I think so long as he has Steve Bannon in one of the most senior posts in the White House, he should probably be required to reiterate, on a daily basis, that despite all evidence to the contrary, he does actually think women, Jews, and non-white people are in fact human beings deserving of rights and respect.

That’s good to hear. He used to be so damn funny.

I think you’re probably trolling, but you know “being gay” isn’t a choice, right? Many gay people realize they’re gay when they’re children. Sometimes it takes longer. But they’re not deciding whether to be gay, they’re figuring out why they aren’t reacting to things in the way they’re expected to, or the way most of…

Have you read The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk? Very interesting technical explanations of why the speech centers of the brain sometimes shut down for people with PTSD. It’s a good book.

I don’t think anyone buys it, but it’s also not something you can argue with, because it’s generally true - it’s just not the only thing that is true. Like I had a cousin whose death certificate says he died of a heart attack. And it is true that he died of a heart attack, it’s just it was almost undoubtedly a heart…

At one point, I would have been thrilled to hear this, now I’m not so sure. Haven’t the reports of his recent stand up shows been that he’s mostly just ranty and petulant and not actually very funny? Did I dream that?

Yeah, I really can’t get with the subtle slagging on people who want to be optimistic or try to make positive changes in their life. Even if the result is someone who is annoying sappy, that’s not really something I want to discourage people from trying to do.

Any hints what is in this video for the non-Americans in the house? It’s xenophobic.

That would be the wrong answer.

While this is how it works, I still think that people who attribute any sort of strategic motive to his Twitter tantrums are giving President Business far too much credit. He behaves like a petulant toddler. It is not strategic, even when it somehow benefits him by distracting from more important issues. Anyone who…

Yes, exactly. Sometimes kids are wrong when they’re too scared to come out to their parents because they think the reaction will be negative, but more often if they’re out publicly and not at home, there is a very good reason for it. I have a friend who works with LBGTQ youth, and she said that, as young people start…

As someone outside of the US who had no opportunity to vote against Trump, or be persuaded not to out of complacency, but who also would always have voted regardless, I appreciated Wang giving me a couple more weeks of thinking I lived in a world where a majority of people aren’t so colossally stupid that they would…

I’ve been so confused seeing these reports everywhere for two reasons:

Definitely she’s made the mistake of sticking with the same eye makeup that was appropriate for her eyes before messing with them. Before, she had under-eye puffiness, and she used the eyeliner to define the eyes and distract from that. Now that she’s smoothed the under-eyes out, all of that eye liner just makes her…

Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s fillers that were used to smooth out under the eyes. All older pictures of her from childhood until fairly recently, she had slight under-eye puffiness. That’s gone now, but smoothing it out seems to have pushed the tissue upward, making it so she just can’t fully open her eyes any longer.…

Because misogyny, as pointed out, but also because narcissism.

They won’t be able to stop him, idiotic as it would be to turn Trump Tower into a fortress using tax dollars. But the Secret Service would control those renovations, and they would not make the building more commercially viable. At all. And I suspect that, if he insisted on living there, I feel like the Secret Service…

Counter-counterpoint - Ivana was actually a decent businessperson, which is why Donald resented her so much. And Ivanka seems to take after her mom much more than her dad. I don’t think she’s an excellent business-person, but she definitely has better business sense than her dad or brothers and if Trump Inc. is at all…

When I woke up the morning after the election and heard he had won I pulled the covers over my head, and said, “ugh - can I just go into a coma for the next four years and not have to watch how this plays out in real time?” All for fast-forwarding and hearing the cliffs notes version of this trainwreck.

I know, I know, I know all of that. Only I was at the university and, like a weirdo, had lunch with my dad and the people who accused him every day. He wasn’t harassing them. My dad isn’t perfect, he can be all sorts of dark, but he did not harass these people. They were not traumatized. They were gloating. That guy…