Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I walked by Union Square last night. Big protest. But nothing violent.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Wait, are you trashing on the idea of protest here?

I mean, we've got an amendment for that.

There was a great little incident here in Boston that the press reported on, it was really pretty cute. There was a protest in front of the state house, as there is almost every day, and the crowd got big enough to spill out into the street, so the cops were directing traffic around. Some big aggressive tourist dude came up to a cop and got all agitated and said, "Aren't you going to arrest these people", and the cop responded, "Sir, we're in the seat of liberty, we try to give people some space to speak."

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

This makes exactly zero sense. None. Not one sense.

TM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

No time to express anger in the form of protest. We need to figure out how to fix this tonight! Everyone take out your protractors and let's get to work.

Was it Billy Ray Valentine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxAiLuPHnHs

TM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Earlier this week I was in NYC. Running along the Hudson I keep having Paigow-like hate at the tourists walking 4 abreast, which is just not safe, giving the bike riders.

Today I flew to DC (I think they're putting up the inaugural platform, too early, right, or is it Trump making shit happen). Anyway, running on the Mall I was missing those NYC tourists. Anyone with enough sense to find the Hudson trail is at least not totally oblivious. These DC tourists, that's some bad bad tourists. Does the first amendment extend to how much sidewalk you decide to take up?

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Build tourist lanes. Make the tourists pay.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I'm trying to point out that you can curse the darkness or light a candle. I think that Trump is now our President because nature abhors a vacuum. The Democrats failed to put up a winnable candidate. And by that, I don't mean someone who should have beaten Trump. Your dog should have beaten Trump.

You have done more than anyone I know personally to change the way I think about race and my relation to it. The Democratic Party needs to spend the next four years doing exactly what you do every day. They should have been doing that more aggressively for the last eight years. Not just a few writers. Not just a few athletes. If we are going to keep this from becoming the kind of America where people like Trump are electable, we need to be more proactive than reactive, and we need to do it on the micro level.

We need to find smart, honest, and gutsy people and we need to get them to run for office. We need to get our message out instead of attacking the right's. I worked phone banks for a County Commissioner and a State Rep, both Democrats. I challenged every person I talked to about what exactly it was they figured Trump was going to do to create jobs. I taught soldiers getting ready to muster out how to go into business and create jobs, and part of my teaching was focused on the interdependence of each of them as business people to make sure they supported each other and their communities. But I didn't do enough.

Of course, I'm just a simple country disabled tax lawyer. I don't have the strength to go marching down Bay Street chanting slogans at people.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Many of you know this man, and those who do have little doubt that he and his dog were docile innocents. http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2016/11...protest-photo/

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I'm going to start watching the Christmas feel-good movies early this year.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I do not know that man, but a quick glance at his twitter feeds has me fairly sure you are being sarcastic.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I don't think you're wrong. I imagine that it isn't an easy task given the locations of so many of these voters and their tendency to view anyone talking about anything political that doesn't parrot Breitbart as the enemy.

TM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

An anecdote from Schwartz. Well, you've convinced me.

TM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Sebby should like this.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...omy-is-weaker/

ETA: We can google this to a draw until our phones die. The truth is there are a number of factors at work. Trump voters were a varied, ahem, basket.

I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
 

How sad is it that my first thought upon reading your response was wondering if you* ever got your bed**?

*I think it was you. Right?

**Or was their a choice of furniture? Am I just making shit up in my memory?