Kyrsten Sinema’s Affair, America’s Sexless Marriages & Gen Z Moving Back Home | TMI Ep 443

A former senator’s affair becomes a legal battle, married Americans are apparently having a lot less sex, Europeans are role-playing the “broken American dream,” and college graduates are increasingly discovering that independence comes with one major problem: rent.On today’s TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan:Former Senator Kyrsten Sinema has admitted to an affair with her married bodyguard, but his ex-wife wants more than an apology. She’s suing Sinema under North Carolina’s rarely used “alienation of affection” law, while Sinema argues the state shouldn’t have jurisdiction because the affair happened elsewhere. Can an interstate affair really turn into a $75,000 homewrecker lawsuit?Marriage rates aren’t the only thing declining. New data suggests nearly one-third of married Americans had no sex at all during the previous year, raising questions about work, kids, stress, money, phones and whether couples are simply becoming roommates with joint checking accounts. Why are so many American marriages becoming sexless — and can couples actually reverse it?Meanwhile in Poland, Europeans celebrated America’s 250th birthday by spending 28 hours pretending to live in a struggling Ohio trailer park — complete with medical bills, lousy jobs, guns, eviction and fake meth. The strangest part? Most of the stereotypes came directly from American movies, television and books. Has America exported such a bleak image of itself that poverty is now an international role-playing game?And for Gen Z, the traditional path from college to adulthood is increasingly taking a detour through Mom and Dad’s basement. Nearly half of recent graduates surveyed moved back home, while housing costs, weak job prospects and continued parental financial support complicate the promise that a college degree automatically buys independence. Is moving back home becoming the new normal for America’s college graduates?