’d be less exhausted about constantly having to defend your idiotic political values if you, y’know, had slightly less idiotic political values?

I am nauseous thinking about all the hardcore wretched racists. I’m sheltered but I thought it was mostly Shitty Drunk Uncles and a small percentage of rednecks. They’re everywhere. Like roaches we caught in the night.

Nope. It should be Kamala Khan punching Trump... the young Muslim Ms. Marvel in G. Willow Wilson’s FABULOUS new Marvel book.

Even if he’s a liberal purposely sabotaging the GOP, he’s still fucking evil for riling up the 25 to 40 percent of hardcore racists in this country. People are getting hurt because of this pus filled sack of shit’s rhetoric.

Let it be Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan!

I was kind of board with the closet liberal theory, but now I'm thinking he may be an ISIS recruiting tool

So this is the guy that people are talking about when they say #notallcops. Got it.

Officer Nic Abts-Olsen

At that age, maybe he already forgot the cops had him pulled over.