Nobody is working as hard to discredit Charlie as Charlie herself. To "fight through" something involves first, acknowledging what it is you're fighting through. But she hasn't, choosing instead to pretend she doesn't care by turning her sordid little tale of irresponsible driving into merch. Oh we see something in you, you clearly don't & what we see is a grown woman trying to blow off serious driving charges. As to her non-payment of rent? Where I live, even the biggest landlords have fairly thin profit margins - overhead is pretty high especially when you consider regulatory obligations, enhanced fire/safety codes, insurance & what not. Smaller landlords have very little margin & one lousy tenant can bankrupt a small landlord... who could be an elderly person on a small pension.
Sheer unmitigated gall to compare herself so passive/aggressively to folks who HAVE fought through real hardships - be it blatant 'isms' based on race/sex/ethnicity, violence due to same or other factors - Lord the list is endless & her bullshitty self-comparison to people who have faced genuine struggles not based on deficits of character or judgement makes me want to puke.
She plans to be no different. Different from whom? Rosa Parks? Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson or any of the truly talented & exceptional people in this world who had to overcome major societal hurdles?
Where does she plan to end up? And how is she going about doing that? The thing she's fighting through is a garden variety issue... overweight. Yes, it's tough but not award worthy. Millions have done it. Many have surmounted even worse obstacles & done so with dignity.
I don't want to end up where she is now - with her sleazy record, her apparent lack of acknowledgement of how serious the charges were & a smug, airy attitude of "My shit don't stink." She's coming across as smug, arrogant and defensive as the worst of the death fats.
And it ain't a good look - not for anybody.
Okay, my bucket is empty & ready for my puzzle pieces & other bitch slaps.