Exactly. When it comes to the LGBTQ+ community, his primary “advancement” has been better branding, not better treatment.

“Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I think marriage ought to be between a man and a woman, just like I think boys ought to play in boys’ sports and girls ought to play girls’ sports.”

He’s long embraced LGBTQ+ members

He’s got 7, more than any other person who has played his sport and as many as almost any person who has played any major professional sports in North America. Even among the world of hyper driven, hyper competitive professional athletes, he stands out as uniquely fucked up. I’d certainly draw the conclusion that Tom…

On the John Belushi track?  He completed it.

Well, I’m not the one who speculated he was probably lying, you are. I’m just pointing out, either way, he probably doesn’t need to.

I’m not familiar with Phoenix’s oeuvre, so can’t comment on that. But as someone who has always enjoyed Chris Farley’s energy, it is objectively hilarious (in a very dark way admittedly) to me to react to the death of the co-star of Black Sheep and Tommy Boy with “I can’t believe this creative genius died while…

In a grand jury, the defense doesn’t present anything. It is the prosecutor who decides what to present. They can decide to present exculpatory evidence if they want, as prosecutors often do when putting police shootings before grand juries and other cases where they want to be seen doing something but don’t actually…

Probably the same reason Jay-Z isn’t experiencing a Kanye West style backlash over Kanye West’s anti-semitic comments?  

To be clear, support for fracking isn’t a given in PA. Polls have ranged from a slight plurality in favor (https://www.muhlenberg.edu/aboutus/polling/climateenvironmentsurveys/archivedpolls/2022pennsylvaniaclimateandenergysurvey/) to a decent majority against (https://www.penncapital-star.com/energy-environment/poll-ma…

I think it’s a verified fact that the abuser is (or was) white. 

I think it’s weird to take a comment that could only specifically be about Tom Brady (like, the comment couldn’t even apply to Aaron Rodgers or any other elite QB that has ever existed), and then to assume that it applies to “every married person that is passionate enough about their job that they want to keep…

doesn’t look like he’s enjoying himself very much. anyways, he can do whatever he wants, i’m not saying he can’t

I don’t disagree with any of that, but I’m less speculating about why Tom Brady retired and then unretired, and more speculating about how Gisele (or any other reasonable person) might interpret that sequence of events.

WOW THANKS FOR YOUR INSIGHT 

Right.  Tom Brady would have no opportunities for competition if he retired as a player from the NFL.  Anyways, I’m not sure citing half a dozen other pro athletes who stayed on well past when most professional athletes (no matter how successful or accomplished) would have retired says as much as you think it does. …

It’d be hard for most people in Gisele’s position to come to any other conclusion than that Brady hates them and hates being married to them? He’s accomplished everything there is to accomplish at his chosen profession, multiple times over. He’s achieved the pinnacle, something that is extremely difficult to do even…

Muniz in the house are Rodman, Manny MUA, Kim Coles, Tamar Braxton, Stormy Daniels (?!), August Alsina and CJ Perry.

Fuck the guys who did this. Fucking assholes didn’t even finish the job. 

I think the problem is that Democrats’ strategy for courting swing voters has been to be Republican lite, not that they are trying to court people who aren’t automatic Democratic voters.