I don’t doubt the collusion. (The first words in my comment are “I doubt anyone is surprised by this” and the second paragraph is about how they are turning on each other.) but I simply don’t trust Rolling Stone. That’s what happens when a journalistic outlet fails on a scale as epic as the UVA story. It’s the same…

I keep telling people this but they don’t seem to care. Once the hammer comes down, MAGA will go full Taliban. People need to be ready for that. And before someone starts in with “So are we supposed to just let them get away with this?!!” The answer is no. But we do need to be prepared for what comes next.

I doubt anyone is surprised by this. I’d also like some corroboration from a news outlet that didn’t completely fuck up a story about rape at UVA.

The Onion went down the same road as The Daily Show and a lot of other “progressive” sites. It’s all contrarianism and cynicism now.

Given that Apple+ is a competitor to NBC’s Peacock streaming service. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a decision made by higher-ups.

He’s going to regret this in the future when he wants to claim one of his meetings with a teenage girl is covered by attorney-client privilege.

Any conversation that Chappelle has with Netflix employees will become fodder for his next stand-up special. The more people try to engage with him the more contrarian he will become. There’s never going to be any real resolution here.

Every time I see Candace Owens I think of this quote from Quint in Jaws.

I hope that whatever her next chapter is, it brings her peace and joy.

“We’re up against the emergence of hate economy.”

This what I what I was afraid of. Chappelle is going to dig into the whole “I’m being silenced” edgelord thing and use this as fuel to be even more contrarian.

Off topic, Kinja is killing this and other sites for me. I would come to the Root regularly but it isn’t as fun anymore.

All these years later, I still remember every time they found another body. I had a lot of cousins in Atlanta and was terrified for them. Part of me thinks this is all a lost cause but then I remember I live in the city where Ariel Castro held three women prisoner for ten years and I’d considered them a lost cause…

All these people writing their damn books make me sick.

I doubt that she’s ever coming back. That’s not me judging or wishing it. I have no opinion on Wendy. I’m just speaking from my experience looking around my workplace.

The moat is old news. I remember when the news about it broke. Why is the New York Times pretending to give a shit now?

I’m going to keep saying it: 2016 was the ballgame.

Sadly, it’s not just white male behavior. This kind of narcissistic abuse transcends race, age, economic class, and gender. I have a (white Jewish upper-class) friend who has shared horror stories about the abuse she endured at the hands of a mother with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It’s a really pernicious form…

Come on, Harry. You can end this. You were in the army. Surely you know someone who could make a hit look like an accident. Or just ask Barack Obama. He might have a name he could recommend.

“Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media. Hope that happens to me someday,”