Repulsive in the extreme.

Rec

Meidas Touch hardly "unearthed" this. It's all here. There are other Look of the Year videos from other years too.

more photos (after taking polaroids), telling me I needed a head shot, etc. They gave me the name of a photographer. I went to him and he took a few shots; later wanting me to take off my shirt and be photographed in my bra while asking me about boyfriends and sex. I got uncomfortable and told him I didn't think this was for me.

I never went back to pick up the pictures and just walked away from the whole idea.

I had no idea how scuzzy that world was and yet my close encounter told me everything I needed to know at the time.

…kept blaming the Democrats for not going after this story in 2017, for not publicizing the story back then, for not — I mean, over and over and over it was the Democrats’ fault that trump got elected the first time because “nobody” knew or had the story forced on them. I wanted to hurl.

If I, a random DUer, knew all of this at least a decade ago simply by following source-links from postings here, then the story was no secret whatsoever. All the publicity photos and puff-pieces from trump’s lifetime of boastful sexual vanity were online. It had all been filmed and published and printed decades before, and generally afaict at his own request. The Dark Triad was on full display at all times, and his fans loved it.

But in a desperate attempt to avoid voter responsibility and smear Democrats — in at least one Bluesky participant’s opinion, it is the Democrats who are to blame.

they get blamed a lot here, too.

It is a pastime for some. I’m waiting for the “no Dem governor will ever be good enough to be a presidential candidate” group to pop up again. Their threads attract a lot of responses, and no matter who they start with someone drops Gavin Newsom’s name into the mix — somebody doesn’t like him.