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Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


I had a black friend from college post positively on my Facebook about trickle down economics the other day.

He had no appreciation for the irony.

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Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Yeah, it's not like you can draw a direct line from Bush's invasion of Iraq to ISIS or anything.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Anticheese posted:

Why can't they just copy the files on the hard drive and brute-force it at their leisure? Surely it's within Apple's capabilities to image the disk and shove it into a VM.
You're kidding, right?

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Transonion.com isn't available. Seriously, that was like the first thing I checked after the episode.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


zVxTeflon posted:

That Hamilton thing sounds dumb as all gently caress is it really that popular?
Do you live under a rock in the middle of Alaska?

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Exclamation Marx posted:

It's a stage adaption of the popular youtube series "Epic Rap Battles Of History"
This isn't true though?

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Boris Galerkin posted:

I just heard about Hamiltom on Monday as well when I watched John Oliver. No I don't live under a rock but I don't listen to radio (only Spotify) or watch real TV (only Netflix) or read news papers (only follow some news blogs). Also I don't live in the US. I listened to it on Spotify today though and it was ok but if you'd told me it won a ton of awards I'd wonder why but I don't know a thing about what makes a musical worth $1000+ to watch once so maybe I'm not the target audience.
I don't listen to radio or Spotify and I don't even have real TV service.

However, you not living in the US explains everything.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Azhais posted:

I live in the US, watch lots of regular TV, still hadn't heard about Hamilton until Sunday, and none of the snippets I heard on the show encouraged me to go look up more about it.
Well then you sir are an uncultured heathen :colbert:

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


I require all my entertainment to be dour and bleak like Mad Men.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Snowglobe of Doom posted:

It sure was!

Edit: also comedian Sunita Mani who you might remember breaking a baseball bat against a guy's dick and then smashing his head through the floor with her butt in Lil John's TURN DOWN FOR WHAT music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU
This is unironically one of the greatest videos of all time.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


GutBomb posted:

It's a problem worth tackling but it's not as simple as the show made it sound, and saying "if I can order pizza with an app, 911 should know where I am" is at best ill informed and at worst, disingenuous.
Thus begins the downfall of Last Week Tonight.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Normally, I might say that trolling a country's president can be irresponsible, but it seems Kadyrov doesn't spend much time governing so it's kosher.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


The actor that played the runner, they spelled his name wrong in the credits. :negative:

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


SlothfulCobra posted:

Remember when this show was premised on being comedy paired with delving into an interesting but little-known issue instead of just a bunch of cute animal videos?
There were no animal videos this week. :colbert:

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Duzzy Funlop posted:

My honest to god first reaction was "Uh, well this is going to be a waste of a segment, they're not still a thing."
Have you seen the Republican presidential nominee?

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


FilthyImp posted:

Eh, kind of. They were supposed to function more like incubators of innovation, where schools were given more leeway with curricular planning, staffing and scheduling. Officials would observe the results and then they would take successful elements out to the broader educational landscape.

Like, you could have a charter service low-income at risk students that was fashioned after an elite academy, provided monthly college visits, and had a slew of on-call support providers (psychologists, counselors) to deal with home and community issues. Or maybe a military school styled school for kids out of juvenile hall or with felons for parents.

But then school vouchers were ruled to be not a thing and the right latched on to Charters as a way to defund public liberal socialist schools, break up union protections for educators, and stick their dicks in the education fund pile o money.
School vouchers... are pretty popular though? 250,000 students in 2014.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Guys, Hillary isn't the perfect liberal candidate. Therefore, we should sabotage the election to help elect literal fascist Donald Trump.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


I bet John wishes he kept his U.K. citizenship right about now.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


No Pants posted:

He can't renounce it unless he becomes a US citizen (or a citizen of some other state, I guess).
I mistakenly thought he had become a US citizen.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Solvent posted:

I'm sincerely confused, so is this an internet troll thing that I don't get? Cause I googled the whole "cuck" thing, and I came up with a page of reddit links.
Is this reddit now? Have I been gone so long?

Do people not like John Oliver, or is this some kind of new level of irony that I'm completely ignorant of?

Oh poo poo, the new season started tonight didn't it...
You know how Jeb Bush was a pathetic beta male during the primaries and Trump constantly owned him? Jeb was labeled a cuckservative, a portmanteau of cuckhold and conservative. A cuckhold is a man whose wife cheats on him, aka pathetic beta male.

Cuck is obviously an abbreviation of cuckhold/cuckservative, and is now used as a general purpose insult by wannabe edgy teens or those with the maturity thereof.

The fact I had to type out all of this is very disappointing.

Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Feb 13, 2017

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Relentlessboredomm posted:

Anyone see which of the commercials aired today?
It was the nuclear triad one.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


They're right about Kushner. We assume he's capable because of how he looks, carries himself, and he bagged Ivanka.

