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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 17 points 23 hours ago

They got exactly what they fucking bargained for, they made off like bandits with vast sums of wealth for capitalizing on the stupidity of millions of Americans who bought into the Trump "we need a king" grift.

The only thing that changed is now that the guy has had plenty of chances to deliver his promises to make america "great" again, and didn't, the people have gotten bored with the narrative, and so the grifters who follow popular sentiment are moving on. That's all, there's no regret, there's no "leopards eating faces" there's NOTHING FOR US TO BE FUCKING SMUG ABOUT. We are still in real danger of losing rights, benefits and democracy broadly, but now the administration has a greater chance of getting away with it, because the media hosts like Rogan are tuning everyone away from the mess he rode in on.

I despise this "satisfaction porn" that both sides indulge in within spaces like this. It's not a good thing that the only people who had access to Trump's circus are now moving onto cover new things because people are bored with it. It just means now they can do worse things without anyone watching.

[–] NerdyKeith@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

They really are insufferable tools

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 day ago (10 children)
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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Too late now, dumbasses.

[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

"Oh, no! I rolled in all this shit and now I smell like shit. What are we going to do about this, fam?"

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Oh hey look, it's 2017 all over again.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You can't wash the stink off of you now that the reaping begins. Own it, you get what you were paid for.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They literally did exactly this eight years ago.

Rogan's gang of yes-men only got more popular by being "open minded" and constantly changing position to whatever direction the wind was blowing.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

What? they're making millions and will continue to do so.

Grifting on Trump's popularity with a dumber population got them huge sums of wealth, and now that the dumb population is getting bored with the Trump/king narrative they are moving to new attention-grabbing grifts.

This isn't regret, this isn't leopards eating anyone's faces. Can we PLEASE stop acting like we got any kind of justice or satisfaction here, it's worse than the pandering that the right does with each other in their dumb spaces, because at least they're dumb and don't know better. We should know better.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's an Alex Jones and Rosanna sympathizer. You show who you are by who you are around.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Speaking of Roseanne, she once shat all over the national anthem at a baseball game and maga has conveniently forgotten that since she is also a racist twat waffle. If they didn't have double standards they'd have no standards at all.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

He is friends with both and has been for decades.

Following the dollar not the people.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

A thing that struck me today is like...there was an article talking about how the speaker of the house didn't like the Superbowl pick. And it's like, who let these fucking political dorks so far out of their lane?!

Like did Newt Gingrich like the act at the 1996 Superbowl? I don't know, and I don't give a fuck. When did everyone start to give a fuck about these stupid asshole's opinions on entertainment?

Go piss up a tree you dumb fucks. Oh, and btw, do your fucking jobs. The government is shut and you're busy talking about your fucking music preferences. Nobody cares.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

This is a byproduct of shitty news services. The view from nowhere is basically insulting, and everyone feels it. So people will look for anyone who can explain a newsworthy issue with real (or apparently real) context.

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

When you stand for nothing popular, you need to distract people with a culture war. It's all by design, they are utilizing rage bait to keep us from realizing they are actively fucking us.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This isn't new. People keep asking celebrities about things they have no expertise on, and politicians have been more celebrity than political servant for a long time it seems.

I don't care about Ariana Grande's opinion on the Trump administration insofar as learning whether or not she's a fascist and I don't care what kind of music my governor thinks slaps during halftime.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nah, it's newer than you think. A lot of it has to do with the rise of the right wing media ecosystem. That's part of why I brought it up in this thread.

Like yes, they were planting the seeds of this with brainless morons like Rush Limbaugh, but their rise to prominence as "cultural critics" was really in the last decade or so.

These dumbass podcast hosts helped immensely with that and so did Trump, who offers his opinion on art and entertainment and thinks it's the only one that matters.

The "left wing" media is somewhat complicit in it too. The American media ecosystem overall has shifted to this reality TV or podcast interview mode, where instead of focusing on politicians doing their fucking job they write up articles about their opinions on arts and entertainment.

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

Its culture war bullshit to feed the rabid base. Speaker Johnson doesn’t give a fuck about the Super Bowl halftime but he sure as shit knows his drooling rabid MAGA fanbois love football more than almost anything and so if he can stir up controversy around it and center himself as an force against “corruption” of their favorite pastime it will curry favor with them for whatever else he wants, because they trust him now

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Part of the issue is that pro-sports is heavily integrated into American politics. They're a major font of propaganda for the US government, both domestically and internationally. Olympic Athletes of all stripes are regularly recruited to express American jingoism on an international stage. Military recruiters love to camp out at football games and happily sponsor helicopter landings, 21 gun salutes, and jet flyovers. Well-networked candidates use endorsements by athletes and wear team merch in order to signal their popularity to constituents. Athletes even serve as international ambassadors (Dennis Rodman famously visited North Korea, Herschel Walker and Michelle Kwan are both Trump-era ambassadors in the Caribbean, Mo Farah worked with the UN).

