Juliajms

Things are out of control and it is disconcerting. I also understand your feelings of helplessness on the day to day front. I agree with Vee that there is hope longer term, but there isn't much we can do about the insanity confronting us every single news cycle.

The second tweet. 🤣

I won't watch it either, but I know enough to say Holy $hit. It's like our country is having some kind of collective mental breakdown or something. Nothing makes sense.

^ Sounds like Rand Paul's been dipping into the eggnog.

😲 This doesn't inspire my confidence.

I'd like to believe that's all it is, but I don't. The far right and far left are more open about it, but it seems to me antisemitism is infecting our society on the whole. Maybe it can be stopped when Trump is gone, we'll see. But anyway, yeah, I wrote off the women's march for this reason a long time ago. Social media is leading more and more people to fall for this kind of thing. : She said she went home that night and searched Google to read about the Jewish role in the slave trade. Up popped a review of “The Secret Relationship between Blacks and the Jews,” a 1991 book by Mr. Farrakhan, which asserts that Jews were especially culpable. Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard professor, has called the book the “bible of the new anti-Semitism.” Twitter is just full of Holocaust denial and re-framing, it's disturbing. Our society is severely lacking when it comes to critical thinking. One day on Facebook is all it takes to see that. When I see the cracks forming in the Women's March coalition, it does worry me that we won't be able to hold it together for 2020. I know there isn't much point fretting over it though. What will happen will happen and we just have to hope for the best.

You just know some of these people are salivating at the possibility she won't make it another two years. I would have thought things would calm down as we approach Christmas and the new year, but nope. Still chaos.

I'm not sure I'll ever have confidence in our government again. The fact that this insanity is allowed to continue is just unbelievable.

h ttps://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1076179160823939074 Some good news.

Yes, I think it's real too. I wish I could be that type of person, but I'm with you. Off with their heads (figuratively). Dear God save us all.

I will be very interested to see how people respond. I will obviously get onboard if he's the nominee, but I'm not feeling this peace and love stuff myself.

Preach it Carl. I'm not some idiot frat girl in a horror movie sequel. I won't believe this nightmare is over until I see this administration buried in front of my eyes. We've been in crazy town for two years, but today is the kind of day where it just seems like it can't be real. I imagine Mattis was one of the people charged with tackling 45 if he goes for the nukes.

Lordy.

The only ones I feel sorry for are retired people who are living off their 401ks. Everyone else with a 401k will be fine if they don't panic, although I saw many do so during the financial crisis. Sadly one lady I knew was close to retirement and was still working to support her grandson. I hope she landed ok. I know this is petty, but I enjoy seeing the tech CEO's lose a few billion, even though I suspect it's short term. I hope it hurts while it lasts. KESSLER: Because they want to take over America. Why can't they just come here and live like us? I want you to be an American, do what we do. We were here first. OK? You're second. This comment is gross, but also sadly ignorant. Immigrants still largely integrate by the time they are second and third generation. They may not become Christians, but they will speak English 🙄 and be culturally American, for better or worse. Pew research shows this every year, if people would just get their heads out of their asses. Also, someone needs to tell that bitch that we don't have degrees of citizenship. She is not first.

And worse she's trying to ruin the chance of other Democratic incumbents because they are not liberal enough for her. What?? I want to like her because I agree with many of her positions, but I can't get onboard with anyone who doesn't see defeating Republicans has to be the immediate goal. You don't do that with infighting. Look where that got us in 2016 for pity's sake. I know a lot of people think Democrats can't lose in 2020, but we can if we continue to be divided by the far left. I agree with many of their opinions, but not their insane, self defeating tactics.

That's terrible. I hope she is getting help to cope.

🙄 Our leader.

I do wish the consequences to the individuals were harsher. I think jail time depends on the case. We can can't even get people put away for rape in the vast majority of cases, so jailing them for harassment seems impossible. I'm not even sure it's the right answer in a case like this specific one, versus one where someone was assaulted. We need systematic change. We need to stop indulging these guys just because they are unusually talented (looking at the NFL), popular (looking at Hollywood), rich or connected. Until that stops I can't see things changing much.

^ Damn. People losing their jobs thanks to these terrible people. I do suspect "Bull" will be canceled. CBS on the other hand will easily survive. If we are lucky some better people will be brought in to run it, but I'm not counting on that.

Right or a society that fosters it. That's real issue, I think. The work place is a microcosm where the sexism and rape culture our society fosters comes into play. It's so pervasive, I just don't know what it will take to change it or if it can be changed.

At the very least MW needs to be out of a job. I'm so glad ED came forward with this response. She really shredded his pathetic excuses. Let's hope she lands someplace much better. I'm rooting for Netflix.

You're not wrong. Still, doesn't it seem like this contract goes against the company's fiduciary duty to investors? I'll be interested to see if anything more comes of this.

So true. I wouldn't be ok with this if Democrats were doing it either.