I admit I do love it when Trump gets trolled.
(Weirdly, the post title didn’t match the headline in the actual link, but the version Lemmy let me click on to make the title works better anyway.)
I admit I do love it when Trump gets trolled.
(Weirdly, the post title didn’t match the headline in the actual link, but the version Lemmy let me click on to make the title works better anyway.)
You can’t legitimize a legitimate candidate any more than he’s already been legitimized.
Expecting people to never talk about one of the two people who have a chance at being president next year within a month of election day is a bit silly.
I don’t take exception to talking about him. I take exception with people being entertained by him. Even as schadenfreude.
The media legitimizes him by summerizing his statements. By hypothesizing what he meant instead of what he actually said. They give him the benefit of the doubt, time and time again. Age is no longer an issue, grabbing unconcenting women by their genetials is no longer an issue, felonies are no longer an issue, debt and taxes are no longer an issue, anything that has become boring is no longer an issue. It’s all about new new new.
They push this bilge about fairness to justify giving him a platform, but really they just need a heel for their wrestling spectacle.
He didn’t falsely claim, he lied. He didn’t accidentally reference facist rhetoric, he used it. He doesn’t deny climate change, he profits from it. Etc.
Pointing at him and laughing is how everyone figured out the emperor had no clothes.
In the Emperor’s New Clothes, it is the emperor, his men, and the townspeople who are being conned by the weavers. In real life the mainstream media is more like the emperor, we’re the townspeople, and Trump and Cheung are the weavers, who in the tale successfully escape with the money for the nonexistent clothes.
You’re right. They should just cancel the Daily Show. All it does is help Trump. Laughing at bad people helps them.
If those people cultivate a posture of victimhood as a tool for propoganda, then yes, pointing and laughing at them justifies their outrage and is a help to them.
I will quote from a comment I made a while back on a different thread:
The conservatives have weaponized fact checking. Every time we slam dunk on them, they just get angrier and burrow deeper into denial.
It may feel good to laugh at them, lord knows they deserve it, but it is not effective in combating them. First and foremost it is most successful as entertainment, and entertainment is only as successful as it is profitable. And this ecosystem is dependent on Trump being relevant. He is a cash cow, a hideous, demonic cow, but the left and right alike are at his greasy teats just the same.
I’ll even go one further and say that the catharsis we feel from watching a comedian humilate Trump releases pressure in the audience that might otherwise build into an actual revolution. If we can’t tune in to our favorite funny man and get some appeasement about the sickening cognitive dissonance we suffer through day after day, we may be forced to direct that energy outward and actually get into the streets. In short, humor may be pacifying an otherwise powerful people.
Yep. Definitely cancel The Daily Show. It’s a bad, bad thing.
Also Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel.
Oh, and Have I Got News for You on CNN. That’s a new one, but it’s funny.
And Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. He talks about Trump every week and makes fun of him.
Wow, so many shows that help Trump, am I right? We need to get these people off our TVs and return to real comedy! Like Perfect Strangers and ALF! Remember ALF?
Believe what you want. But while you’re watching six TV shows, conservatives are positioning themselves for an actual coup.
Oh! All that stand-up comedy too! Gotta get rid of all those stand-up comedians. We need good ones like we used to have like George Carl- no wait, he talked about Republican presidential candidates. I know, Richard Pry- no, he did too… Oh! Henny Youngman! Hilarious stuff! “Take my wife… please!”
Humor is a powerful rhetorical weapon. I wouldn’t discount it.