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11 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

Stewart laughed and said “I’m still not staying” as that happened a few weeks after he announced his departure from TDS. Literally every comedian celebrated Trump’s candidacy: John Oliver encouraged it, Colbert gave Trump a kids glove BS interview.

 

Anyway, the idea that Stewart can influence elections is kind of insane to me. Bush wouldn’t have gotten a second term and Dems would’ve kept the house and senate during Obama if that accusation had truth. Regardless, telling dems to “do better” regarding lessening talking points of the age issue is hardly both sidesing or the huge deal some are making it out to be.

I do think, in John Oliver’s case, he ate crow in a pretty spectacular way.
 

4 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

Nobody rational is looking for Stewart to solve the world's political problems and while he is, literally, a comedian, he's also a pundit. It's silly for anyone, particularly him, to pretend otherwise. He's very clearly not "just a comedian" when he's holding a political rally, going to Congress to advocate for taking care of 9/11 first responders, etc. More than one thing can be true and if we're aiming the DeLorean all the way back to the Crossfire appearance era... Stewart was interviewing presidential candidates on The Daily Show, lobbing softballs at John Kerry. In later elections he was giving airtime to Huckabee. It was always silly for Stewart to say he's just a comedian or that TDS was just a comedy show when you're interviewing POTUS candidates.

It was never silly because late night comedy shows have been doing that for a long time.

When he's going to Congress, he's an activist. Being funny is peripheral. When he's on the Daily Show, he's being funny. It doesn't matter that he talks about current events because that's what comedians do. It's not like George Carlin was nothing but fart jokes (though he did a good job when he told them).

The silliness comes is the amount of energy expended on this instead of doing something white liberals don't do enough: organize, register voters, and get off their fucking asses.

Liberals and New Democrats reach a deal on pharmacare | CBC News

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The federal Liberal government and the NDP have come to an agreement on pharmacare, clearing the way for the two parties to continue operating under the confidence-and-supply agreement that has helped keep the government in power over the last two years.

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Singh said the legislation "clearly points to [a] single payer" system and includes references to the Canada Health Act, the federal legislation that sets out the terms under which the federal government agrees to fund medicare services in Canada.

Just now, SuperSpreader said:

 

No we've given up on Fox News. We have no power to influence them ever. 

You're again missing the forest for the trees.

Ignore the Fox News portion and focus on any other news organization. You're putting the same expectations on them as you are the Daily Show. At its best, it shouldn't be in the same league as a good news organization.

2 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said:

 

ok liberals haha

Liberals are way more likely than leftists to be party ticket voters. Most leftists I know watch weird less mainstream stuff.

1 minute ago, SuperSpreader said:

We know Fox/Newsmax/etc is no more a news org than the daily show today. I'm not saying WHAT THEY SHOULD BE. 

We're putting fewer expectations on Fox News than Jon Stewart. That's a problem. You are saying what he should be in a roundabout way or else his segments wouldn't be that much of a concern.

All this energy expended on Stewart could have been used to register voters.

7 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said:

 

I think we're beyond that. 

We're not because you're making similar arguments conservatives made against him in 2009. Then, it was, 'Oh, I KNEW he wouldn't go after Obama as much as Bush.' Yours is, "Now's not the time to do both sides this.' 

His point isn't that he's above any criticism for being a comedian; his point is people are assigning the same importance to him as they do news organizations. Even you did it:

13 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said:

Which is the same shit Fox and Fox Spin Offs do.

As he said in a Chris Wallace interview in I want to say 2011, at Stewart's best, what should Jon be, and at Wallace's best, what should Chris be? If you think at their best they should be achieving the same thing, I'd say you're dead wrong. I expect any Fox host, CNN host, broadcast news nightly news host, to be a paradigm of journalism. I expect Jon to do whatever he thinks is funny. 

If we're this aggravated at Jon because the fate of the nation comes down to his once-a-week segments and how they're framed, then we're missing the forest for the trees by light years.

