I totally forgot about Octomom’s existence, which on the one hand proves your point entirely, and on the other I’m sad about because I feel like Octomom’s story is basically the open-and-shut case for the point I’m trying to make.

Their ability to collect sycophants is, admittedly, a point of similarity.

I really didn’t, although I apologize that my interpretation was wrong and upset you. I think the people in the RNC who could have seen this coming (as we all could) were surprised at how bad it got, and how quickly (as we all were). I think you can see that they are very nervous right now (whether that counts as…

I appreciate all the information contained in this post, but respectfully submit that perhaps a person whose own public username contains a grammatical error may not be the most receptive audience.

Sorry to tell you this, but not all Republicans are Voldemort. Also, you know those people exist, you referred to them as the “reasonable right” a few minutes ago. Pretending Every Republican Is Trump diminishes the actual dangers Trump’s base of support represent to this country.

Great, I’m sure that will definitely not end in the offer being retracted as soon as his own family starts feeling the financial burden of 5 more mouths to feed.

She may BE Hermione for your generation of fans (that’s fair, those films were a big part of growing up for many, many people) but for many of us older fans, we had a lot of time between the first book’s publication in 1997 and the first movie’s showing in 2001. There are a lot of us for whom Emma Watson, or more…

Well, I consider myself a pretty close follower of politics, and even I (a tax-paying citizen) am dumbfounded by how quickly everything sped to the logical conclusion. It’s not like I didn’t recognize what the worst-possible outcome of, say, Tea Party rhetoric would be, I just assumed sensible stakeholders would put…

I’ll let Anna know you’re willing to pay the legal bills when she gets sued for taking your suggestion.

Riiiight, but your original question seemed to be “Why is he saying this?” and I’m just saying, he’s explaining the situation because a LOT of people, even among the clued-in, even among those with some responsibility for the current state of things, are wondering how the hell this happened.

The fact that Obama can’t “make it a race thing” even when it is blatantly and obviously a race thing isn’t really his fault, and anyone can look at a demographic breakdown of Trump supporters and get that info for themselves, anyway.

For everyone standing around looking at what the GOP has become even just since 2012 going “How the fuck could this happen?” Which, I think, is most of us, in both parties. I don’t think even with the rise of the Tea Party since 2009 prepared us for how frankly weird things have gotten.

It’s difficult to say “People who see their historic opportunities becoming less accessible get nervous, and their nervousness can be exploited by the unscrupulous” without coming off as elitist or bigoted. Especially since that statement only becomes useful when you define who those people are who see their…

And when the Duggars sue her for libel and/or slander and/or breaking whatever non-competition contracts she signed before getting on their show, I will pretend to be very surprised and refrain from writing “Duh, I Told You So” on unrelated Gawker posts.

Oh, I get that you understand that it won’t be easy. I just don’t think that you understand that it is literally impossible for someone in her situation to leave a big family support structure, damaging as it is, and trade it in for - what, one brother? Is that brother going to feed and clothe and house her four kids…

He resigned. So while, again, he may have money and assets, he does not currently have a job that is generating income.

Alimony is based on the supporting spouse’s take-home pay. Which for Josh Duggar is a staggering $0. He may have other money-making assets and resources, but I still think her quality of life would likely be better if she doesn’t estrange herself from the familywide cash cow, which is still making money.

Unless that single supportive non-fundamentalist friend was willing to pay her bills until her children leave home, I’m not really seeing what explaining her “rights as an adult” would do to help her situation.

With 4 kids and literally no qualifications or achievements to her name, I think even with a different upbringing she’d be considering staying with the guy. That large a family isn’t cheap to raise - it’d pretty much be impossible on the $7.50 an hour jobs she’d be eligible for.

I’m thinking this would actually be a great interactive gift, like a puzzle or a project. You supply the mason jar full of pee and the pregnancy test, your husband gets all the fun of dipping the latter into the former by himself and reading the results!