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"John Oliver discusses Benjamin Netanyahu's grip on power in Israel, why he's allied with some of the most extreme voices in his country today, and finally, a summary of one iconic meltdown we think TikTok is gonna wanna revisit."

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This is another post for which the "middle-finger-worthy" tag is not remotely strong enough.

About the worst insult I can think of for Benjamin Netanyahu is that he is essentially Israel's Donald Trump. And it's more accurate than one might think.

John Oliver: "Look, it is very clear that Netanyahu is desperate to stay in power and will do whatever it takes, which on a personal level makes sense. If you are facing a potential prison term, you probably want every bit of leverage you can get to avoid that happening. But some Israelis do recognize the dynamic at work here and are understandably furious about it."

Take that statement there, replace "Netanyahu" with "Trump" and "Israelis" with "Americans," and you would not have to change any of the other words for the statement to remain 100% accurate. Saying that Netanyahu is Israel's Trump is equally as accurate as saying that Trump is America's Hitler, i.e. another comparison that could be made with Netanyahu.

"Hi. On today's episode, Katy, Cody, and Jonathan talk about the shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas, Jimmy Kimmel's return, and Donald Trump's bizarre press conference attempting to link acetaminophen and autism."

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Are all of these recent (and upcoming, because you know there will be more) shooters just going to turn out to be 4chan shitposters or whatever?

And I'm not quite to the point where I believe that the FBI agents themselves actually might have just sprinkled some crackSharpied some slogans onto those bullets themselves, but at the same time... given that the current FBI is simply yet another tool (full of tools) of the Trump """""administration,""""" I wouldn't exactly put it past them, either.

But yeah, it's more likely that this current guy was just yet another terminally online, brain-rotted piece of shit.

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This video is a wee bit out of date, because Sinclair and Nexstar did not, in fact, "stick to their guns."

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When Trump gets in front of a camera and talks, it's never not embarrassing. Whether it's him confidently rambling a bunch of word salad or it's him angrily spewing a bunch of word salad or it's him sarcastically quipping a bunch of word salad or it's him badly mangling a direct teleprompter read into word salad, it's just sad. See also: every time Trump publishes words online via a social media post of any sort. Sad!

Apparently, leucovorin is the new hydroxychloroquine, i.e. a random drug that Trump just brainlessly shills as the new be-all, end-all cure for a thing. For autism, in leucoverin's case, like hydroxychloroquine supposedly was for COVID-19.

Disclaimer: I have played Bioshock, Bioshock 2, and Bioshock Infinite, but I have not played any of the DLCs for any of the games that have DLCs.

But I still watched this video anyway. Heavy spoilers for just about all of the Bioshock series within.

First, I don't know how much of this is legit and how much of it is Pat just talking right out of his asshole, as he is sometimes wont to do. (To note, I don't watch Pat's streams at all.)

Second, I'm not as (performatively) torn up about it as Woolie seems to be, but still... if Pat is being legit here, and it really is the case that Elizabeth from Infinite is the sole reason why everything happens in Bioshock, which also apparently is directly contradictory to Bioshock 2 and essentially retcons it completely, then that sounds kind of messed up.

Or, I don't know, maybe it's the absolute coolest shit ever. *shrug* Like I said, I haven't played the Burial at Sea DLCs for Infinite myself. I don't have the original games anymore, since I don't own the consoles anymore, either, but I do have all the remasters on Steam that I bought dirt cheap a while ago. I'm not sure if this makes me less or more inclined to perhaps finally give those a spin at some point. I don't know... I'm just kind of over the whole "cinematic first person shooter" thing in general, honestly, even for games that I played in the past and thought were cool at the time.

So Trump's all gung ho about renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War (despite being a Nobel Peace Prize-wannabe and all that stupid shit), but when is he going to more accurately try to rename the Department of Justice to the Department of Vengeance? Because that's what it really is now. Just a bunch of mooks he installed so that they can beat on his enemies, none of whom have a clue what actual justice is.

A post on The Daily Cartoonist.

A lot of it is a bunch of portrayals of Trump's address to the United Nations, all accurate in their own ways.

"Hi. It's been a few months since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed by Donald Trump, and you may have already forgotten what a turd it is."

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Regarding the video description, it's not necessarily because it was forgettable, but because there has been so much other, equally terrible, maybe even worse dumbshit since then.

After watching the video, which I didn't really feel the need to "live blog" as I do sometimes... all I feel the need to say, which Cody touched on but didn't state out right, is this: Even if the Democrats win big in 2026 and retake the House and Senate, when all these Big Beautiful Bullshit things start taking effect, lots of very stupid people (and not just Trumpanzees) will then entirely blame the Democrats and nobody else for these horrid things that the GQP did. This is also by design.

