It sort of dovetails with Trumps statements in Saudi Arabia last week, which boil down to, “Do what you want with your citizens, we just want your money.”

My mom would’ve chosen someone ‘stable’ above all else. I think she’d deliberately have chosen someone with no desire to travel or take risk because she thought I was absolutely reckless (I mean, she wasn’t wrong). She would’ve preferred to do this early to keep me close to home. And one that wanted kids. I’d probably…

It’s true it could have fuck all to do with Trump. It could just be the Chinese government cracking down on humanitarian investigators as they periodically do. It’s quite possible no one on Trump’s team asked, even indirectly for these arrests.

Huma. Honey. He’s not good for you. He’s not good for your son. You haven’t failed, I promise. You are doing what is best for your family. Don’t let him back in.

While I agree that it is not atypical of the way China has protected its image at home and overseas by taking unusually corporal methods, the fact that it was an investigation into a Trump family member’s business likely did figure into whatever decisions were made about how to react. I am not saying nothing would…

It’s terrible that the United States has turned a blind eye towards human rights violations when we were supposed to be the stewards.

Please everyone, be calm.

I think it’s less the name but more the “business value” and Trump is now likely high on that list admittedly.

I’m sure this is standard operating procedure for China. But I would also guess that any factories related to Trump enterprises are at the top of the ‘protected’ list.

Color me shocked that this happened shocked I say!

Well, you know, this isn’t suspicious at all.

Hell yes. I love my mother, but she’s deeply anti-intellectual and my major assertion of freedom was the (suspect) move to university in my twenties. We have very little in common with our worldviews—and she has disastrously terrible taste in men, from my father onwards. She has never chosen a man for herself who…

He would also, in all likelihood, be extremely conservative, a closeted misogynist (the polite sort who talks to you as if you were a child, whenever you disagree with any of their worldviews) and somebody who would not think my jokes are funny, being so busy taking himself seriously and all.

Ugh, I can’t imagine what kind of horror show of a man my parents would choose for me. My father would probably insist on picking a “good Christian” for me, the atheist. My mother’s idea of attractive certainly doesn’t align with mine at all. Yuck, I can’t imagine having to sleep with someone I wasn’t attracted to.…

That was one of my first thoughts, too. Had my (middle-to-upper class white Middle-European) parents selected my mate, I would be married to someone with a good education, a profession of a certain status, and with an interest in the arts. He would also, in all likelihood, be extremely conservative, a closeted…

My parents were very conservative first generation Italian-Americans. Neither finished high school. Both expected me to stay one until Married. Since I started trying to run away from home at age 7, that wasn’t going to happen! I got to college because they didn’t have to pay much (back in the days of nearly free…

Ivanka looks the way she does from plastic surgery. May have to reconfigure your percentages.

She’s the only one I kind of feel bad for, besides Barron. My dad was a deadbeat, too. He’s poor and a nobody, and I still wonder what I could have done to be good enough for him. Imagine what it’s like being the daughter of a rich moron who abandoned you and then became president. You wouldn’t know which way was up.

I can’t star this enough. It’s like the idiot in the horror movie who is decidedly on their way to safety and decides to fucking turn back for some dumbass reason.

Good God, woman, you were the one that got away! Your mom literally ran until she hit the ocean to keep you away from the all-rotting radioactive aura that is Klan Dump! Why in the name of all the saints are you thirsting with such fervor for approval from this morally bankrupt horror show of…