Okay, but Maggie Haberman can take her access journalism and fuck right off with Trump.

vast vast power imbalance happening here

Thank you. Women like Stroh being allowed to use the language of the abused to weasel out of their own poor decisions has been going on for too long now post-Me Too and all it is doing is trivializing real abuse and causing people to roll their eyes when a real testimonial is given. Enough.

Seriously.

I will say that while he is indeed a complete joke, Levine is a very rich, successful man a full 20 years older than Stroh. So while manipulated may not be the right word, there is a vast vast power imbalance happening here. And I do feel for her on that. 

The school sounds more like a grift than anything else, but as we’ve seen in Canada and the Catholic Church, super secret schools breed physical and sexual abuse.

Shit, I didn’t know you spoke for every single patient!  Why didn’t you say that up top?

“I don’t like the Queen, so having a holiday in her honor is bad, so I’ll hold up cancer patients as a reason to not do that”

Interesting, because “a popular and important 96 year old woman died” strikes me as quite a different explanation for shutting down hospitals than “the workers are protesting working conditions that leave them miserable and completely burned out.”  Kind of a weird thing to both sides!

“You have to help me, though! I only wanted the leopard to eat your face!”

This is common with conservatives: no empathy. They make little carve outs or exceptions to protect themselves and those they love. They refuse to support similar carve outs or exceptions for similarly or analogously situated people. So she’s anti-abortion... until she personally needs an abortion and suddenly is…

People think of these wars and colonial violence as some way off past thing and not something people are still dealing with and something that people who are still alive very much remember. And the ‘Well the Queen didn’t have much control over it” takes are just.... the word “control” is doing a lot of work there....…

Noticed many of the usual suspects in response to Uju Anya’s tweet are claiming QE2 was not a colonial monarch.

Nah the “Look at me!” came from the billionaire who found a regular person’s tweet and used it to pretend to be moral and ethical

Bush Jr was the worse one though, his war ended up killing anywhere from one million to two million Iraqis. (Some less reliable estimates go even higher). So maybe it’s more like taking delight in Biden dying when he’s the one pulling back from overseas invasions because Bush Jr did Iraq 2?

Preach. 

After death is the best time to criticize someone, you can’t hurt their feelings. My stepgrandfather’s stories were boring.  Who are you protecting here, homeboy?  The queen’s not going to fuck you.

The adult children she apparently protected from meaningful consequences for their sins? Also, the queen is dead. Who else is there to feel the sting of her being dragged “for the sins of her adult children” except the adult children who deserve to be dragged?

I suspect any realistic argument will be lost on the briffy troll

No. She shielded Andrew who cavorted with, and used the services of, a sex trafficker. But was disappointed in Charles, who had an affair with a grown ass adult.