"Hi. In today's episode, Katy, Cody, and Jonathan discuss Trump's public threat to Pam Bondi over not going after his enemies quickly enough, how Trump and his inner circle co-opted Kirk's memorial service and turned it into a fascism rally, and Tom Homan's $50,000 bribe."

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That's fine, Donald Trump, because we all hate you just as much, if not even more.

Sudden Stephen Miller jumpscare. Especially given that he's basically channeling the wraith of Joseph Goebbels.

And here's Fucker Carlson pretty much explicitly comparing Charlie Kirk to Jesus Christ, essentially blaming "the Jews" for killing him, and then laughing like a deranged hyena.

And then, finally, outside of the context of the Charlie Kirk MemorialAGA rally, we have Ann Coulter literally telling it like it actually is (for once in her goddamned life) by not only freely acknowledging that the Trump """""administration""""" is the most blatantly corrupt presidential administration we've ever seen, but also freely acknowledging that she (and others like her) don't give the single slightest shit, as long as they get something out of it (the "something" in Coulter's case being "the wall" and the deportations of brown people, apparently). The only thing this country needs to be "saved" from is shitbags like this.

The "middle-finger-worthy" tag is simply not strong enough for all of this heinous fucking dogshit.

"Mike normally streams on Twitch, but he is back this one time to discuss The Haunted Mansion and other spooky Disney stuff with James!"

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That "and More!" in the title there is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Still, it's a pretty interesting video.

A post on The Daily Cartoonist.

Of all the comics displayed in today's post, this one was by far the most interesting to me.

"Is simply describing reality an act of insurrection now? Was it always?

"Yet pointing out the hypocrisy of all this is like saying water is wet - everyone already knows and the water isn't listening.

"While we are getting mad about it they are getting on with it."

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And for that one cartoon implying that Charlie Kirk's murderer came from a good family...

> Mormon, Republican, Trump supporting
> Good

Pick one.

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From the comments below the post, this was the first time I ever saw the name Horst Wessel. Yeah... Charlie Kirk seems like he might become (or already is) the new Horst Wessel. It's not a one-to-one comparison (e.g. Charlie Kirk wasn't part of any MAGA paramilitary groups or whatever [afaik]) but, still... yeesh. It's less "was Charlie Kirk like Horst Wessel?" and more "is Charlie Kirk being martyred and his murder being propagandized in a way similar to how Horst Wessel and his murder were?" The answer to the first question is "kind of but not really," but the answer to the second question is "absolutely fucking yes."

(How long before Tyler Robinson gets Jeffrey Epstein-ed in prison the way Wessel's killers did? ——¬_——¬)

A post on The Daily Cartoonist.

It's mostly about how the free press (including political cartoonists and late night TV comedians) is under attack, both figuratively and literally, from fascist dictators and wannabe dictators, such as perpetual piece of shit, Donald Jonald Trump.

And yeah, I'm seeing an awful lot of "AbC iS a PrIvAtE bUsInEsS sO tHeY cAn FiRe WhOeVeR tHeY wAnT" lately, after ABC's cowardly shitcanning of Jimmy Kimmel in the face of direct threats from the Trump """""administration."""""

But when some RWNJ like Roseanne Barr or Gina Carano or <insert Faux Noise talking empty head here> gets fired because they went a little too far with their disgusting RWNJ dumbfuckery and happened to piss off advertisers or whatever, those same people bleat about freeze peaches or whatever. It's so very odd.

(Not saying ABC can't fire whoever they want for whatever reason, I'm just saying their reason was incredibly shitty in this particular case of Jimmy Kimmel [because Mafia DONald Trump needed an excuse to get rid of one of his long-time enemies and ordered his goons to threaten Kimmel's bosses], unlike in the case of when they fired Roseanne Barr [for being a racist shithead] or when ABC's overlords at Disney dropped Gina Carano from The Mandalorian [for comparing rightful criticism of MAGAtry to the Holocaust]. And the only reason Faux Noise ever fires someone like Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck or Fucker Carlson is purely because of money matters, not because they actually disagreed with whatever dreck that was spewed.)

And hey, look, a bunch of examples of political cartoons mocking the Nixon administration's own war against the press, back in the day. Just goes to show that Donald Trump isn't the first super shitty Republican president who had a problem with the First Amendment. (When was the last time the US had a Republican president who wasn't super shitty? Eisenhower, maybe?)