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!”
Hopefully more hosts follow and point out the major hypocrisy from MAGA.
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:
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
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.
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.
It wasn’t even a jab at the guy who was shot. It was a jab at dear leader.
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!!
Is this comment pro or anti deep-dish?
That’s how i know his show is fake news.
Deep dish isn’t even pizza. It’s a trashcan lid filled with cheese and sauce.
Can someone please record it?
is there a retired gifs com, because yeah. damn
It came out of retirement for the last election.
When Colbert was cancelled he did a great show. Even did a song and dance. It would be great if Kimmel is on tonight’s show with Stewart.
Logistically it would be hard to have Kimmel on The Daily Show this evening. Kimmel is in LA and Jon is in New York. Obviously a video call is possible. Obviously flights exist. It would be wild if it happened, but it’s not likely.
Rich people can fly anywhere on extremely short notice. It’s called NetJets
Also, they can fly commercial.
Sack. the. fuck. up. This ain’t the time to shrink. This is the time to fight.
Are you ready to call it fascism yet Jon?
Oh, I’m gonna leave it.
EU still considers it a democracy. Can’t claim “political persecution” yet, they’re not gonna take your political asylum application seriously.
Fascism and democracy can coexist, at least temporarily. I agree we’re still a very flawed democracy… for now.
The US is considered a flawed democracy
Eh, I’d say its a hybrid regime tbh.
Flawed democracy was trump term 1. (It was also flawed before, but less so compared to trump term 1)
After Jan 6, 2021, it was a very flawed democracy.
Now, its hybrid regime.
By 2028, its possible we spiral into a full authoritarian regime.
(Btw, your article is from 2024 before the election lol)
Fascism and democracy doesn’t exclude each other at all.
Name a Fascist state with democratic elections once the Fascists were voted in.
Full video is out here: https://youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg
Run for president Jon. Do it.
A Jew? Good luck with that.
Why not Kimmel or Colbert? They seem like they’ll be available.
Jon has experience getting legislation passed. Colbert as well to a lesser extent. Jon has been asked before and mentioned this recently as well.
I hope he has Kimmel on as a guest.
e: his guest was even more relevant
Haha! Oh boy! I wonder what they’ll talk about?
I am Jimmy Kimmel.
I am Guillermo
His name is Robert Paulson.
Meatloaf?
I am Spartacus.
I am dad
Hi dad
True comedy and spite would be to just recite Kimmel’s monologue verbatim
The article makes this sound like a bigger deal than it is. There was no Daily Show on Monday, and when Jon doesn’t do the Monday show it’s normal for him to do a show later in the week.
Are you sure? I don’t recall that really happening often.
It’s not normal for Jon to miss the Monday show, but it is normal for him to make up for it later in the week, the main exception being when he had covid and was out for a week or two.
Yes, this is correct. They just took a month off, so they needed another day this week.
What a joke.
Funniest thing i’ve seen all week
$5 says he’s going to assert the shooter was a liberal just like breaking points did earlier today.
I’ll be really disappointed if he does.
The most disappointing thing to me about all this is that having a queer roommate is enough to prove that you’re liberal from now on; I thought I would never see the old homophobic guilt-by-association reasoning expanded to anyone who was once close to a queer I thier lives.
Too bad I can’t watch it because I won’t subscribe to Paramount after they cancelled Colbert.
it’ll be on youtube tomorrow
It’s on YouTube.
Sounds like it’s time to take to the seas me bucko.
If I knew what tvpass dot org was then I wouldn’t have to pay for all of my live TV watching content.
Better not pull both sides bullshit, Jon.
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