Creative punishment: forcibly infect him with a chronic illness that can't be cured, only maintained, hike the price of the med to maintain it, and then dictate that he can only purchase the medicine with money earned working in a midtown McDonald's

Given the actual cost of long-term incarceration of a prisoner, and said prisoner’s devotion to increasing profit margins, wouldn’t shiv-carving lessons for everyone on his wing be a cheaper solution?

Me: The prison-industrial complex must be destroyed, there is no just incarceration

Wait...Are you trying to say that when you get acquitted of a crime, you can’t just do that crime for the rest of your life and not be charged for it? Crazy shit right there. 

He was blaming the parents for selling their daughters to him, which would be undoubtedly horrible if true, but he doesn’t seem to realize that means he was trying to buy them.

After watching five hours on Michael Jackson’s child abuse modus operandi, all of R. Kelly’s protestations come right from the playbook. Big heart indeed.

At the very least, this is him admitting there is truth to the allegations. “I just look at legal” is not a normal thing to say for a 50 something year old man trying to distance himself from the belief that he likes to have group sex with very young girls. He is a delusional narcissist, and has now displayed that for…

Very accurate: Same shit different man.

His lawyers may not have been able to stop him. Kelly clearly thinks he is smart and can get away with anything and he probably insisted to his people (over their objections) that he could fix things by giving this interview.

He needs to calm down and stop being so emotional. :)

Right? From a PR or legal standpoint, I don’t know why anyone could think this interview was a good idea. My guess is that CBS coughed up dough for it, because we know the man is broke.

“When you beat your case, you beat your case,”

I was a corrections nurse for years and inmates would talk openly about legal matters in medical because it was sort of a neutral zone; I honestly can't count how many times I heard “they caught me doing (x), but I beat that case”. Aka "I did it, but they couldn't prove it."

Multiple videotapes.

And a marriage certificate.

This interview proves his lawyers are not acting in his best interests.

As I said elsewhere, is it really a rumour when there’s videotape?

America is really getting a deep deep intensive crash course in gaslighting. Lets lock up Trump and R Kelly together so they can just spin the insanity together and leave us alone. 

But it’s in the second clip that Kelly really starts to unravel, shrieking at King that it would be “stupid” of him to lock up and sexually assault underage girls.