1 minute ago, SuperSpreader said:

I think he uses the "I'm just a comedian tee hee" to avoid any responsibility. 

20 years after that Crossfire interview and subsequent explanations, we're still not getting his point, huh?

1 minute ago, TUFKAK said:

I’ve seen interviews where their emperor gets excused from overturning roe. There is nothing they won’t excuse him for. 

In their defense, they are spineless pieces of shit, same as him.

17 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

This ruling appears to have unsettled at least some members of the House GOP.

 

House GOP rushes to distance from Alabama IVF ruling (Axios)

 

 

Senate GOP freaking out too.

Republicans struggle to respond to Alabama IVF embryo ruling | CNN Politics

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A court decision prompting some Alabama fertility clinics to curtail IVF treatments shows how top Republicans are still struggling to navigate a post-Roe v. Wade world.

Fun fact: Republicans put these mother fuckers on the court. 

45 minutes ago, Reputator said:

 

I mean, it's absolutely going to be a case. Although I sort of thought this was settled law already.

The thing that is settled is existing same-sex marriages. Unless overturned by a new Congress, any gay couple that gets married somewhere in America has to be recognized as married. This was made into a law in 2022 under Biden.
 

The right to marry in any state is only protected by the Supreme Court. But if it is overturned, and a gay couple in a state that legalized gay marriage moves to a state where it’s not legal, they are still recognized as married and get all rights pertaining to it.

Banned from NeoGAF, banned from reset, he’s got quite a legacy

19 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

It’s to make sure that you read the whole thing!

They know d1p reads their posts and want to help improve our deficiencies.

Oh fuck yeeeeeeesssssss

‘Oppenheimer’ wins seven prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards

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The film had a field-leading 13 nominations, but missed out on the record of nine trophies, set in 1971 by “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”

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Christopher Nolan won his first best director BAFTA for “Oppenheimer,” and Cillian Murphy won the best actor prize for playing physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.

 

Murphy said he was grateful to play such a “colossally knotty, complex character.”

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“Oppenheimer” had a field-leading 13 nominations, but missed out on the record of nine trophies, set in 1971 by “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”

For that price, maybe wait, but if they're still selling the older version, I think it's well worth it since the Switch successor won't come out for another year.

2 hours ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said:

He’s gonna be fine regardless. He’ll be making money hand over fist for awhile courtesy of MAGA-world.

 

The returns on becoming a cult leader are near infinite; it is the perfect investment, if you can shoulder the risk.

How much money is he making, exactly? It looks like he hasn’t really made a ton, and he spent so much on litigation. If anything, he has been depleting the national Republicans’ coffers.

2 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Now...  My house is completely paid off...  Too bad I have about $150k of renovations that probably need done...

Ours is paid, too, mostly due to timing (bought after the crash in 2008, so the price was significantly cheaper). Feels good.

4 hours ago, Brian said:

Approaching 8 years without a car payment

 

 

though it’s getting near end of life sadly. 

I didn’t know whether to give a good reaction or a bad reaction to this, so I just went with the Ukrainian flag.

Got my car in 2018. Final payment made today.

26 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

As I said in another thread where you said the same thing. It was clearly sblfilms, seems like I know him pretty well.

 

Good to hear from you again @sblfilms 🫂

I think you're mistaking me for someone else.

TIL: UpvoteShittyTakes wasn't b_m, which is who I thought it was.

I think a few of you are taking your personal opinions of D1P or the politics board and using it to say why sblfilms left.  

I know why he left, and no one has it right. I wish he were posting here, but I'm happy I still speak with him. Looking forward to his return to my area for another double date.

4 minutes ago, best3444 said:

Why would Sony advertise that they aren't releasing any big existing franchise titles until March 2025? How does that help them financially?

They're not advertising it; it's an earnings meeting. They're saying it amongst each other, and lying in an earnings meeting is punishable.

3 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

You ask me nicely

 

 

how?!