I used to enjoy Jake (and Nora, too) but lately they're too pathetic to feel good about mocking. Jake is like a histrionic fourteen year old girl who is having a meltdown about a zit before the fall mixer. Her mother offers to pop it, her friends recommend concealers, her teacher assures her it will be gone before the dance. But no, don't they see? If you pop she could get an infection and her entire head would rot off! No concealer will work for her special complexion and sensitive skin, and that which would work is expensive and she can't afford it and even if she could she couldn't get to the mall to buy it in time. And no no no, even if it goes away in time everyone's already seen it. Don't you see she has the worst life ever? Why won't you offer her real help?
Jake is the living embodiment of the REM lyric, "Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives, and I decline." He must have that passport before 1/20/17 when the United States is handed over to the Nazis and all transfolk will be depantsed publicly and sent back to their birth gender ghetto. No, he can't possible call Uber, no he can't possibly get documentation from his doctor, no he can't possibly go to the post office and take an official photo, no he can't wipe his own ass before sitting down to the dinner his mom cooked him, no he can't ever get a job or even stop pleading and begging Zoe to please, please pay attention to him. Gah, can't we see how hard it is for him? Nothing will help so why are we unwilling to listen to him moan about how nothing will help and that no one will help and that even if people help it won't help? It must be Randi's fault.
This is an adult, folks. An adult male full of privilege and the physical capacity to crush my head like a walnut and all he does is bitch on twitter in long form blog entries. He's chosen to be just this big fucking recursive nightmare with a Deliverance beard and nothing ever changes with him. I keep hoping for drama, like his mama tossing him out or getting a restraining order from Zoe Quinn but no. He just can't get a passport because reasons.