I mean, I don’t think it’s a bad idea to differentiate between your Milo Yiannopolouses and your Steve Bannons. Because the thing is, it’s not that you shouldn’t take Milo seriously. It’s that you shouldn’t give him attention.

I have a friend who said to me ‘Oh, you shouldn’t take [mutual acquaintance] seriously when she says terrible racist shit because she only does it for attention’. I told her there is no difference between being an arsehole and pretending to be an arsehole for shock value, because the latter course of action is the…

I’m pushing that we all turn out for the visit, but then turn our backs as he passes. It’s not like anyone wants him to come, and I think that would be a solid ‘fuck you’ that he couldn’t really explain away.

About 20 or so years ago, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia came to visit and she took him on a tour of her grounds in a Scotland. Personally driving. Like a mad woman.

It’s my bet that he will be expecting the coronation carriage (as in the utterly gold gilt one) which is not used for state visits. He will be dissapointed when presented with the jubilee carriage (somilar to the one pictured)

Another very serious question:

Especially since John Bercow, the Speaker of the House, gave a speech in Parliament that basically said -  Fuck no , I don’t want a rotting shrimp giving a speech in Parliament.

I’m a Brit. Vlad’s visit was in 2003, before any of us had figured out exactly what he was. He would be singularly unlikely to be offered the same again now.

We should let him ride with the infinitely snarky Princess Anne - that’d teach him.

The queen is snarky enough that she’d probably insist that protestors be as close as possible. This is the woman who personally terrorized a head of state.

Except that he’s the kid who does that at everyone else’s birthday as well.

Trump comes off as almost every child-of-honor at the kid’s birthday parties I attended.: They think their birthday gives them permission to do anything they want: demand that Joey not be given cake because he was mean to him, whack his sister on the head with a plastic sword and get away with it because it’s his day,…

She’s a woman. To say he’d be uninterested in her welfare is putting it mildly.

I remember in the early years of the Colbert Report, that lots of conservatives liked his show and thought that he was the Comedy Central’s conservative counterpart to the Daily Show. All of the wink/nudge humor and nuance was lost on this group; the same group that have bought completely in to the walking lie that is…

That was my first thought, too. So he encouraged people to confront and torment parents who had children shot because he was providing a form of entertainment? He is not helping himself here...

Stephen Colbert genuinely did this - played a character who held views different from his own, under his name, in a performance art way. But the line between real person and character could be found in out of character interviews, in winking aspects of the show, in it’s clearly delineated beginning and end times, his…

Maya Angelou had it right: The first time somebody shows you who they are, believe them.

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them.” —Maya Angelou

I used to buy into the idea that Howard Stern was “just a character,” and believed all that Private Parts bullshit about what a good family man he was, how much he loved his wife. And then he left her for a younger, hotter model.