How the fuck could that possibly be not your property though?? Your balcony is PART OF YOUR APARTMENT. There is no way off of a balcony besides over and/or down. That is imprisonment inside a dwelling. Locking her out of the apartment would qualify as removing from property. How fucking stupid is this judge?

I think Trump is best described as “stupid but grasping” and also “lazy but obsessive.” It’s honestly all so strange. I think his old man must have been off the charts cunning and Trump learned from him how to see an advantage and grab it and not let go, but at the same time he is too shallow and impulsive to ever see…

I’m in Australia and the jury were out for 4 days deliberating. One question they returned to ask the judge was whether someone being moved to the balcony counts as removing them from your property. The judge said yes. A second question was whether language counts as force. The judge said no. I have a feeling these 2…

Maybe it’s a cultural or social class thing? I’m pretty sure none of the kids I knew growing up or my cousins were planned, nor was I, and none of us assumed we were. Where I come from, kids just happen, and parents were making various degrees of effort at playing defense. Doesn’t mean the children were unwanted, just…

I’m not doubting you, but I really am interested to see the lit on this so would you mind dropping a link or suggesting an author to look at? That genuinely surprises me, as the grandkid of staunch Kennedy Democrats who raised dyed in the wool Democratic kids (and by extension grandkids) too.

The devout Catholics I know tend to be single-issue voters on abortion.

It’s mostly abortion

They’ve changed that much since the Kennedy era in the US? I had no idea.

God, I remember in that election people were like “this is so important, this guy is a terrible and should never be president.” In retrospect, that was kind of cute. I mean, it’s good that Romney never became president, but we didn’t even know how bad a bad candidate could be. Romney was just a rich guy who was out of…

The Melania joke was funny until he insisted she stand up. She was sitting on a dais next to Cardinal Dolan and Hillary Clinton—after making a joke about her, it seemed cruel to me to make damn sure everyone saw her.

Considering the event is for the archdiocese, most of the monied guests must be Catholics and Catholics, as people, usually lean left no matter how far to the right the Church’s ideology is. If this was a fundraiser for a Protestant or Evangelical institution, then he’d be neck deep in Republicans.

Nit happy to hear he got away with humanizing himself a little at the wife’s expense. No fan of Melania but can’t get on board with that dynamic given all that’s transpired to showcase his predatory narcissism and misogyny.

Romney, yes. Bush Jr. was really, really terrible. I don’t know what Trump would get us into, but Bush was an idiot surrounded by a pack of evil lizard people. So, so many of our nation’s problems began with him. The aw-shucks attitude doesn’t change the fact that he completely destroyed our economy and the…

Run this time, you mean. He’s been convinced he’d be the best President ever since the 1980s, and has run 3 previous times dating back to 1988. This is just the first time a party has had enough absolute moron voters in it to give him a nomination.

He was cleared of all charges.

Bleah.

It can be all three.

I’m going to miss these memes.

Trump is functionally stupid. No matter how bright he may be (dim, in my opinion), if you don’t use your intelligence, don’t read, don’t listen, and don’t try to learn, you are stupid.

Really? I like Biden but I think he would be too easily goaded into a name calling contest with Trump. I have a lot of issues with Hillary on a policy level but I don’t think there’s anyone better to face Trump. She’s the most level headed person I’ve ever seen and since Trump’s misogyny seems to have been one of the…