Bernie and his followers are a bit unfair to the entire concept of a primary. Bernie will spend the primary season firing up his supporters and if he doesn’t win, he will sulk and they will sulk and stay home from the election or vote for a third party because they are mad that he is not the candidate. Then we will…

Found the textbook Bernie Bro in the responses to your comment but I refuse to take him out of gray.

Fuck it.

As a Bernie supporter that voted for him in the primaries in 2016:

All of this. As a Chicagoan I generally don’t trust the CPD as far as I can throw ‘em, but they know how to “act right” for high profile cases like these. I don’t buy the the CPD is conspiring to make Jussie look like a liar. Why would they? This conspiracy theory doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

I totally get why people do not trust CPD (as a former Chicagoan I don’t trust the CPD) but the thing is this was a very high profile incident from the jump (as compared to others, which became famous later). This was a big deal for Chicago on the national scene and CPD knew they would be under the national spotlight…

No you don’t. You’re neither poor nor American.

I was never a big Bernie fan, and became less so after observing him the last two years.

He literally described himself as an Independent in that press release the other week saying that he was going to give a response to the SOTU in addition to the Democratic response.

And what MAGA dudes would know who he was in the first place?

I gave Jussie the benefit of the doubt at first, but thought there was something hinky about the “This is MAGA country!” line.  I mean, I’m not doubting that some Trump supporter somewhere would say it, but it sounds so... like what a script writer would make someone say in a movie rather than something someone would…

For as much as he talks about this monolithic The People, Bernie sure does seem to only view himself as the one who should lead it...

For as much as he talks about this monolithic The People, Bernie sure does seem to only view himself as the one who should lead it...

I guarantee the detectives on the case didn’t believe Smollett for more than a day (plenty of people realized this story about cartoon villains appearing out of thin air to lightly rough up a guy then disappearing into thin air just might not be the whole truth), but CPD (correctly) realized that publicly doubting his…

Not to paint too broad of a brush stroke here, but a lot of “creatives” I know aren’t exactly the most analytically minded people.

When I first heard the story my initial reaction was that it sounded exactly like what someone in Hollywood thinks a hate crime looks like, but I was willing to give him the benefit of the…

This is the problem. I’m weary of the argument that we shouldn’t push for leftist policies because the right will attack us in bad faith. That is what the right does, they attack in bad faith. However, making up a story out of thin air that vilifies MAGA dicks to garner sympathy only discredits the accounts of…

It also got out of control when every idiot in Hollywood and Congress started tweeting about the case. Funny how so many people correctly doubted this story from the start, but no one in Hollywood was smart enough to figure it out..

Presumably this thing got away from him, that he set out to goose his music sales with a little extra drama for social media, but the cops got involved and they took it more seriously than he thought they would and then he couldn’t stop digging and now, here we are.

I don’t have a problem with people being overweight, but I do get annoyed when people insist that there is nothing wrong with being fat. The more fat you have on your body, the more prone your body is to disease and inflammation and the shorter your life will likely be. Certainly, shaming people for being fat is not…

Straight size people can’t be body positive?