Yeah, it’s a bad perspective, though. If we think that Trump and his administration are what we DESERVE, why even try to change things? The people who voted for him deserve him, sure, but not most of us.

Ha, I wrote the same thing re “deserving him” before I read this. What the hell is all this “We didn’t deserve him” talk, anyhow? It’s utter nonsense, as you noted. Let’s stop that, people, eh? If we think we don’t deserve better, how are we ever going to get it?

I’m not into this “We didn’t deserve him” rhetoric. I understand that it’s not entirely literal, but, as a country, we voted him in, twice, so we certainly deserved him.

Of course we deserved him. We elected him twice! We chose him to lead us, and he fucking did it! He led the country when the roof fell in on everyone, and he (sometimes) mitigated what damage the Bush administration did. He got the stimulus package passed in 2009 which saved countless jobs (teachers, firefighters,…

I remember seeing the 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote speech by Barack Obama and I (and I am sure most Americans) immediately knew, that this guy is probably going to be our first African American President. I assumed it would be after a long distinguished career, first in the Senate, then in one of the…

In case anyone doesn’t know, a big part of the reason why Obama has granted so much more clemency than previous presidents is because he is effectively making the Fair Sentencing Act retroactive. The Fair Sentencing Act reduced the crack/cocaine sentencing disparity that had been widely criticized as racially biased.…

On the eve of the inauguration, I think it’s a good time to remember that under President Obama, twenty million Americans gained health insurance, cutting the percentage of uninsured Americans to single digits; same-sex marriage was legalized; DADT was repealed; combat positions were opened to women and transgender…

Admittedly I was being brusque/injured/slightly sarcastic. I hear this too. I actually hear both “it’s going to be okay” and “we have to do this” and to some degree the former is contingent upon the latter. I hope we can do this. It’s a mark of strength to listen to someone like Gessen and let her words inform us…

Rachel Dratch also couldn’t name 20 white people so

This has nothing to do with power or social/economic status. She wasn’t disrespectful at all...didn’t belittle the reporter, didn’t act like he was bad at his job, nothing. She was offended by and disagreed with the question he asked for an apology.

Just look at the reaction to repealing Obamacare. It’s gone from “keep government out of my healthcare” to “but what are you guys going to replace it with?”

That’s a good point. “You’re not the boss of me” is a founding principle of this country.

“Write a note to yourself about what you would never do. And when you come to the line, don’t cross it.”

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

Auntie Maya ain’t never lied.

Isn’t the first rule of the Internet “don’t feed the trolls?”

Piers Morgan also had thoughts about Rep. Lewis that he just had to express. Thank goodness for white guys who have opinions about Rev. King that they’re willing to bestow upon us. It’s so strange that the MLK of their imagination always seems to be refusing to confront racism.

Fragile Masculinity thy name is Donald Trump