I know Colbert has to give CBS the benefit of the doubt, but CBS IS the Trump administration.
Fuck CBS. Fuck paramount. Cancel your Paramount plus subscriptions if you haven’t already. You get get Star Trek without giving them money.
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CBS is simping for fascists
It's not even like some bombshell interview or anything either. It's basically a Christian running for Senate in Texas that's saying Trump and his ilk are not real Christians and that there are lots of people out there that are fed up with the corruption in the church and especially in politics. He didn't make any really bold statements or say anything that could have been considered aggressive or hateful. All told, it was a fairly uneventful interview that got a whole lot more traction than it might have because it got censored. It would have been hardly a blip on the radar otherwise. I hope the 'Colbert bump' helps get him in office.
I believe the biggest thing that they don't want getting out is:
"This isn't a Democrat vs. Republican issue, this is a Top vs. Bottom issue."
They REALLY do not like it when people point out the true gambit they deploy.
A verifiable Christian publicly pointing out that Trump and most Republicans aren’t real Christians is possibly one of the most damaging attacks that can be made against them.
Losing Christians—even just to apathy—would be the death of the Republican Party. Conservatives have courted, manipulated and used Christian righteousness to get where they are today. They need them.
It’s why Peter Thiel is talking about the antichrist. The American conservative engine runs on holier-than-thou, righteous indignation.
Religious people have had their critical thinking skills ripped out of them for their entire lives.
My lovely mother has been completely convinced of "definitely happening" raptures dozens of times in the last 15 years. These people continue to vote.
You're right, but if there's one thing dictators cannot tolerate on any level, it's unchecked criticism. Sure, these days there is still some level of allowing free speech for appearances, but if it's high profile and trump thinks he can exercise his control, he damn sure will.
The Jimmy Kimmel incident is the perfect example of this and what we can expect moving forward. The executives of companies have been installed specifically because they're right wingers and even those who aren't, are terrified of lawsuits. They probably know they can win the lawsuits, but it's just easier to kowtow, from their perspective.
It's surreal. I know I've been living a lie my whole life. I thought laws and the constitution would usually win out, at least when enough people knew about whatever criminal activities were happening. But I don't really expect any of that anymore. I was randomly reading up on Nazi Germany last night and I cannot help but wonder if we are in the "deport the impure Jews" phase of this. I've already internalized the idea that if they could get away with sending the "undesirables" to gas chambers, they would. But I still hold onto some hope I'm wrong. The news basically every day now though makes me think I'm not. That at best, it will get worse and not better.
What I cannot understand is what the point of anything trump does is. I bounce from one idea to another but none of it really makes full sense to me.
I know for sure he's looking to leave a legacy, that's obvious. But is he actually so goddamned hateful that his focus is determined by maximizing suffering? Is it because he thinks his supporters love this? (He's sadly correct if so)
Is he hoping to be infamous like Hitler and Stalin?
Is there a chance he's got some twisted sense of this being the right thing for America? Trust me, I don't put a lot of stock in this one because it's abundantly clear his number one priority is always himself. Maybe it's a secondary reason?
Ultimately I know that, like the original Nazis, you just cannot really understand the inner minds of evil people. But I cannot help but try. Not to empathize with them at all. It's morbid curiosity. How does one's sense of morality get so thoroughly fucked? There were hundreds of thousands of Germans who helped murder and imprison Jews. Each one of those people justified it to themselves. And a good chunk of them rationalized it so hard that a switch was flipped in their brain. "This is so important, mass murder is required and I will help commit it." was a thought process for many thousands of Germans. It's so hard to wrap one's head around. It's disgusting and demoralizing. But it's reality. Some people say humans are just evil inherently, and I see a lot supporting that argument. But they're also inherently good... sometimes.
Nazi Germany and the fact that Trump's approval rating right now is above 3% is evidence that this is a distinctly human phenomenon. We are capable of straight up evil. How the fuck can we fix it?
Sorry for the drawn out stream of consciousness reply... I needed to get that off my chest.
I understand where you're coming from, but I don't think that Trump has anything resembling a plan. He reacts to events, minute by minute, generally in the most cruel and hateful way possible.
He has plenty of advisors and backers who have coherent long-range plans, and they are making a disturbing amount of progress, but they're hampered by Trump's volatility and lack of focus. It also helps that those trying to define his agenda mostly have different interests.
Well someone has a plan.
There's a few things about it. 1) Jasmine Crockett is their preferred opponent. 2) He showed Christian values that weren't genocidal were possible.
To be fair, this guy is the best candidate the Dems have ran in Texas in a long time.
Why, Stephen, would the Ellisons stand up to Trump? They are on his side.
I have to push back on just ONE thing. Paramount isn't being bullied. CEO is the son of Larry Ellison. Trying to not cast doubt on David but.... Rich men gonna be rich assholes. If they were actually being bullied, I do believe that they'd push back harder cause it's fucking Paramount and CBS is very well known and can very easily blast this to millions.
LOL at CBS trying to gaslight Stephen Colbert. Absolute buffoonery.
People should watch Jeff Daniel's Newsroom from 15 years ago. It was an accurate portrayal of the degradation of the Republican party and TV news and while it was optimistic, it predicted networks would be almost as bad as they are in 2026. Even their writers did not predict Fascism taking over the USA.
Way to back a dead man walking into a corner and summon Streisand.
If they say they deny it, then air it on the next show.
“I don’t even know what to do with this crap.”
Yes he does. He used a doggie clean-up bag to pick it up and throw it in the trash.
GOOD BOY Stephen, GOOD BOY!
Bullies in the Trump administration = Bullies at the top of CBS. It's bought and paid for, Colbert just doesn't want his show to end prematurely for calling Bari Weiss and Larry Ellison out.
Does he really expect them to act against their class interests? Does he really believe they will or can choose to do the right thing just for goodness' sake?
If so, maybe he's not as clever as I've believed all this time.
The headline should be changed to "Colbert discovers ruling class unity, surprising only himself".
I feel bad for liberals. Being liberal must be a terribly confusing condition.
Go read Marx, kiddo!