Comedian Sarah Silverman talks to late show host Jimmy Kimmel.
The bit I found quite amazing, was the clip above.
Where they bemoan the Trump second term win, and agree with each other that it's "way worse than we thought".
Kimmel: "As bad as you thought it was going to be, it's way worse"...."It's worse than even he [Trump] would like it to be".
And I'm thinking... WTF??!! As in classic case of one screen two movies. Where two people view one event, but have two diametrically opposed views of it.
What's he upset about? What are they upset about? That the southern border is now secure? That inflation is down? That gas and egg prices are down? That food cost inflation is zero? That Trillions of foreign investment to the US have been committed? That the stock market has hit record highs? That Iran has had its nuclear program bombed back to the stone age? That Trump's has negotiated the end of six previously intractable conflicts? That men are no longer allowed in women's sports? That racism is being extirpated from institutions?
[ADDED: Joe Kernen of the Squawk Box on CNBC, asks Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the same thing. Referring to a similar list as I set out above and asking: "Where is the calamity?". Jeffries doesn't answer that question, or any other. He just deflects to "Trump bad"]
What is it, Jimmy? What is it that's "so much worse"? So bad that you talk of exiling yourself to Italy? (yeah, sure, Jimmy, sure....).
Oh.. I get it! It's the Deportion thing. Our caring Sarah and empathetic Jimmy don't like that. They don't like the the Trump administration is doing what it said it would do, which is to deport criminal illegal aliens. Do they know that that policy is popular with 70-80% of the population? If they do, it doesn't register.
Our dear Sarah and Jimmy are so caring their upset, and so "it's way worse that we thought".
Sarah and Jimmy find it awful. Makes them feel... I dunno... yuck?!
I guess they feel like this because they're the Elite. But then they say they don't like the Elite! That the Democratic Party must move away from the Elite. That it must start appealing to the Working Class. (Ok, but how? Nothing mentioned; let alone discussed).
Jimmy delivers this gem:
"There are repulsive Democrats. In the sense that what they say and how they say it repulses people".
"They're the loud voices in the party that scare people from saying what they believe, or think twice about telling a joke, or whatever....". "Sometimes they're wrong. But they can't admit it. Admitting you're wrong is so hard".
Too right, Jimmy! You ought to try it yourself, sometime.
And to which one commenter says: "Talk of 'Repulsive' Jimmy? Look in the mirror!" Jimmy Kimmel has been the prime one doing exactly what it is that he's criticising, above! No self-awareness. None whatever.
The lack of self-awareness of these two -- representative of so many in their Party -- is amazing.
Kimmel, after all, was the one who said, during Covid, that unvaccinated people who went to the hospital should be left to die. Has he ever uttered a single word of apology, of shame, of regret, for this murderous malice?
[The whole podcast is here, but warning: it's a bit hard to take, at least for me. Smug sententiousness on open display].
ADDED: Megyn Kelly tears these two apart, here. There's plenty of other mockery of this pod, around the conservative pod-sphere.
