Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

The lights are all blinking red.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

This fight is for everything.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

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When White Privilege Meets The Police

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Let’s put this story in the “white people sure are ballsy” category. Gavin Seim, who describes himself as a constitutional activist, flagged down a cop in an unmarked car in Grant County, Washington, and filmed an exchange asking for the cop’s identification and whether he was pulling people over:

The cop seems partly amused, partly in disbelief as Seim asks him for identification….The officer then shows two forms of ID.

Seim asks if he’s been stopping people in the unmarked vehicle. When the officer admits he has, Seim explains that it’s against state law to do so.

“I’m not going to write you up today,” Seim says. “What I am going to encourage you to do is take this car back.”

When the officer starts to smile, Seim holds firm: “I could call a sheriff out here and demand that you be written up for this because you are in open violation of Washington State RCWs.”

That, my friends, is called using your white privilege. This is also why all interactions with police officers should be filmed.

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    Betty Cracker

    My large, white redneck dad had one cardinal rule for my sister and me when we were growing up: “Don’t ever do anything to bring the cops to my house.” It was the best advice he ever gave me, and I’ve passed it down to my own offspring.

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    MomSense

    Woah Corbett photoshopping in black people? He couldn’t find one of those stock photo real Republicans to campaign with??

    Going to listen to the broadcast when I get home.

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    kyle

    “That, my friends, is called using your white privilege.” No, that’s using your rights. And sure, most blacks couldn’t do what this guy did. But that’s not because the guy is privileged, it’s because blacks are oppressed.

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    MattR

    This is nothing compared with the guy (perhaps the same guy – I can’t find the youtube video now) who noticed an unmarked police car on the highway and sped past him just so the cop would pull him over and he could lecture the cop (which ended without him getting a ticket). That cop was quite calm and took things in stride but warned the guy that other officers in the future might overreact to the situation.

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    MattR

    BTW – one reason police should not be using unmarked vehicles is that other police from an overlapping jurisdiction may not know you are actually a police officer. Exhibit A

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    Ella in New Mexico

    I wasn’t born into a wealthy family who allow me to administer their philanthropic foundation. I wasn’t born with a giant IQ that would have gotten me into MIT where I discovered the cure for cancer. I wasn’t bequeathed that special something that meant I didn’t even need a college degree to become a billionaire like Bill Gates. I can’t draw or paint or play an instrument to change the world with my art. All I got is my whiteness.

    And dammit, if I can use the benefits of my skin color and ethnic background to make the world a better place for anyone else who suffers from it’s oppressions, then so be it.

    Let’s hear it for White Privilege!!!

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    aimai

    @Ripley: You know what? It still takes daring to take on police authority. And luck to get out of it without getting your ass kicked or your ass arrested. Certainly relative to black people a white person is priviliged but there is no certainity that this privilige, vis a vis a same race police officer, is going to count for anything.

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