Didn’t stop them in the decades even before the rise of the 'net allowing commerce.

You basically had three stations on TV, all of them owned by MNCs. You had PBS, most of it underwritten by big corps, and wiser boomers would call it Petroleum Broadcast System because of this.

Even still, the John Birch Society types - in other words, most Republicans and conservatives - would talk about the “liberal media”.

I mean, what the actual fuck.

Don’t things like Media Goblin already host video?

I keep wondering what the Tea Party v2.0 will be. All of these Sudden Independents ™ will need some way to burn all the Nazi uniforms and some new banner and sham “party” to rally behind.

All those teabaggers thought they were fooling people and would get positively outraged [1] if you 1) remember that they called themselves teabaggers, not “the left”, and remind them of that simple fact, and 2) pointed out that it was entirely astroturfing done to give conservatives and Republicans cover for their W support and for their support of invading Iraq (again).

I wonder how much of that stupid Orange Jesus regalia ends up in the dumpster weeks after he passes away.

[1] Several of them would run to mods on Denver Post to get me banned and my posts taken down. I had several timeouts for any reference to their original name, which was, in fact, teabaggers and that them denying it was just them rewriting history. I had timeouts for pointing out the mere fraud that was part of the “taxed enough already” so-called “movement”. At one point just using the term “astoturf” was enough to have a post of mine pulled.

Careful, Teddy. Taco might deem you to be “antifa” and have you murdered by the state.

That was literally the reaction from most everyone I knew - “did you know who he was?” - sadly, I did, because I’m politically aware and online that the average bear. Even then, I barely paid any attention to the guy.

Jesus fucking Christ.

All this for a fucking podcaster hardly anyone even knew and who actively worked against American ideals.

I’m sure it makes a convenient narrative for people to blame Seth for this.

Again, notice that it’s another example of Murc’s Law here, by the way: as a conservative, Taco has no agency, he was pushed into running by the nasty liberal cracking jokes and poor Taco just had no choice but to run to get revenge against Obama, against Seth, and against any American that doesn’t love everything related to Taco.

In any case, Taco had mulled running multiple times and even tried to run prior, and failed. All that birtherism stuff he was shoveling during Obama’s administration was likely his racist way of testing the waters for yet another attempt.

https://www.tvguide.com/news/donald-trump-presidential-campaign-timeline/

They should have taken extra steps to point out to the idiot that wrote that that there is no such thing as “the Democrat party”.

No such thing exists.

It’s a real shame that Taco doesn’t pay a very steep cost for these obviously frivolous lawsuits meant to chill free speech.

Every so often, I used to go back and re-watch the entire thing. It was just so good.

I had to laugh when the “liberal media” was later spinning it the next day (and the hard right outlets like Faux and hate radio picked this up and used this spin - “see, even the liberal media says it was bad!”) as not that funny, it got hardly any laughs in the room, etc.

Yeah, NO SHIT many people in the room weren’t erupting in loud guffaws. He was making fun of YOU motherfuckers, too. Right to your smug little faces.

Just like Orange Jesus didn’t erupt into laughter when years later, Seth tore him a new one right to his face, as did Obama. Orange Jesus sat there, seething. Orange Jesus gave it 0 stars, boo, it was terrible, no more discussion. LOL.

I seem to remember some study that seemed to indicate that conservatives tend to have a hard time understanding satire. It was around the same time as The Colbert Report being on the air.

You couple this with seeing that cons tend to have overly large/overly active amygdalas, and when you hear them saying that “liberalism is a mental disorder”, I think it’s yet another example of them projecting, since they seem to have certain mental disabilities.

I don’t blame anyone for staying home and not coming to the United States. That now includes not only just for tourism, but for work, too, seeing how the Korean workers were kidnapped by the ICEstapo thugs.

Fallon is kinda bothsiderist anyway, so if that pussy in the WH cannot even take the light mockery from Fallon, he’s even more of a pussy than most people already think he is.

FFS, I thought this was an Onion title at first.

Well, this was as predictable as the tides. Even before the murder of Charlie.

Psst. See Murc’s Law.

in American politics, only Democrats are assumed to have agency. Republicans are like rocks rolling down hill or perhaps sharks eating seals: they do what they do because that’s just what they are, so there’s no point in holding them responsible for anything, since they could not do ottherwise.

More of Murc’s Law, I see.

Yep. The both sides people are sure helpful in all of this.