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Djarum posted:The RNC was something in general. I have only seen some clips here and there but it seems like it was insane. The RNC was insanely bizarre because they all acted like Trump defeated the pandemic but also that Trump hasn't been president the past four years. It was straight up "elect Trump to save yourselves from Trump's America".
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Alhazred posted:I'm impressed that show wasn't just John Oliver endlessly screaming into the void. That's what he's going to be doing until the 27th
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The Republicans have organized themselves to be directly opposed to the basic needs of all humans in general as well as directly targeting various demographics between trying to establish them as subservient underclasses and direct elimination. They tactically oppose academia or science that could disadvantage or expose them or their backers or their lies. They are so dedicated to upholding the class system that they dismantle any possible social good rather than risking people benefiting "who don't deserve it" (IE; not entitled to it because of their parentage/wealth). Also they tend to cover all of that with a whole lot of senility, dogwhistling, and outight death worship. It's kind of impressive when I'm not busy being directly repulsed by it all. Biden's not great, but definitely John's right when he said that more important are the progressives further down the ballot who can shift the party and spearhead changes even in opposition to the rest of the party, and hopefully protests can shift things as well. Also I'm a little grumpy that John Oliver didn't name my former hometown when mentioning competitors to Danbury, but I guess it was small and didn't have its own hospital. Groovelord Neato posted:The RNC was insanely bizarre because they all acted like Trump defeated the pandemic but also that Trump hasn't been president the past four years. It's even crazier because they literally reused the text of their 2016 platform that talks about how the "current administration" has wreaked havoc upon the nation. I imagine that if they actually started to iron out their platform they'd be in for a bunch of weird disagreements that they wouldn't expect, because every time Trump shits out of his mouth, he can't keep a drat coherent sentence together and if he does he immediately denies what he said, so all the personality worship involves making up your own image of Trump's opinions that agree with your own. I think it's impossible to really tell when it will fall apart, whether they'll try continuing the cult after he's out of office or give up when he's no longer useful, and what will happen when the cult does dissolve, what new monsters will come to the front, or will the survivors of the old party assert themselves in their own weird way.
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SlothfulCobra posted:after he's out of office I admire your optimism. I mean, he's already "joking" about "12 more years". And the next cult leader is already right there in front of us (he doesn't even have a different name).
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webmeister posted:I admire your optimism. I mean, he's already "joking" about "12 more years". And the next cult leader is already right there in front of us (he doesn't even have a different name). The next cult leader is Ivanka, not Jr. I'm pretty sure she's even mentioned wanting to be the first female president in the past.
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Nah, the next leader of the alt-right isn't anyone in Trump's coterie. A narcissist can't tolerate the presence of anyone they think might mistake for a peer. As a result, everyone around Trump is legendarily incompetent and a black hole of charisma. Trump might want it to anoint Ivanka, but she doesn't have that greasy magnetism which is the essence of a life-long huckster. She won't have the same draw.
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None of them have the weird charisma Trump has. Ivanka is too practiced and phony and Junior is trying too hard.
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I don't think you can really say who has whatever factor people find appealing about Trump because it's hard to tell if you're outside of the cult, and even if you're inside the cult, it's impossible to know whether what you like is what all the other broken brains like. I don't think any other human has the same mix of constant never stopping lies and senile incapability to even make coherent statements that can be interpreted as literally anything though. Generally fascism tends to sabotage all potential successors one way or another so the next guy has to rebuild everything from scratch. webmeister posted:I admire your optimism. I mean, he's already "joking" about "12 more years". And the next cult leader is already right there in front of us (he doesn't even have a different name). I can't consider the continuation of president mass murder for now because I don't think I can handle that. Although if you're going down that road, there's no reason to expect the election to even be resolved.
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This was what I was referring to, specifically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7P0ZfIXe1A Boy, that segregationists/abolitionists part is just so perfect.
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Stare-Out posted:Boy, that segregationists/abolitionists part is just so perfect. "Oops, I said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet!" I also loved Donald John President.
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Sep 1, 2020 18:55
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The Mayor of Danbury is working on getting those dollars now https://patch.com/connecticut/danbury/john-oliver-wants-danbury-mayor-make-good-sewage-plant-joke
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Sep 1, 2020 19:35
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Maybe Ivanka is Feyd to Trump's Beast Rabban
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Der Shovel posted:"Oops, I said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet!" Being home to the underground railway is also bad.
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Sep 1, 2020 19:50
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https://tvline.com/2020/09/14/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-renewed-three-seasons/ 3 season renewal!
