Well, to be fair, apparently he only repaid it through other scheduled payments to the lawyer, so he didn’t really know he was repaying it. I assume Cohen has adapted that strategy of repayment specifically because of Trump’s fiduciary reputation.

When did I condone it? And...did you miss the whole paragraph where I admonished this campaign strategy as a disgrace? I was simply returning OP’s incredulity as, like you said, you get why it’s supposed to be funny - it’s a pretty easy thing to get.

I don’t like jokes like that either. But I completely understand why other people would (and, as a corollary, I understand why people would not). I’ve yet to defend the practice, despite people in this thread making that assumption.

Like anyone gives a shit what you think.

Stop giving this shit cover. It needs to be rooted out.

The infantalization and lack of agency is part of the joke. Every form of protection necessarily removes agency from the protected party, in some way. The ‘humorous’ exaggeration of this joke is that the father is going so far overboard with the protection as to remove more agency than is reasonable from both the…

Humor is subjective. Forgive me if I don’t hold your sense of humor in high regard.

Ha ha ha! I know that feeling, myself, unfortunately.

People who mean it seriously are not the people I’m talking about. I’m sorry you live in a place where that seems to be the case for everybody, but it’s not the case in other regions, and it’s not the thing that the OP was admonishing (so it’s not the thing I was responding to; though, I did make mention of it’s…

Oi. Anytime anyone panders to the base, like this, it’s going to look pretty gross. But it’s much easier to swallow when the grossness is subtext. Liberal pandering looks a lot more like “We have to get rid of the guns because that will OBVIOUSLY save lives*. Fucking DUH!”, which is a message that is pretty solid, on…

Nice. Yeah, I assumed. I’ve been a part of a few faux-shotgun-weddings and they were all pretty careful about observing the safety procedures. That’s why it didn’t even occur to me in my first comment. But then I remembered that not everyone is so diligent so I figured I’d ask (or virtue signal, if one’s being…

Separate thought, so separate comment: I hope the gun was broken over his shoulder. Whatever other jokes you want to make, there’s not a god damn thing that is funny about poor gun safety. If the people in the audience couldn’t visually identify the gun as being unloaded, that’s a huge problem.

I mean, honestly, I can’t believe that in 2018, people still don’t understand “legacy” humor, like this.

Honestly, they should just bring Judy Greer back. No production is so good that it can’t benefit from some Judy Greer. The new direction may remove the need for her character, from the original, but she could take the Alan Alda role. Or just a new role.
In any case, there’s always room for Carol/Cheryl/Charlene. And…

Like anyone gives a shit what you think.

Like anyone gives a shit what you think.

Like anyone gives a shit what you think.

Like anyone gives a shit what you think.

Like anyone gives a shit what you think.

Like anyone gives a shit what you think.