It’s pretty common for abusive parents to single one child out and even have the other children participate in the abuse of that child adding to the secrecy and shame of it to keep them complicit in it.

So let me get this straight: The post in question wasn’t written by Kukla, but rather, someone from Kukla’s Clan?

Agreed. There are red flags and then there are dealbreakers. For me, the dealbreakers are things like out the gate saying something racist, misogynistic, or homophobic. Saying all the dudes on the app “look gay” would seal the deal for me. He at least was nice enough to not ghost her, but it was pretty obvious he…

This article is a little deceptive because you start midway through the text exchange, where he seems like he’s being cold and she seems like he’s being chatty. Start at the actual beginning, where she opens by text bombing him a bunch about how every dude on the app “looks gay”:

Really? He seems absolutely fine in this exchange. You can tell pretty early on that he got the crazy vibe from her crazy texts, so he backed off and was just hoking. He was never disrespectful and didn’t ghost her. He. . . seems fine?

Obama didn’t need a blind trust because he liquidated all of his previous investments and put them in index funds, which is also acceptable (and functionally equivalent in terms of eliminating conflicts of interest).

I don’t really get the point you’re making here. Simply making the statement that he will fire them if they do a bad job is already a directive in excess of what US government ethics laws generally require. You can’t even have a pre-existing relationship with the trustees.

That’s because her and her husband are joining his administration. As executive employees (as opposed to the President), they actually do have conflict of interest issues to worry about.

Every indication is that Melania is going to stay in New York for the time being and Ivanka is essentially going to serve in the…

“It’s because today, Conservatives have convinced a large number of people that liberalism means getting to use your preferred pronouns and arguing over who has the least amount of privilege.”

I have found this really, really bizarre disconnect with the Trump voters I spoke to personally that very much echoes this. “Well, I support gay marriage...Trump isn’t going to do anything to block gay marriage.” “I have Obamacare, but Trump won’t do anything to jeopardize that.” It’s absolutely mind-boggling the…

“That’s in part because they are fuckin’ idiots.” You are on the right track here, but it’s worse than that. Not all of them are idiots so much as they are delusional. They think all of what Trump is doing is an acceptable price to pay for not having a leader who’s personality they “didn’t like.” Already my…

Right?

It reminds me of Jonestown. It really, really does. Jim Jones was fucking baking his brain with drugs and was spiraling into madness and paranoia, and his hangers on just went on down that road with him. He couldn’t stand being told no. Couldn’t stand being questioned, or having to answer for the bad things he’d done.…

At this point, I wish this too. I genuinely think that Pence would be better, because I don’t think that Pence would get into a nuclear war over a few insults.

It’s stress, too. For the first time in his life, he’s being held accountable for the crap he says and does.

I know. Do you ever listen to him speak and think, “Well I must be dead and/or in the Twilight Zone because there is no way in hell this can be real.”

YES. This is why I was so taken with Lauren Duca’s response to Tucker Carlson badgering her in that well-publicized interview a few weeks back — she just laughed in his face. It deflates them like nothing else. And then you see the bully come out — hear Conway hissing “Not true! Unfair!” while Myers is speaking.

“That’s not true.”

Dumb bs? trump being blackmailed by the russians to be their puppet is dumb? Get out of here with that crap.

if it’s true that russia has been cultivating donald for five years, i see that as noteworthy and i’d like that to be further investigated. agree to disagree, i guess.