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White House Correspondents’ Dinner axes comedy slot after Trump admin pressure
(www.independent.co.uk)
Evil can't stand to be laughed at.
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It’s quite possibly the reason he ran in the first place lol
He had run before that roast. But yeah i think it made him hate stand up, and reinforced his drive.
Yeah, he ran as part of Perot’s reform party lol
So fragile, they need to be treated very gently
“The devil... the prowde spirite... cannot endure to be mocked.”
Thomas Moore
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Once again demonstrating their collective cowardice…
Obeying in advance. Can’t risk upsetting Don Mangolini. The Mafia Bully Admin wins again.
🙄 🙄
They should have canceled the entire "White House Correspondents' Dinner" and simply held a completely new event at the exact same time at the same venue with a different name, and kept the jokes at the president's expense.
It's not White House's Correspondents' Dinner. It's White House Correspondents' Dinner.
The Correspondents organize it. It's hosted in a Hilton hotel, not at the White house. The White House doesn't control it in any way. This is simply the press rolling over to appease the fascists because they are scared of losing access.
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This vibe, for lack of a better word, is more important than some may think. Having an official role for poking fun at the government once a year reinforces Democracy and 1A. This is an act that signals to everyone just how ok it is to point out flaws and say what you like about the federal government and the people in it, including the president. To remove the comedy element states the opposite.
I don't know if there's a word or phrase for this but it is funny how you're saying the dinner is important to show that in democracy leadership can take it on the chin. But in this case, this administration is wrecking democracy and can't handle the correspondence dinner. It's cool to see how that works in real time
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Exactly as intended
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he never got over obama roasting him. in anycase, conservatives never could understand how comedy works, because all they do is know how to punch down, and it often comes from bigotry and hateful sources.
That's completely accurate.
He loves to dish out insults but can't handle it being done to him even in jest. What a strong man.
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Jon Stewart, et al, should host a competing event.
I would def watch.
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Comedy has been banned everyone, time to wrap it up.
Didn't musk make some inane comment about comedy being illegal cause he couldn't say slurs or transphobic shit at some point?
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Bunch of wussies can’t laugh at themselves. The collective narcissism is astounding
Because somewhere in their deep recesses, they know just exactly who/what they really are...
So, when it's pointed out to them, it's not funny, it's not making fun.
It's truth. It's a reminder.
Surely this will not go over well with President Elon "Free Speech Absolutist" Musk, right? RIGHT???
Elon Musk (after buying Twitter): "Comedy is now legal."
Elon Musk: "[the] Left found nothing funny, wanted to make comedy illegal."
Trump tried to get DOJ to go after Saturday Night Live for mocking him
"As president, Trump briefly attempted to get Justice officials to twist campaign finance laws and the federal equal-time rule to declare that anti-Trump material broadcast by Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and others was somehow illegal," the publication writes.
"During his 2024 campaign, according to a source with direct knowledge, Trump has raised this topic again, venting about the need to punish late-night comedians for giving “illegal” campaign contributions to the Democratic Party — in the form of jokes and on-air satire."
While career officials at the DOJ ignored these orders from Trump during his first term, the publication notes that they could actually become a reality should Trump win a second term given how much his allies have worked to weed out anyone who might be disloyal to his agenda.
“There are no guardrails,” Yale scholar Jason Stanley told Rolling Stone of Trump. “He already has control of any institutions that might stop him.”
Coward press. Have the comedy but not the president.
I think that's what they did during his first term, right? I remember him skipping the event altogether.
Ah, who are the snowflakes again?? Got to suppress criticism, especially if it is funny.
Much like reality, comedy has a well-known liberal bias.
Thin-skinned bitches
how about we just axe the white house correspondent entirely since they a) won't stand up for their colleagues and b) won't stand up to this administration or else they lose access.
the primary reason I stopped watching cable news since the election is the press being less than limp, weak, and feckless when it comes to anything dealing with republicans but somehow find their spines when a democrat is involved.
Snowflakes.
Amber Ruffin is a fucking national treasure.
If I didn't know better I'd say the White House was filled with a bunch of thin skinned cry babies. /s
Weird Snowflakes
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Wittle baby doesn't want the meany-weany comedian to hurt is fee-fees while he destroys the country.
Trump doesn't even know what joy is, he can only laugh at cruelty.
Wut happun? I thought elon made comedy legal again. 🤭
The press is feeble. Fucking cowards.
The amazing thing to me is that they can continuously do shit like this, and yet there will always be "normies" (and even some in the comedy industry themselves) whining about how the left is ruining comedy blah blah...
It's just insane the automatic benefit of the doubt that the right gets on every fucking issue.
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So fucking pathetic. But hey, hard to expect corporate media to stand up for the people. You basically have the fascist media and the "both sides" media.
It's very concerning that the White House Correspondent's Dinner would succumb to White House pressure. Now we see how theyll respond when HitlerPig demands they suppress his scandals.
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These imperial stenographers have always supported fascism.
Who sees what is happening in the white house and wants to crack jokes?
For the next four years, the Correspondent's Dinner should be a wake, and not an Irish one.
Fascists can't be argued with. They love when you get angry and yell at them. But they absolutely cannot stand to get laughed at. Go look up some quotes from Mel Brooks about why he thought it was important for the Hitler references in The Producers.
We should be doing a monthly nationally televised event where Trump, Musk, and the rest are ridiculed.
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Bring Obama to just roast his ass for an hour instead. Not much else could get under his skin like that, unless you also get some Trump women to fawn over him the whole time.
Snowflakes
Well, some people deserve to be bullied. I think politicians in general should be bullied to shit.
Have you ever seen Donald Trump make a genuine joyful eye twinkling smile?
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Great April fools guys!
Guys?
amber ruffin is incredible and this is going to make a great bit for her
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