that the current members of the sc granted cert. to these cases does not give me great hope. only time will tell.

It might happen but from what I know about the american people and some of their leaders it does not give me the greatest amount of hope for this proposal. They are the original crabs in a barrel. 

I 1000% agree with you. But much of Trump’s base can’t understand the importance of higher education or the fordist (rapidly becoming post-fordist) nature of our economy. What they do understand is that something is being “taken from them” or not being “given to them.” That is all the framing that this will need for…

True, much of the money will be going to white kids. That said, I do believe that the “class divide” will take care of that. They might be white but by dint of them going to college they are considered “elite” by a good portion of trump’s base. Republicans will ride that for as long and as hard as they can. 

While I would LOVE to have my student loan debt erased, this proposal will be strangled in its crib. Hell, it’ll be aborted even before it’s born. Ironically, I predict that the stiffest opposition will be from the broad swath of the American people who truck in the politics of resentment, especially those non-college…

That bird video made me irrationally happy!

Sound reasoning. This is what you can achieve if you are not trying to burn shit to the ground at every conceivable turn.

I think the evidence is in and backs up your hypothesis 100%!

Some Christian she is.

That is one of the cutest British Shorthairs I have ever seen. ME WANT!

A-FUCKING-MEN!

Facebook needs to be thrown straight into the garbage.

You must hate me for some reason because I nearly passed out from laughing so hard!

Commander Zinke

I know.

But I can tell you know that doing nothing is not an option. That’s all I ask. :)

Trust me, I understand. The Republican Party has turned itself into a reactionary institution so at one level, I can’t understand how any one can support them. But on the other hand, I AM able to make sense of it given the state of our politics and society.

I don’t think I have given up (not saying that you said that I was). Rather, I am sad about the state of this country. So much is wrong. SO much anger and, frankly, stupidity. Despite that, I still want it to be a better place. I think that is where my sadness comes from. You might be apathetic now but I trust that…

“And probably, I imagine, the ratings around the world went through the roof because everyone was talking about it.”

I can’t express just how insidious the language and structure of this sentence is. Psychotic or not, as you and others have pointed out, the dangerous nature of what he said is what disturbs me to NO end. It allows the conspiratorial minded among us to wallow in fear and loathing of some unknown, shadowy other.