Debbie's still alive and, if I'm not mistaken, she and Carrie are very close and actually live next door to each other. There's a documentary about them and their relationship "Bright Lights" that's supposed to debut on HBO early next year.

On the upside, you won't be dying alone. Or maybe that's the downside. Damned if I know at this point.

I'm half expecting to wake up on Christmas morning to find out that Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Stevie Wonder, Betty White, Morgan Freeman, and John Lewis have all been taken away by this fucking year.

It's really amazing how closely the US and UK converged this year and in the worst ways.

I'm so sorry. Seeing similar situations is always very painful. As sad as I am to admit it, I'm not particularly optimistic for given what we're hearing.

Not really. Pence is evil but he's a banal, predictable evil we can fight and beat. Trump's insane, unstable, irrational, the figurehead of a lunatic cult of personality, and totally unfit in every conceivable way. We're talking the difference between a slingshot and an ICBM with a nuclear warhead. I don't want to get…

I knew somebody who had a massive heart attack at 27 and died. It's a lot rarer that young but it can happen to anyone really.

Exactly.

Exactly. Killing robots that won't fight back is boring for him now. Now that they're ready to fight for real, MIB will be all in against them. I can't wait to see his face when he realizes that Dolores is Wyatt.

I do kind of wish he'd chuckled and said "It's about fucking time."

Yeah, the Chinese can be super-sensitive but, I think the fact that they're keenly aware that Trump is a massive idiot might save us.

I agree but, I don't think that McKinnon is actually trying to play Conway herself as she is anymore. I think she's playing her as if she were any sane grown up being exposed to Trump's idiocy up close. She's basically playing her as the audience's surrogate in the sketches.

Arnold was either an eccentric genius with no social life or his background was the same as Bernard's. He had a wife and son but no other family. His son died young and it ripped he and his wife apart. So, no one in the outside world to miss him.

George W. Bush was a misguided privileged moron, not a complete and utter sociopath like Trump. Big difference.

His ego won't let him quit. He'll just sit in Trump Tower while Pence does all the work in DC.

I totally disagree. The right wing Republicans are predictable evil, we can fight against them because we know exactly what they're going to do and how unpopular it is. Plus, it's all policy based so it can be overturned.

Exactly. That's why Pence is preferable. The Nazis probably don't even know his name and he's way too conventional a pol to suck up to them.

No, he eats it. He loves junk food and is convinced it's cleaner and safer because of the giant corporate structure of mega-fast food chains. He also thinks he's less likely to be poisoned that way since no one at KFC or McD's knows who the food is for since he sends a flunky to get it.

Self-loathing misogyny. There is a very deep vein of sexism in America that women are culturally conditioned to buy into. Women who don't, are utterly shunned in certain communities.

Newton has been wonderful. I hope she gets an Emmy nom, she deserves it.