Pop Culture Mondays/6.14.21
By: Brooke Hammerling
Tags: Conspiracy Theories, Football, Pride, Christian Eriksen, Pop Culture

Pop Culture Mondays/6.14.21

Welcome to my brain

HAPPY MONDAY my pop culture junkies and happy Pride month and all the celebrations around it and happy JUNETEENTH week and happy almost June 15th to California which like WTF are you doing tomorrow if you live in CA and the world is opening up? I might be hiding under my bed tbh. I mean it is sort of crazy how fast most of us adapt and I know there are people who say “I will never go back to the way I was before” but let’s see how long that lasts. Traffic is back. Lines are back. Colds will probably be back. SOOOOO…under my bed I go. BUT not before I write this monster of a PCM because there is JUST SO MUCH HAPPENING. And I know a lot of you are waiting to hear what I have to say about Jeffrey Toobin (🤡) and I know this because I have heard from SO many people asking, “what are you going to say…?” so here I go because I DO NOT WANT TO add his face to my newsletter because gross and because I do not want to waste more time and energy on him and what this whole thing says but to summarize…

…the Toobs got “caught” masturbating during a Zoom meeting with his New Yorker colleagues 7 months ago. Yes that’s right, during the height of the pandemic, while all of his esteemed colleagues are meeting via Zoom to discuss the topics ahead, the Toobs COULD NOT BEAR it anymore and decided to engage in some frisky masturbation during the call. Problem is he left his camera on. (I mean there are a lot of problems but let’s just focus on this one.) Let us just for ONE SECOND think about his colleagues and what they were confronted with. LOOK, I am liberal AF. I am guy’s girl and a girl’s girl. I am not a prude and I love old fashioned chivalry I am not going to lie. I do not grow AGHAST at all things others might deem as inappropriate and I try not to judge because I AM NO SAINT but I draw the line at a dude pulling his pants down and blah blah blah. I think this is pretty STANDARD response. He was fired by Conde Nast and CNN put him on suspension. WE assumed surely his broadcast days were done. Well, ENTER Jeff Zucker (shocker) who now is all puffed up like a peacock because he has more power than ever due to the Discovery deal and he decides the Toobs (a bro of his) has paid the price and HE IS BACK ON AIR. But even worse, he does an interview which, let’s be clear, you KNOW most CNN anchors were VYING to do because WHY not, and he proceeds to say he has had a TERRIBLE 7 months but he worked in a food bank so YAY he’s paid the price. AND HE IS BACK (CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO). I am not one for cancel culture but surely when we are cancelling young women for tweets they did when they were in high school ten years ago and albeit terrible tweets they have shown they have evolved since then…SURELY a man who proceeds to take his pants off to masturbate in the middle of the day while his colleagues watched…SURELY….no never mind. FORGET it. But I will say it will be VERY hard to see the CNN anchors known for their eye rolls and sarcasm and judgement take that tone moving forward. SO if you are a politician NOW IS YOUR TIME for public masturbation and being caught on camera because at the very least CNN better have NOTHING to say about it. HAVE FUN LINDSAY GRAHAM. GO FOR IT.

And with that, this is PCM. Welcome to my newest subscribers…I am normally not ranting but THIS had to be said. Hopefully the rest is less RANTY but I cannot promise as I write this in real time and have no editor…OBVIOUSLY… (we all need editors tbh).

Enjoy….