At least the memes will be positive...

I dunno, telling me 10 seconds before you attack me, when there is no way for me to get away, doesn’t mean the attack won’t upset me. I really don’t think, “btw, Maria, we’re going to rape you with butter now... ACTION!” makes it any better.

Sprung in a way, then, she knew in advance but not far enough in advance to do anything about it. Poor woman.

That’s also what I read. That they told her about the addition right before the scene was filmed, and she was put on the spot, as a young actress just starting her carrier, whether she would go along with it, or “be difficult” and refuse.

“Oh shit! People are mad, I better walk this back. So even though I specified that Brando and I deliberately nonconsensually assaulted an actress just so I could film a real human’s sexual humiliation instead of a character’s sexual humiliation . . . let’s make this about condiments.”

Translation: Don’t be mad at me and tarnish my legacy!

He’s sorry his locker room butter was offensive.

Yeah folks, the great man has spoken. Nothing to see here. Let’s move on. Clearly Scheider, as a woman, cannot be trusted on this.

correct. a ridiculous misunderstanding between your concept of consent and reality.

Democracy requires that people are literate in democracy and invested in democracy. If people don’t believe their participation matters or if they don’t understand how the system works, the system is vulnerable to authoritarianism. Someone can walk in and make absurd promises, and if the number of disenfranchised…

I was 8 when my sister was born, and they asked if I’d like to cut the cord. I said no, it felt weird. Also, when my daughter was born, they asked my husband if he wanted to cut the cord and he felt weird about it and only did it because everyone was expecting him to. It’s a weird thing in general I think. So is …

Are we not counting “receives emoluments from foreign governments” as a Constitutional crisis? That’s not even an amendment, that’s right there in the job description.

I don’t think it’s a binary thing. It is a democracy, it’s an oligarchy, it even has has residual new deal socialism hanging on by a thread, and (not but) it’s also a hyper-capitalist state that has seen corporate capture at the highest levels of government over the past few decades. That doesn’t erase its democratic…

“These people believe this country is a democracy. It’s not,” Carreras, the dapper Wall Streeter and failed politician, said, referring to the Green Party and its allies. “It’s a constitutional republic.”

And I will never get over this.

She’s definitely trying to clean up her reputation, with one eye on progressives and one eye on history. I’m not saying she was responsible for Orange Mussolini but she was.

Enjoy the (relatively) good vibes you are receiving now, Jill. On January 21, 2017 you will return to being a shitty footnote to this shitty election.

The whole fucking world is moving to the right, but who is remaining beacons of liberalism? Germany and Austria.

I know, right? Fucking Austria.

You seem surprised Donald Trump has no time for intelligence.