I kind of get it. The Root’s comment section has been infested with racist shitstains for a while now. Of course, you could also invest in better moderation but that would cost ol’ Spanfeller a tenth of a new yacht or something.

Oh God, I thought we had moved past this kind of thing around 2016, when Lindy West appointed herself emperor of jokes. There’s nothing inconsistent about thinking a subject is serious and making a joke about it. And nothing in my joke suggests that abuse victims should be doubted or that abusers should not be…

I had assumed your comment had a point.  My mistake.

Dude really gets after it

The stuff with Franken was fucking stupid. The people who started banging the drum against him were not acting in good faith, but managed to make enough of a racket to get a sitting Senator to step down. It was basically a more successful version of what happened to James Gunn.

Well, that accounts for that Sunday, but how about apologizing for every other day you’ve existed in the public sphere?

It’s disheartening to see such perverted, anarchic behavior associated with Beetlejuice.

Well, that accounts for that Sunday, but how about apologizing for every other day you’ve existed in the public sphere?

This is a strange argument. Apatow’s responsible for finding funny people to be in his movies, and for making sure those people behave professionally during the movies. Brand is very funny in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and none of the allegations here concern any conduct during the filming of an Apatow movie. I don’t…

Unfortunately he was famous in the UK before Apatow introduced him to American audiences. 

Who would have thought that a malignant narcissist could also be an abuser?

“is there another agenda at play?”

It’s always the person you could suspect.

It’s always the person you least suspect. Here, Brand is the person you most suspect, which makes you think you shouldn’t suspect him, which makes him the person you least suspect.

I think this is good news. To me it says that Cincinnati has no homeless, poor, underfed and underrepresented people that the church would otherwise be helping.

As a 36 year old grandmother, she should know better.

I can’t believe a conservative Republican would have so much callous disregard for a pregnant person’s health. Unbelievable. 

She, like DeSantis, is only thinking about voters in red hats. That general election she only won by 550 votes was preceded by a primary - against an established Republican politician in that State with over a decade in office - that Boebert won in a complete blowout 66% to 34%.  Add to that the fact that they’ve…

I agree.  I might even go so far as to say that the majority of Republicans in Congress can’t wait for Trump and MAGA to be irrelevant.  Unfortunately, as long as Trump can speak, he will hold the MAGA cult members in thrall.

Let’s be real. There are very few Republicans who genuinely want to pass extremist anti-abortion legislation, especially not with an election coming. Hence they’ve designated a few moderate Republicans to play the villain and block passage.  The Democratic Party plays this game too. Democrats routinely pretend to…