Oh yeah, I hear you. But if he does fire Mueller, he will have to be so strategic about the timing that I don’t think he can do it right. The midterms draw ever nearer, and the closer they are, the riskier it gets. Firing Mueller would be a great add-on to the message of why Democrats should be running Congress right…

I got all annoyed the other day when I found out that she and Junior went to Penn, and Eric went to Georgetown. For brilliant unconnected kids, it’s a total crap shoot to get into those schools. Kushners and Trumps can just waltz right in.

Fun fact: Nixon was not actually impeached. The articles were being drawn up when he suddenly resigned in disgrace. He preferred not to face the wrath of Congress.

The reason Sessions gave for firing McCabe was “lack of candor.” Lack of candor? Lack of fucking candor!? This coming from Jeff “I do not recall” Sessions is fucking rich. The coming from the administration of a guy who openly bragged about lying to Canada’s PM and not even being able to sell the lie.

We’re getting ready to watch the craziest constitutional shit storm in history. Firing the special prosecutor is what got Nixon impeached. However Republicans today are huge ass traitors and pussies and will just stand aside and let Russia continue to fuck our democracy.

Its an age discrimination violation to fire someone to screw them out of pension. He’s going to have to sue to get it but he’ll still get it. It’s pretty clear from administration talk aka tweets that this was primary if not sole reason

“Sanctimonious James Comey”

Cool, although if it’s the Gregory version, it probably won’t be historically accurate. Catherine was a formidable woman. I will say this for Henry VIII - most of his wives (other than Katherine Howard and perhaps Janr Seymour, although we don’t know that much about Seymour) were intelligent and/or accomplished.

I would watch the shit out of something good about Elinor of Aquitaine. Have you seen A Lion in Winter?

Sorry—Elizabeth is always interesting.

Not to mention the fact that Henry very nearly had her burned at the stake and she only managed to get out of it by pretending she really, really didn’t mean to try to teach him anything; she was just tying to distract from his sore leg.

So agreed. Would love if they did something on the Plantagenets!

Arthur was actually pretty sickly and underdeveloped. He was smaller at 15 (the time of the wedding) than his 10 year old little brother, Henry. He was premature by about 2 months. As well, puberty came later during that era.

I LOVE Anne of Cleves! And she really got the best deal of all the wives. Yeah he was a dick to her, but basically saying “Eh, go away and I’ll treat you as a cherished sister” was about as good as it got with asshole Henry. Catherine Parr too, at least she outlived him and got to go on and hook up with the man she…

She probably wears a lace halter top ball gown while having this idea too if that CW show is any basis to go on

I would love an Eleanor of Aquitaine series so much!

That’s basically how the book worked, if I remember correctly- Katherine consummates her marriage to Arthur and when he dies, decides to lie to retain her place in the English court and represent Spanish interests? Which makes no sense, frankly, since she was a DEVOUT Catholic and definitely believed she would be…

That sounds about right.

Catherine testified that the marriage was never consummated, but I think the marriage plot was brought up by all parties. Henry VII did not want to return her dowry, which he would have had to if she was sent home, so the next logical course was to have her marry his other son, Henry VIII (although Henry VII also…