And why especially her since she was gay, right? She was just one of the boys!

Absolutely. Like so many here, this stuff is dregging up so much for me. I’m 42 and from around age 11 forward, again, like just about everyone here, I have these stories, some of which are only now dawning on me as being as traumatizing and damaging as they were. My family, school friends, teachers, boyfriends,…

I like that. To me his debate look is lower management guy on a return flight from a work-related trip to Vegas or maybe Reno, and he ate as much free food as possible and was highly impressed by all the free booze and beautiful, friendly girls out there and thinks life should be that way everywhere all the time.

I think you’re on the right track. This and probably what the tailor said about the fabric being too lightweight. Trump would just insist that the suit still be made and wouldn’t listen to reason, I’m sure. That hair “style” had some similar conversations, no doubt.

Yes, he’s always behaved like a nouveau, and that worked for him until Rosie O’Donnell reminded everyone that he wasn’t.

And yet, for a Bush, this would indeed be a shock: getting... “fired”?! (Ok, put on leave or whatever, but for being disgusting.) What is that? They don’t let that happen, they take their unemployment cases to the Supreme Court and throw shade via their Fox proxies. (Jesus, I’m so pissed, I remember when the Bushes…

For once I’m understanding the appeal of that style!

I instantly thought this too, especially as he comes from a family of immense privilege and it’s hardly a big deal to be hanging with a political candidate, but no doubt Billy did have some sort of bromance with Trump and that would speak to Trump’s alleged charm that he supposedly can turn on. The Bushes are so much…

I fully agree with you, I just meant that Trump’s true, racist self appeared in that answer, but yes, the man who asked didn’t get a satisfactory answer either and that line from SNL’s first debate where Trump says something like “all the blacks, they live on one street, in Chicago, it’s called Hell Street” that sadly…

Yeah, same here except I watched the debate and he didn’t do anything on camera to let on about much.

Was it getting the shaft or actually getting a remarkably honest answer from Trump? (Not that I don’t take your point, it’s somewhere between cruel and insane how racist and full of hate he is. The very fact that he’s actually a candidate is a giant fuck you to America, IMO.)

For real.

Yes, I let my massive dislike of Letterman cloud my thinking, and I might have fed a troll, too?

Oh c’mon, if we’re going to start using Trump as a yardstick then we are so screwed. While I don’t think it’s fair to judge anyone’s private life, I do hold Letterman’s clear misogyny and double standards against him. They were all over his TV show and how he treated his guests plus he was immensely powerful at CBS.

This was what I’ve been thinking, too. Throughout his career he attacked and shamed SO MANY FEMALE GUESTS (Jezebel or Gawker posted a Best of Letterman Talking Down to Women montage but I don’t have the stomach to try to find it, it was vindicating to see altogether though. My BFs, and a lot of people in my Gen-X…

Jesus, hate to say it, but I’d rather this guy were running for office than that foolish woman! Sure, he’s super stoned and incoherent, but what’s Sanchez’s excuse for her problems?

Based on that Miss Universe thing and how he treated other pageant contestants, that really would be perfect for him! It’s never been lost on me that an American man dated and married an Eastern European woman as his first wife, when those two cultures were widely different, that only his second marriage was to an…

Speaking of “show me the receipts”: Seeing her live performances I’m reminded that I always preferred Whitney and how I felt her best years were robbed thanks to her addictions. She had a timbre to her voice that Carey never had, and an inexplicable charisma, that later became a sort of self-caricature. I’m honestly…

I know, and she MADE all her money. She earned every bit of her own way to get on the TV (where she criticized him), to the comedy mic, and the movie screen.

If she’s fifty something that likely makes her a gen x-er, not a Boomer. Obama is a gen x-er, for a rough example of where that cut off is. So, questioning absolutely everything and not really subscribing to any philosophy would fit, actually.