OMG the crazy eyes, this woman’s eyes are terrifying.

Yeah, I wondered if what was really going on is that they’re Hillary supporters who want Carly to win the GOP primary.

I agree. As a person with an academic background in 20th century German history, it’s very frustrating to me that the habit of Godwinning so many situations that don’t actually merit any sort of Hitler/Nazi comparison and are just using the Nazis as a stand-in for “evil in general” makes it harder for us to use Nazi…

ALL THE STARS FOR THIS COMMENT. This child died of the grotesque cruelty of the American system.

SO TRUE. Americans who haven’t lived abroad tend only to see that ACA is better than what came before, and not to see that the US healthcare system remains horrific compared to every other rich country.

How was her work-life balance?

Also it’s a total lie. Having been told since high school that I had child-bearing hips, I foolishly believed they would give me some sort of edge in childbirth. Nope. After a horrible 36 hours of back labor and a failed attempt to suck the kid out with the vacuum, I ended up with an emergency C-section because, hey,…

If it’s really because of her looks that she restricted her diet during pregnancy, my concern for the baby would be not so much that she was born at 5.5 pounds as the prospect of the mother restricting the child’s diet in unhealthy ways to make sure the child also meets the mother’s standards of thinness (my MIL and…

Yep, and you also can’t win re how big you are. Within a 24-hour period somewhere around week 20 I went from receiving unsolicited comments that I sure didn’t look pregnant, was I sure that I was eating enough, surely something was wrong with my baby, etc., to receiving unsolicited comments that I was much too big for…

With placenta accreta — which Kim has had with both pregnancies, and which is a very serious, potentially life-threatening complication — it’s often medically necessary to give birth early.

Don’t know any of the Jackass guys personally but I lived in the West Chester area as a teenager and just wanted to say that area in general is haunted af.

So. True. Until I birthed Lil’Fur at the age of 30 I was frequently mistaken for a high school student. My face aged about 20 years in the first few years of his life, and I now look probably a few years older than my real age.

At the very least, the rich need to fear the prospect of a massive uprising so they can understand why they’re not doing themselves any long-term favors by pushing maximum inequality.

A significant number of them are people who mistakenly believe themselves to have personally experienced poverty in the past. They don’t understand the difference between “broke” and “poor.” As Barbara Ehrenreich says in Nickel&Dimed, a lot of people imagine poverty to be just an austerity budget. They really don’t…

Yep, it’s super uncanny when you realize that the bone structure they all have is identical to your own.

My preferred look is an odd combination of specific but not racially specific. I’m pretty much only into tall, skinny dudes with black hair and glasses, but they can be Latino tall skinny bespectacled dudes, black tall skinny bespectacled dudes, white tall skinny bespectacled dudes, etc.

Yeah, that’s why I exempted Maine and NH from what I said. Maine is a hillbilly tea party hellhole with a deranged far-right governor.

Yeah, Maine is the worst. The VT police racial profiling is terrible, but big city police (NYPD, Baltimore, etc) do super racist shit too. I’m not saying it isn’t terrible, I’m saying isn’t specific to rural places or red states. On Take Back VT, I concede your point. Those people were indeed awful in a specifically…

Yes, it will be briefly a wild shitshow, then underwater.

Rural vs. urban except for the-parts-of-New England-that-aren’t-New-Hampshire-or-Maine. Our proximity to Canada and lack of religion keeps even our rural voters relatively sane.