The guy's got a helluva jib, but I think he's wrong on some points here.

What is happening with the Trump Administration isn't intolerable. Or at the very least its no less intolerable than Obama inviting terror groups into the White House.

If we assume what someone does for a living isn't illegal, can't people earn a fucking living and not be hassled about it anymore? Now some line grunt or middle management type has to worry that he or she doesn't get a directive MANY will find "problematic" lest they get hassled and harassed by those who disagree with it, or even try to force them to resign their positions at completely unrelated jobs if they happen to agree with that legal thing? Give me a break, dude.

we will reform policing by spreading their home addresses and harrassing them and their families in public. that'll make them love us.

It's really shocking how much some of these people had invested in Hillary Clinton. It's like her loss was a personal affront rather than an election like the ones we have every four years. I heard Trump last night say that Clinton was a great candidate and he was just a better one. Of course that dope was patting himself on the back as usual, but maybe he was right. Her supporters are diehards. And they just can't accept that she lost. It's almost as if she created a cult.

Guaranteed when a woman finally does win the presidency, whether it's Gillibrand or Haley someone else, Hillary Clinton will stand up and take credit and her supporters will cheer her on.

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Curious Hair definitely a Hillary lover.

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Well, I don't think we need to stand outside a line grunt's house and blast boomboxes playing crying children (Peter Gabriel, maybe). But I don't think the people who work for Trump are entitled to do what they do and go home completely untrammeled by how their decisions affect people.


Stop trolling.

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Do you think this stops with the administration. Chicago bar is banning MAGA hats. Do you think people are not being shamed for their political views in certain professions already? What would happen if a humanities professor came out as a Republican at a liberal university?

It's becoming the other side is evil rather than we are united Americans with a differing set of opinions.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I didn't think I needed an eyeroll in there.

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Hey, he's a HRC fan, but still the best poster on the board.

That's probably a good thing. Politics is about fighting for limited resources, not rooting for civility and teamwork. Republicans know that.

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Isn't this just the free market though combined with freedom of speech(which now suddenly is a concept that isn't relegated only to the government)?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Stop it.

Hair hates Hillary.

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Why is it so difficult for you to understand the distinction between thinking something should be illegal and thinking that something just shouldn't happen?

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Everyone who has the office for the last 100 years has had to make decisions that have wound up with women and children being killed violently. Its the nature of the job. If this is really what people find intolerable then they have very little understanding of what presidents have been doing in this country since Ted Roosevelt (and before that even).

I don't know about CH, but Michelle Goldberg definitely is.

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So we should not work together. We should assume the other side is evil. And we should not publicly associate with the other side. That's suggesting we are closer to civil war than a functioning democracy.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Oh for fucks sake...

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

The unity is over. At least for now. One set of opinions is going to win and another set of opinions is going to lose.

Once that is settled we can go back to unity.

Yeah I am not really certain why there is this media driven idea that all must be happy happy with regard to politics and specifically DC. Sure in the past it may have had a high level of decorum there were some pretty harsh battles and standoffs over time.

I am sure in the times of battle in the Reagan - Tip O'Neil era it was brutal but behind the scenes.

It seems like there was some push not that long ago when Republicans were in charge that the media lean was to encourage news about cooperation and bipartisanship.

At any rate I am rambling and the disagreement and battles is not the problem its the surrounding hysteria that is ugly.

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Elections have consequences.

A female writer for the New York Times is a Hillary lover?

The hell you say!

You extrapolate that half the country wants to overturn an election based on a newspaper column from the Times. That's almost as bad as thinking half the country hates brown people and wants gays to be murdered based on watching Hannity.

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This is why I think the screaming about children is completely disingenuous. The people who are leading this aren't stupid. They know full well what you say above is true. And so the selective outrage is about one thing- #RESISTANCE. It's really just another pussy hat.

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I don't want the election overturned. I want Republicans voted out of office.

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People shouldn't harass or campaign to get people fired who do or agree with things which they do not, but not because I think their ability to do hassle/campaign should be restricted, but because society would grind to a halt if every "fire these people" campaign got its wish.

Let's say that sometime this evening, every non-minority person in the country who had ever said the n-word is fired from their job (if they have one). How much useful work would be done tomorrow?

There seems to be confusion about the first amendment for sure especially among young people. There seems to have been though a "spirit" that an individual had some free speech rights in their daily lives that rarely cause them trouble. In the present climate there is little room for that thought as everyone is wanting to shut down anything they do not like.

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Elections have consequences.

That's wrong. There's a whole lot more to support my contention than a single column. Anyway, I don't believe half of Americans want to overturn the election, but there are a large number that do, and probably close to half wouldn't be too upset about it, at least not right away.

Do you think the Trump administration is a white nationalist organization?

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Then vote them out the way it's always been done and stop advocating for yelling at them like lunatics while they're eating dinner with their families.

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As a whole, no.

I have no idea what each individual member of the administration feels, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were a couple white power people in there.

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In the mean time it might be best to not protest that they won in the first place, and to establish some sort of decorum for future election results. If Sanders wins is it fine to say he has dangerous ideas so best to investigate him, and treat him like an enemy of the state. It could easily become the norm if an "outsider" is elected.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Is that really the discussion? Of course an individual can disagree with the actions of a group. I do all the time too. However, we are often told to trust the free market and that's part of the free market.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!