What was he trying to get from that employee? I genuinely don't think the man ever has honest, off-the-cuff conversations.

It isn't about crossing a line. I'm not defending him. I'm articulating the kind of slime I think he is—the kind who believes nothing but himself and will appear to be whatever it benefits him to appear to be while leaving wiggle room to deny it. So the racists, the non-racist conservatives, the people sick of…

It's not about kidding (I own Flood, btw). It's about not meaning what you say and not giving a damn how you are perceived if it gets you what you want.

I think I did: when it comes to Trump, it is specifically what he says and the audience he's pitching to that matters. With another person, I might agree with your "walks like a duck, talks like a duck" evaluation. But I think he's cagier than that. I know everyone thinks he's stupid. When it comes to manipulating one…

Most people put stock in good genes. I wonder who he was trying to woo or alienate with his comment about blacks.

What he's doing is amoral, but it isn't racist, and the distinction is important because he uses comments like that to get arguments going, create division and profit from it. It's a means to an end, and seeing that—rather than believing he truly believes in white supremacy or believes in anything other than…

None of that is racist/anti-Semitic. Saying you want Jewish people in charge of tour money when many, many Jews are in fact good with money, and Jewish culture involves him highlight ing that gift isn't anti-Semitic. It is stupidly stereotypical. As is his comments about blacks. And he probably said it in the first…

You're certainly a slime if you do that, and Trump certainly had and is

None of that is explicitly racist. It's crass and rude. You can read racism into it, but it isn't explicit, so we don't know.

He routinely says stupid things, like the "beautiful monuments" crap. Don't know that he clearly makes any racist comments. Oddly, all the people who tried to talk me into voting for Trump in real life were Muslims (one of the college systems I work in has a large international population).

Remember when Bill and Hillary went to Trump's wedding and smoozed with him? I do.

I do. I admired him for it.

Trump is a lot of bad news, but I don't think he's an anti-Semite. He probably thought he was calling Stewart out as a phony, not for being Jewish. I don't think he could have thrived in the New York business world if he was anti-Semitic. Doubt he's a racist, either. I think he's an opportunistic jerk who will take…

It sounded abysmal before I actually saw it. Then I had my Damascus experience.

It is seriously frustrating what a good movie is possibly hiding in there. Guccione took it away from Tinto Brass and just fucked it up. You can see one clever visual gag in the trailer (the bath of the Isis worshippers is in the shape of the goddess, when seen from above), another in the "restored" cut (Caligula…

I'm sorry. :(

Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds—The New Generation.

Does he know he re-tweeted a Nazi? Does the message contain Nazi sentiments?

Don't know if you'll be checking back here again, but responding to Brienne's comment, Bewitched did essentially the same episode, and that sitcom is saluted as a female-positive, gay-positive series.

FFS, Bewitched did essentially the same episode. "Women drivers" was a comic trope, like "helpless manchild dad."