Blue Collar Lit.: Dr. Strangetweet, or how I learned to stop worrying...

in The Guardian-UK:
article titled
Ambien maker responds to Roseanne Barr: 'Racism is not a known side effect'

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Guardian Reader Comments

~ ...Given the lessons of history, probable challenges ahead, and the threat to democratic ideals, we are fools to put up with irresponsible narcissists at the helm of our ship of state.

~ Barr thinks she is being anarchical, when in fact she's being an arsehole. Her Twitter is an echo-chamber for the far-right.

~ Another very wealthy, very white, very stupid and very racist person. They seem to come out of the woodwork lately, attracted by the Trump "light," like moths.
Ignore them or swat them, yawn....

~ Being nasty is a very common schtick for comedians. Ricky Gervais, Michelle Wolf come to mind immediately.

The threshold of what's acceptable keeps shifting towards more and more distasteful.

Roseanne, who definitely has a history of unacceptable remarks, is not bright enough to understand the line between comedy and bigotry.

Comedy has made her wealthy, we all laughed and now she pushed it too far.

~ In Ambien veritas

~ Appalled by this outburst from Roseanne. She gives drug users a bad name.

~ ...An appropriately droll response from Sanofi.

~ These makers of sleeping pills are woke

~ Lawyers are now scouring the contracts for an 'act of nod' clause.

~ "Reported activities include having sex." Is this stuff freely available in Britain?

~ In my experience sex has never been freely available in Britain.

~ One of the few occasions that I've ever applauded Big Pharma.

~ RoseAmbien: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Tweet the Hate.

~ And its follow-up, Bitter Living through Chemistry

~ ...Decent, sane people need to show there is a better way to behave. We have to take over, now that the GOP is no longer the decency and family values party.

~ She has form - and it's not pretty. Have a little Google trawl through Rosanne's .. let's say .. 'little foibles' then have another go.

Cheers.

~ Roseanne is a self-absorbed narcissist. She always was. Her political ideas are half baked and superficial. That's why she flip flops between Hollywood liberal to independent conservative.

~ Incidentally, Barr has saved some of her worst bile for other women. A feminist she is not.

~ Roseanne Barr has been an ass for decades....

~ Now even Big Pharma is woke

~ It's amusing how good old capitalism has mastered the virtue signalling.

~ A severely personality disordered gargoyle of a gobshite. That's been her for years.

~ I love how everyone is so quick to defend a massive pharmaceutical company just because they want to prove Roseanne wrong.
Drugs are cool now because we need them to be cool so that we can continue hating on this other person, but don't worry next week we'll be back to hating the drugs too.

~ That's because this week we've found something more repulsive than big pharma.

~ WARNING: May cause drowsiness and accidental race hate.

~ I took some herbal sleeping tablets a few years ago and woke up the next day without realising I'd perpetrated a small scale coup d'etat in a third world country, so you do have to be careful.

~ Didn't Trump recently say "she represents us" about her new tv show? Says it all really.

~ Sweet story, racist moo lost her revenue stream....

~ Broadcasting corporations like ABC indulge these jerks, until it blows up in their faces.

~ The glimpse into reality that this affords is that much of America is out-of-it on prescription drugs. And that must include a fair number of leaders and public figures.

Another obvious secret that no-one wants to discuss. Out of control, and bringing a war to somewhere near you real soon. Have a nice day.

~ This is the woman who dressed up as Hitler and had herself photographed putting Jew gingerbread men in an oven.

~ I wonder what medication she was on back then.

~ Eh?
That's a new one, racist baking, it's also bloody weird.
I thought the American right wing were pro-Israel.
This is getting extremely confusing.

~ When you make big pharma look ethical...

~ Haha class comment!

~ Pharmachameleon.

~ Roseanne has been tweeting bat-shit crazy stuff for years; her mental illness is well-documented - she's been upfront about it for years.

She's apologised for this and (rightly) paid a heavy price. Not much point in everyone ripping into her now - but they will - only in a 'twitterstorm' could the makers of Ambien race to the moral high ground.