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Eddie Torriale's avatar

18 U.S. Code Β§ 1462 includes interactive computer services and criminalizes any writing or picture considered obscene. Obscenity is in the eye of the beholder--and I think Trump's Obama video post on his Truth Social (which is neither) is obscene. I suggest a Comstock Act prosecution..

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Hochul is perfectly capable of conveying that message with just a look.

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

The thing that’s funny here isn’t the swearing. It’s the performance of moral dignity around extraditing doctors for providing healthcare while pretending this is about β€œstates’ rights” instead of control. Newsom didn’t lower the tone. He translated it. β€œBless your heart” has always been a curse word in costume, and everyone knows it. The real obscenity is trying to resurrect the Comstock Act like it’s a constitutional time machine, as if the mail system should become a deputized uterus inspector. If the Court really wants to cosplay a modern Fugitive Slave Act, they’re going to have to own that out loud too. At this point, a well-placed β€œgo fuck yourself” is just clarity with fewer footnotes.

Owlftr13's avatar

If the LA AG wants to fight crime maybe she should go to

mike Johnson's district with one of the highest murder rates in America.

Meccalopolis's avatar

>>>As of this writing, Kathy Hochul is the only official involved who is maintaining a dignified silence and not telling Louisiana to go fuck itself. Though we are sure, as a New Yorker, that she’s thinking it.

Va fungool!

eo's avatar

I like to imagine that Gov. Hochul swears like a sailor off-mike.

William Bouxsein's avatar

"It’s one thing to have told Murrill to fuck herself, but it would be another to tell her to fuck herself sideways with a rusty chainsaw. You have to get creative if you want to really make your contempt clear." πŸ˜†πŸ˜†πŸ˜†πŸ˜†πŸ˜†πŸ˜†

beb's avatar

Banning abortion is not "defending life" because as we've seen in Texas, a lot of women are dying because they can't get help for miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies or other life-threatening complications from pregnancies gone wrong.

PuraVida's avatar

And embryos are not babies.

Rachael's avatar

If they actually were babies the 'pro-lifers' would be fine with them dying from malnutrition, lack of health care, and in school shootings when they're older.

mzf's avatar

I'm certain that as I write this, some enterprising comedian/graphics geek is changing the faces in that video to those of tRump and JD. I wanna' see it.

Bitter Scribe's avatar

Well, good for Newsom. But by itself, this doesn't amount to much. If he wants my vote in any primary, he'll have to come up with something more compelling than just willingness to drop f-bombs.

fuflans's avatar

too way early for any of this shit.

if we survive march (here in IL) i'll be happy to reassess whoever swears the best. or least.

Joe Schmoe, Troublemaker's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NocoxyMuXg8

Gojira (Godzilla to you non-Japanophiles)...you know the clip, featuring the immaculate Ken Watanabe

fair_n_hite_451's avatar

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound

He pulls the spitting high-tension wires down

tehbaddr's avatar

As a NYer also, too, I bet Kathy Hochul is thinking "Fuck you, you fucking fuck!"

Lexicon Devil's avatar

Prosecute god for all the miscarriges

Queen MΓ©abh's avatar

I hadn't thought about it until just now, but AI could not only kill the screen actors guild, but it could also kill the porn industry.

YaJagoff's avatar

I don't think AI will kill the porn industry, what would they do with all those women and children being trafficked for porn?

Caepan's avatar

Make them run the bot farms?

eppe's avatar

Are there no workhouses?

eppe's avatar
Feb 6Edited

People's curiosity about the sex lives of others, whether real or fake, will always be around. in one way or another. AI would just enhance the fakeness.

Queen MΓ©abh's avatar

The problem is that you can do things to AI people that you can't legally do to human people, like chop them up or skin them alive.

Caepan's avatar

Since I have spent a good chunk of my adult-ish life in two of the most cussin'-prone industries there are - print shops and TV production - as well as having been in bands both on stage and front-of-house, I tend to swear like a fucking stevedore. But lately I have just been consolidating my constant swearing by just taking a breath and responding, "Shitfuckdamnhellass."

Jessica's avatar

I used to work with submariners. After much practice, I even managed to impress them

Snarfyguy's avatar

Sweariest job I ever had was at an offset printing shop.

I don't think I ever heard a sentence uttered by the guys on the line that didn't have a swear in it.

Caepan's avatar

The bindery is usually the most cussin'est place in a print shop. But it's everywhere. And because there's so much noise, the cussin' is usually really fucking loud.

Dudley Didwrong's avatar

I learned to cuss from pros, but the Olympics were the night shift at a printing company in Ohio. Fucking glorious.

eppe's avatar

Being ultimately responsible for Quality Control has had the same effect on me.

YaJagoff's avatar

"shit," "piss," "fuck," "cunt," "cocksucker," "motherfucker," and "tits."-G. Carlin

fair_n_hite_451's avatar

But c'mon ... "tits"? It's such a lovely word... ;-)

Caepan's avatar

The Heavy Seven.

tehbaddr's avatar

GAH! The comments, I should know better!

YaJagoff's avatar

Gaetz is on team Marge on this as well.

Prometheus59650's avatar

Well, if that ain't a clear sign of the Apocalypse.