Yep and Claire McCaskill was leading the charge. She was so furious the left didn’t embrace her for re-election- after she called them loons and co-sponsored legislation to repeal Dodd-Frank. Then went on a press tour trashing AOC, and picked up a job on Morning Joe and completely papered over any idea that she might…

Feinstein isn’t a Boomer. She was born in 1933. Her daughter is a Boomer.

I read somewhere a long while ago that I wish I could recall that said something similar, “If men had to give birth then abortion would be a fucking sacrament.”

Seriously. I joined my school’s ecology club when I was 14. Our advisor was one of the Earth Science teachers. He showed us realistic videos, many of which PREDICTED what we’re seeing now. He took us to the local landfill, which is huge, and we took the tour. And we did little projects that probably don’t mean much in…

Right? It’s not even effort, just head in with a good heart and good intentions and the world is your oyster.

Awww poor kiddo. You handled it awesome. I have some hellacious burn scars on my upper chest that really are from a ridiculous cooking accident. Strangers don’t generally ask but I have had a few people be curious after I’ve got to know them. I now have the story and the pantomiming down perfectly to explain the story…

I very much agree with you. I was lucky because I was staying with a friend who lived in Paris, and once I’m around a language I start to pick up quickly, but am hopeless learning with apps and such. Though I spent every night for a month doing it before I went. I also knew from previous trips abroad that if you make…

i think some of the rude french stereotype comes from simple french pride. they are a proud people, and rightfully so. i think americans tend to forget that other civilizations have the right to be proud too, and the french have been around for more than 2000 yeards, depending on who you ask.

Yeah I had to do that, too as a teenaged gay-wad in the 90s in Louisiana and it was utterly miserable. I don’t think straight people can every really get how awful that is for people and it blows my mind that people even carry it to adult hood, marry/have children with a member of the opposite sex, etc.

Being straight

Bowman had been following her “at a close distance” when she entered the clinic, calling her a murderer, telling her that she would go to hell, and placing flyers on her arm or in her pocket after she declined to take them.

Its one thing to be tough and demanding but from the stories Ive heard, and maybe you can confirm, Koblucher’s chief sin is being completely erratic. That her staffers really never know what will set her off or when she might blow a gasket, leaving them with a feeling of walking on egg shells.

Yep. This is the problem

I agree. And I think it’s doubly bad that she hasn’t bothered to address it, even though it’s been a serious issue going back to her first Senate election (but likely longer). I’m sure she’s known before now that her managerial style is toxic, but the stakes haven’t been high enough for her to reckon with herself. And…

My abusive female bosses didn’t think so, either. For a good reason. People won’t touch them, male or female, because abuse is always buried and the victim is always abused when they speak up and then eventually booted out. My bosses, after gross misconduct and abuse toward me, both got PROMOTED to higher positions,…

But that’s the exact allegation - that she IS abusive. I used to work on the Hill and have heard it from her former staffers. She is belittling, demeaning, and uses public ridicule as a form of corrective guidance. 

No, sorry; calling out people in front of staff and humiliating them is not ok, ever. First of all, it’s unproductive. Second of all, I have never -as in never ever- seen this move from a boss as anything than what it was: an attempt to shift blame from themselves or their pets. It is a complete cunt move, whether…

I worked with her MN staff on various projects. Her former CM is out and started his own consulting firm. If he won’t go back, that tells me everything I need to know.

Giving men a pass and not giving Amy Klobuchar a pass for equivalent behavior is a double standard.

I think it’s a campaign-ender for Klobuchar. It wouldn’t necessarily be for other candidates, but Klobuchar’s entire appeal is that she’s Midwestern and folksy and nice. If she wants to survive, that has to come across as genuine. This not only destroys that appeal, it’s not just a one-time story, either—there are…