You’re confusing unskilled labor for trades. The trades, where you have to earn and keep professional certifications, have always paid well, and the workforce in the trades is aging out. Yes, there are some trades where you’re out in the elements, or in a factory environment where it isn’t climate controlled. And you…

I think you’re off base here. The people that worked trades realized that it was hard work, especially if you have to work outside in cold climates, that often didn’t pay well and naturally wanted better things for their children.

Trumpies are so steeped in cognitive dissonance that they’ve convinced themselves that a NYC real estate magnate who flies around on his own jet and buys new wives from Russia represents “normal Americans”, aka people he wouldn’t stop to spit on if they were on fire in the lobby of his building. It boggles the mind…

I think you’re off base here. The people that worked trades realized that it was hard work, especially if you have to work outside in cold climates, that often didn’t pay well and naturally wanted better things for their children.

Oh, this tired old song again? “We’re real Americans, you’re not”? Please. Jon Stewart tackled the “Bubba vs. Bubble” issue when he hung Huckabee out to dry however many years ago.

I’m from a family of contractors. Great granddad came down from Quebec to start the family business. He, his son, and his grandchildren took great pride in the business. They also warded me off of it from a very early age.

I’m sort of torn. I’m an educated elite (or as the WSJ guy would say, I’m “fancy”) and in general I have more admiration for the guy who works a construction crane than the hedge fund guy who shuffles around imaginary money all day and skim some off the top for himself. At the end of the year, the crane operator can…

It’s absolutely hilarious that he lists ‘software engineer’ as one of the salt-of-the-earth real people along with ‘infantrymen’, ‘teamsters’ and ‘truckers’.

In an amusing bit of irony, “gelernter” is German for “skilled, trained, qualified, learned”.

According to the WSJ, “the average American” is an illiterate racist pig who received $400-million in subsidies from his Klan daddy.

Keep riding that idiot whirlwind and the minority of Americans that are stupid and hateful enough to follow Trump, WSJ. You are complicit in this traitorous criminal conspiracy.

We know for sure that, come 2020, intellectuals will be dumbfounded at the number of women and blacks who will vote for Mr. Trump. He might be realigning the political map: plain average Americans of every type vs. fancy ones.

“Well, at least with trump I won’t have to worry about some man barging into the ladies room when my daughter is in there!”

I hope it was clear that was primarily who I meant by “anti-woman” - conservative men.  Although I prefer to call them “reactionary men” because there’s nothing of value that they’re “conserving.”  That is window dressing, or a sheet, depending on your view.

I should add, I don’t mean to be pedantic or disparaing, like “do some reading.” I should say that it was extremely enlightening when I began to do some reading about how Ronald Reagan was groomed as the spokesperson for powerful money men behind him, and how the Russian intelligence services are trained.  Isn’t it…

Well, I think hopelessness is part of their game plan.  Notice how often their trolls tell us to “get over it” and “move on.”  Do some reading about the Russian intelligence services and how much of their work is psychological warfare.  We have to remain hopeful and positive about the world especially as cretins like…

This is Trump and his GOPsters finding the new wedge issue, after abortion ran out of steam. They’ll still use anti-abortion in select areas but no doubt their polling and focus groups have told them that anti-trans campaigns capture the anti-gay crowd, the anti-woman crowd, the we-control-your-privates crowd, and the…

I’d like to know how exactly transgender people threaten the cis-community. What are they so afraid of? Why are they so fucking obsessed with erasing trans people? I swear, during the campaign whenever I’d try to talk to a trumpster about why they thought that buffoon would make a good president, they’d at first…

Have you considered not capitalizing fascist for no apparent reason?

My fellow White people, please stop doing this.