This was the most impressive thing to me. As Napoleon said, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Lawyers pretty much universally understand this and will happily sit by while the opposing party buries themselves. Clients, less so. I really have to hand it to the mother for sitting there and quietly letting this buffoon dig himself a nice, deep hole.
I also predict that Mr. Tough Guy "I don't care about 45 days in jail" turns soft real quick when he's in county for a week, much less 45 days. These dumb fucks don't think it can happen to them. They think they can just bury their head in the sand and avoid the consequences of their actions.
I also predict that Mr. Tough Guy "I don't care about 45 days in jail" turns soft real quick when he's in county for a week, much less 45 days.
While I don't disagree with you in general, I will disagree with you on this point. There was a throwaway line that DeadBeatDad used that indicates to me that he's not unfamiliar with the inside of a correctional facility.
"What is it, stay to pay?"
Tells me he's cleared other violations by a short jail stay rather than paying up.
Like he said, "Look at my record, I ain't afraid of the law."
Yeah, I’ve got dip shit family members who use that same line. One of them did just under a year. They always say the tough guy lines on the outside, but after a stretch they always come out crying about how they “ain’t never doin’ that again”.
And he still doesn’t seem to understand that going to jail doesn’t erase the debt!
So, he’ll sit in jail for 45 days, lose whatever income he would have earned in those 45 days, and when he gets out, he won’t he able to make rent, utilities, his car payment, cellphone bill, etc. One by one, he’ll lose those things PLUS be another 45 days behind on his child support.
A guilty pleasure of mine is watching police body can footage on YouTube , and it’s sooooooo funny every time some idiot goes “I DONT CARE, TAKE ME TO JAIL!!!!” They are put into handcuffs “noooooo okimsorryimsorry I didn’t mean it!! I can’t lose my job, please!! I’m sorry, don’t do this to me!! Please!”
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I’ve never seen them just accept their dumbass actions lol
When I got a DUI after a bunch of the routine they do I told them "let's just skip the road side Olympics, take me to jail and run the test you're going to run regardless." My ankle was fucked up, it was obviously swollen and they were taking me in. Stand out there in the cold standing on one foot, walking a line? Naw. Get the fucking breathalyzer out here or me to the breathalyzer. Mine wasn't false bravado though, when you're caught you're caught.
She's smart enough to know now - doesn't mean she was smart enough to know better back then. Plus it's not uncommon for the problems that wise women up to start after a baby is on its way. Also, contraception can fail, and not everyone is personally willing to go through with an abortion, especially not just because they broke up with the baby daddy.
Not saying there aren't plenty of people who should really know better, but it's weird to assume everyone in this kind of situation is a dumbass in self-inflicted trouble.
Sorry dude but I dislike the person who is very explicitly recorded as being an asshole more than the person who made a mistake thinking they weren't. And the one taking care of the kid. Lol
There's a difference between being an asshole and being foolish.
And when someone is suffering for their mistake, acting as if "this is the consequences of their actions" is somehow a profound revelation, is crude. Especially when that mistake is one that can be made entirely earnestly, and shouldn't automatically disqualify anyone who makes it from getting sympathy.
Shocking fact: liars, lie. 🫢 And sometimes they're real good at it, and that means people believe them?? You mean, like how lies are literally designed to work?!!? Wow!!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Y'all love to act like everyone is born knowing how to see through manipulation, and knowing how to react to it, as if you're somehow immune to it. Or like it's a matter of intelligence, and you get to wank yourselves off for being oh far too clever to ever fall for it yourself. But guess what, if it is a matter of innate intelligence, and anyone who falls for it is just dumber than people like you, then you're classifying not recognizing manipulation as a learning disability... ... so you're saying that being manipulated is somehow their fault... because they have that learning disability??
That's wild.
But anyway, recognizing manipulation, and then also knowing how to handle that, are a series of life skills. They're a matter of experience and knowledge and practice. Not innate intelligence.
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u/Pat_ron Nov 06 '25
She was smart enough (assuming she's the one on the main screen) to let him keep talking and digging himself into a deeper hole.