Now we come to a vitally important topic, where clarity about the status of various celebrities is achieved.
Thanks to this forum I was able to discover that it was sometime in about January or February of 2022 when I figured out who Brittany mahomes is and decided that I liked her. There was everything to like: she was a loud, outspoken, fun, rowdy gal with genuine talent as a soccer player, trainer, and business owner. She was a young mom who was the DAY ONE of perhaps the most popular and desirable guy in all of US sportsball, and people were constantly trashing her because of it. They were criticizing her appearance and tearing down everything she said and did, and I was 100% team Brittany!
And then it turned out this moron is a MAGA person. Ugh. Done. And no, I don't see the slightest need to separate my superficial evaluation of a celebrity from her very non-superficial expression of political support for a man who's trying to tear apart my country. So... Bye Brittany, there's always hope that you can do better but right now you're swimming at the bottom of the barrel with the worst people.
And then it turned out that the Taylor Swift fans were shocked by all these things because Taylor is dating Travis, bestie and teammate of Patrick, husband of Brittany. The Swifties tend to be anti-Trump and they assume that their goddess shares their politics. Of course the goddess really wants to make money and not alienate anybody who might contribute money to her hoard, So she's not going to say a word about it and she's going to give a big old hug to Brittany so everybody knows there's no rift between them. And after all Brittany is pregnant with baby number three so who knows what all is going on.
But it reinforced my generally cynical impression of Taylor Swift, and unfortunately I viewed the words of various other people who felt the need to comment on a celebrity in public. Which is something that none of us should be doing. Why are we doing that? I don't know her so... Whatever.
But that brings us to the really important commentary on celebrities!!!! I am livid pissed about something that doesn't affect my life at all because... It's a story about a celebrity. But I'll tell you what... This time they are trying to trash the memory of our beloved Prince Rogers Nelson. How f****** dare they? It turns out a guy was able to get access to a bunch of archives during the time when Prince's estate was not settled and in control of his remaining family. So he got more access than they wanted to give him later, and then he interviewed a bunch of people, some of whom apparently had a lot of bad things to say about Prince. And that's great because some of them barely freaking knew him at all and he's not around to defend himself, and even if he was we know what he was like - He would have been radio silence completely and nobody ever would have known what he thought about it. But I think it's a bunch of b*******. And I think it's really gross that they trash him for the way his relationship with his wife ended after they lost a newborn baby under tragic circumstances. They're trying to paint him like the villain in that scenario even though there's no reason to think he was one and his ex-wife hasn't said anything like that either. It's just absolutely horrible. And what's really annoying... Because the estate won't agree to release certain things because of what they consider dishonesty in the representation, The documentary probably will not come out on Netflix after all, but there are still these news stories trashing a man on the basis of flimsy non evidence. People are just awful.
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Swift endorsed Harris/Walz after last night's debate.
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And she got some shade in at JD Vance by signing it as a childless cat lady and including a picture of her with her cat.
And here is video of Trump and JD Vance's response.
And here is video of Trump and JD Vance's response.
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Classic! Exactly what you would expect!
Any time the solution is "banjo rifle", I'm in 100%.
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Lol Taylor has been redeemed. The Harris campaign response to Vance was hilarious as well - they just quoted his remark about a billionaire out of touch with the average American, and added a little puzzled face emoji... The people who run that social media are savage and it is one of the most amusing things on the internet right now.
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My cynical friend says that she hugged that maga woman In public on purpose with all the cameras on her, to let her maga fans know that she still loves them even though she was about to post the endorsement... I can't play chess more than one step ahead so... I don't know man! They say that a bunch of people registered to vote because of her though, and who can argue with that? Get on in there and vote!
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Y'all are forgetting what's important in this discussion: fuck the people trying to trash the memory of Prince. His Royal Purpleness was a goddamn saint. Exhibit A, the greatest Super Bowl halftime performance of all time (click through, you deserve it today):
There's a special place in hell for these vultures. How dare they.
There's a special place in hell for these vultures. How dare they.
