Yeah, god it’s been depressing spending my entire life watching that path come to its logical conclusion.  Reagan started it, and each successive president went further down it, now here we are.

This is a fun map: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-neighborhood-election-results/

Are you talking about the people who own the farms or the people who do the harvesting? Those are two different demographics, though the harvesting ones tend to not vote / be allowed to vote.

Wait, have you actually looked around California?  The state that passed prop 187 and prop 8?  In the civil war, the inland of the state would eagerly join any white-identity, far right uprising.  Hell, even the population slightly over the hills to the East of SF is remarkably racist and right-wing.

As a person from SF, I can 100% guarantee that mr tomato above is NOT.  It’s SF, San Francisco or San Pancho.  That’s it.  Frisco if your name is E-40 AND it’s 1990.

I found the “know the signs” thing to be a let down. How about “we’re coming for your guns, you bloodthirsty psychopaths in the NRA?”  That would be a more valid kicker in my opinion.

Oh, the NYC status dog. That dog says it all. Forget the stepford wife there, if you have a dog like that in NYC, you’re ballin’. I used to live on Broadway and 107th, and between Broadway and Riverside you’d see all these people with two wolfhounds on a leash, walking around like, “That’s right, I have space for two…

Uh, have you ever tried to pepper spray someone while inside a car?  It doesn’t end well.  I once had someone try to pepper spray me from inside her own car while I was driving in my car, and all she did was pepper spray herself and make her car undrivable for the near future.

I have a t-shirt with this guy on it that I got when I was a teenager, and it remains one of my best and stupidest t-shirts.

So you’re saying a white nationalist is a racist who has some other stuff going on.  Sounds like a racist to me.  If a person is a racist who bakes muffins, they’re still a racist.

Why do you call racists “white nationalists”?  It seems much simpler and more direct to just call them racists.  A white nationalist is a racist.  Do you get points if you use more syllables?

A relative is tangentially associated with Susan Collins. I was thumbing through a stack of documents related to the Kavanaugh vote while at her house, and I was amazed at the number of position papers that were telling her not to vote for Kavanaugh. Not because he is a terrible human being, but because he IS TOO SOFT…

I saw that number and I thought, “20 million? That’s might fund taco Tuesday for a few of the military’s marching band.”  Clearly they care a lot about climate change. 

California passed a law prohibiting undocumented aliens from attending public school in 1994. It passed with a solid 58% of the vote, because most Californians are very bad people, but was stopped by the courts and buried in 1997. https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_187,_Illegal_Aliens_Ineligible_for_Public_…

I am feeling that my recent decision to dust off and re-read 1984 has been a good one.  I love big bezos!

My son goes to a Swedish school in the US.  All children sit down to pee.  I have taught him how to pee standing up if he’s outside and it’s necessary, but he sees peeing standing up as messy and weird and to be avoided if possible, which seems reasonable to me.

I worked in the finance side of gay porn for a long time, and I have always been amazed at how little performers were paid.  I really wish that there was some sort of union that could negotiate residuals and points on the back end as well as an ASCAP for porn that could bring some economic fairness to the performers. …

Man, I had just learned about this because of trump being an idiot and I was excited to see Betty Gilpin do her take on hunger games.  Now I am disappoint.

The section 230 article drove me nuts.  I kept yelling out loud at it.  “It’s protected speech, the one entity that cannot restrict it is the government!”

You’re talking about a corolla.  I owned a corolla once, and only then did I realize that EVERY goddamn car on the road is a corolla.  You could stash 40 corollas all over town and do your bank getaway by hopping from one to the next.  Total anonymity.