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1 hour ago, Duke Silver said:
How many people here would be offended if I used the term "radical Christianity"? That's Pence, Santorum, etc. Or as Will McAvoy called them: the American Taliban.
I've been thinking of people like Pence as Radicalized Christians for a long time now - I say as a lapsed Catholic, if my own religion matters.
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I can't find any confirmation of this, maybe someone else knows -- once he's using the POTUS Twitter he won't be able to delete tweets?
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Maybe you know this but in case you don't - that is one of the options on the form when Amazon sends you a question, a button you can click for "I don't know." Personally I wish they also had an option for "read the product description and/or previous answers! Jeez!" I still get questions for something I bought two years ago that has over a hundred questions and answers, many of them repeated, and many of the answers are right there in the product description.
Also I think a lot of people don't realize they aren't asking the manufacturer (because they don't bother to read that part). I don't mind helping someone out, but I'm not going to be on the phone all day for them finding out if something is BPA free.
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17 hours ago, stillshimpy said:
I don't think about my dad very often because my world so thoroughly changed after that, it was like my reality had actually ended ....and it had.
But my new reality is what proved to me that I would figure it out somehow, always.
Awwwww stillshimpy.
I think that along with this, which is important to know and believe, it's also good to keep in mind that things can turn on a dime in both directions. Not just from good to bad, both directions. Berlin Walls go up, Berlin Walls come down. Nothing is permanent. One of my favorite tumblr posts is:
this is all just temporary
this is all just temporary
this is all just temporary
this is all just temporary
this is all just temporary
this is all just temporary
12 hours ago, Padma said:I don't understand the GOP's need to control women's bodies
I don't get it either but even more, unless the statistics are a lie, college educated white women voted for him knowing that this would be the result. He wasn't coy about it, it's not some kind of a bad surprise, he said up front this was a goal: end abortion. I can't even blame the GOP here, it wasn't a secret agenda, nobody was conned.
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Somehow I managed to delete the quote box backspacing to correct a typo so this is in response to the post about how The Four are surrounding him because he has dementia. I don't think he's "scared shitless" because in my experience, people with dementia don't know they have dementia (and they also believe their logic to be perfectly fine even when it's clearly not) - but I do think that's why his family is glued to his side. They know. Not that it matters - it won't be enough to keep this shitshow from rolling on.
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3 hours ago, Chicken Wing said:
I cannot even begin to explain how much I absolutely motherfucking hate that. It's like visual nails on a chalkboard.
Oh I know - I would literally rather hear nails on a chalkboard.
Also, that physical tic is one of the things that makes me wonder if he's in the early stages of Alzheimer's. (Make or makes? I forget the grammar there.)
2 hours ago, Padma said:I haven't looked it up yet (so hope its not true, though sounds true), but I was told that a "Religious Freedom Bill" is in the works in the House. Makes sense, because Trump promised it in the campaign. Basically, that it will be legal to refuse to accommodate or hire transgendered people if you can prove you have religious reasons. (Then... no to minorities, no to women.... Yay! We only exist for White Christian Men!)
Obviously unconstitutional--but with Trump's SC pick, who knows what the Constitutuion will look like in four years.
I'd be all for this if it was turnabout-fair play, such as "if you have religious reasons you can refuse service to politicians."
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44 minutes ago, millennium said:
My post was never about showing respect to the President-Elect, but respect for what we put on the page, and the people reading it.
Sorry, I misunderstood the no-name-calling portion of your post.
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14 hours ago, stillshimpy said:I'm going to take this one on
*stands up and cheers*
15 hours ago, millennium said:Sometimes I find it hard to read this thread specifically for the reason that so many personal insults are lobbed at Trump and anyone connected to him, including but not limited to pejorative nicknames and other insulting monikers (usually associated with his appearance).
I no longer buy into the play-nice, be-more-ethical we-go-high crap that put this monster in a position of power. When he went low we should have metaphorically kicked him in the face - and gouged and spat and everything else they tell you to do to your attacker. Too late now, but I won't be showing any polite respect to this fascist.
13 hours ago, tenativelyyours said:She might be reaping unintended benefits to not being in the White House. She might even be entirely happy with what the plans are. But in no way shape or form can anyone convince me that this is her doing.
I don't think so either, I can't imagine that she has any say at all in what happens to her. He's a control freak.
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Did they ever say how much she weighs on the show? And I agree about coach, she carries a lot of her weight in the front, there is no way.
Maybe that will be a contributing factor to Toby keeling over - that it was hard to get out of the middle seat and walk around the plane periodically like you're supposed to do.
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1 hour ago, candall said:
I have no stones to throw at Melania. I thoroughly believe the only decision she's been allowed to make in the last ten years may have involved using caviar in her busywork face cream hobby. It's ludicrous to assume SHE has any say in where she's going to reside or who's going to occupy the First Lady position. You really think any of the T Family Inc. members care about Melania's input or preferences?? Ivanka's picking out Melania's various outfits for Inauguration Day and then it's back on the shelf for you, sugar, shush now.
I agree, I assume she was ordered to stay in New York so he can grope around in peace. I also suspect he wants to keep the press diverted from their son, who is probably autistic, not that there's anything wrong with that but I bet DT doesn't feel that way. He's the kind of parent who will actually say out loud that he's prouder of some of his children than others.
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I tried to find this in her Twitter feed but couldn't - at some point she posted a GIF of him saying to Kate, "the only thing I can't live without is you," and her (the actor's) comment was something like, "now that's true love." So either Chrissy buys into the Toby-is-delightful premise or she's gaslighting us.
