But he also somehow believes that if he does nothing, that target will go away. Mike, these people already think you’re a traitor and they want to KILL you. You can’t make it worse by invoking the 25th.

At the very least, you need a mechanical license to cover a song. The publisher can deny that request (usually at the writer’s behest).

I think a lot of that would be up to the artist being sampled. I also think a huge factor in this case is that Minaj asked to use the sample and was denied. At that point, it’s on Minaj to change the song.

They likely asked and got permission. Minaj asked for permission and was refused. It’s Chapman’s material, she can grant permission to whomever she wants.

There isn’t any way they would have done this with a Republican-controlled government. They would’ve faced accusations of censorship, and more importantly, regulations. Now that the Dems control the government, they can say, “See? We banned the big bad man! We can police ourselves. You don’t need to make any rules for…

Really, if ANYONE ever asked him a proper followup question, he’d have been impeached 2 weeks after his inauguration.

I am 100% certain a lot of the story is either exaggerated or just plain made up. It is impossible for me to believe that the only thing in the house for the kid to eat was a can of beans. At 9, you can make a sandwich, you can pour a bowl of cereal and you can likely Google “how to open a can.”

To be honest, it would be peak Democrat to steal the GA election for Biden, but forget to steal the senate races too. We always seem to be snatching victory from the jaws of a much larger victory.

He’ll skate by the same way he did last time: he didn’t explicitly say the crime. He didn’t say “manufacture 11k votes for me... find them in a warehouse somewhere...” he said “find someone who is interested in the truth to do some investigation...” Just like with his other “perfect” phone call, he never directly said…

Trust me, come Jan 21, Fox News will finally start taking the virus numbers VERY seriously.

When I was a kid, my brother used to drink the liquid out of his Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, put the noodles on bread and eat it.

My dad worked for one company essentially his whole life and retired with a pension. Both of those things are inconceivable these days. He could NOT understand my life when I was a freelancer (“so... you don’t have a job?” “yes, I do, I actually have 4 of them...”) or my job hopping (“if you had stayed at XYZ, you’d…

This is what I’ve been saying. You can’t compromise with a party that will accept anything less than total capitulation by the Dems.

My brother-in-law has a grown son from a previous marriage. The son spent most of my wedding reception (which he actually wasn’t invited to) talking to every young woman there in a fake British accent (he’s from Long Island). As soon as I found out, I asked him to leave.

It was just OK. There was literally no reason to put this movie in 1984. There weren’t that many 80's elements in it - at the very least it should have had a great soundtrack. Some of the effects looked terrible. It ended with the usual nonsense of “there is a fight while some sort of cloud swirls around.” And…

Not that this means anything to you, but Killer Klowns is one of Mrs. Stammer’s favorite movies of all time.

If he cared, he would have shown some interest in the bill as it was being put together NOT after it was voted on.

This is the right answer. Works like a charm. And to say the taste isn’t for everybody is quite possibly the understatement of the year.

“Jesus was only on earth for a short time so what about the people just before? Can you go to hell, realize it’s real then believe in Jesus and take the elevator to heaven?” Not that any of it is real, but According to Peter, Jesus spent the weekend between good Friday and the Resurrection in Hell offering forgiveness…

No, it is funnier for Homer to have seen something so completely random before than it is for Homer to remember something he has just seen!