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You're right, that is the crucial issue here! The link doesn't work but that's why it matters to be able to look things up on the internet by yourself. That's why we train for this moment.
I am so freaking pissed by all the little think pieces based on the "unreleased documentary". Why aren't we calling it an unauthorized documentary? They'll piece together some random quotes from people jawing about Prince at about the same level of sophistication and accuracy as I talk about it right here on this website, And then they pretend like this is documentary evidence of some sort. Like Prince must have been deeply troubled by his omission from the rolling Stone list of great guitarists and he nursed this deep and terrible injury and then unleashed it on stage at the Rock and roll Hall of Fame so that he could prove that he was better and seek vengeance and in general have all kinds of negative b******* emotions that I really just don't think Prince suffered from... I'm pretty sure Prince knew he was a f****** badass and one of the greatest guitarists that ever lived and he was happy to give a little demonstration and have some fun. The other guitarists who were on stage with him described very positive and cordial interactions with him so... Most of them admired him because the talent recognizes the talent. But they need to tell a story that somehow diminishes Prince psychologically. One of the best things about watching interviews with Prince is how incredibly wise he is and how much that shows in the interviews even at a young age. When he's older all he really has to do is raise an eyebrow and everything is stated that needed to be stated.
And while I'm getting myself worked up and excited let me shout into the void again that Prince was not a drug addict. And that's no slight against people who do suffer from addiction because I think it can happen to anyone including Prince. But it just so happens that there's no evidence of Prince being addicted to drugs - there's evidence of him having an injury with longstanding complications and of having medical problems prior to his death. But despite all this probing and negativity nobody has been able to come up with evidence that he actually was using drugs regularly! In fact, It seems he didn't even take painkillers regularly despite having a painful chronic injury. So what the hell people, it just really bothers me how they have to tear down a man they don't want to be a hero for some reason. One of the pieces of evidence people actually put into an article as if they are being serious is that Prince would be seen riding a bike around or would sometimes ride his bike through the drugstore pickup window. How the hell this is evidence of drug addiction is anyone's guess.
I am so freaking pissed by all the little think pieces based on the "unreleased documentary". Why aren't we calling it an unauthorized documentary? They'll piece together some random quotes from people jawing about Prince at about the same level of sophistication and accuracy as I talk about it right here on this website, And then they pretend like this is documentary evidence of some sort. Like Prince must have been deeply troubled by his omission from the rolling Stone list of great guitarists and he nursed this deep and terrible injury and then unleashed it on stage at the Rock and roll Hall of Fame so that he could prove that he was better and seek vengeance and in general have all kinds of negative b******* emotions that I really just don't think Prince suffered from... I'm pretty sure Prince knew he was a f****** badass and one of the greatest guitarists that ever lived and he was happy to give a little demonstration and have some fun. The other guitarists who were on stage with him described very positive and cordial interactions with him so... Most of them admired him because the talent recognizes the talent. But they need to tell a story that somehow diminishes Prince psychologically. One of the best things about watching interviews with Prince is how incredibly wise he is and how much that shows in the interviews even at a young age. When he's older all he really has to do is raise an eyebrow and everything is stated that needed to be stated.
And while I'm getting myself worked up and excited let me shout into the void again that Prince was not a drug addict. And that's no slight against people who do suffer from addiction because I think it can happen to anyone including Prince. But it just so happens that there's no evidence of Prince being addicted to drugs - there's evidence of him having an injury with longstanding complications and of having medical problems prior to his death. But despite all this probing and negativity nobody has been able to come up with evidence that he actually was using drugs regularly! In fact, It seems he didn't even take painkillers regularly despite having a painful chronic injury. So what the hell people, it just really bothers me how they have to tear down a man they don't want to be a hero for some reason. One of the pieces of evidence people actually put into an article as if they are being serious is that Prince would be seen riding a bike around or would sometimes ride his bike through the drugstore pickup window. How the hell this is evidence of drug addiction is anyone's guess.
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Well... I thought the coroner's report said he died from a fentanyl overdose. Now hear me out: I don't know the circumstances that surround that. But I will say this- if he did die from a fentanyl overdose, this only goes further to prove that Prince was at the forefront of modern trends!
