JIM TREACHER: Senate Aide Unusually Gay.
A point of clarification here: I’d be more surprised if Senate aides weren’t banging at work all day. I think it’s hilarious, and I reserve the right to make stupid jokes about it. I haven’t been this amused since Anthony Weiner went away.
But there’s also a serious point to be made here. This kid genuinely doesn’t think he did anything out of the ordinary, because for his whole life he’s been told how amazing he is. Of course it’s okay for this very special person to scream at Jews and rut like a dog at his workplace. He’s one of the good guys, so he can do whatever he wants.
It’s those mean ol’ conservatives who are the problem. They’re the bad guys. They don’t care about Trump banging porn stars, but they care about this? Etc., etc.
I’m sure this kid will land on his feet, or some other body part. He’s now a victim of “revenge porn” by those evil Republicans, just like Katie Hill and Susanna Gibson. So now the libs will turn him into the next Dylan Mulvaney. For a shameless exhibitionist like Aidan Maese-Czeropski, the sky’s the limit.
Related: The Politico story covering for Susanna Gibson is more embarrassing than anything she ever did.
Gibson’s defense of her choices is equally astonishing: “Choosing to share content, online or in whatever medium, with select people with the understanding that it will disappear and can only be seen by those present at the time — when we’re talking livestreaming, webcamming and Skype — that is a far cry from consenting for that content to be recorded and then broadly disseminated.” Cockburn was not aware of this, but is pleased to have been educated by someone who knows better.
Regarding nude images, Gibson tells Burns, “the moment that an image like that or a video like that gets put on the internet, it’s like lighting a fire in a dry forest. It spreads rapidly and extensively until it causes irreversible damage.” Cockburn agrees — and is not in the habit of taking nude photographs of his miserable soma. He might not therefore be the best person to ask, “is it different when you are the person posting said image on the internet? Deliberately? For profit? Rather than having a private image posted by accident, or hacked and posted without consent like Jennifer Lawrence, or stolen from a safe in your house like Pamela Anderson?” Someone should though!
Gibson is considering legal action against whoever made a copy of her livestreamed sex acts and posted them elsewhere on the internet. “I want the person who found and then disseminated illegal pornographic images of me — again, violating federal and state laws — they need to be held accountable,” she says.
Cockburn wishes Gibson luck in her search for the person responsible for her political downfall. Has she checked the mirror?
It’s unfortunate that the current incarnation of Saturday Night Live sees it as their mission to hide the majority of scandals involving Democrats, because a “Dukakis After Dark” style sketch featuring Gibson and Maese-Czeropski commiserating about their self-inflicted woes has the potential to make for great television. (Or at least it could have, starring their earlier funnier* cast members of the show.)
Instead, here’s America’s Newspaper of Record: Capitol Janitors Deep Clean Senate Chamber With Flamethrowers. “‘Lysol isn’t going to cut it,’ said head of janitorial services Donovan Miller. ‘Light it up, boys!’”