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I hope he goes off on the Trump administration like they are a deep-dish pizza.
Hopefully more hosts follow and point out the major hypocrisy from MAGA. The fact that ABC/Disney flinched from such a small jab really shows how stupid this entire thing is.
They didn’t flinch, they gleefully collaborated.
Yes they should all have their heads shaven after we've ended the occupation.
What is that from?
Inglourious Basterds, a classic movie.
"my business is killin Nazis, and brother, business is a boomin!"
I fear one big problem with them flinching so quickly is that it gives the Trump cult plausible deniability to not blame the dictatorship for doing the things that they are doing.
I mean, the government did not censor Kimmel, it was a business decision made by a private entity. Right? RIGHT??
It was actually a Trump supporter who owns ABC affiliate stations.
That will do nothing. They enjoy their own hypocrisy. They don't care about consistency of principles and are quite happy to just want everything their way while no one else gets anything. They're quite happy to abuse language by saying whatever suits them in the moment. It drives their opponents crazy as they try to point out how inconsistent and irrational they're being. The fascists don't care, but they do love to see you get frustrated. It's just part of their sadistic fun: messing with people, playing with their prey until they are ready to exterminate them.
To complain that fascists are hypocritical or inconsistent is to miss the point of fascism, at least if your hope is to shock them into being more reasonable. I know this quote from Sartre is everywhere but he said it well:
Pointing out the hypocrisy is not supposed to suddenly convince the actual fascists that they're wrong, it's to convince the people they've duped into following them that they're both wrong and evil.
I wish I had your faith that there is a large group of followers that don't realize they are doing evil.
Nobody's duped. They don't believe it. They pretend to because doing so hurts you.
Fascists depend in large part on vast numbers of naive people who take them at their word and don't follow politics closely. Maybe it's hard to imagine, but it really shouldn't be: vast numbers of people only interact with politics through biased sources, or in very small amounts. You should easily be able to work out there are literally millions of people in the US who don't draw any connection between republicans today talking about suppressing disrespectful speech, and democrats talking about similar things for the last several years which those same republicans vehemently criticised.
It wasn't even a jab at the guy who was shot. It was a jab at dear leader.
you know what the worst part about the creeping nature of murderous, paranoid fascism is? the hypocrisy!
I really want someone to chime in with the legal ramifications of ABC being a publicly broadcast station that licenses radio spectrum from the federal government.
Corrupt or not, the feds revoking a license is a lot more plausible than them somehow pulling a private cable station or streaming service out of people's homes.
Same! If he does, I'm also hoping he has a backup plan!
He does! Retirement!
Jon Stewart 2028!!
Let's just leave deep dish pizza out of this
Stewart is from Jersey, he knows deep dish is casserole.
In New York, they call that lasagna.
Somebody had to say it then and somebody has to say it now.
Is this comment pro or anti deep-dish?
Jon Stewart on deep-dish pizza.
Can someone please record it?
Studio execs will be sitting in the booth with a red button ready to shut it down.
Deep dish isn't even pizza. It's a trashcan lid filled with cheese and sauce.
It's tomato soup in a bread bowl with cheese. Delicious. Since the one of the first recorded uses of the word "pizza" is for a round bread flavored with rose water & sugar as the toppings, I think "tomato soup in a bread bowl with cheese" is close enough to qualify.
I wouldn't count on it. Stewart has done a LOT of tone policing of the left over the years and just a few days ago (?) criticized people for cheering over the death of a nazi.
Which lines up. Stewart has ALWAYS been a "both sides" kind of guy. His coverage tends to involve facts which means it leans left but there is a reason he had carlson and the like on his show back in the day. So his politics are very much going to disappoint. Just going to be a question of if his hatred of censoring comedians (no matter how shitty) takes precedence.
I think Oliver is more likely to go off on Saturday/Sunday. But you can bet that Business Daddy is talking to him constantly and he does have a whole team he needs to provide for so...
Lol! Wut? Jon Stewart got Tucker Carlson cancelled back when he was still in his bow tie phase. And the reason he occasionally knocks the left, is because those "facts" he covers, indicate the left needs to occasionally reflect on some shit, too.
Jon Stewart did not get Carlson cancelled. Carlson got fired because he was belligerent to his bosses at Fox.
You never saw the time Stewart went on his show and absolutely skewered his ass, in front of his entire audience? It was brutal. After that he started hemorrhaging viewers. Whatever drama that resulted was the direct result of that take-down, and he got canceled shortly after that. It took years for Carlson to reestablish his reputation.
Yeah. He got a lot of shit, upon his return, for criticizing the left’s unwillingness to even engage about conversation about Biden’s age.
Turns out he was right.
Which kind of sums up a lot of the pundits "on the left". They are focused on being right, not on being a party (in large part because the Democrats have increasingly been "We are not republicans" for decades now but...).
I don't think there is anyone who wasn't concerned about Biden's age. But we were past the point for a real primary and he was the candidate. So you support his senile ass. Because he is the candidate and we need to win. And when he finally got kicked out and it was Kamala's turn? You support fucking Kamala. There is plenty of time to do after actions after we lose. NOBODY was going to win a presidential campaign in, what was it, like four months? But they sure as hell weren't going to win if they were the third candidate in three weeks. You keep that kind of shit behind closed doors until we know one way or another.
Contrast that with the chuds where they all click their heels and start goose stepping once the primaries are over.
The "shit" isn't about pointing out very real concerns. The "shit" is about doing the republican's jobs for them.
And there it is, the quiet part out loud. Apparently you lean left if you, ahh, tell the truth.
Yeah Jon Steward is as right as Dick Cheney, got it.