The only reason I mention this is that it leads to the usual problem of having a conversation fragmented all over the place so you don’t know where to post or where to find the relevant comments. Or maybe just because I’m an obsessive-compulsive shit-disturber.
I thought his mousse gel smelled way too much like Axe Cologne.*
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.* If you pay extra extra extra for Paramount+++ , it comes complete with ‘Smell-o-Vision’.
But you still are forced to watch commercials.
I was reading a Daily Show book where he had brought Jim Cramer on the show and started skewering him. Oh that he might do that with Trump and Biden. Oh, I wish . . .
If he had either of them on the show and if didn’t, he’d be as washed up as Bill Maher.
“Hey Bill, I Took The Money! Now we both have huge yachts in Rumson. Mine’s called the ‘It Cleared…!’ Pardon me, may I have some Grey Poupon?
Or a couple of pounds of that Hawaiian Dank you’ve been smoking?”
Well, that’s not at all what he said based on the article you linked, is it? Eta: or based on the actual clip which is also at the link.
What he said was that it is ridiculous that the media said, “these images are too awful and violent to be seen” when they’re happy to show footage of 9/11 or of the aftermath of a school shooting.
I think the explanation given on CNN et al was misleading; it’s more about normalizing a level of discourse. Trump supporters *do* include a violent contingent, we’ve seen this over and over, and so this kind of imagery is no joke (even if the owners of the truck think it is). When Trump posts this kind of video, he knows exactly what he’s doing, and the MSM do not want to contribute to getting his message out.
So Jon was “50% right and 100% wrong”…yes, it’s ridiculous to say this image was too graphic or whatever to show, but we absolutely shouldn’t be shrugging off Trump posting this and the continuing ratchet up.
When I watched, I was completely onboard with what Jon was saying, as I assumed some kind of overall take on the big picture was coming. But he made a very passing statement of basically “Trump shouldn’t have posted this” and then moved on to the next segment.
Well that is a much more nuanced take on it. I can’t really argue except that I felt he was just using that to launch into his AI opening. The truck part was very brief. The AI promoters sounding stupid or evil was the opening.
TBH I thought his take on AI wasn’t great either; it wasn’t clear what he thought we, or the evil corporate guys, should instead be doing. I know it’s a comedy show, but yeah, the ideal is to be funny and have a point at the same time.
…But I don’t want to be overly harsh.
A lot of the takes on AI that I’ve seen recently, have been basically pointing and laughing at AI mistakes or ways it’s still inferior to human works…basically entrants for the Most Short-sighted Person award. Jon saw his way past that, and was funny.
Yeah, I’m not so much of a partisan that I will condemn any criticism of the Biden administration. Jon is right to take them to task on their inconsistency.
And he even acknowledged that the situations between the two wars are different, which I respect. But he’s still not wrong.
