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People criticizing Jon Stewart for saying things that sound exactly like the takes you would expect from Jon Stewart on The Daily Show feels like a throwback to 20 years ago.

He’s pointing out the absurdity of the situation we’re currently in. I also see it as a call to demand better of our politicians going forward.

No one expects Stewart to be a propagandist for Biden the way Tucker is for Trump. It’s just supremely unreal to see the media at large, including Stewart, treat Biden’s age and occaisonal gaffes as if they’re in any way comparable to Trump’s insane, dictatatorial, self-absorbed ramblings.

Good lord Keith Olbermann sucks so much

Eh. He spent maybe two minutes tops—including applause breaks and reading the tweets in question—on the backlash. Really he used that to tee up his takedown of Carlson.

His epic teardown of Tucker felt like classic TDS era.

wrong.

Kids like to follow their parents outside, and if you’re on a mission to get somewhere, it’s really easy to not notice. I lived on a cul-de-sac with a bunch of children for a while, and I got used to just creeping out of my driveway every time just in case, but I still had to tell the kids all around to NOT do

Air Canada seems to employ the kindest, most helpful, knowledgeable people on earth but is simultaneously incapable of running a functioning airline. 

Emilio, you should have more respect for the black lesbian woman who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem back in 1950 while earning two Purple Hearts and a Medal of Honor at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.

Santos (if that is his real name) isn’t suing for the money.

If you are failed con man George Santos/Anthony Devolder, maybe don't draw attention to yourself?

I have to imagine this premise had to pass ABC/Disney legal first, and if they were fine it...

There are no 19yo kids making oil money in Florida. Mummy and Daddy bought that for him, you can bet on it. Go to the news report and look at him - he has the same entitled frat-bro look as the kid who got convicted in Philly, if not as pretty, because Florida.

MuskRats are always the worst people in the room, aren’t they?

Because a lot more goes into it than just the cost of raw materials. Labor costs, utilities, rent, insurance, and a host of other things are all included in McDonald’s increased food prices, but the only thing being counted in the cost of food at home is the food.  Also, restaurants are still probably recovering from

Context does matter, it was in a small city in Connecticut, one of the wealthiest areas in the entire United States. 

...it was now impossible for her to get a fair trial in a prosecution for Hutchins’ death.”

The invasion of Ukraine is an openly genocidical war. Usually the genocidal aspect of wars is understated, but Putin has been quite clear the Ukraine should not exist, that the Ukrainian identity is supposedly “made up” in a fake way different to all otter identities.