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Lmao "seeking to avoid political division". No you're avoiding dissonance. The GOP MO is to stoke political division, it's literally what gives them power.
Also "anti-trump" comments instead of just calling them concerns or critiques.
Language like this is how consent is manufacturered. Language is powerful at subtly shift how one percieves a situation, and leading people to a predetermined conclusion.
Remember when they had Stephen Colbert roast GW during the dinner? That was peak comedy. These guys are such losers they know Trump won't be able to handle being roasted, and somehow that's OK for a world leader.
Remember when they had Stephen Colbert roast GW during the dinner? That was peak comedy.
The best part is that they only invited Colbert because they didn't realize his character on The Colbert Report was a parody of right-wing pundits.
The amount of people who didn't understand Colbert was performing satire was terrifying
Once again demonstrating their collective cowardice...
Obeying in advance. Can't risk upsetting Don Mangolini. The Mafia Admin wins again.
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Cowards.
Seeking to avoid political division... through appeasement? Has that ever been effective? The press truly has abandoned their responsibility.
‘Chamberlaining’ has never worked.
I've heard persuasive arguments that Chamberlain did the only thing possible for Britain at the time. Their defense industry was just spinning up and they needed more time to have any chance at facing Germany. The Spitfire had only just started production, for example.
Germany's military industry was also trash at the time. Buying time for Britain's defence also bought time for Germany's offence.
If France, Britain, etc did something sooner rather than later a lot of bloodshed would have been avoided.
The World At War is an incredible documentary that covers it quite well.
"Since the French spurned any notion of taking the offensive, the Maginot Line ironically protected Germany better than it protected France." Narrator, 8:10
"A few French divisions advanced 5 miles. But they didn't even try to penetrate the Siegfried Line, at that time still unfinished. And while Poland fought on, there were no German tanks at all on the Western Front." Narrator, 12:40
"If ze French Army would have attacked in beginning of September wiz zere very strong superiority in division in armoured cars well act all armoured cars in ze Western Front at zat time. In artillery, in air force, we ze German forces in the so called Western Front could stand no more than 1 or 2 weeks." General Siegfried Westphal, Staff Officer Western Front, 14:05
At the start of the second world war, Germany was much less mechanized than other countries. I think the US had one car for every five people, the UK one car for every 10 people, France won car for every 15 people, and Germany one car for every 30 people. Something like that.
The Germans used more horses in World War II than they did in World War I.
The thing was, what they did have they used effectively, including using radios for communications, which none of the other countries were doing at the time.
Should just cancel the whole dinner. This is not normal times anyways.
Seth Meyers' jokes at Trump's expense during the 2011 White House Correspondents dinner have been identified by those close to Trump as the moment he decided to seriously run for President.
Seth Meyers made this problem, it's up to him to fix it. Bonus points if he gets Trump to quit using only jokes.
Avoid political division
I mean, the line between parties is now just Anti-fascists | Fascists (Centrists are here as well. Silence is complicity.)
We even got an operational Gestapo
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/us/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-university-arrest-saturday/index.html
Centrists are weak, feckless cowards who shift their position to accommodate each side. Pick a lane, assholes. We have a humanity to save.
...seeking to avoid political division.
Yes, because Trump's platform is unity.
That’s them being diplomatic. The truth is that they’re intimidated. Their speech is being chilled.
If you think of "unity" like the Nazis think about it, then yes.
BTW, that's how they have been describing it to others online for over a decade, too...if people they describe as "Communist" which means, in the Venn diagram, anyone who is !Nazi = "Communist", would just agree to stop fighting fascists, there will be unity. Also, "peace". Interestingly, it's how one of the magoffs that worked on/supports Project 2025 talked about their plans, too. Oh, and Putin talks the same way.
Instead just one comedian, you get house full of clowns
I support that decision. What kind of jokes could a comedian make about all of this? About the resurgence of an autocratic state on the ruins of one of the first modern democracies?
Maybe a conservative, MAGA comedian could do it. But those don't exist. Ask yourself why.
They exist. They're just not recognized as comedians by those not in the cult because normal people don't see kicking down as humor.
Tony Hinchcliffe
That dude is less funny than Trump himself.
Sure, just giving you a MAGA conservative comedian. He has a massive and loyal fan base regardless of either of our opinions on him.
If only George Carlin were still around. I bet he'd have a few words to say about all of this...
Bill Burr is probably the closest we've got today but his approach isn't as sophisticated as Carlin's was.
The best thing about Carlin was that it didn't matter which party it was, he called them all out on their bullshit. Another one that was a good stand up comedian that we lost too early was Robin Williams. I remember him doing a movie where he played the president. It had a very "The Great Dictator" vibe to it.
Courtiers.
Wasn't it a correspondence dinner that is considered to be the day he decided to run for president because he was on the verge of tears being made fun of
Yup. He was roasted by Obama himself, in fact. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-campaign-obama-beef-election-b2639129.html
Little baby pee pee snowflakes
Spineless preemptively compliant cowards.
Trump has no sense of humor. The only reason he ever smiles and laughs is when he knows he's getting something over on somebody.
It's not a shocker that he couldn't even handle the mildest of criticisms from a comedian.
The lizard suit wasn't even designed to do that, but he's such a great man he made it happen anyway.
The news media is not supposed to be friendly with those in power, no matter who is in power. They're supposed to be a pain in the ass of the president (every president). They're supposed to be the Fourth Estate! They're supposed to be part of the checks and balances. It's always irked me that they do this correspondent's dinner and get all buddy buddy with the Whitehouse.
Yeah, the whole thing is a just an embarrassing demonstration of how it's just a big social club rather than a relationship where they should be naturally antagonistic.
Tiny 🍄 can’t handle criticism of any kind
So fragile
Absolute PUSSY.
Whoever downvoted, you’re wrong but at least you deprived me of literally nothing in the name of the biggest pussy on the planet. There is not a chance in hell that this was handed down by the board, this was handed down by a man who can’t take a fucking joke even when he is (MAYBE) the most powerful man on the planet, that is the definition of a giant PUSSY.
Pussies.
That's because nothing is funny anymore