I think she has agency. I also think she signed a prenup back in the day, and it is restricting her choice of exit, unless she wants to leave penniless and possibly also without Barron. Before Trump decided to run for president, and won, she was biding her time, waiting for him to get tired of her aging, and move on…

There’s good, and then there’s cynical pragmatism. Melania’s the latter - she used her youthful beauty to snag herself a rich husband to provide for her so she could live a wealthy life of no physical labor, on the assumption that he’d eventually tire and divorce her, and she’d get a payout to retire on in the…

Can Trump undo the commuted sentence, as Manning won’t be released until he is in office? I’ve already seen Republican blowhards getting pissy over this, and am worried for her.

I imagine you also need to give them a lot of space, and time to process everything.

We’ve got to get hold of state and federal governments before the next census, or they will gerrymander further, and we’ll never get back the hill.

They’ll just blame Obama for it, like they do everything else.

They’ll have to come from below the federal level — and since we have completely ignored the local and federal elections for more than a decade, most of those are held by Republicans, and thus, we have no “baby” politicians to grow up and run for congress or the presidency.

Sexual assault is fine with his fans, because they believe a Real Man has his way with women.

The bathroom bill was introduced earlier. By a democrat.

It applies to government construction projects that cost more than 250K, and means that a lot of construction workers, a disproportionate percentage of which are veterans, will get shorted. This also means that a lot of them will end up making so little that they are eligible for food stamps and the earned income tax…

It came down to not wanting a woman president. Had this election taken place during the midterms, it might have turned out differently.

It’s a prison surgery. She’s getting the bare minimum, if that. Besides, I’ve seen women her age who look much the same: it’s about a lifetime of hard living more than anything.

Ain’t gonna happen without a life sentence. They approved it because she kept trying to kill herself, and she’s their responsibility for a long time yet to come.

In fairness, what don’t they have a field day with?

Is anyone else having trouble with Kotaku? My burner account doesn’t seem to be recognized there — it doesn’t let me vote or comment, and especially doesn’t allow me to log in to my account. It’s weird.

Ha ha! Mine is supposed to be too big for the cat door, but has figured out that is she does a sort of doggy army-crawl on her belly, she can squeeze through.

When Trump decides to start a nuclear war over something China’s leader says about his “hair”, who’s gonna nuke Iceland? NOBODY.

It’s not handouts if you get it from Blue regions and give nothing back in return but invective. Then it’s a victory for your team, like the spoils of war.

Look, a Calexit is not going to happen. It’s something people talk about because it makes them feel slightly less depressed.

If things get bad enough that California really does end up deciding to secede, the state should make a point of convincing Oregon and Washington to go with them. They could start their own country, or set up some kind of Euro-zone equivalent with regards to interstate (or intercountry, I guess) travel. And also it…