Trump is convinced making fun of him is “illegal”.
Say what you will about medieval monarchies, but at least those had the good sense to permit a court jester to speak foolishly of the head of state.
The White House Correspondent’s Dinner used to serve this purpose, with a headline speaker gently roasting the President and staff (or not-so-gently, as was the case when they had Stephen Colbert host for George W. Bush and he spent half an hour viciously mocking Bush directly to his face).
The Correspondent’s Dinner was neutered when Trump came into office. Not only can Trump not stand being the butt of even the most mild joke, but Seth Meyers’ jokes about Trump at one of Obama’s dinners are the root cause of why he hates him so much, and his go-to response is to destroy anything even vaguely associated with whatever humiliates him.
Man, Trump was fuming.
I’ve never really seen Pedonald genuinely laugh at something.
Has he tried calling the police?
I so very wish there was a recording(s) somewhere of Pedonald queening out to someone he thinks should be “doing something about” the people all making fun of him on television.
It is amazing our country is being led by someone that has skin so thin you can see right through.
That’s why he paints it.
Isn’t it weird how people like Pedonald cannot just, uh, change the channel?
They don’t want anyone else to have the option of watching the show.
I remember how much the cons pretended to care about this so-called “cancel culture” they were going on and on about, but never had any actual evidence for?
Along with every single thing a Republican has ever accused anyone else of doing. It is simple projection, they want to be able to to do it themselves.
That combined with the reality that they are literally incapable of doing it themselves, infuriates them.
They’re so bad at anything creative, let alone comedic. They would need North Korea level control and threaten the families of actually funny people to coerce them, in order to even come close.
If my anecdotal experiences with so many conservatives is any indication, they love to fall back on the argumentum ad baculum logical fallacy when it really comes down to it.
I honestly think that Rush Limbaugh got all his dumbfuck dittoheads talking about the ad hominem thing so they’d overlook just how often they like to fall back on logical fallacies of all kinds. That and maybe a preemptive strike over the inevitable fat jokes.
But seriously, I grew up surrounded by many, many angry rednecks who’d usually fall back on “I’m right, and I’ll beat you up if you don’t agree”.
Pedonald is doing a version of this at the national scale - “agree with me/praise me or shut up”.
Isn’t it weird how people like Pedonald cannot just, uh, change the channel?
The remote slipped between the couch cushions and he doesn’t want to reach down there because JD Vance was alone in here this morning.
You know why cons hated cancel culture. Because they’re often on the receiving end of the cancel for being honest about their hate of women, minorities, LGBTQ, etc.
They are perfectly fine dishing out cancels to anyone speaking like an egalitarian.
Ive noticed lately how Fuentes and the groypers have been more vocal. Why cosplay as Nazis, when you can be actual nazis?
Except - none of them were actually canceled for anything, were they? I don’t know of one instance of some con asshole being cancelled.
From the hysterical way they were going on about it, there was some Democratic arm of the government taking cons off the air, off Facebook, off Twitter, and…this is just not a thing.
But they DEFINITELY want it to be a thing for anyone that even bothers making fun of their stupid movement and their leader slathered in makeup.
You can’t be a tyrant if others are not taking you seriously.
This is why putin went after TV shows as well. Check show “Kukly” which were making fun of him until it was shut down in early 2000.
But the remote is all the way over there and he’s already so comfy.
No. It is not the least tiniest bit weird. It is completely and, on the whole, expected. And, ultimately, our collective duty!
How and how effectively we fight back is the matter under most immediate consideration. What is not under consideration is the certainty that it absolutely must be done, and now!
Late night shows will be outlawed and replaced with reruns of The Apprentice
Oh, gawd. That would be so horrible for so many reasons. I avoided that dumb game show the first time around because I thought he was an asshole since the 80s and had to still listen to stupid water cooler talk about the latest show.
Imagine if they were able to manage that being the only show on television. No streaming, no Youtube, no Plex, etc…just nothing but the shitty game show that made morons think he’s a “businessman”. 🤢 🤮
I have some laserdiscs and VHS tapes if you want to come over, we can play spot the difference with four different Star Wars original trilogy versions.
Thanks for boosting his ratings, Barbara.
And then re-hire him again a few days later and act as if one of it was your idea?
Yeah, why not do that again?
Interesting. They didn’t have enough fun making Colbert and Kimmel into martyrs, now they have to go after another member of the Strike Force Five?
Donvict has been bitching about all of them for some time. He wanted SNL off the air in this first term, too.
He’s a gigantic baby.
And I demand Trump be fired
THROATUS has a thin skin
It would be really funny if all the late night hosts got fired, then were shuffled around and hired at different networks. Like if Jimmy Kimmel switched jobs with Steven Colbert.
Cry, cry, cry…
