And this might make me as cynical as a politcian - and I work with them so I should know - but I’ll take a Merkel pretending to be xenophobic so she can get elected over AfD and their overt racism getting elected. Especially now that Trump won the US election.

Alex Pareene’s self-important explanation for why he may or may not deem voting in a presidential election worthy of his time was the single worst thing I have read this election season.

Like so:

Nice to see Huma has finally sworn off Weiner for good.

THE MOST PERFECT PERSON IN THE WORLD!!!

SEE

And does Stein put her money where her mouth is? 

Liberals like Sarandon come across the phrase “The perfect is the enemy of the good” and decide that since they’re perfect, “good” needs to be taken down a peg or two.

it almost makes you wish she WAS that evil.

It’s an optical illusion to make his hands look bigger than they really are.

It’s making me literally physically ill. Not even kidding: I’ve had a stress headache and nausea ever since the news hit because of how stupid and fickle people are being right now. This is clearly Comey trying to play coy by making it look bad now while not flat-out *saying* what it is, so if this fucks over the…

Ok, so it sounds like the guy whose recommendation it was that no charges be filed against Clinton for any wrongdoing has now turned around and intentionally given a vague statement with the express purpose of “punishing” her for the very things he said merit no action. Like, I was giving the benefit of the doubt when…

I reckon Trump would be America’s Caligula, no?

Oh, for fuck’s sake.

The country apparently is in a constant state of coma. This person has won no elections, voted on no bills, participated in no public debates, but should be president because? Oh right...she’s famous.

This person is famous, they should be president...

Living for eight years literally physically ages you.

I got that- in theory. But in my reality, I can’t picture anyone who doesn’t embrace his or her racism being on the fence about voting for him. I legit thought being pro-Trump was essentially a way to ‘come out’ as a racist. If you feel that you aren’t racist, how could you stomach the thought of him?

Commentor Busslayer upthread summed it up best. It’s not about black voters, it’s about white voters. Specifically, it is about the white voters who are on the fence about casting their ballot for Trump due to his racism. This gives them the “out” they want. It soothes their nerves when they can say he reached out to…