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1 hour ago, Duke Silver said:
Seriously, why is he so freakin' orange? Spray tan? He eats tons of carrots? Bronzer? High blood pressure? A secret Cheeto habit?
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11 hours ago, SlackerInc said:
And maybe that is why they picked someone "super obese", despite it being such a rare situation: to forestall any audience or critical complaints that she should just be happy with her body as is.
Oh great theory! That would have been very smart of them.
11 hours ago, MsJamieDornan said:When the viewers want her story to be more than about her weight, it cant be. Her weight is a daily struggle to find a chair she wont break, a booth she can fit in (none), a seat belt in her car that will fit, if she can even get behind the wheel. A watch that will fit her wrist, can she get thru turnstiles at events, clothes that fit and so on. She has to plan every move with her weight in mind.
I agree, I have never been able to see how her story could be about anything but weight, at least until she got under the 250 range.* At her size absolutely everything would be a struggle, and require extra thought or work or planning. I hope this show makes it a story about how she lost enough weight to live like everyone else - not how she learned to accept a life of never knowing if a chair would hold her or if she could get through a door.
*My basis for that being, the first question for chairs I always see on the ask-a-question section of online furniture stores is, "weight limit?" It is almost never more than 250 pounds.
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17 minutes ago, Lady Calypso said:
It definitely feels more shocking when you watch these people on TV and movies right up until their deaths. I think it makes the death of a celebrity a little bit harder to swallow.
Yes! I couldn't put my finger on it until I read your post - that is exactly why it's so shocking. I just saw him in a couple of things, and he was looking great. Well damn.
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1 hour ago, FanOfDorks said:
I like to join a forum where I can escape the real world at my own pace.
But as soon I get told I must post everyday or lose my membership there that puts me off & I have deleted myslef from boards in the past for this.
Thankfully the ones I'm on ATM are good :)
Wow boards are actually making that rule these days? I know it's tough times for forums but that seems like it would just drive people away.
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1 hour ago, KerleyQ said:
I'm still thinking this is the case. It would fit with things like the Carrier issue - he said something about Carrier's jobs at multiple campaign stops, but he could not remember later that he ever said anything about their jobs. He needed to be shown video footage of when he talked about it. I could see if it was a one time throw away thing, and it being a case of "well, he was at a stop in Indiana, someone said something about Carrier, and he threw it in there to personalize his speech to that crowd." I can buy that there are countless little local blurbs that a candidate's people advise them to throw in to their speech in various cities that they don't specifically recall months later. But, he spoke of it at multiple stops, and he couldn't recall it? That's concerning when it comes to his mental faculties.
Yep I was not being remotely sarcastic, I was wondering about it quite awhile ago just due to the limited vocabulary and some physical tics, and lately I've seen other people mentioning it.
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2 hours ago, backformore said:
"word salad" actually refers to a specific kind of disordered thought and speech typical of schizophrenia or brain injury. It's been used more recently to describe when people interrupt themselves mid-sentence and then start a new thought, while never completing the first one, or when people speak in such a confused way that it is difficult to figure out the meaning. (trump does this fairly often)
Kurt Eichenwald's article is well-written and makes perfect sense. "word salad" is kind of the opposite of what he wrote.
Yes, seriously - along with being post-factual are we also going to start randomly changing the meanings of words and phrases?
2 hours ago, Chicken Wing said:Yep. I've long wondered if Trump's habit of constantly interjecting his own sentences and speaking almost entirely in asides was due to his being woefully inarticulate or part of some kind of salesman trick to distract people from what he's saying and the fact that he invariably isn't actually saying anything at all. Or if he's brain damaged. One of those.
Many people have said they believe it's the early stage of Alzheimer's.
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Harvard was handed to her by the writers, I don't believe the actual Rory would have gotten in there. Yale was handed to her by Richard.
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28 minutes ago, OtterMommy said:
My suspicion is that, given Toby's personality, it would become an issue. I can't see him NOT mentioning how "good" he was being every time they went out--probably in an attempt to be what he think is supportive, but still.
Or even just thwarting her by wanting to eat out a lot, and complaining if she didn't want to.
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3 hours ago, ShadowFacts said:
I think it would be just that much harder for Kate to make any healthy life changes while grieving, if Toby dies. Even if her reaction is to not feel like eating for awhile, lifelong habits will crop back up. Losing someone like that, even though she has only been with him for a few months, is a major stressor. At least she'll have a chance to try, whereas Toby maybe won't.
I bet it depends on what killed him. If it's a plane blood clot his weight wouldn't have mattered, but if it's weight-related the writers might have that scare her straight, so to speak?
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23 minutes ago, Kohola3 said:
a rich and privileged individual striking off and make a moderate success of herself.
That right there is why it would be a boring story. There are no stakes. If she fails, she can eat crow and be saved by her rich family.
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4 minutes ago, izabella said:
Is this true? Especially since millions more people actually voted for Clinton?
I have no idea, I was just spitballing - sorry!
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I assume they'd have to choose a Republican, so I'd accept any Republican who hasn't caved in to Trump.
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38 minutes ago, Chicken Wing said:
I just know that my brain still refuses to accept the fact that this country actually elected an insane person to be the next leader of the free world. Like, every time I try to process that detail I can literally hear a sound bite of a record scratching in my head.
Yes! That's a great description. I just can't process it. It feels fictional. Like I'm stuck in a parallel timeline, or the ghost of Christmas Future is showing me what happens when you don't volunteer to work a phone bank.
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In Memoriam: Entertainment Industry Celebrity Deaths
in Everything Else TV
Anybody else wonder if some time traveler went back and fixed it so the Cubs win, and the rest of 2016 is the result? (I watch too much sci-fi.)