I agree. I hope that it picks up after the holidays. I suspect that people are just suffering from Trump fatigue syndrome. Also, since so many people are permanently greyed even though they are good commenters, I wonder if they just gave up and left finally.

Awesome! I also got divorced from The Other Asshole, I feel like I finally hit my stride in my career, and I went on a vacation with a boyfriend who I love and he loves me and he treats me respectfully. I have a 13 yo daughter who still likes me, for the most part, and I have the strongest female friendships in my…

See, this is a healthy perspective. Global politics suck, but your life is your life. People need to ask themselves, if we didn’t have the internet to feed us bad news, would that change our opinions on 2017? I got my drivers license at 30 after a decade of fear. I traveled to Italy having never flown. I went out on a…

Congrats that sounds like an awesome year! Also - are you me but with slightly different timelines? :D I got into the best shape of my life this year as well (and quit smoking! Yay me!) and did a lot of work generally and specifically on figuring out what I want to do with my life. As a result I’m moving abroad in…

I agree. I got married, started a new job with great benefits, and took steps towards getting healthy for the first time in years. 2017 sucked for the country, but I’m not going to ignore all of the good things that happened in my life. I’m going to celebrate the wins and hope that 2018 is even better.

My year has been really great, too, personally at least. Our lifestyle and finances and health have been fantastic.

I’m with Taylor. 2017 has been great for me personally. I moved abroad, found a great new job, made some amazing new friends, turned 30, travelled a bunch, got in the best shape of my life, and have been just generally living my best life. Donald Trump is making the world an actual nightmare, and that sucks every day,…

I’m so fucking bored for this hate-on for Taylor Swift. She’s neither feminist role model or emblem of evil. She had a good year this year. People are allowed to have those! Call me when she hits someone with her car.

Ah! Now we’re policing gratitude? What?! Are you that dense?

Remember last year when there was a commenter that kept complaining about people who said “fuck 2016"? Good times.

Who wrote this apology for you, Matt Lauer?

Your comment is extremely upsetting to me. I know nothing of Lauer’s kids but I don’t wish this upon any child. Finding out, along with the world, that your father is a preditor is probably very upsetting and difficult. I could not imagine being in his shoes. My empathy for the kids does not take away one ounce of…

From one perspective, it’s very funny. If I fast forward the scene, I feel really sorry for the kid, because I suspect Lauer is not one of those people who’d be able to stay firmly in the parental role of comforting his child.

To be honest, I was avoiding it because I got “too twee” vibes from the trailer. Maybe I’ll check it out then admit I was wrong!

And a wall between us and Mexico has zero effect on Egyptian security.

Because the people that support him do not believe:

Best day would be when all 320 million Americans get free healthcare, free college education, Food stamps and free housing. That would really be “The Good Place”.

Uh, also can you call it an apology if he never, not once said he was sorry but did find a way to talk about how admired he is twice?

I don’t get the PRAISE for this apology that I am seeing here, there and everywhere on social media. CK issued a good apology because he was already outed, after years of gaslighting the public about these “ridiculous!!!!” claims and maybe blacklisting a woman comedian who said they were true? Fuck all that noise.…

It would have taken you 30 seconds to fact check that her mother killed the guy, and it was in self defense.