that creepy pic of young trump biting his lip at an epstein party where the two of them leer creepily at too young women. Ground hog Punxsutawney Phil photoshopped in the back ground as a joke since he was mentioned in the epstein files. with so many millions of pages, I am probably in there somewhere.
Great moments in history. Stephen Colbert lists the reasons HE was a bad president season 1. Many are quaint compared to the murderous trainwreck in Season 2.
All this crap, and he got elected again. It still makes me ill.
still more reasons I am sorry I do not have the time or the patience to list them out. There has to be like 100 of them, most of which are quaint compared with now.
Der Late-Night-Moderator Colbert gilt als scharfer Kritiker des US-Präsidenten. Nun hat ihn Trump erneut angegriffen: Er nannte ihn einen "erbärmlichen Versager", den man "einschläfern" sollte. Colberts Sendung wird bald eingestellt.
Screenshot of a post by ian bremmer on Bluesky, with a photo of jon Stewart plus quote text:
18 september 2025 om 20:02
@ianbremmer.com
just going to leave this here
from jon stewart accepting the mark twain prize in 2022:
"It’s not the fragility of audiences, it’s not the woke police that are going to be anexistential threat to comedy, it’s not the Fresh Prince, it's the Crown Prince.
It’s not the fragility of audiences, it’s the fragility of leaders. Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether.
We are the banana peel in the coal mine. When a society is under threat comedians are the ones who get sent away first.
Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to art, to music, to thought, to poetry, to progress."
Äußerungen nach Kirk-Mord: Jimmy-Kimmel-Show wird vorerst abgesetzt
Die US-Late-Night Show "Jimmy Kimmel Live" hat Millionen Zuschauer. Nun setzt der US-Sender ABC sie vorerst ab. Grund sind Äußerungen Kimmels im Zusammenhang mit dem Mord an Charlie Kirk.
PY Saying we're going to have to learn to live with each other and debate in
the marketplace of ideas while the president is purging comedians off
the TV is why people are not reacting positively to Ezra Klein.
Picture 1: The White House is offended that South Park makes fun of Donald Trump and claims that "This show hasn't been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread"
Picture 2: Paramount just bought 50 more episodes of this "irrelevant" show for 1.5 billion dollars (yes, with a B) — or as Trump puts it: "Hanging on by a thread".
You know where a country is heading when comedians are fired and the king is celebrating the loss.
Trump:
I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.
He is not a king only a sociopath narcissist egocentric racist rapist felon.
In the court of kings, the privilege of the jester is his right to talk about what he wants and to mock anyone freely in public without being punished. To this end, he wears distinctive signs that denote his status and protection by law. The bell cap and the marotte, often worn by fools, are the image of the crown and the royal sceptre.
「[...] Skydance Media, which is slated to acquire Paramount Global, the parent of both CBS and Comedy Central. David Ellison, who leads Skydance, has projected an image of being intrigued by the politics espoused by President Donald Trump...」
The company buying CBS (i.e. Skydance) is almost entirely funded by David Ellison's MAGA conspiracy theorist billionaire daddy #LarryEllison.
Maybe, just maybe, the point is to create a second FOX propaganda outlet with this one doing the #Techbros' bidding specifically. 👀
Apparently CBS were also shameless during the McCarthy persecution era so... 🤷♂️
The #Oracle founder Larry Ellison was best mates with Apple founder Steve Jobs FWIW.
I’ve wanted to share this photo, but didn’t expect that it would be because Stephen Colbert’s show has been canceled (“purely a financial decision,” sure). He has been an outspoken Trump critic for years, and we’re clearly in the “going after the political comedians” phase of fascism now. May he continue to speak truth to power for as long as he can. #photography#urbanphotography#streetphotography#nightphotography#nyc#stephencolbert#resist
A nighttime view of the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in midtown Manhattan, current home of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Giant yellow neon letters, spelling out COLBERT, project vertically from the facade; below them is an illuminated sign for Angelo’s Pizza. The LATE SHOW marquee, lit up in various colors, juts out over the sidewalk. The building is at an angle and is partially framed by a traffic signal on a metal post in the extreme foreground. A taller building in the background is checkered with lit and unlit windows. The warm glow of the illuminated letters, signs, and storefront windows contrasts with the cooler, bluer tones of the evening shadows, giving a sense of the enchantment and vibrancy of city nightlife.
