She claimed diplomatic immunity, which she did not have. This is frankly some Saudi Arabian royal family shittery here (which they all DO have diplomatic immunity, and have used to it to abscond their family members who get in trouble in the States. For things like this).

YOUR SECOND AMENDMENT GUN RIGHTSandafewotherthingsARE AT STAKE!!!

How very Maoist/Stalinist/Khomeinist of them.

The problem being thar Bolton was not the only hawk in the room: Pompeo is just as enthusiastic for regime change. Bolton wasn't fired because he advocated for war, he was fired because he dared to disagree with the President and not back down (specifically with regards to the Taliban visiting Camp David, which Bolton…

But did they have oil?

To this day, I’m am amazed and envious of her effortless flexibility. 

One of the interesting takes I’ve heard on this film (and I have not seen it, so I don’t know how applicable it is) is that what we see in the film is not necessarily what we SHOULD be seeing, or that we are seeing events through Fleck's mind (ie, it's not him that starts a revolution, but social instability and…

I don't know if that was the intention of that scene. A lot of the implication I'm getting from the trailers and the direction of the character is that we are seeing things from his perspective - and how reliable a narrator is Joker? How much of what we're seeing is reality, and how much is his own warped view writing…

I think that’s the part that makes me the most angry. Clearly, a good chunk of the Republicans in power see how damaging this is to the Republican brand at the very least. But they continue to hang on like a bunch of sycophantic lampreys.

I am so fucking tired of this blithering stupidity. How? How is he still immune to this? How do people continue to bleed devotion to him? How is this still happening? What the fuck will it take for this ridiculous parasite to actually get what he deserves!?

Hong Kong is an island city, and all of the land access routes currently have PLA units stacking on them. Remember how the PLA handled the last pro-democracy protest in China?

That moment might be one of the reasons her 'notoriety' is so out of sync with her actual time in the industry. It's also a pretty good moment and example of the kind of wrecklessness a lot of porn studios undertake without consideration to it's entertainers.

That's the one! Thanks for posting!

You know what they all look like? Trouble. Just...trouble in a handbag.

I feel like Mia Khalifa needs a lot more current attention, if just to swerve the algorithm on search results for her. She just did a pretty solid interview with the BBC that was engaging and frank, and highlights a lot of the severe problems and straight up predatory nature of the porn industry. Between that and the…

Or ladders over hatches.

Thank you for that. I might expand it out and see if Jezebel or one of the other Gawker remnants would like it.

That’s kind of you to say, but I feel like I am not the right person for either of those things.

Thank you.

Most people who own firearms don’t need them. They just want them. And their want, to them, trumps the right of everyone else because freedom, liberty, etc. I agree with you on licensing (technically, I am licensed: my credentials are a firearms license I spent a heckuva long time acquiring!). Licensing is the best…