Yeah, I’m convinced that Trump is simply incapable of the basic analysis required to understand what Hewitt was asking of him.

Bartending when I was 20 (yup, at that time you could serve, but couldn’t drink) was probably the funnest job I’ve ever had. I like what I do now (finance), but it’s not “fun” in the same way. If I left my current work, I’d probably bartend again, if they’d hire someone 49 years old.

Trump: Obama and Hillary created ISIS

You’re right- we do have a Puritan streak as a society. That said, the issue here really is (or should be) honesty rather than sexual fetishism. If Huma had come out two years ago and said, “Anthony and I have discussed his desire to send sexual tweets to other adults when not at work, and I’m fine with it,” perhaps…

I actually think a political couple (on the democratic side) could survive if they came out and said- without much drama- that they were in the lifestyle (swinger). There would be a bit of media flurry, perhaps, and then it would die down.

Exactly, which is why that those who seek therapy usually are not the ones with particularly serious mental health issues.

Therapy doesn’t work on some people. If you don’t have basic self awareness, or the desire to get better, you’re shit out of luck. Trump’s shit out of luck.

I kind of think if a friend or neighbor were that sick, a perceptive person would pick up on some kind of signal.

It used to be easier, when most Jews were either recent immigrants or the children of recent immigrants. There was a more distinct Jewish “look,” somewhat comparable to what you’d find in the southern Italian communities of Providence, New York, etc. However, with so much intermarriage over the past 50 years, as well…

“The New York Times reports that Gao, 52, led an apparently peaceful life: He once worked as a migrant laborer before opening a grocery store. He had two sons with his wife, with whom he apparently liked to take ballroom dancing.”