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I don't know any recipients who think it's ok, but "donors"? Huh. It is just being friendly to them.

Poor bastards.

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Agreed. But they know it's wrong, they just pretend they don't.

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Just wanted to give you a little different perspective, the same way I explained to my hubs. He and I were in the downtown section of our metro area where lots of catcalling occurs. He made the statement that he would love to be catcalled by a woman. I replied that I would be pretty flattered if another woman catcalled me too, because in general other women aren’t especially scary to me. I asked him to instead of imagining be catcalled by a woman, image being catcalled by a man who is a foot taller and weighs twice as much as he does. He took a minute to imagine being catcalled by a man who is 7’3 and weighs 440 pounds (hubs is 6’3 and 220lb). That thought was very different than the idea of being catcalled by a 5’4 120 lb woman. The point is, when something is being done to you by someone with a lot more power and a lot bigger, it’s very different than a peer of roughly the same size.

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Barbara Bush is chasing ol' GW around, continually slapping the back of his head, all at double speed. There is an amusing musical soundtrack.

Can I get a comedy judgment on this case?

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Okay, I admit it. George H.W Bush abused me. In 1999 he grabbed my ass and he joked, "Hey, you know what they say, 'Ass me no questions and I won't feel your thighs.'".

The in 2001 he put his thumb up my butt and quipped. "I think you're a quart low". A year later he shoved his nose up under my balls and japed, "Oooh, I think it's Tea Time". We just figured that he was cute and old, and after all, it was just Dad jokes.

But it wasn't until 2015, when he full-on grabbed my Johnson and jested to the crowd, "It's like I always said about my Secretary of Defense, 'You gotta dick Cheney, before he dicks you!', that I realized he might have a problem.

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LOL!

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He was asking for it, throwing dynamite in my direction!

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To be fair, it's supposed to. Sting has said he's always creeped out when people tell him they got married to the song, but most people just don't listen to the lyrics. (My inner pedant forces me to note that the title is actually "Every Breath You Take", btw.)

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Fuck that "He's 93" bullshit. I remember a story like this when W was President and Poppy was on a cane then. He's been grabass for a long time, and it has nothing to do with his age.

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I looked up the Reagan/Piper Laurie thing. Talk about the Republican mindset. He made sure to tell her how much the condom cost.

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It's time for Poppy Bush to go skydiving again. Solo, this time.

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I don't even think he's good at that. He's spent his entire life doing this shit in the private sector where the level of transparency found in the public sector isn't a factor, so he's never had to focus on covering his ass. He just outspent and outlegaled any opponents who gave him shit.

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In the dick.

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Hey, at least he's keeping his hands off her. She's probably happy about that.

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By good, they mean single term, right?

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Actually, he IS the classy one. Sad.

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