As someone currently divorcing a shithead, I recognize and respect Turner’s moves for what they are: stay quiet, know what your impassable lines are, and do what you gotta in the courts. Jonas’ very public loudness reads like someone who deep down knows he’s in the wrong, but is too self-centered and misogynistic to…

What he’s doing feels like that phoney Christian shit the Jonas brothers grew up with, maintaining a façade of being saintly while being selfish and greedy behind closed doors. 

Exhausted from victim blaming all day?  Try a crisp refreshing Sprite!

Yup. Police exist for punishment and reinforcement of the status quo. They do NOT exist to deter crime and never did. Police PR like Law and Order SVU (and all the other Law and Orders) that portray the police as a bunch of heroes who do nothing but tirelessly work to bring justice to every single victim they come…

If small talk about soda challenges and showing up six hours after being called is the “highest degree of concern” well, perhaps Columbus cops need to go back to the academy.

That is because they hide behind “I see a law broken, I have to act. It is not for me to decide or investigate, that is for detectives, CPS, etc....”

This x1000. “To serve and protect” is the biggest bunch of bullshit out there. Police departments have literally gone to court to get rulings that state they have no obligation to do either of those things. So what is their purporse? To reify state power. 

I think a lot of the (understandable) knee jerk opposition people have to calls to defund or abolish the police has to do with the misapprehension that police exist to protect individuals or that they are part of the mechanism for serving justice. Protection and justice are not what the police are for, no matter what…

Obviously any clueless idiot can become a cop so firing these two cruel dummies would be no loss and actually might provide a cautionary tale for the less dense cops out there.

I don’t really care if they were talking about soda before the guy answered the door. That said, yeah, it’s awful that the only response the police seemed to have was “what can we charge this child with”. It’s hard to imagine a better way to ensure that the actual perpetrator would never face justice.

Dude, if they can give me a balanced budget, better infrastructure, and an upgraded energy grid....I don’t care if they come dressed in chaps with no pants, flaming nipple pasties, and tube socks on their dicks. Hell, they can do a Rockettes kickline while the Star Spangled Banner plays on C-Span for all it matters.

George Carlin did the same thing, and his stories were also ridiculously embellished.

I still dont care. He can make up whatever bullshit story he wants for whatever reason. Whether he is a comic or “clapter comic” whatever that is. His entire audience and the public large already agree that its fine, no one is bothered by it. Lie, embellish, whatever, so long as he entertains.

The doxxing is the only…

He didn't exactly go to great lengths to conceal her identity either. If you're going to exaggerate or embellish for a joke, at least make the other person unidentifiable. 

This Boebert suplex from the top rope was particularly skillful

The premise is stupid. All comedians embellish for effect.

I’ll have to read the New Yorker piece first, but did everyone really think each joke a comedian tells is akin to testimony in a court of law?

The utter hubris of thinking/believing that your show, and your ‘content’ is so compelling that it just has to be made–without any regard for the people in the industry as a whole that make it possible–is reprehensible. The self-absorption alone is just stunning.

No. We should have solidarity with workers, especially when it’s someone who has relied on these specific workers for their livelihood since childhood. Give a little back for fucksakes! She’s had a life of unimaginable wealth and privilege while the little people fight for the scraps.

Stand WITH them instead of your…

But there are no facts in their statement.  Nothing mentions if there was a contract, and what was in their employment contract.