Her father was also one of the highest-earning crim defense lawyers.

Yeah, it’s nice that she did some good stuff decades ago, but her immediate legacy is dog shit.

I used to smoke in the shower in the ‘70s. Loved it.

I also had a roommate who had to get up at least once per night to smoke.

I’m going to accept your lived experience as a stroke expert.

To be fair, the boots are part and parcel with fascism’s over-focus on idealized body perfection

Hope they got all of the free battery of the month cards!

Piss-play fetish if you swim around the Great Barrier Reef a lot.

If “public” was intentional, this is next-level.

I followed Brand’s turn during COVID, and his YouTube methodology felt like a calculated attempt at a digital personality cult of sorts. Between language he used, the constant reinforcement of revelatory in-group thinking, the leader-as-peer-but-really-leader self-characterizations, the topics and tropes conveniently serving his professional career, it all seemed to be a deliberate construction of an online personality cult to harness COVID disaffection, general malaise, and conspiracy thinking.

One interesting thing about Brand today is that he’s not as quick and exuberant as he once was, and so you can much more easily see the scaffolding and calculation. He’s now repellent instead of rakish.

A grifter.

There’s an old guy in my neighborhood who’s a Vietnam vet; he did one tour in the army and got out. The back of his car is covered in military-related stickers, and it’s front and center when you talk to him.

I’m sympathetic that he was tossed into something heavy at 18 years old, but I don’t understand basing one’s entire personality on, and ruining a nice paint job for, something you did for 18 months, 54 years ago.

Finally, he’s a big Trump fan.

Jesus, this is dark.