Yeah but depicing images of political leaders you don’t like being murdered isn’t really a good thing to do.

Well maybe you should have googled it, or elsewise gotten the facts, before you said it, then? I mean, I haven’t googled it, either, but I didn’t make the claim. Also, Kathy Griffin hasn’t been charged with anything and she did a pretty high-profile picture with a severed Trump head. And the supreme court has ruled on…

You can’t put a mural of his severed head on a school’s grounds because he is the president.

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.

Like anyone gives a shit what you think.

What the fuck, Kinja?

Like anyone gives a shit what you think.

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.