I don’t have a cross word to say about his woman.She was that kooky lady with a wide smile and infectious energy.

Exactly: it’s *really easy* to not be famous anymore. You just have to (1) stop publicly doing the thing you’re famous for, and, for the very famous, move somewhere that’s not LA, (and the more ultra-famous, the more rual from there; Harrison Ford seems to do OK in his mountain lair, for example, and he’s still making…

Not to mention: at ANY point before or after admitting guilt, he could have attempted to stop his horde from attacking his accusers.

If they're just going to give someone $69 million for being bad at hosting a talk show they could give it to me. I mean I haven't tried it or anything but I'll take the money and I know I would be awful on television.

The guy that hired her should be fired.  He was clearly not thinking with the right brain.  On bright side usually if forced to pay out contract that also means she isnt allowed to be on TV for remainder of that period so a year or so of no Kelly will be quite a nice vacation.

I can.

Whipping his dick out was bad enough, but he also actively tried to ruin the careers of those women and anyone who tried to report on it as well. People don’t talk about that enough. Like so much fucking hand-wringing over a guy’s “ruined reputation” and literally nothing about the reps of all the women he crushed…

“And I really can’t see the Garofalo of the early 90s - the alt comic feminist - allowing a comic of that generation to skate so easily if they’d done something like that to her.”

Look, I get standing up for a friend. But compare this to what Marc Maron said about C.K., also longtime friends. He had asked C.K. privately about the (at the time) rumors and Louis said they weren’t true. When C.K. admitted to the behavior, Maron said on the podcast that Louis had straight up lied to him and fuck…

I’m also completely fed up with the contempt so many people have for the older female politicians who have been working for decades. There seems to be a paradox of younger women saying getting older is cool and wishing they had mentors, and then also telling older women that only young firebrands have the answers.

They are setting her up to fail when she isn’t able to ram through anything she wants. When this happens, she will lose her support and that will be the end of her. Look at Obama, the moment he wasn’t able to magically change everything, people abandoned him in the midterms, making further progress that much more…

100% agree. The all or nothing and I’ll burn the place to the ground approach is the bullshit that got us where we are now.

I have a wild idea that it’s connected to a yearning for an easy fix, much like some Christian ideas of Jesus-as-Santa-Claus.

THANK YOU. This exactly. It’s actually a little distressing that we are so obsessed with putting AOC up on a pedestal, from which she will of course fall when she inevitably doesn’t live up to Perfecting Everything Immediately. This is some pretty mild criticism from colleagues she needs on her side, and we’re already…

I have a long posting history that’s consistent with my stances. Calling anyone who you disagree with “tomato” is disingenuous; actually engage with what I’m saying.
And yes, they are elected officials, who were elected based on certain promises and stances. Should they abandon the people they represent, who might or…

One of the big disappointments in the US system, for me, is this unrelenting need to find the next big hero who is going to fix everything. The It Girl or Boy of the moment who says all the right things and there’s a collective swoon - and the same is true of the Villain of the Moment. To watch it occur, over and over…

I really like AOC’s policies, but the response of her colleagues seems pretty human; haven’t most of us been annoyed at a new coworker who shows up with grand ideas (that are potentially great and wonderful!) and starts pushing for them without even getting a sense of how those ideas might have failed in the past, or…

I hear you. I’m not condemning her, just that decision. She explained herself pretty thoroughly in the post, about rebellion and being provocative and all. I get that. Even recording a song, I can potentially understand, like you can be in separate rooms, or not even in the same city and record things. It just sucks…

Don’t romanticize this too much. There’s a big chance she can still hear Jared Kushner’s voice. 

Oh, yes, God, peace and quiet at last!