Am I shocked that there is not a Jussie Smollett thread on this board?

[TheReal_LWS]

Nope.....not at all. You guys are a joke.

[Other Teams Pursuing That]

Who?

[Rocinante]

I think it completely delegitimizes all so-called “discrimination” and “hate crimes.”

I sleep better knowing that the only racist are democrats and black people.

In whitey’s name we pray,

[Cameron]

If you want to talk about it, start a thread. You clearly know how.

[msugolfguy]

Who? Seriously who is that?

[AvgMSUJoe]

Yesterday, being off of work I noticed on GMA or some other fine MSM provider that they gave about 2 min to the Aurora workplace shooting and 20 to this fool.

This is America.

[AvgMSUJoe]

BTW, I commented on this idiot somewhere on this board... maybe the main board. Regardless, equating an actor's drama to anything meaningful to people is ridiculous.

[msugolfguy]

BTW, I commented on this idiot somewhere on this board... maybe the main board. Regardless, equating an actor's drama to anything meaningful to people is ridiculous.

I read up on this. Seems like Trump supporters want people to know they aren't all racists.

Congratulations you aren't all racist. However the overwhelming majority of racist did vote for him. So enjoy living with that.

[Watch Out Pylon!]

Nope.....not at all. You guys are a joke.

What the fuck kind of name is Jussie? What's this all about now? I don't read the Ted Nugent Times.

[kingstonlake]

I hope he goes to jail. Smollet, not LWS.

[Watch Out Pylon!]

OK, so I actually did some Googling and figured out what got LWS all bent out of shape. Yeah, this guy needs some sort of punishment. Not cool to fake a hate crime.

[DWags]

Who?

Some movie star that what I can gather his career was going in the toilet so evidently he paid some guys to beat him up. I don’t follow him like LWS obviously does, but I told my wife that he’s accomplished what he’s set out to do. I have now not only heard of him, but am interested in the outcome. They say no such thing as bad publicity in Hollywood. This guy nailed it. His high paid attorney gets him community service, he will go on the talk show circuit he’ll be in movies and tv shows.

John Wayne would never do this shit.

[Other Teams Pursuing That]

So what does an actor paying people to beat him up have to do with politics/bin?

[WhiteBoyHatcher]

I have asked Pylon to delete my post. It was bad and out of line and feeding a troll.

[Watch Out Pylon!]

I have asked Pylon to delete my post. It was bad and out of line and feeding a troll.

Done.

[Watch Out Pylon!]

So what does an actor paying people to beat him up have to do with politics/bin?

Someone will equate racial tension to Trump, so I'm leaving it. Oops.

[InTenSity]

So what does an actor paying people to beat him up have to do with politics/bin?

He claimed they called him all sorts of names and he needed to get out of MAGA country, or something like that. Anyway, trump supporters were scared shitless because they know this could actually happen, but now they feel vindicated because it looks like this is all a setup.
I never watched empire.

[TheReal_LWS]

I have asked Pylon to delete my post. It was bad and out of line and feeding a troll.

Kind of like the time you stalked my wife at work?

[tGreenWay]

Sorry, but we don’t let TMZ and People magazine dictate our story selection.

[GRR Spartan]

The OP is shocked by a multiple of things.

This is an older, more cynical board.
A lot of posters remember Tawana Brawley

Know Chicago mass transit is blanketed with CCTV cameras that would typically pick up some images of the two people who attacked the actor.

Know that the actor's cell phone would probably have been taken because it could be sold but more importantly because its an actor's phone the contact list and any banking apps could be worth a lot more than a stolen smart phone.

But Smollett didn't lose his phone in the alleged attack. Instead he sanatized it before turning it over to Chicago law enforcement.

[MiamiSpartan]

This was discussed in the TV/Movies thread on the main board. Not every random thought or sub topic needs it's own thread, LWS.

[WhiteBoyHatcher]

This topic is a real dog whistle for idiots isn't it?

I read about it. Guy is a moron and hopefully is prosecuted and punished severely. I've never watched that show or heard of this guy until a few days ago so it doesn't really move the needle much. Here is a summary for Bob or anyone else curious.

https://www.freep.com/story/life/2019/02/20/jussie-smollett-charged-disorderly-conduct-filing-false-police-report/2928870002/

[Rocinante]

I think the fact that there wasn't a thread over here should indicate to bee that most of us wanted to wait to see how it shook out. It was fishy from the get go. Anyone who didn't see that, didn't want to see that. I guess I don't understand why we should care? Maybe in Bee and Goose's minds, the fact that the left leaning members of this board aren't up in arms defending the president against this attack(??) from a gay black b-lister means that we... what, approve of it? I don't know. It's hard to figure these guys out.