CBS says it's canceling Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" after the next season, claiming it is a financial decision. @Variety explains the challenges late-night shows face in attracting viewers, and the backdrop of CBS-owner Paramount's planned merger with Skydance Media. The latter is owned by David Ellison, who has been spotted in the company of U.S. President Donald Trump and is the son of billionaire Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, a Trump supporter.
In news from the quivering bowels of Vichy America, a major liberal law firm has agreed to work for fascists and stop hiring so many women, brown people, or members of the LGBTQ community to placate an aggrieved, would-be dictator and keep raking in those sweet government contracts:
Trump-Targeted Law Firm Caves, Vows $40M in Legal Support to Right-Wing Causes
"resident Donald Trump withdrew an executive order targeting a major Democratic-leaning law firm after the firm agreed to provide $40 million in pro bono legal services in support of his administration’s far right initiatives.
“This is unbelievably shameful from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP,” Molly Coleman, executive director at People’s Parity Project, said on LinkedIn. “I’m embarrassed to have any association with this firm that failed to find the courage the moment requires.”
Recently, the White House has escalated attacks on law firms whose attorneys have been involved in legal efforts opposing Trump. Just last week, Trump signed an executive order attempting to revoke security clearances from Paul, Weiss attorneys, restrict the firm’s access to federal buildings, and terminate any of its government contracts. The order reportedly prompted at least one client to sever ties with the firm.
However, following a meeting between Trump and Brad Karp, the chair of Paul, Weiss, the administration abruptly rescinded the order. “We look forward to an engaged and constructive relationship with the President and his Administration,” Karp said in a statement."
So, let's make sure we all understand what's going on here. Trump is brazenly and almost certainly illegally, shaking down a powerful law firm that has literally worked on cases opposing him in the past, and is known from their commitment to diverse hiring practices, and instead of fighting back, or even just taking the loss of government money on the chin, they've decided to check notes concede that a former partner who worked on cases against Trump was engaged in "wrongdoing," work pro-bono for the fascist regime, and capitulate to the fascist "war on DEI" - an idea whose ever-expanding meaning appears to be "restore mandated white supremacy in America."
Are you kidding me? Does the larger liberal establishment in the United States have anything resembling a spine to share between them? More importantly, if Americans trapped inside the increasingly ominous, fascist nightmare that is Trump 2.0 can't count on a high profile law firm in the business of protecting civil rights and taking on the government, to even stand up for the firm's own rights, how can they have faith that anyone in position to defend their rights in a legal capacity, is going to step up to the plate for them? The answer of course, is that they can't.
Folks, you'll get no argument from me if you say that the greater evil in this story is a fascist president who would be king, using the authority of his office to gain revenge on law firms that helped charge him for real crimes, he absolutely committed. As the extorted settlement proves, this too is part of Trump's plot to take complete control of America as a dictator. This isn't legal, and as a federal judge's restraining order in a similar case involving the Trump-targeted firm Perkins Coie demonstrations, complete surrender was not the only option Paul Weiss and its chair Brad Karp had here. By that same measure you can't win if you don't fight, and when losing means capitulating to fascism, a law firm full of civil rights lawyers has a goddamn responsibility to resist.
“It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul, Weiss, didn’t just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession,” Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket, said on Bluesky."
Folks, I've been talking about and writing about the rise of fascism for over a decade now. And I'm not bragging, because I wish I had been wrong about the signs I was reading around me, but I have largely been right when I insisted we were all heading for a moment like this. Furthermore, I have repeatedly warned that a liberal establishment (no, not you; your leaders, your media, your "liberal" capitalist employers) which would always have the option of simply collaborating with the fascist order, wasn't going to save us from fascist predation. There is no cavalry; the opposition party, the courts, and the lawyers aren't going to stop this. At the rate things are going, I have no idea how long I'll still be able to tell you that we are the cavalry, and the only way this nightmare ends is if we use our bodies en masse to shut down the fascist order and the profits that motivate the guys paying for all this; but it's the truth. If you can do it to Tesla, you can do it to any of them.
