Yeah, that’s the main issue with her apology. Not a popular opinion, but I do buy that she was in a fucked up place and wasn’t just trying to be “edgy” and dismiss Black women on purpose for the coins. But instead of saying “hey, I was coked out of my head and fucked up in many other different ways, I acted in stupid,…

Yeah, this isn’t going to be a popular opinion and I still think it was insanely shitty, she doesn’t deserve kudos, and she’s the epitome of problematic white feminism...but she at least sort of seemed to realize she fucked up at the time and semi-backtracked before this new apology. I’m looking at a lot of people who…

The whole bit is actually him talking to a woman about her mother being undocumented and growing up in a border town, and the media focused on the brief bit of the woman he was interviewing while she was doing his dental work and rather insincerely portrayed the clip as just him randomly taping dental work. It’s…

Come on Frida. I don’t even care about Beto (he’s the human equivalent of meh), but the entire clip is about him talking to his dental hygienist about growing up in a border town, her undocumented mom, etc. with a brief moment of the actual work.

Yes, I definitely hold the film studios, talent agencies, and producers to blame for Singer’s continued success. Actors are down on the bottom when it comes to complicity, and aren’t the ones propelling Singer’s career and keeping it alive unless they are joint producing his films. Still surprised that no one gets…

Oh, yeah, I forgot there were two categories for best film at the Globes and that Bohemian Rhapsody won, too. Ugh. The two possible worst choices of all the films.

Also, to respond to the troll below me without engaging with them...

It was Green Book that “swept” awards people thought were going to different films...which is far worse (with the exception of Mahershala winning, as he’s always fine) than A Star is Born clinching some awards imo.

I don’t even understand why Johah got a cover in the first place. Every other cover star was in a critically acclaimed film and most received nominations for awards (even if it was more critic’s groups than the Golden Globes). But Jonah? Did he produce something.....But yeah, we see what they were doing.

Completely agree. Just kind of shocked at how others (even some major media figures) are misinterpreting Paygo (don’t know if they are being obtuse or willfully blind so they can claim the Democrats are disappointing us again, or they simply don’t get it).

Didn’t he know that teenage model for years, too?

Really wealthy (not just normal upper-middle class or upper-class folks) do this type of weird shit a lot. One of my roommates in undergrad used to babysit for this insanely rich family (they had a staff that they didn’t want to “burden” with baby sitting duties and used to have a full time au-pair)—and somehow they en…

Also, Jayapal, Pocan, and AOC are now trying to “repeal” Paygo for the future...something which they’ve tried in the past but it won’t really happen until we gain control.

Yep...people are shockingly ignorant about this (reminder of when the NYT was publishing bits sourced from that hack book Clinton Cash, and people were taking it as gospel).

If you are talking about Paygo.... that’s not how Paygo technically works, and it is a federal law that stipulates that Mulvaney can make unilateral cuts if the budget isn’t revenue neutral. It’s why Lee and others have frequently mentioned that they would change the law when possible...People skirt the law all the…

People went hard after some writer, I think it was a Intercept guy, who recently pointed out that it’s going to take a long time to undo all the shit Trump’s done to an already deeply flawed system (damage has been around for more than 40 years) and so people better realize that incrementalism is likely in some areas…

The bit where he started ranting about how his Generals were better looking than Tom Cruise was...something else.

Eh, some of those people keep claiming universal pre-K is a DSA idea—when it’s something Clinton championed for a long time and even folks before. Pretty sure Elijah Cummings has long pushed for some sort of universal healthcare, but I often see Bernie given credit....

I’ll never forget those selfish, petulant assholes for booing John fucking Lewis, Elijah Cummings, and Michelle at the DNC—and Bernie for not calling those fuckers out for being disrespectful morons. 

True. I’m already seeing rumblings of it towards Warren....a lot of “see, the attacks on Beto weren’t coordinated because we aren’t attacking Warren (ignoring that Beto polled way better than Warren)“....but also the same people tweeting a Guardian article that compared her and Bernie in favor of Bernie.