Geez. We make fun of Trump for his thin skin but maybe we should, like, never do that again if a single joke at Democrats’ expense is going to generate 20 think pieces. Has the petition to have Jost fired and his fields sowed with salt been posted?

He’s a 34-year-old Harvard grad whose’s only job has been writing jokes for a sketch comedy show. I’m shocked he wrote a whitebread, cliche ridden film. Shocked.

As I’ve said elsewhere, the main function of Twitter seems to be to allow people to quickly and easily make casual statements that can be completely ripped out of any larger context and used as a cudgel against them.

that sounds about right.

I’d say the reaction to a joke that was kinda clever, kinda meh, very harmless is perhaps a reason why Democrats lost the election.

this reaction to this joke is why democrats lost the election

It was an acceptable joke. I wasn’t dying with laughter. It worked for what it was.

NFL is in the business of selling that they are making the game of football safer at all levels—it is smoke and mirrors but they are masters of smoke and mirrors...The NHL has never been in the business of trying to make the game safer at all levels and we have never tried to sell the fact that this is who we are...