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Sep 14, 2020 18:08
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He's gonna look like the cryptkeeper by the end
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Sep 14, 2020 20:08
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/politics/trump-drug-prices.html Trump tried to basically have big pharma send out bribes to the elderly as part of the lower drug price legislation :rollers: With Ruth dying Oliver certainly took an eventful couple of weeks off
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Sep 19, 2020 12:05
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Can't find a video clip so a gif will have to do https://twitter.com/enews/status/1307850320601640961 And from the press conference, I presume https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1307874282379177984 Ignis fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Sep 21, 2020 |
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https://youtu.be/M8IeNLzdZUM Here's the whole video from Kimmel's channel
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Sep 21, 2020 23:46
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A longer video, covering both him crying over Liverpool, and that rat painting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuL8buT3A6E
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Sep 22, 2020 09:20
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I love their friendship :3
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Sep 22, 2020 10:44
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Sep 23, 2020 00:05
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Richard Ayoade must have done a deal with the devil. How can he still look the same while Mitchell and Oliver have aged so much?
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Forum Joe posted:Richard Ayoade must have done a deal with the devil. How can he still look the same while Mitchell and Oliver have aged so much? Fun Fact: Jon Cena and John Oliver are actually the same age.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:young david mitchell looks weird af Wait till you see old david mitchell
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Milo and POTUS posted:Wait till you see old david mitchell He looks great with that beard tbf
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who's the stiff wearing the tie?
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Alhazred posted:Fun Fact: Jon Cena and John Oliver are actually the same age. Lies. That's not fun at all.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:He looks great with that beard tbf Yeah, David Mitchell looks far better now than he did 20 years ago or whenever that picture is from. The beard really suits him, but even before he grew a beard he just looked a lot better with a bit of age on him.
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Aces High posted:who's the stiff wearing the tie? Desmond O'Connor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_O%27Connor_(cabaret_performer)
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Propaganda Machine posted:Lies. Imagine how Oliver feels. Probably the same as when I remember that Lebron James is 3 days younger than me...
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Oh drat this is a great game, let's see which celebrities were born the same year as me and how decrepit they are now E: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Moss, Misha Collins, Penelope Cruz, Christian Bale oh come on they're like .... perfect human specimens  E2: Steve-O, jackpot!!
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Honestly, the guys from 91 don't look that great. https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_year=1991-01-01,1991-12-31 I guess I look a bit better than a select few of those. Those women all look amazing, though. Dylan O'Brien looks attrocious on that picture. From that list, number 41 looks by far the youngest. 
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Liam Hemsworth, Donald Glover, Henry Cavill, Mila Kunis, Adam Driver and Emily Blunt are showing up for my year of birth (1983). Which would be pretty depressing, if I didn't mollify myself by rationalizing that it's relatively easy to look good when you have essentially infinite money to throw at the task, and an army of people who are employed by both themselves and studios to ensure they look that good using make up, fitted suits that cost thousands of dollars apiece etc. for awards shows, in films etc. Edward Snowden is also in that list, and he seems far more indicative, since he's not going to have those advantages. He still looks better than me, but it's mostly the fact he's not somewhat pudgy, and wears decent suits in most shots you see of him rather than a cheap t-shirt and some jeans or shorts.
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That was a pretty bad episode. Should have just put up a 30 minute long video that just consisted of a graphic saying "poo poo's hosed and there's literally nothing you can do about it" and taken another week off.
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It was a good episode but reality makes this show hard to watch. I know he's preaching to the choir but I hope there are some who haven't yet, who do the census stuff and register to vote. Man that Sean Penn audiobook though.
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Azhais posted:That was a pretty bad episode. Should have just put up a 30 minute long video that just consisted of a graphic saying "poo poo's hosed and there's literally nothing you can do about it" and taken another week off.
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Stare-Out posted:Man that Sean Penn audiobook though. It felt like Cormac McCarthy after him having a lobothomy.
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Everyone needs to read the Atlantic piece. The Election That Could Break America “If you are a voter, think about voting in person after all. More than half a million postal votes were rejected in this year’s primaries, even without Trump trying to suppress them. If you are at relatively low risk for COVID-19, volunteer to work at the polls. If you know people who are open to reason, spread word that it is normal for the results to keep changing after Election Night.”
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tsob posted:Liam Hemsworth, Donald Glover, Henry Cavill, Mila Kunis, Adam Driver and Emily Blunt are showing up for my year of birth (1983). Which would be pretty depressing, if I didn't mollify myself by rationalizing that it's relatively easy to look good when you have essentially infinite money to throw at the task, and an army of people who are employed by both themselves and studios to ensure they look that good using make up, fitted suits that cost thousands of dollars apiece etc. for awards shows, in films etc. Edward Snowden is also in that list, and he seems far more indicative, since he's not going to have those advantages. He still looks better than me, but it's mostly the fact he's not somewhat pudgy, and wears decent suits in most shots you see of him rather than a cheap t-shirt and some jeans or shorts. Adam Driver looks weird though. He's just tall.
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