But is he really? That comment from his high school about not having the GPA or SAT scores for Harvard is pretty damning.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Die Sexmonster! posted:

He doesn't read much, that's everything you need to know.
Does reading the forums count?

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Ajit Pai is an absolute oval office and the reason why people hate lawyers.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


So uh, are they ever gonna do that TSA segment in full?

Because it seems like they really should.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


tsob posted:

I like how Murray called John Oliver an elitist and noted that he has a $10 million apartment in New York, like he himself is a man of the people who lives in a modest abode. Never mind that a quick Google shows he has at least two houses in seperate states, both of which look like they're worth a few million and of which it's easily conceivable both are worth more than $10 million apiece, depending on the size of the grounds, location etc.
Google says John only has a net worth of $5 million. How irresponsible!

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


I think Reagan's horribleness wrt tax cuts and the economy really took off after McCain had to tell people he was a supply sider during the 2008 primary.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


swickles posted:

Has it started on HBO yet? Its not showing up on HBO Now.
It doesn't show up on streaming until Monday like 9am or something

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


END ME SCOOB posted:

That was a glorious segment and I look forward to the inevitable "some idiot really bought this" next week.

SOME IDIOT WILL AND WE ALL KNOW IT.
Not super idiot though:

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


If bacteria are in comets, isn't that proof of extraterrestrial life?

Why is NASA hiding this from us?!

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Sivart13 posted:

The show has a weird tick of always off-handedly mentioning their celebrity guest in a joke midway through the episode. Though they're usually buried in a lot of other off-handed mentions.
It's called foreshadowing :colbert:

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


SlothfulCobra posted:

Back when Reagan got shot it actually made him pro-gun control, but I guess these days death is favorable to having to face down the gun lobby.

I mean there was a mass shooting in goddamn Washington DC, it can't get closer to home unless a shooter actually makes it into congress or the RNC.
I've always said the gun lobby will have too much power until an NRA assembly gets shot up or the exec chairman's kid gets shot. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun? Okay, let's test that out with a conference hall full of "good guys with guns."

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Perestroika posted:

Didn't they try that shortly after the Charlie Hebdo shooting? At some conference a bunch of concealed carry advocates organised several runs of simulated attacks (with paintballs or airsoft or something like that) in the same vein against a partially armed group of attendees. And despite knowing it was coming (the attackers were even instructed to "make a loud noise" at the moment they entered the building), they still got murdered every single time. The best they managed was killing one of the two attackers one time.
No surprise it didn't work revealing the argument to be total bullshit, but until someone in a position of power suffers a loss, the conversation won't change.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


God Hole posted:

The importance of local news outlets was the subject of one of LWT's best segments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq2_wSsDwkQ

Local TV news was just allowed to devolve so long ago that we think that garbage is all we've ever had.
"Local" papers in big cities are great.

Local TV stations are trash.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


I will forever regret not issuing an ICO during the frenzy at the end of last year into January.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


What if this is like Grumpy Cat and Pence sues for using his bunny’s likeness without permission?

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


SlothfulCobra posted:

Not that Corporations routinely not paying taxes isn't a big deal, it's just that everybody should already know about it at this point. You don't really need 16 minutes and a potato to explain the concept, and they didn't even get into the interesting parts of all of this, like how the loopholes that allow this to happen weren't accidents, they were actively lobbied for and legislated, or how all countries are trying to make sweetheart deals with their tax laws to draw in business that never physically comes in a ludicrous massive prisoners' dilemma.
I think you underestimate the amount of ignorance and complete wrongness by the public about anything to do with economics.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Veskit posted:

Corporate taxes are bad and dumb though but whatever. At the end of the day governments will figure out how to make money that's why there was use tax and then when they figured out getting out how to get around those by buying online they came up with economic Nexus.



It's a deep hole so any explanation is good
Actually corporations are the biggest users of what America provides including infrastructure, defense, and social safety nets so they definitely should be contributing to funding all that.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


It turns out that sci-fi films without minority characters are actually predicting the future and not just lazy casting. :v:

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Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Kavanaugh took a long time to answer “drinking game” for Devil’s Triangle which implies lying. Also he said boofing is farting but obviously nobody would write in their yearbook, “Have you farted yet?” And “Renate alumnus” is clearly sexual since Renate herself was offended when she found out about it. If it was just some indication of friendship, which grammatically and logically doesn’t make sense, then she wouldn’t be upset.

We have a SCOTUS judge who is a likely sexual assaulter and definite alcoholic who perjured himself but Republicans overlooked it and Democrats were unable to exploit as usual because reality is the darkest timeline.

Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Oct 11, 2018

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