Americans are in the midst of fascism, and instead of fighting for your rights, you’re posting Jimmy Kimmel popularity contest headlines. Y’all are so cooked 🤣
It’s still fucking with me that a man i first encountered as the introducer of women jumping on trampolines on the Man Show as a horny 11 year old is somehow a relevant character in the end of democracy in the United States
One could make the same argument about the extra with a voice line in Home Alone 2.
I don’t know what either of you are talking about. This is the logical conclusion of Reagan and the continued hyper-Hollywoodization of what America is in the public consciousness, both in the US and where the rest of us live.
I read American literature. I watch American movies. I listen to American music. I wear blue jeans, I prepare <US City Name>-Chicken, and I speak with a simulated American affect (better than I speak my own language). And I live in a country that (frankly) has suffered a lot more than it has gained from America (and its rabid lapdog for the most part). And yet intellectually, my instinctive understanding of the US is not a graveyard of natives, it’s not a modern prison slave society, it’s not the largest private army in the world, it’s not what’s funded the ongoing terrorism, mass murder, and annexation of my own country (not the biggest crime in the spree but this is evil too), it’s not a christofascist corporate-captured company-town-continent with nothing but a paper-thin porous veneer of progressive values and freedom. It’s a nebulously positive place that every piece of media I have ever seen has urged me to move to. The American Dream has been seeped into my brain since the day I was taught the letter A in nursery. A nice fantasy sure. But pure fiction. All circus, no bread.
This situation is not an indictment of “how far it’s gotten”. This is precisely the world your country has created for itself.
I don’t want to come off as unnecessarily cynical, I have a genuine curiosity and fascination with the American experiment. Some part of me still wants it to work, some part of me still feels compelled by it, by the prospect of being a part of it. But like…. Guys. Come on. Take a good look in the mirror.
To be clear I wasn’t trying to say “how bad it’s gotten” broadly, just that Kimmel specifically is surreal to me because of how I first became acquainted with him as a kid, but you are totally right overall
Kinda but he’d been dabbling around politics for decades, I remember watching Fox and friends with my super conservative parents when I was in middle and high school and Trump would call in once a week to talk about shit. This is around 2003. Kimmel was always about dick jokes
Or that a real estate developer who went through more wives than I’ve had cars would be the source of fascist fear and coercion.
Comedians have more insight and empathy for the masses, because their career depends on relating to people. Zelenski was a comedian - actor that was relatable to his people.
Not so much that he’s a comedian, but the specific comedian he is, I would be much less surprised if say Jon Stewart was in the same position. And I’m not knocking Jimmy it’s just been a really strange journey to get here
A dead squirrel is more popular than trump
Especially in RFK Jr’s opinion.
America: Let’s do a poll to see if the guy who fake cried on tv the other day is more popular than a fascist dictator.
And smarter.
That bar is in hell.
A moldy piece of bread is more popular than trump
Not a huge fan of Jimmy, but, infinitely more than Cheeto chimp.
