She’s an asshole and I don’t like her guts at all.

A. This isn’t an either/or situation and

B. Making up mental diseases is a mental disease

No one ever laughs at my Goofus and Gallant references.

As an American I feel like I should be disputing this but all of your points are quite good.

Oh shit, one of my favorite shows of my Teens was at Fireside; Elliott with Six Going On Seven opening for them. I love that venue.

What is the connection to Bucket O’ Blood though? It’s my favorite record store in the area because their tastes overlap so much with my own, I always end up finding something I don’t know I needed there.

She may be stupid enough to:

• Believe this will change the narrative on her relationship with Lewandowski, her profligate spending, and the fact that it all led to her firing
• Believe this will make her more sympathetic with the public to lay the ground work for having some kind of political career in the future

Or she may be getting ahead of something, maybe her husband was starting to change his tune on the idea of being a loyal cuckold.

If you assume these people are completely vapid, self-serving, and totally incapable of actual loving relationships, and above all - operating with a real deficit of intellectual and emotional intelligence; all of which appear to be rock solid assumptions, none of the options I proposed seem very far fetched.

(Not actually blindsided because she almost certainly had it leaked)

Likely too much nuance to matter, but in this case, the shame is relative to a fitness expectation for a certain kind of work, not relative to the expectations of wider society.

No, we are.

He fucks around, we find out.

I am having a surprisingly complex mix of feelings about being too old even for the revised age.

Oh yeah. This is my jam.

Oh definitely.

This is art by almost any definition, and it is based and badass.

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These are not serious people

No one is seriously pushing 76 in that discussion.