But his English is flawless ...

I never do, because I’m not a citizen. I stand for the anthem, obviously, and for the Pledge, but I don’t repeat the pledge. Because I work in military bases a lot for research I wanted to be extra careful about this, so have been told that it’s not obligatory for non-Americans.

The .mil folk I know here think Sajjan is a badass. Mattis doesn’t give a damn what’s on his head. (What’s with the hand over the heart thing, though? Non-Americans don’t do that.)

Lois McMaster Bujold is another amazing feminist SF author. As many awards as Heinlein!

Yeah, because Islam is so famously forgiving of wildly promiscuous addicts.

Clearly, the man has no self-awareness. But is there nobody on his team - even Ivanka or Jared, whom he seems to respect a bit - to say “you need to rise above this. Send angry texts to me when this happens, but stop Tweeting because it makes you look like a whiny little bitch.”?

Exactly how I feel. Even though it wouldn’t grieve me at all for him to die horribly, the issue isn’t “does he deserve to die?” but “do we want to be a society that kills people?”

I totally understand why some people don’t like the idea, and others don’t like the reality, but I find, if I’m in the right mood, I can orgasm just from that. Tons of nerve endings, and when the Kinsey people were first trying to measure female orgasm they found that the sphincter spasms during any orgasm, so not…

Similar here. First BF tried; he was a good guy, but young, clueless, and enthusiastic, and it hurt so bad I almost blacked out. He stopped immediately, we never tried again. Fast forward a decade to Mr. Winehouse, who is just as girthy. One night, after too much wine, I told him I’d always wanted it, but was scared…

I’m fully expecting him to appoint his pro-choice sister to SCOTUS, and I’m going to Nelson Muntz SO FUCKING HARD at all my SoCon acquaintances who voted for him because they’re pro-life single issue voters.

In fact, no. A few years ago, people were asked what they thought of the ACA. Then they were asked what they thought of Obamacare. (The groups got the questions in random order.) A substantial proportion of people liked the ACA but hated Obamacare.

You know, if guys really think a normal vagina is a germy smelly thing that needs Lysol, everyone wins if those guys just stay away from all vaginas, and all vaginas stay away from Lysol.

And we have an extremely talented actress on the one hand, and a kinda-sorta-used up C lister on the other. It’s not as if it’s hard to figure out which of the two is milking the situation for attention and clicks.

She was in a profile in The Walrus as a “critic of feminism.” I give up. I guess this will just be normalized everywhere, in the new world order of Cheeto Jesus.

I am one degree of separation from her. She’s quite open about her actual identity, too. Not sure it’s appropriate or relevant to provide details here ...

JudgyBitch’s husband shares her views and teaches at a publicly funded university in Canada. I’m stunned that there hasn’t been a massive stink about this. No woman or PoC would feel comfortable in his class.

Why would Putin want to hurt his puppet? He should be providing security to protect his investment.

YES. Pence won’t do anything that can’t be undone by the next administration. A trade war, or a war war, both of which Trump could easily start a) by accident because he’s stunningly ignorant, or b) out of spite in response to a mean Tweet, would be vastly harder to recover from.

My suggestion would be a version of this. Also, go for incremental change. Point out that if a child doesn’t gain natural immunity by puberty, then if they get measles it’s not just the disease, it’s the possibility of sterility for men or birth defects for a baby for women. If this persuades her to do a delayed…

You (and all the others with similar situations) are a saint for being able to break bread with a room full of Trumpkins. Seriously, I haven’t (knowingly) engaged with one yet, and I’m not sure I can be civil when the inevitable happens. This year I am thankful that, since I’m the most right wing member of my family…