While it's been a hot minute since we checked in on the corporate media wing of the Vichy American establishment, I'm guessing you will not be surprised to learn that bootlicking media and entertainment corporate "leaders" are kissing Downmarket Mussolini's ass by silencing dissent on behalf of a fascist would-be dictator once again.
As you may have heard, Paramount is trying to pull off an eight and a half billion dollar merger with Skydance Media; a merger that Trump and his corrupt ass FCC can block without too much effort. Although they'd deny it, this caused Paramount to settle an entirely baseless sixteen million dollar lawsuit against CBS news (which Paramount owns) brought by Trump himself for "deceptively editing" an interview with Kamala Harris during last year's presidential election. This craven bullshit stunk to high heaven, enough that even one of CBS's own employees, Late Night host Stephen Colbert was comfortable calling the settlement “a big fat bribe” on his show.
Whelp, three days later in what CBS assures us is completely unrelated news, they announced that the network is cancelling the Late Show entirely at the end of the year, despite the fact that the show still gets great ratings and is "often the highest-rated show in late-night."
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to end in 2026 as CBS cancels show
"CBS’s parent company, Paramount Global, is attempting to close the merger with Skydance after the deal fell apart last year. Paramount’s owners have been pushing the Trump administration to approve the sale of CBS to Skydance.
Colbert, speaking about the lawsuit settlement with Trump, said on Tuesday’s episode “Paramount knows they could have fought it”, because the company itself had called the lawsuit “completely without merit.”
Starting with the lawsuit itself, I think its important to understand that Colbert is entirely right. In the grand history of baseless lawsuits against the media, Trump's litigation against CBS for editing an interview for run time and clarity might be one of the all timers. News programs edit filmed interviews all the fucking time, including interviews with Downmarket Mussolini, and Trump's argument basically comes down to "this media organization dislikes me so they made my opponent look smarter and more articulate than she is." Which is not only absurd, but actively describes how the mainstream media has reported on the stream of consciousness, word salad vomit that comes out of Trump's mouth daily.
So Paramount rolled over, and more or less just gave Trump sixteen million dollars and a key political win (after all, he can now say "if I'm lying that the media is out to get me, why do they all keep settling with me?") to just bribe him and get the FCC to approve their merger. Colbert is right, it's an obvious bribe, and whether or not Trump directly had a hand in the result, criticism of the President and his corrupt enablers in the US establishment is resulting in a reprisal by a media company already collaborating with a fascist would-be dictator. Furthermore, that's not really a radical opinion because even milquetoast Democrat Politicians are cautiously articulating those same concerns:
"Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat who appeared as a guest on Thursday night’s show, later wrote on social media: “If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has called for an investigation into Paramount Global’s relationship with Trump over the Skydance merger, wrote: “CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount … America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.”
I can't deny that part of me is tempted to look at all of this and laugh my ass off at centrist liberals because now their faves are getting the "pro-Palestine, anti-genocide" treatment so many progressive journalists and commentators suffered even under the previous Democrat administration. Trying to be the bigger person here however, I'll instead point out that the goddamn Late Show and Stephen Colbert are by no means radical leftists, pushing "dangerous" ideas in the public discourse. What Colbert offers is bog standard liberal political criticism repackaged in a mildly humorous way. If corporate media companies are prepared to dump a successful, revenue generating critic like Stephen Colbert at the drop of a hat over some mild criticism of their collaboration and the fascist regime in general, then it means that nobody is safe from these kind of reprisals in our mainstream discourse. This too then would be an example of the erosion of any democratic or non-fascist cultural aspects of our society, and a sign that despite Trump's recent gaffes, the fascist creep in America continues unabated.