A woman was convicted for laughing at Jeff Sessions. Its my patriotic duty to call bullshit.

[babylonsister]

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/first-person/2017/5/7/15570704/jeff-sessions-laugh-desiree-fairooz

A woman was convicted for laughing at Jeff Sessions. It’s my patriotic duty to call bullshit.
I’ve made my career using comedy to expose the hypocrisy of the powerful. It’s dangerous that the Justice Department can’t take a joke.

Updated by Lizz Winstead on May 7, 2017 12:00 pm


Maybe we should have guessed that an administration led by a man who didn’t want to be made fun of at the White House Correspondents dinner also may send a lady in a pink crown to jail for laughing at its Attorney General. Big shocker. Our over-reactive, thin-skinned, sexist thug of a president has created an over-reactive, thin-skinned, sexist thuggish Justice Department.

Earlier this year Desiree Fairooz was arrested for the crime of laughing at a particularly gaslighty comment during the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions. And this week we learned that she was convicted and could face 12 months in prison, $2,000 in fines, or both.

I’m personally offended at the idea that a bunch of powerful men could lock up a woman who has an appreciation for irony. I’ve made my career using comedy to expose the hypocrisy of the powerful. It’s the whole point of the very popular television program The Daily Show, which I co-created. It’s also the point of Lady Parts Justice League, a cabal of comics I brought together to expose creeps hellbent on destroying access to birth control and abortion.

So when the government comes after a woman for laughing in the face of political hypocrisy, it’s my patriotic duty to call bullshit.

[triron]

1. I am horrified

[progressoid]

2. Speaking of precious snowflakes...

[Generic Brad]

3. They are coming for Colbert next

This is no laughing matter.