And then there's the graft. Politicians regularly get special accommodations from stadium owners in exchange for kickbacks. Athletes and coaches periodically get elevated to run for office (Colin Alred ran for a Texas Senate seat, Tommy Tuberville currently represents Alabama) and use their college/pro-ball networks to raise money for themselves and their political allies. Franchise owners are, themselves, heavily invested in both lowering taxes/cutting regulations and advancing fascistic ideology.

Go piss up a tree you dumb fucks.

Sorry. Too much money and influence is trading hands. They can't stop. They won't stop.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah I couldn't take the fucking NFL in general anymore. It became exactly like America: overhyped, pricier by the year while being worse every year, full of stupid drama, and obviously has its best years behind it.

Who wants to put up with three hours of shitty beer and truck commercials for 30 minutes of mediocre action? (A lot of America, I guess... But I can't anymore, this frog hopped out of the pot.)

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Yeah I couldn’t take the fucking NFL in general anymore. It became exactly like America: overhyped, pricier by the year while being worse every year, full of stupid drama, and obviously has its best years behind it.

I mean, the biggest problem with NFL is that a team can realistically only play 12-15 games a year. In baseball, you play 10x as many games. Basketball, marginally less, but you can still run a season for six months, with games multiple times a week.

So tickets can be cheaper and the sport can still be more profitable by year.

The high impact sports are a bad business model. Everything runs downstream of that, since you need to compress more and more of your revenue generation into a tighter timeframe.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 147 points 2 days ago (5 children)

“There’ll be people that they’ll DM me like, ‘You see what your boy’s doing? You voted for this.’ I’m like, ‘I voted for none of this,’” he said. “He’s doing the exact opposite of everything I voted for. I want him to stop the wars—he’s funding them. I want him to shrink spending, reduce the budget—he’s increasing it.”

If only there was a way they could have seen this coming...

Some kind of warning sign that trump was a fucking liar...

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It’s almost like we had 4 years with him already

“Trump doesn’t keep his promises” rings hollow of an excuse for regret when we have 4 demonstrable years of his garbage.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All the Biden Break did was normalize shit and hand a megaphone to anyone who thoughts Dems wouldn't help us.

"Blue no matter who" just depresses future turnout, Dem voters need to be excited about who theyre voting for, not scared of who they're voting against.

It's basic bitch psychology. Neoliberals think like conservatives, and lack the empathy to understand the Dem voting base (or anyone for that matter) thinks differently.

[–] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's because the Democrats are a conservative party. The US doesn't have a true Left party because the Dems and the GOP rigged the system so only they can compete. Serious electoral reforms are needed. At a minimum, first past the post has got to be replaced by ranked choice, and the electoral college needs to be tossed.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 117 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Joe Rogan, who previously endorsed Trump, has slammed the administration’s “insane” immigration raids targeting ordinary laborers, despite Trump’s original campaign pledge to focus deportation efforts on the “worst of the worst.”

“I don’t think anybody would have signed up for [this],” Rogan said in July.

Joe Rogan is so incredibly dim. Anyone with half a brain could see at election time that this is exactly what you'd be signing up for by voting Republican.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Joe Rogan has turned out to be the worst person from a TV show that included Andy Dick.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

RIP Phil Hartman.

... also: Jimmy James is Milton Wable

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[–] wagesj45@fedia.io 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think he's just lying. He might be dumb on top of it, but I think he's just seeing what direction the wind is blowing and trying to get ahead of it.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rogan is one of the very few who I think is actually just the right kind of dumb to explain his actions.

I'm not a fan. Anyone who says they like him I appreciate, because they're telling me exactly how much weight to give any opinion they voice from that point forward.

I weigh Rogan against other stupid people. People like Hulk Hogan or kid rock. Those guys would still be cheering for Trump if he was literally pissing in thier faces, not even for any benefit. They're just helplessly stupid. Too stupid for me to reasonably even comprehend. Absolute enigmas.

There are others who completely understand how nuts he is but are just doing a bit to enrich themselves... like Owens or Coulter or Shapiro.

I've never seen anything from Rogan to suggest he's got any calculus in what he does. I'm open to hearing examples, though, if anyone has any.

It must drive the others nuts that he blunders into a success they can't engineer through methodical manipulation.

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 day ago (2 children)

These fucking opportunistic grifters played their audiences like fools, and now want to distance themselves from the fallout they helped create?

No. Fuck these idiots.

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[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not trying to promote my own posts, but this one is very relevant to the topic at hand.

[–] Lorax@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Just watching it. Thanks for posting. The best thing I've seen in years

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago

You're gonna have to do some heavy fucking lifting to help break what you helped create.

You're not the enemy of my enemy just yet.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 58 points 1 day ago

Fuck all of them, they'll turn around and support him as soon as it's convenient again.

[–] chosensilence@pawb.social 33 points 1 day ago

nope, absolutely the fuck not. not only did we warn you the first time, you had four years of him as a leader HELD BACK BY OTHERS, and four years without him, and chose him again. that is truly unforgivable and the more you act like you were taken advantage of the angrier and more bitter i become.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Absolutely none of these twats are even remotely redeemable.

In a just world, they'd be tried for accomplice to all of the GOP's crimes

[–] MrSmiley@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They were nothing more than useful idiots, the Party no longer has use for them, they will be among the first Americans sent to the camps.

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