The really bizarre thing is that Qatar hosts the most important US military base in the region, specifically so we wouldn’t have to keep negotiating with the Saudi’s for use of their facilities. Trump supporting the Saudi coalition and pointing at Qatar is literally undermining American interests.

Al-Udeid AB is massive and isn’t going anywhere. That place was a MAJOR investment for both the US and Qatar in the early 2000's and it’s primary function was to get out of having to deal with the Saudi’s for use of their facilities. I’m pretty sure no matter what Trump says publicly the US military is going to keep…

And it’s there, and not in Saudi Arabia, because we removed our base from Saudi Arabia after 9/11. Which is the outcome Osama bin Laden wanted - he launched 9/11 to protest US military presence on the land of the Prophet’s birth.

And because lol nothing matters:

Sexism, too. My daughter is 9 years old, just finished fourth grade and she told a boy off for snapping her bra strap and he told her he can do anything he wants to her because the president said it’s okay—girls have to let him.

I had never actually wanted to punch a child in the face before until the day she came…

Exactly! Has he even thought about how that base factored into this dispute with Qatar? I highly doubt it. I mean, Saudi Arabia already got a boat load of money out of us so why not move on to screwing with our military operations next?

I am not being a shithead, either -Does it have to be a specific policy for kids from an extremely marginalized community with a horrific past and present of suffering genocide, forcible removal, rape, cultural ethnocide, extreme poverty, etc. to be legitimately scared of a general, burgeoning atmosphere of hate,…

The president, on Twitter, has loudly picked sides in a dispute between a Saudi Arabian-led coalition and Qatar, the latter who Trump claimed—again, via Twitter—was funding extremism.

I love how he wants Qatar isolated for alleged ties to terrorism, yet is totally cool with Saudi Arabia, which definitely funds terrorism.

“You don’t wanna face your own family? Then how are you gonna have influence over anybody else?”

I give the announcers a large amount of credit for the reasons why American Ninja Warrior has pulled out from its lowly origins as a G4 Network version of the Japanese show (Sasuke) into what it is now.

“Because her father didn’t want her to be humiliated. To feel shame, embarrassment that he had seen other women go through when they went to the police at that time,”

Perhaps my outrage meter is improperly calibrated. I thought the joke was that Amal is an amazing super hero and she handled the birth like a champ and George - not a strong amazing woman - is a basket case.

I actually use it to track my dad too. He’s almost 70 and getting a little bit loose in the brain. He could technically track me to0, but doesn’t know how.

There’s a find my friends app that you can give access to people. If you add someone to your iPhone family it will automatically add them to your find my friends and find my iPhone.

Does Lionel use the Find My iPhone app? I suppose it’d be easier to call or text his daughter and just ask her where she is, but then it occurred to me that if he prefers to use the app that probably means he wouldn’t necessarily trust her answer if he called her... Eek.

why Vanessa Freaking Hudgens is a JUDGE on So You Think You Can Dance?!?!?

No snark, but I’m really glad Ben and Jen are staying friends. It’s gotta be good for the kids to know that mom and dad still like each other.

Ahhhh Hagerstown, where West Virginia is more culturally relevant than the very, very liberal Washington - Baltimore Corridor.

Ah, yes, as Jesus said to the woman at the well: “Get your sinning butt out of sight before you make all the “good” women (and the school) look bad by association. Verily. Amen.”