I hope you’re right, that Mattis will push back against this. I truly think he’s only there to protect the troops, and that serving under this administration is his penance for his 100-day push into Baghdad. You can see it whenever he has to sit next to Trump in any kind of ceremony, he loathes the man.

From what he’s saying, he’s had to structure his whole life, even his relationships, around avoiding invasive stalkers who follow his every move. He did his job well and moved on (like the most of the rest of the world) but he still has to look over his shoulder, for who knows how long. Maybe forever? That sucks.

Isn’t the Duke Lacrosse scandal also what motivated Stephen Miller to get into the alt-right/MRA community?

I’ve always loved her taste, she picks dresses that are sexy & on trend but also unique. She looks really happy in these pictures, I hope she had a kickass birthday.

Each and everyone of these sycophantic melonballs needs a face-to-face with April Ludgate.

Fair point but I do think they taught her to be a better leader. Before she met them, she was just going along with whatever was expected of her but by adopting their lifestyle, she was able to gain some agency and recognize her own value outside of being a wife or mother. Once she was in a position of leadership, she…

Maybe Gendry will pick him up?

I don’t trust this Grassley dude to really work to get to the bottom of this. I mean, not a single Republican blinked an eye when Trump said “I asked Putin about hacking and he said no, so case closed.”

Oh, and last thing - it really bothers me that Dany doesn’t have a Dothraki on her council. She’s planning to deploy them to fight for her, so why doesn’t she have at least one representative of their army in her war room? It makes them into tools instead of people, and after spending years with the Khalasar in one…

AND WHY HASN’T ED SENT A RAVEN ABOUT BRAN. This kinda thing just bugs me so much. Why have Bran show up in Episode 1 if Jon and Sansa don’t get to hear about him until Episode 3 or 4? He’s got so much information about Uncle Hotface-Coldhands (neé Benjen), Cousin Jon Targaryn and the Night King (who seems to do an…

Best one. I really want to see that movie - exactly the same cast & plot as the First Wives Club except they all are trained in the art of the blade.

Early reviews say the writing is pretty sharp.

Replace “Wife” with “Knife” and all these titles become really grim:

I think this is the right way to look at it. It’s not that he needs to lie, it’s that he chooses not to learn the truth. He thinks that if he never learns the details, he’s not culpable for whatever he believes.

Edit- sorry, replied to wrong comment!

Re: Dorian - I’ve thought the same thing about Kushner/Bannon:

You guessed it. My heart just melted when we met, you wouldn’t believe how sweet our relationship is!

I’m here in Minneapolis now and just want to say that the Somali community is so very, very important to this city. This is a true tragedy - obviously for the victim and her family but also for the city at large that is genuinely working to come together. We are made up of Native Americans (Lakota and Ojibwe mostly)…

I’m so sad that this actually gives me a tiny, itty-bitty flicker of something. Not quite hope but kinda...less-despair? Is it possible he’s capable of maintaining any of these positions and if so, can he influence Trump in any discernable way?

True story, I dated a guy who lived down the street from the ice cream truck depot in the West Village. Around 5pm, every summer evening, they all roll out as an adorably coordinated sugar-fueled cheer army. The jingles were always delightful because even though they were loud, they just sound like happiness.