He’s still on. He is just not getting his contract renewed.

You may be right.

I only have time for one show though, and for now, that is Colbert.

I do think what happened to JK is beyond fucked up and it is just another peg on my radicalization meter.

This show is the reason I have always dislike him.

He was kind of funny on “Win Ben Stein’s Money”, so I initially looked forward to this show.

But then I watched it and it kind of pissed me off. Like, is this what a “man” is supposed to be? A sexist douchebag with a terrible sense of humor.

It was a TERRIBLE show. Glorified womanizing and binge drinking.

Despite what he says now, that was who he was. He shouldn’t have had a career after that.

But he’s just a talking head. He doesn’t write his material, he just reads teleprompters and has celebrity friends.

There are so many examples in your post where you place her above you and she is not equal in that return.

It is challenging, especially when you think of things like, “Love means sacrifice, or hard work.” And those statements are not wrong, but they are also easy mechanisms your brain uses to justify why you let someone shit on you.

I am coming from a marriage of 20 years and after getting therapy, finally realizing just how I much I enabled the treatment I received.

Sex is such a strong urge too, ESPECIALLY at 20. That and fear of loneliness.

I’ve got something that is worse though. 20 years I will never get back because I convinced myself if I just kept loving her, she would eventually love me back the same. That I just need to be strong and the sacrifice is worth it. Now I don’t even really know who I am anymore.

You got this in a short dating period.

I am not red pilling or any of that other chauvinistic bullshit because this applies to both partners.

Almost every single example you presented was reason enough, on its own, to leave her.

But you twisted yourself into thinking there’s no way this is what it is. You must not be seeing it right, there must be some justification for her behavior. It must not be a big deal, or you are “over reacting”.

That can be anywhere from poor self esteem to just putting your partner on a pedestal.

If your partner does something that makes you think, “I could/would never consider doing that.”, in a bad way, it is most likely not an equal or healthy relationship. (This mostly applies to how they interact with you and others.)

You are NTA, you just need to respect your own boundaries, even when it hurts.

My wife got me a subscription for my birthday. I read the first two months. I don’t even bother opening it anymore.

Holy shit. Neither of you are ready for a real relationship.

She is a toxic dirtbag and you need to learn to love yourself more than the person with whom you are in a relationship.

Cue Leslie Odom Jr singing, “Wait for it.”

Sure. That was the reason for the big initial split into a two party system.

Jefferson/Madison wanted weak federal government and Adams/Hamilton wanted a strong central government.

And never the two shall meet. (Both sides claimed it would be the end of the world if the other side ever gained power.)

Just want to make the point that the founding fathers were still alive as the industrial revolution started.

But yeah, their minds would be blown.

I would always imagine them oohing and ahhing over all the “magic”, but then shaking their heads at the same political shenanigans, SSDD.

John Adams had a reputation for honesty and his strong moral code, but then he still signed into law the alien and sedition acts.

And he WAS a founding father.

That was an interesting time though. I mean, they had almost no precedent for almost anything. So a president would do something, and if it worked or the other branches didn’t shut him down, it kind of became the standard. And they were really flying blind in some situations.

(And the Supreme Court letting the president do what he wants even though it was clearly bullshit… That was also not uncommon, at least before the civil war.)

One thing is for certain though… the states have always been full of hypocritical, ignorant jackasses, that vote along party lines without understanding the issue.

He’s objectively wrong anyway.

He clearly doesn’t know shit about our political history. We’ve done super shady shit since the beginning.

In fact the shit that’s happening now isn’t even new. It is so eerily similar to the shenanigans leading up to the civil war.

Ben Franklin was shagging French women for years. He also politically assassinated John Adams’s French diplomat assignment. Got him kicked out of Paris so he could keep shagging French women alongside Jefferson.

+1 for Mullvad.

Who cares. He’s an over rated douchebag.