Juliajms

Yes, please. I believe in giving people a second chance if they express sincere regret. Let's get rid of all the people who have never done that, instead of focusing on those who have.

I hope he wins.

This is infuriating. What a bizzaro world we live in. How anyone takes this man seriously I will never understand. I guess what it comes down to is he is a hypocrite with no shame at all.

If it does, it shouldn't. The working class does deserve more dignity, respect and money. I don't agree with plans that make people work to get SNAP or any other benefit, but I don't see how anyone can be against the notion that workers deserve more respect.

Yes. And then the Yeshiva in upstate NY burned and vandalized with Swastikas and all the attacks in Brooklyn. It's pretty scary. And the person I thank most is 45, who makes his coy little references to the Trail of Tears like it's some kind of joke. What a shame on our nation he continues to be every single day he is in office. He's unleashed the far right and the fringe left is not to be outdone. I'm hoping that to some extent people are wise to the game the media played with Hillary. Not the public, but the people running the campaigns and the candidates themselves who can shut some of this down directly by confronting it. It's an uphill battle no doubt.

Here's a bright spot. It really does make me happy to see so many women running, whatever the outcome.

It's disturbing to watch this happen right before our eyes, even though anyone could see it would happen when Trump was elected.

Its bad enough that he said it, but why on Earth didn't anyone on his team red flag it? The center just isn't holding these days when it comes to government. It's frightening to realize that so many of the people in charge are completely clueless and that's not counting the ones who are traitors.

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This isn't news to most people, but I didn't know about his efforts to dismantle the union. Not that I needed any more reasons to say no to another billionaire.

I think if the northeast and the west coast were physically connected the U.S. might truly decide to break up. Giving the enormity of our military industrial complex I can only image what that would look like if it happened. Much like the USSR breaking up I guess, with loose nukes here there and everywhere.

This is surreal.

Spend any time at all reading "woke" twitter and you know we do have a problem with this on the left. Some of the threads on there really make me cringe. One the comes to mind is the woman bitching about how she doesn't feel comfortable in white spaces (a legit topic, no doubt) and her main example was how a white person told her not to bother taking her shoes off in the white person's house. I kid you not. It was a huge preachy thread and she had a lot of retweets and responses. I have rarely rolled my eyes harder. At the same time, no one gets righteous points for giving someone who dressed in Klan garb the side eye. It's not my call what happens in Virginia, but I do think one thing Trump has shown us is that the character of our leaders has very far reaching effects.

I think this article supports your point. I definitely see the value in being pragmatic, although I think the paragraph where titled "Some of our best friends were racist" is pretty sad. I didn't know that about LBJ. https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/03/us/racist-photo-northam-blake-analysis/index.html

🤣 Nothing would surprise me. Like I've said before we are in straight up crazy town.

It's the time he uses to watch Fox news.

Well past it because I doubt most of the people who need to listen will. I'm really afraid of what the future will bring, but all we can do is keep moving and hoping that no one who matters drops the ball in the next election. On a different note I'd forgotten how pretty Nell Carter was. I was just reading her IMDB profile. What a tragic life she had. It really amazes me how resilient some people are, although someone reminded me just the other day that just because someone puts on a brave face it doesn't mean they aren't suffering in private. Clearly Nell was, but she still rose to the top.

Yes, and I agree that starting slowly by lowering the medicare age to 50 or 55 is a good way to go. I would love to see those two be the ticket. I guess we'll see how things shake out.

If he had just said I did it, but it was 35 years ago and I've changed. I think most people can probably understand that. At the same time, I don't think it's purity politics to want leaders who haven't dressed in Klan garb as adults to be our leaders. Even in the 80's people understood that the Klan was a terrorist organization, even if those weren't the words we used. There are things we do in this world that stay with us even if we've changed. I'd say putting racist photos in a medical school yearbook is one of them. Imagine finding out the the doctor who treated you did something like that against people of your group? It's terrifying. Blackface is harder for me to put into context, I'm not even sure I knew that existed until I was well into adulthood. I see someone doing that in the 80's as stupid versus evil, but I'm not black, so not my call.

A 22 year old medical student is responsible for what he or she does. It's a shame this didn't come out a lot sooner.

It's so odd to me that Sunday is going to roll around and we are going to pretend that what's happening on the field isn't destroying people's brains. Yet white parents are starting to flee that sport. This is a sad story about why it's harder for other parents to do the same. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/02/football-white-flight-racial-divide/581623/?utm_source=twb

It's hard not to like this guy, but I refuse to get on the love train this time around.

I agree, but in some ways it's also a non issue. I don't think we have a large scale problem of children or young adults failing to assimilate. Conservatives actually have less confidence in American mainstream culture than I do because I've seen how irresistible it is. As my husband says once you raise a child who isn't a Christian you see how completely ridiculous the supposed war on Christmas really is. The same goes for language, imo. At the time, wouldn't all of our children be better off if we became a bilingual nation like Canada?

^ That post made me notice this one.