It’s sort of amazing that you don’t see the connection between the people implicated in this scandal and the exact things you’re talking about.

I agree, I’m just reflecting on what I thought as a teenager growing up in the immediate aftermath of the scandal. At the same, I saw it as at least being an equal affair, but I’ve come to understand otherwise over the years.

It doesn’t help that Gore was just kind of a poor, uninspiring candidate on top of that, but yeah this really can’t be stressed enough. The only presidential election Republicans have actually won the popular vote for since 1988 is the 2004 election, and of course Bush was only the incumbent in that race after losing…

I was fairly young when the scandal first broke, but I’ve definitely done a 180 on Lewinsky over the years, and particularly on Clinton’s role in the whole thing. Growing up in a liberal family, I kind of accepted that it was just a consensual affair that was no one’s business and that the people making a thing out of…

There’s lots of reasons this is a dreadful take but one of them is the assumption that Gore wouldn’t have gotten us into plenty of ill-advised military operations (including Afghanistan at minimum), especially given Clinton’s record on same. 

Groups like Amnesty International disagree with you.

See, I half agree with that but there are also outlets that have done it well (The Onion is pretty much as good as ever, and The President Show was also fantastic despite being ever more Trump focused. Also, Chapo Trap House has thrived). To me, it’s a mixture of too much focus on him and choosing the laziest jokes…

Well, The Daily Show sucks balls now. And there’s a million more of these shows and they’re all identical. Although you’re right that the network shows were mostly already bad, but I do think they’ve become more repetitive.

I mean....one of them was a rape accusation.

The Takei situation was more complicated than you’re allowing.

Just keep him away from Velma. 

I actually liked it more earlier on. It was pretty milquetoast compared to the Report, but the subject matter was more varied and he still allowed himself to do sillier stuff and things that were truly satirical. Now every bit is basically him reading Trump tweets in a bad impression. One of the many terrible things…

This idea that grumpy old Bernie Sanders is some sort of cult of personality figure is honestly kind of baffling and hilarious to me. I find him sort of charming despite myself, but the reality is if he wasn’t the democratic socialist firebrand he would (stereotypically) be the old guy in the back of the diner…

But you expressed it as a mockery of younger voters and as confusion as to how they could support him. It’s really not that complicated. Speaking as someone over 30 who does worry about Bernie’s age, he’s still the only obvious choice because the other candidates just want to trim lightly around the edges of a system…

I know, right? It’s almost like they’ve been hurt the worst by income inequality and worsening economic conditions and gravitate towards the one candidate who advocates drastic changes to the system.

That was kind of my experience too (even down to being in college at the time he died). It was surreal how he was treated as a demigod all of a sudden. I mean I enjoy his music too (Thriller is pretty much a perfect album), but I’ve always had to enjoy it while understanding that the person who made it was, at minimum,…

To that last question, honestly I would guess probably never. He was (almost certainly) a monster, but his work is just too good, and too culturally important, for it to ever completely disappear. You’ll never be able to write any intelligent overview of black American music or culture (and perhaps American culture…

I suspect this is why Nickelodeon quietly got him out of the way. They knew it was coming. 

Latoya Jackson snitched years ago and then recanted. Money talks.

The article is sort of dismissive about it, but I’m among the people who was saying (not necessarily online) that I was never a fan of R. Kelly’s music anyway, and the thing is that’s not so much a smug dismissal of him as it is a statement of relief. *whew*, at least I wasn’t a fan. I can safely avoid his music.