horrifying attack on Jussie Smollett

[dudalb]

I foresee a tearful Jimmy-Swaggart-like apology and plea for forgiveness coming pretty soon.

He won't get it from me. He just made it a lot harder for actual victims of bigotry to be taken seriously. He can go to Hell as far as I am concerned.

 

[Skeptic Tank]

Well, I was wrong.
I despise Smollett now. He just made things tougher for any real victim of bigotry.
But before TBD crows too much, his great God Trump was taken in just like most people.....My mistake was in thinking "No way would somebody fake this and make so many mistakes. Just a case of really stupid attackers".
And Smolett has pretty much destroyed his career with this stunt.

I don't know that Trump was taken in.

Trump had exactly one way he could respond to something like this at that point in time. He had to say it sounded awful, so he said that.

 

[sir drinks-a-lot]

He won't get it from me. He just made it a lot harder for actual victims of bigotry to be taken seriously.

I think he was saying that he is expecting a Jimmy-Swaggart-like apology from Smollett himself. You've got nothing to apologize for.

 

[Baylor]

Surveillance video showing the brothers buying the hat and other crime stuff.

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1098339145032839169

HORRIFYING!

'This media may contain sensitive material'

 

[dudalb]

SMolett has just become the best thing to happen to the bigots in a long time.
Man is a total idiot.

 

[RecoveringYuppy]

I wonder if his lawyers are trying to negotiate a plea deal now. Maybe that's why that one prosecutor recused herself?

That makes no sense. Prosecutors would be required for the negotiating. That's who the defendants lawyers negotiate with.

 

[applecorped]

 

[William Parcher]

Well, I was wrong. I despise Smollett now. He just made things tougher for any real victim of bigotry.

No he did not. And the reason he did not is because nonpartisan and nonracist skepticism and critical thinking will cut through any smoke.

 

[Brainster]

Well, I was wrong.
I despise Smollett now. He just made things tougher for any real victim of bigotry.
But before TBD crows too much, his great God Trump was taken in just like most people.....

I was just thinking that this thread had gone on far too long without somebody mentioning the bad orange man.

 

[William Parcher]

SMolett has just become the best thing to happen to the bigots in a long time. Man is a total idiot.

That is bullcrap. There is no good thing happening to bigots at all.

Drop all of your partisanship and all of your racism and you will see this.

 

[dudalb]

Just go on the Internet,and the Bigots are rejoicing in this.

 

[dudalb]

That is bullcrap. There is no good thing happening to bigots at all.

Drop all of your partisanship and all of your racism and you will see this.

And you are living in never,never land if you can't see the rise in Bigotry over the past few years.
You also think most people are rational thinkers. A Huge mistake.

 

[alfaniner]

I think he was saying that he is expecting a Jimmy-Swaggart-like apology from Smollett himself. You've got nothing to apologize for.

Sir is correct.

And I read dudalb's response as saying, "Smollett won't be getting any forgiveness from dudalb."

 

[sir drinks-a-lot]

Just go on the Internet,and the Bigots are rejoicing in this.

Bigots rejoice in a lot of things.
They even rejoice in some of the same things that non-bigots rejoice in.
Lots of non-bigots are rejoicing in the Smollett thing.
Smollett is a bigot.
Etc.

ETA (Full disclosure): I'm rejoicing in the Smollett thing.

 

[The Big Dog]

Just go on the Internet,and the Bigots are rejoicing in this.

Aww, was the actual fake hate hoax exposed as a hate hoax?

Aww, crumbs, it wasn’t a hate crime, and people are happy that the race grifters attempt to start a race war failed.

Bigots.

 

[Whip]

from 'gay tupac' to gay tawana brawley in a week. oof.

 

[Foolmewunz]

Deleted. Not pertinent to the discussion.

 

[sir drinks-a-lot]

Deleted. Not pertinent to the discussion.

That's never stopped anyone before.

 

[theprestige]

SMolett has just become the best thing to happen to the bigots in a long time.

Depends on one's flavor of bigotry, I suppose. There's some bigots who'll be gutted by the revelation that the whole thing was a hoax. Chief among them: Jussie Smollett, probably.

 

[Puppycow]

That makes no sense. Prosecutors would be required for the negotiating. That's who the defendants lawyers negotiate with.

It makes no sense that his lawyers might want to negotiate a plea deal or it makes no sense that a prosecutor would recuse herself?

Because the latter is a fact.