The people who used his addiction as a weapon for six years are now uncomfortable that he survived it with enough clarity to make jokes about it. That discomfort is not your problem to manage.
Seven years of sobriety through federal prosecution and national humiliation is not a political event. It is a human one. The wit he's bringing to it — the crack pipe photoshop correction, the cocaine denial with the punchline — is the specific register of someone who has fully processed the worst thing that happened to them. You cannot fake that register. It takes years of actual work.
His account of what happened to his father is coherent and worth hearing even if you disagree with it. His criticisms of Democratic establishment figures are the kind serious people across the spectrum have been making for years. None of that becomes wrong because he's the one saying it.
The question isn't whether Hunter Biden deserves sympathy. The question is whether we're capable of giving it to someone whose name became a political symbol before it became a person again. That's a test of us, not of him.
@EvelDick You’re killing me with this! 🤯 I would have slept in the rain for this lineup!
The only one listed that I saw in person was Eddie Money in Nashville in the late 80s. He sounded just like his records.
Imagine walking out in front of 72,000 people, with millions watching around the world, then sitting at the piano and performing one of the greatest songs ever written with pure confidence and passion.
Freddie Mercury truly was the ultimate rock star ❤️🎹
The president cancelling tv shows he doesn’t like & memeing about it on social media is a dystopian nightmare.
10 years, the very thought of this occurring would have been uncontroversially anti-american.
MAGA has destroyed our country.
@EvelDick The hypocrisy is mind blowing 🤯 Kimmel’s comment was nothing compared to what her hubby continues to spew nightly while perched upon his gold toilet.
@EvelDick I was a teenager in the 80s, and this was on the radio on repeat during the popularity of the movie “Dirty Dancing“. He was a talented guy! He hosted one of my favorite SNL episodes back in the day. The Chippendales skit with Chris Farley was comic genius. 😁
FBI agents have to retire at 57, air traffic controllers at 56, and pilots at 65. But somehow demented 70 and 80 year olds running the country is totally fine. Make it make sense.
Trump is such an astonishingly small, petty, miserable human being. Here he is revealing the private terminal diagnosis of a Republican member of Congress and then saying the only reason he helped him get medical care was because he needed his vote.