And in all seriousness, even if he did die from a fentanyl overdose, and even if he had a drug problem, we need to make this clear: drug addiction is a disease. This is one of the things that bothers me about Michael Jackson (other than the whole specter of child molestation)- people want to laugh about how he died while on propofol- the anesthetic that he was using when his heart stopped. But when people laugh at that, they have to remember that he had a real issue, whether it was mental health, physical or addiction. He went to a doctor that said, "Hey man, this is okay! Let's do this thing!" And that thing killed him. In my work with workers' compensation patients, I see a lot of people that slip from being good, hard-working, middle-class people into opiate-addicted druggies. And without exception, they were first put on that path by doctors. While it's easy to look at a drug addict and say, "Another dead junkie," the truth is that there are root causes to these things that our society doesn't want to address. Another example is my family's work with the unhoused community. To be clear- many of them are drug addicts. But the reality is that they're drug addicts because their situation- often due to untreated mental health problems- make coping with life extremely difficult and drugs are a cheap and easy way to self-medicate. Addiction is a disease. It's a disease that is influence not just by societal circumstances, but also by genetic tendencies. We need to recognize that instead of writing off drug addicts as "weak willed" people.
And in all seriousness, even if he did die from a fentanyl overdose, and even if he had a drug problem, we need to make this clear: drug addiction is a disease. This is one of the things that bothers me about Michael Jackson (other than the whole specter of child molestation)- people want to laugh about how he died while on propofol- the anesthetic that he was using when his heart stopped. But when people laugh at that, they have to remember that he had a real issue, whether it was mental health, physical or addiction. He went to a doctor that said, "Hey man, this is okay! Let's do this thing!" And that thing killed him. In my work with workers' compensation patients, I see a lot of people that slip from being good, hard-working, middle-class people into opiate-addicted druggies. And without exception, they were first put on that path by doctors. While it's easy to look at a drug addict and say, "Another dead junkie," the truth is that there are root causes to these things that our society doesn't want to address. Another example is my family's work with the unhoused community. To be clear- many of them are drug addicts. But the reality is that they're drug addicts because their situation- often due to untreated mental health problems- make coping with life extremely difficult and drugs are a cheap and easy way to self-medicate. Addiction is a disease. It's a disease that is influence not just by societal circumstances, but also by genetic tendencies. We need to recognize that instead of writing off drug addicts as "weak willed" people.
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Yes, I agree and if he was really a drug addict then so be it, there's no crime in that and we understand especially in cases like his why people are vulnerable to the influence of others. I just don't think he WAS a drug addict and I don't want anyone who benefits from saying that he was to gain this benefit from a lie. My understanding is he took what he thought was a Vicodin but it was laced with fentanyl and that's why he died. So how and why that happened is a whole other question... But all the supposed evidence that was put forward to suggest he was a drug addict was bogus. I personally think he was murdered but whatever, I don't have evidence of that either so it's just a hunch. I think they tried to do it at least that one time before they succeeded (when he was taking in for medical care after having a crisis on the plane) and he was given medicine to reverse the effects. So he survived that incident, and everybody around him was shocked, but then the second time around they got it done. The whole thing about this celebrity doctor treating him suddenly, and the other celebrity doctor sending in his son suddenly for supposed intervention is a bunch of bs in my opinion... None of the people that were with him most closely thought he was taking drugs, and he didn't have any prescriptions for drugs, and he was dealing with hand pain and hip pain without drugs for years. But then all of a sudden some new doctors show up - who supposedly were "sent in" by other people but not called by him? - and voila he almost dies once and then actually does? I don't trust it. I don't trust the people that were around him and I don't even know how things like that could happen.
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I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that Zachary Levi is endorsing Trump. He used to advocate for mental wellness, and now he's endorsing the person who is both mentally unwell, and who is also probably most responsible for mental unwellness in the majority of the population, both anxiety inducing for those in opposition, and anger/fear-inducing in his supporters.