I think what makes the most angry is Bernie world, and Bernie adjacent media (they like to play victim, but half of the WaPo staff (particularly Dave Weigel) and HuffPost are clearly slanted in favor of him not to mention TYT/Jacobin/etc.).......spun her healthcare plan as muddled and his as simple when it’s the exact…

I agree with this point. France is objectively quite a bit worse when it comes to statutory rape, age of consent laws that are way too low, sexual harassment, etc. It doesn’t negate that Americans can be puritanical in other regards in regards to nudity, caring too much about adults consensual sexual activities with…

Yep. So fucking gross how complicit the media was/is with that mess.

I was going to point out it was a serious problem (statutory rape/low age of consent laws) all over in the 70s/80s, including the US and the UK (famous people like Don Johnson, Jimmy Page, David Bowie, that Rolling Stone guy are all guilty of statutory rape)...but you aren’t entirely wrong that France was/is on a…

Bowie allegedly was still going after underage girls (in the 90s) long after he admitted to statutory rape of a 14 year old (in the 70s). Always was surprised that story got “hushed” up....and the fact that Don Johnson still has a career even though he openly “dated” (raped) Melanie Griffith when she was only 14.

Uh...I thought maybe I was not remembering the success of her past album correctly, so I went and googled. Taylor’s Lover opened with over 700k—way more (sometimes more than 2 or 3x as much) than Billie, Ariana, Post Malone, Roddy Ricch, etc... The only person who moves more units is Adele. Her album is also in the…

Juicy and a bit bitchy—the type of gossip I love ;)

Yeah, I’ve noticed that nearly even Bernie person tends to ignore us...the over 30 Black folks...and have made little effort in winning us over. Be it personality or policy issues, we just get shut down and screamed at and accused of not wanting M4All if we start to ask questions. Sad thing is Bernie, despite my…

Nobody deserves to be bullied, be it Clinton or Sanders folks. But come the fuck on.... Briahna also used to post xenophobic shit, that she erased when she got hired, and once accused John Lewis of willing to murder a cat when he posted a cute photo of him playing with his kitties. Don’t act like she’s some victim of…

You are absolutely correct. Obama ran from, what at the time, was the center-left. He took some positions that were to the right of Hillary in ‘08. Now it would be considered the center or even center right in some cases (this is another issue...there’s a lot of historical revisionism about what was considered “left”…

She just got cast as the lead in Ridley Scott’s next movie, too....half of Hollywood allegedly hates Bradley Cooper, so I don’t know how many bridges she burned if she did fuck him (plus, he’s allegedly in the closet a la Travolta).

Yeah, I suspect it may be on its last legs unless they dramatically shake it up and make it more fair. I don’t even like Lil Nas X’s music, but he absolutely deserved to win ROTY because of the production/sales and even the critics were calling out how ridiculous it was that he lost to the...white teenage girl. Credit…

Yeah, Grammys have almost always been about awarding/nominating the biggest names 99% of the time (I mean, occasionally they’ll snub some commercial hits because even they can’t fake like they have a lot of critical value)....and snubbing rap/hip-hop/r & b in the main categories. It’s basically a popularity contest…

Anne, the case she was talking about was from 2019 (which means mostly songs released in 2018) and not this year’s 2020 Grammys (which cover mostly 2019 songs). People think it’s likely Shawn Mendes.

It was from last year, not this year (I read this in another place). It was probably Shawn Mendes, as he was the outlier of the nominees last year, or possibly Zedd and Maren Morris.

Depressing. He received pretty good reviews and the film was a hit, and nada. Apparently he’s Canadian, and if he speaks French he probably should try and get in the industry over there.....a lot more MENA actors (many successful) in the French film industry and they aren’t regulated to playing terrorist #2 like many…

His ass also voted to give money to the Minutemen and he used to go on Lou Dobbs and rail about how immigrants would lower wages for U.S. citizens, which is why I remain baffled that people (cough cough mostly white progressives) portray him as a great force on immigration.

It’s insane, and then a lot of people claim that he has it hard with the media and I’m just like.....wut? Dude voted against the Brady Bill five times, voted to give money to the minutemen, voted against the amber alert system, etc. and it barely comes up. I swear half the media is in the tank for him: off the top of…

Yep. And when people pointed that out, the journos got self defensive over it...ugh.

Yeah, I was somewhat critical of her record but it got grossly distorted to seem far worse and (and nuance was completely abandoned) by much of the national news...and sometimes shit that was straight up false about her record, not even shit taken out of context, would get parroted by blue check mark journalists. I…