First, thank you for your military service to our nation.

“our new normal is populated with assholes who feel empowered to take their assholery public”. For that we can thank a certain semi illiterate, obese, orange, culturally and factually challenged individual with a forner case of debilitating heelspurs that was miraculously cured with only a note from a doctor and a…

It wasn’t a case of not qualifying. I would have had to submit an application for them to decide if I qualified or not. The fact is ODU didn’t qualify with me.

I’m sure she was shocked to learn that many of her classmates are actually smarter than she seems to think she is.

Imagine her stunned disbelief when she discovered that she was actually expected to study law!

There’s a lot of crossover in Southern culture, so I’m not surprised to see the the same terminology applied.

BTW - I take great pride in the fact that my school’s band totes twice as much brass as ODU and regularly blows them off the field when they play each other in their quasi-annual series.

The drunk uncle making the traditional “showing of the ass” is a regular feature of Southern Family Christmases.

Embarrassing my parents in public (showing my ass) was a near-mortal sin, usually followed by comments like “I thought I raised you better...” etc., as well as a fair amount of corporal punishment.

One of two things:

I think you’re right. I fondly remember my late mother (Who grew up in West Virginia, btw) remarking on many occasions when she saw people behaving in a ridiculous manner, “They really showed their ass right there, didn’t they?” And if the offending party happened to be a child, mom would add, “I’d have something for…

I’m in my mid-fifties and grew up in Southeast Texas. Joined the Navy in ‘90 and now live in Virginia.

I am a white man who got his degree at an HBCU. This idiot’s actions do not in any way, shape of form represent in any way my experience.

Why she was even at an HBCU: demographics. In my 11th grade honors English class the teacher was telling the majority white students to consider going to an HBCU for the decent education and for the fact that as a ‘minority’ presence they’d get more bang for their buck. That was some stone cold cynicism, but bet money…

rule number one as a Black person I do not refer to other Black people as nigger NEVER. Rule Two if you call me one (whether you are Black or White ) I am going to slap you into critical. Expel this trailer park trash and be done with it.

To expound on points 5, 8 and 9 (optics of black church strong on lecherous, decrepit male leadership and short on male soldiers in the Lord’s army in the pews; professionalism and punctiliousness of gospel artist performers; Chernobyl toxic eulogy by Rev. Jasper Williams)....

When she said she knew a con man when she sees one, I snorted loudly at work. Bitch, you are the con representing a con. 

It’s really upsetting that our Executive Branch is a reality show at top levels. Not even a good one. It’s Flava of Love-level.

LOL at these people continuing to go out into the real world and be amazed to discover that noone else is “of the body” (old Star Trek ref).

What Pirro pulled is Gaslighting 101, and deserves no “civil” response. You have to shut that shit down and refuse to engage in it. One of the purposes of gaslighting is to put the target off-balance so that the perpetrator can get away with more shit. Don’t let them.