[MiamiSpartan]

What sucks about this is the extreme disservice that Smollett has done to past and future victims of real hate crimes. It has given the jackasses an impetus to not believe any future hate crime is real. Hell, just look at the smug way that LWS started this thread, thinking that it's some "gotcha" against the left (ignoring the fact that he completely missed it being discussed on the main board). In fact, it may even embolden people to commit more attacks for real, because they will know that people will think it's another fake crime. What a fucking piece of shit.

[AvgMSUJoe]

Speaking of shit I don't care about.
The news said John Wayne was a white supremacist... Wondering how that affects lws' politics? Gut punch or atta boy?

Regardless, pretty irrelevant to have that brought up now by whomever the MSM outlet was.

[Rocinante]

Speaking of shit I don't care about.
The news said John Wayne was a white supremacist... Wondering how that affects lws' politics? Gut punch or atta boy?

Regardless, pretty irrelevant to have that brought up now by whomever the MSM outlet was.

I thought that was known.

[DWags]

Ftr, I just threw John Wayne’s name out there. I don’t know anything about him except true grit and I just read he refused to play himself in Blazing Saddles but said he loved the script.

by the way, they actually wanted Johnny Carson to play Gene Wilders role. Wilder was the third choice.

But yeah, fuck this guy. If he’s guilty he’s given knuckle draggers ammunition to say all this shit is always made up. He’s given the real homophobes And xenophobia and racists a platform to preach from. Throw his ass in prison.

[steveschneider]

This topic is a real dog whistle for idiots isn't it?

I read about it. Guy is a moron and hopefully is prosecuted and punished severely. I've never watched that show or heard of this guy until a few days ago so it doesn't really move the needle much. Here is a summary for Bob or anyone else curious.

https://www.freep.com/story/life/2019/02/20/jussie-smollett-charged-disorderly-conduct-filing-false-police-report/2928870002/

Exactly this.

Didn't even know about this idiot until a few days ago. Why do right wingers give a shit about what lefties think about this?

Also, sorry right wingers I'm not going to waste too much more time thinking about this one.

[Travis of the Cosmos]

This topic is a real dog whistle for idiots isn't it?

I read about it. Guy is a moron and hopefully is prosecuted and punished severely. I've never watched that show or heard of this guy until a few days ago so it doesn't really move the needle much. Here is a summary for Bob or anyone else curious.

https://www.freep.com/story/life/2019/02/20/jussie-smollett-charged-disorderly-conduct-filing-false-police-report/2928870002/

Exactly this.

Didn't even know about this idiot until a few days ago. Why do right wingers give a shit about what lefties think about this?

Also, sorry right wingers I'm not going to waste too much more time thinking about this one.

Because for your average republican now a days their primary platform is triggering libs steve

[steveschneider]

Exactly this.

Didn't even know about this idiot until a few days ago. Why do right wingers give a shit about what lefties think about this?

Also, sorry right wingers I'm not going to waste too much more time thinking about this one.

Because for your average republican now a days their primary platform is triggering libs steve

Yeah, someone said the other day that conservatives would let someone shit in their mouth if a liberal had to smell it. That's where we are at in 2019.

[Cameron]

Because for your average republican now a days their primary platform is triggering libs steve

Yeah, someone said the other day that conservatives would let someone shit in their mouth if a liberal had to smell it. That's where we are at in 2019.

I'm definitely stealing that line. I might even pretend I came up with it, I love it that much.

[kingstonlake]

So this cat played on Empire? Damn, didn't know Queensryche had a gay black dude in the band.

[DWags]

So, on my children, I have never watched a minute of "Empire" and am kind of pissed I know so much about this guy. However, it just came over my computer that Empire fired him today on set.

So, actions seem to have consequences. Imagine that.

[Other Teams Pursuing That]

Because for your average republican now a days their primary platform is triggering libs steve

Yeah, someone said the other day that conservatives would let someone shit in their mouth if a liberal had to smell it. That's where we are at in 2019.

[Watch Out Pylon!]

Because for your average republican now a days their primary platform is triggering libs steve

Yeah, someone said the other day that conservatives would let someone shit in their mouth if a liberal had to smell it. That's where we are at in 2019.

Good analogy. +1

[y2kMgrad]

Because Jussie is a friend?

[kingstonlake]

Because Jussie is a friend?

I see what you did there

[Rocinante]

All charges dropped.  This is interesting.

Chigago Tribune article short on the deets

[Robert J Sakimano]

All charges dropped.  This is interesting.

Chigago Tribune article short on the deets

so I'm guessing all the right wing racist bigots who rushed to judgement on this guy nobody had ever heard of will show contrition?

I won't hold my breath.  

[Jake from State Farm]

All charges dropped.  This is interesting.

Chigago Tribune article short on the deets

so I'm guessing all the right wing racist bigots who rushed to judgement on this guy nobody had ever heard of will show contrition?

I won't hold my breath.  

That $100,000 contribution to the local gendarmes proves his innocence.

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