I think we have a winner.

Deportation would be fun.

This movie is so good. It would have been so easy to make secondary characters shallow and have supporting roles only and instead everyone is their own person with rich and complex back stories that influence how they act/react in their interactions with Jess.

Especially since its so ceremonial anyway - they have planners and decorators and event coordinators who do the actual work and planning, so why make the first person go through a silly and useless process of approving the minutia of those tasks?!

The spouses of leaders in other countries manage to maintain jobs and lives with little additional cost or high level of protection - while there are definitely unique factors in the US that mean the wife of the President might not be as anonymous, I’m sure they’d be seeking ways to make it as no n-disruptive as…

He doesn’t need to steal the election, he can just create four years of such chaos and disorder and ‘resistance’ from the Right that not only does a Biden presidency get nothing done, but that the conservative agenda is advanced. If that happens successfully, it will be a GOP lead country potentially for many more…

Oh, agreed.

Who would have predicted that?

Dahl’s writing is pretty much cruel, rude and often grotesque across the board.

I assumed they meant “the Witches as described and depicted in the book” are monsters (because they are). 

And as an Australian, our elections are run by an independent commission.

And only the very brave decide that they want to open that door, and feel everything that our brain — in its tireless attempts to ‘protect’ us — had sealed away seemingly for good.

Melatonin. Get a script for a 2mg+ dosage or it might be available over the counter for you.

I think even just learning to feel things full stop can be an incredibly necessary act - at least for me! With a narcissistic mother and abusive childhood, I learnt early to just compartmentalise and not show emotion, and it doesn’t take long before that turns into suppressing and not feeling those emotions - I’m back…

Trump has fans as far away as Australia :( 

My understanding is that while she isn’t fluent, she does understand it and is conversational... Given she’s fluent in like, 3 languages, being condescended to about that feels pretty gross, regardless of intent.

He’s a super wealthy member of a for profit organisation - of course they bent their rules for him.

Exactly. 

I don’t care that she couldn’t talk off the cuff, but I am shocked that law school didn’t teach her to have talking points prepared...

As I tell clients and colleagues - never put anything in writing, that you aren’t comfortable being read out in a deposition.