At the risk of being shouted down, and possibly rightfully so, I actually think maybe this gory and shocking version may have been the best way to go. While watching I’d expected the King to ask the Queen to make the choice and didn’t see the point in having him make that choice, but apart from character development I…

But when the delivery is afflicted with complications and Viserys must choose between saving Aemma’s life or the male baby’s, he chooses his son, ordering nurses to restrain his wife as they cut her open to “save” the baby that will die the next day.

I am not saying Olivia is right or wrong, but when I was getting divorced I knew my husband was going to serve me with papers. I was mortified about being served at school or work. So I just had them delivered to my lawyer’s office and I picked them up myself. I know they were not married, but I imagine she could have…

It’s really telling that she’s doing a lot of handwringing about her children “because they’ll have to see that,” when she is literally the only one of the two children’s parents who has spoken publicly in a disparaging way about the other.
I think a kid is far more likely to have difficulty processing a) reading an…

“Personally, I’m particularly interested in Pugh’s poignant refusal to post about the film on her Instagram. To be a fly in that panicked PR room!”

And this debt relief also includes a new cap on the monthly payments for those in income-based repayment plans. The old cap was 10% of your monthly discretionary income, and the new cap is at 5%, meaning that for a lot of people, their payments got cut in half. And the debt relief includes a provision for income-based…

Sudeikis didn’t serve the papers. 

This is like the 985th person in an email storm replying all and mocking the 984th person who reply alled before them.

An estimated 20 million will be debt-free at the end of this.

Exactly! I’m 40, make $100k and this will wipe out my remaining loans. That’s a lot of money I can now use to make much-needed fixes to my home. A lot of my friends can now save that $10k and maybe buy a home, or pay off other debt. This puts us so much closer financially to our friends who didn’t have student debt.

Exactly. I’m 42, I make $75k/year and I’m divorced with three children; I have $30,000 in student debt - this would knock out a third of it. That is HUGELY meaningful to me.

I’m not sure I understand the distinction. How do you focus on the act without calling the actor out? If someone does things that are racist, they are a racist. I’m not trying to be obtuse, but my first thought when I read your comment was that you were implying we should denounce the things she did, but that she…

The average student debt load in the U.S. is around $28,000. $10-20K in forgiveness for people making under $125k isn’t a panacea, but it’s a step forward.

No clue what you’re going on about. Holding a mock Juneteenth party and posting racist comments with a vile Twitter alternate persona are actions. Imagine being so racist that you need to create a “parody” social media account to mock black people. That’s a lot of effort. A lot of action.

Don’t underplay this.

Yep Trump literally said “I like soldiers who don’t get captured” about an actual American POW and no one blinked. These zealots only care about the facts that fit their narrative and not actual soldiers or America. 

Ten years ago, I’d say you were right. But I worry that the whole own-the-libs-at-all-costs mentality of these people would even cover stolen valor garbage like this. The inability to admit that their guy made a mistake, lest it bring up all the other mistakes, kind of defines these GOP cults of personality these days.

For Republicans, nothing happens as long as they scream “SUPPORT OUR TROOPS” loud enough. Have you not been watching the last 30 years? Trump said avoiding VD was his Vietnam, and that was not his downfall.

You can’t trade something the other person gets for free and probably doesn’t want. Rodman travels there willingly. :)

Can we possibly trade Rodman to get Griner back?  You think Putin would fall for that one?