“‘It is what it is’ is like the most passive aggressive thing I feel like I’ve ever heard. I don’t like it at all. I don’t like that expression. I don’t know what ‘it is what it is’ means. I feel like the fact that that phrase took over is baffling to me because you can change a lot of things. People will be like, ‘I hate my job, but it is what it is,’ and I  just always wanna be like, ‘No! Get upset with your job or quit your job!’ I’d rather have them vent to me about how much they don’t like their job than to say, ‘Ahh, my job is killing me. It is what it is.’ That, I just can’t handle. They try to convince you it’s some sort of like Buddhist way of life or something, but it’s not. It’s like complacency.”

- Starlee Kine makes a somewhat “like”-infested but incredibly apt point on this week’s episode of WireTap.