It’s fine to dislike Taylor Swift. I’m not a massive fan myself. I get it, you think Taylor Swift identifies mostly with white women, and you might be correct in this assumption. And for sure, white women have a LOT of work to do. But this is just the kind of self-righteous rant that divides us when we need to unite.

Thanks! I really wish people wouldn’t be so distracted by the horse-and-pony show (I guess it’s more the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse show, but anyway). It’s all just one big grift, set to a shitty reality show narrative of outrage and cliffhangers. Rallies might be the button that 45 pushes for more adulation…

Which makes you wonder why QT picked it as a topic in the first place.

Couldn’t agree more.

Seconded. It feels voyeuristic in the worst way, just like it was back then.

The crowd cheering and adoration is the gravy. The meat is the campaign ‘funds’ (money laundering, bribes, etc.) that keep rolling in. It’s just another con, and it helps his supporters believe that they are part of a larger group than they really are.

I agree with you - I think in Melania’s case here, there is there visual shorthand, but there’s also the ‘stir-the-pot’ goal of getting people riled so they’ll comment like we are, and then others will say ‘Oh, you’re giving her too much credit, it’s just a hat,’ or ‘God, you libs get upset about everything.’

I think you’re underestimating her handlers and her indifferent complicity.

I hate that we try to read anything into her headgear and fashion choices, but this one is really, really weird.

Fuck these Craigslist wannabe reality show extras, and fuck the buses they rode in on, and fuck the reality show celebrity they’re cheering.

I mean, the depth of my knowledge of and fandom for Bradley Cooper would barely get my feet wet (well, except for Rocket), but this seems like a pretty normal interview for an actor who has tried on the directing hat for the first time, seems to be intimidated by musicians and great cinematic directors, and maybe by…

This is at the very heart of why all the Congressional and partisan supporters can sleep at night - there will be no direct consequences for them because they are wealthy. It’s no coincidence that the recent Congressional demographics have made up the wealthiest legislative branch in modern times.

Another Times report suggests that senators seen as swing votes—Susan Collins of Maine, for one—are aware of, and apparently comfortable with, the scope of the investigation...

It’s a sad, sad person who leverages her own trauma to justify the infliction of trauma upon others.

Hey, I read the whole thing so you didn’t have to...

‘(Daniels) says when she returned to the bedroom, Trump was posing in his socks and underwear in ‘a poor attempt at looking powerful.’

You might reveal that you are over 50, but I doubt it...
Ageism - especially for women but also for men - is a toxic outgrowth of our western culture. Yeah, it sucks to be young and told you don’t have experience - but for people to go through decades of life and then go invisible, or have their knowledge scorned and…

I don’t think age should be a general criteria for retirement - AND I think the Dems have failed over a long period of time to integrate vertically by pulling in new young politicians to carry forth and develop the party. But doing that solely based on age (i.e. getting a bunch of 20-year-olds in there just to shake…

I’m so tired of competent women being consigned to retirement due to age - as if we only hold up funny older women but not the ones who have just been doing the work for decades. Seriously, the anti-female ageism really pisses me off.

Cool, so you are happy with one of the two first California female senators (the other one is Barbara Boxer) retiring because of age while other male Senate fossils carry on? She has decades of connections and institutional knowledge. She has been an advocate of womens’ right since before most Jezzies were born. She…