“these baldface lies can be deployed as useful truth-undermining tactics”

No, cupcake, you do not. It is not your money. The tax collected from me stops being my money the moment that I pay my taxes. I do not get to tell the FAA what software to buy or the navy what to feed their sailors. Nor do I get to tell people on SNAP what they can buy at the supermarket, and it is extremely…

Laura Bush in her autobiography also talked about the chagrin of this unpaid position and out-of-pocket costs for special event dressing. You would think a PAC could put some money together for first ladies to get paid as as money is probably not going to come Congress.

I have paid into it. I’m not getting your money. I’m getting MY money that I’ve paid into this.

Well ok, let’s do the math then.... if you make between $75,000 - $100,00, you’re probably paying around $13,00 in taxes, give or take. The SNAP program is 2% of the federal budget, so that means your contribution to SNAP is.... $260 a year. Now split that equally among the 45 MILLION people on SNAP.....

I’m not on SNAP, but I am getting EBT benefits.

Congressmen, old people, and military service members and their families also buy their food with your money. Do you follow them around too?

You get to judge what the government spends money on. You don’t get judge people buying food. You want to be an ass? Be my guest. But you don’t get to rationalize it into something normal.

My husband is an art teacher. 3 years ago his students took part in the White House Student film festival. They actually were selected. 7 kids, chaperones and my husband flew to D.C. They got to meet the president (one girl was crying), Bill Nye and Neil degrasse Tyson and have their film shown among many others. So…

Michelle Obama made an interesting point about that too. She was attacked both left and right on choosing childhood obesity. Right obviously because Freedom! means eating what you want while your government dictates medical procedures and can shoot a POC on a whim. But on the left because it wasn’t seen as significant…

It is a bullshit position, but that doesn’t excuse her for living separately from the White House on taxpayers’ money.

Well, I think Bill would’ve been forced to do stuff as first gentleman in a Hillary Whitehouse. I mean, like most things it’s rooted in sexism but a lot of the goober states still care about the “family values” of their elected officials. Or at least that’s what they say (since this election showed that evangelicals…

According to court documents she was trying to use the position of first lady to create a once in a lifetime opportunity to take in cash on fragrance and clothing lines. Disgusting and likely to backfire, but hey, she was just like all working mom’s, amiright? Meanwhile we pay millions for her to park her butt in a…

The treatment of Michelle is reason enough to abolish it. An educated woman who wanted to tackle the unfortunate truth that most of American children are Augustus Gloop clones is a bridge too far. Enjoy your clogged arteries!

To me it is such a sexist vestigial remain. Like, she wasn’t elected, she isn’t getting paid for the position, but she is still expected to do a whole bunch of work because her husband is President. And people threw a shit-fit when Michelle Obama commented that there should be some kind of compensation for the First…

(On this one thing) I am on your side, Melania; don’t do any of the First Lady bullshit if you don’t want to. “First Lady” isn’t a paid position, so I don’t see why she should be expected to do a whole bunch of work.

No, no, no. Booker talks a good game but he is a fraud. Look up basically any reporting on him from his home state. Huge disappointment.

We are well beyond this bullshit. We do not have the luxury of “not liberal enough” any longer. Yes, Bill Clinton ruined the politics of the party by going full repub to win the election. Yes, he signed DOMA. Yes, you would let someone cut off a finger if it meant 1992 Bill Clinton had just gotten elected instead…

Warren/Gillibrand... because FUCK the GOP.

I hope so, though I’m already seeing articles about how her supporting Clinton means she isn’t “pure” enough to run in 2020. (GOD DAMN IT, LIBERALS.)