Props to you for staying strong and setting boundaries. I think one of the hardest aspects of making the decision to distance yourself from a loved one is having to listen to other people try to encourage you to “let it go” or “forgive and forget.” That’s just not realistic when the other person will continue to hurt…

I hate how people get so indignant if you dare to speak ill of your parents, as if they know your life or something.

I had moved away from home at 18, and called my dad regularly, on my own, unsubsidized-by-him, I might add, long-distance dime. After a year of this, I thought to myself: ‘well, if he really wants to talk to me, I’m sure he’ll call me.’

!!!***EXACTLY***!!!

The part that really resonated with me was his daughter saying it would have been nice to have everyone’s concern when she was a child. I remember so many times being told my abusive mother was “a saint” and wondering what was wrong with me.

“I am happy for those that simply do not understand, this means you had good parent(s)”

Reading that was cathartic and I empathize with the daughter. I was abused as a kid and I’m currently trying to negotiate and grapple with both loving my parents and being angry with them. They pretty much refuse to acknowledge the damage and hurt they inflicted and just deflect and guilt trip. It is not helpful when…

WaPo went into some detail about it. The NSC drafts a detailed review for all the phone calls with foreign diplomats - he apparently ignores them because they’re too wordy and relies on simple questions to his inner circle. None of whom know jack shit about policy

Negotiating tactic? Do you really believe that he has comprehensive knowledge but is being coy for the purpose of better negotiations? Because he looks like a guy who can barely figure out how to tie his own fucking shoes.

Not all Americans and not even the majority of those voting. The folks that voted for him see loudness and brashness as leadership and they really hate people that aren’t like them that much. That and they will believe anything as more than a dollop of fear is communicated along the way.

Like you said, you’re not American.

Hello. I’m not American. Can someone tell me why America thought it was a good idea to make a functionally illiterate man with severe personality disorders the President of the United States of America?

This is the truly scary part. Trump can be gotten rid of (if he doesn’t blow himself out of the water first) but these tens of millions of alarmingly stupid assholes are not going anywhere. Decades of church and propaganda and talk radio have made them proud of being ignorant and mean- how do you reverse that?

Hell no they haven’t. Most of the republican base, with the exception of internet troll/frog posse, have stuck their heads in the sand. They only popup long enough to cry about people protesting and how it interrupts their Facebook cat videos. Why can’t you just be happy for us, they whine. No. Most of them have moved…

Wait, you keep hearing that? They’re aware of the executive orders, right? The disastrous calls to foreign leaders?

Well, uh, if the world is still there after this disaster is over, maybe we will have enough political capital to push through a “no inexperienced rich fucks allowed to run for President” amendment. (And one establishing abortion as a fundamental human right, of we’re at it.)

Remember when everyone was worried about a vast oil conspiracy in the Middle East being carried out by the Hawks (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz) who were pulling W’s strings during his Presidency?

I keep hearing, “Why are people mad, he hasn’t even actually done anything.” Not true, and if the moves he has already made are this bad, I can’t imagine what idiotic moves he will be making when the heat is really on. These people are in such denial.

That there are still people who think he’s doing/will do a good job is astounding to me. He’s failing worse than I could have imagined.

I wonder if it’s going to dawn on him that he’s never going to “enjoy” anything about his life again (assuming he ever enjoyed anything). If he keeps occupying the office of President, he’s going to keep fucking up (only on a progressively larger scale) and getting rightfully shit on by (at least) 60% of the country…