Jimmy Kimmel Appreciation Thread

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by icarus

Again, to be clear, Kimmel said nothing about Kirk.

This needs to be emphasized. A lot of news and media sources keep saying that Kimmel was suspended for comments about Charlie Kirk. He was suspended for insulting Trump and MAGA. So much lazy reporting even by outlets critical of the decision.

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by dammage79

Stewart could easily hands down win any election. He's done more for American people than trump ever has.

Low bar.

I genuinely think I’ve done more for Americans than Trump ever has.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Thing is Biden at least put competent people in charge of the important jobs...its not like the president is doing much day to day

RFK, Patel, Linda Mac...like honestly, you would have trouble coming up with worse candidates as a joke

Except for one and as it turns out the most important one, Merrick Garland is the reason Trump isn't in jail where he belongs and is again president and even if he got caught in the slow roll he should have released the Epstein files despite what Dems are in them. Either way Trump wouldn't be in office if Garland wasn't an idiot.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Thing is Biden at least put competent people in charge of the important jobs...its not like the president is doing much day to day

RFK, Patel, Linda Mac...like honestly, you would have trouble coming up with worse candidates as a joke

Let's all keep in mind that Trump's initial presidential campaign was likely a stunt to promote his reality tv show. He got fired from that show for making racist comments and just decided to run with the presidency bid.

Are people now surprised the primary qualification for his appointments seems to be celebrity power?

[Doctorfever]

Don’t think Jimmy should have been cancelled. Seems strange.

I am old enough to remember when people would get cancelled for an actual good reason. Like telling people to wear poppies.

I jest….

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by blankall

Let's all keep in mind that Trump's initial presidential campaign was likely a stunt to promote his reality tv show. He got fired from that show for making racist comments and just decided to run with the presidency bid.

Are people now surprised the primary qualification for his appointments seems to be celebrity power?

Who said suprised? A clown doing clown things is on brand.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Who said suprised? A clown doing clown things is on brand.

When you go to the Circus expect to see clowns.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

Except for one and as it turns out the most important one, Merrick Garland is the reason Trump isn't in jail where he belongs and is again president and even if he got caught in the slow roll he should have released the Epstein files despite what Dems are in them. Either way Trump wouldn't be in office if Garland wasn't an idiot.

Garland isn't incompetent, he just has feet of clay. But the fact he was AG falls on (a) Ruth Bader Ginsberg (who refused to retire in time to get Obama a SCOTUS pick in time); (b) Barack Obama (who chose Garland for SCOTUS unsuccessfully, thus making Biden feel like he should throw a position his way); (c) Mitch McConnell (who changed the rules and prevented Garlan's SCOTUS appointment) and (d) Biden (though TBF, why would he think Garland would act so lazily).

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Garland isn't incompetent, he just has feet of clay. But the fact he was AG falls on (a) Ruth Bader Ginsberg (who refused to retire in time to get Obama a SCOTUS pick in time); (b) Barack Obama (who chose Garland for SCOTUS unsuccessfully, thus making Biden feel like he should throw a position his way); (c) Mitch McConnell (who changed the rules and prevented Garlan's SCOTUS appointment) and (d) Biden (though TBF, why would he think Garland would act so lazily).

Facts are facts, Trump wouldn't be in office if Garland did his job, his missed opportunity to stop Trump in his tracks is eerily similar to allowing Hitler to seize power.

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Originally Posted by GioforPM

Biden was a huge success policy and performance wise.

By the end, it was real Weekend at Bernie's situation with Biden essentially a figure head. If the Democrats had chosen a more with it candidate in the first place, Trump wouldn't be president again.

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Originally Posted by Dozer

He didn't even say the shooter was a maga supporter. He was saying MAGA was trying to make political points by coming out hard that he was a radical lefty and not one of theirs, and then showed a clip of how devastated Trump was. He didn't disparage Kirk, He didn't say the shooter was a MAGA supporter. When he made those comments there was no clear indication of any political leanings of the shooter

I've been thinking about his some more.

I see both sides "scoring political points" from this. But what does that even mean? What happened to Kirk was an awful event. Isn't it the governments job to react to events like this and make changes to the law/policies? Isn't it the role of the citizens to push their governments to make changes?

What's this obsession with "scoring political points"? Following an event like this, American should be openly discussing gun control, radicalization, freedom of speech, etc... No one, except the shooter, planned this event for the purpose of furthering a political position.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by blankall

By the end, it was real Weekend at Bernie's situation with Biden essentially a figure head. If the Democrats had chosen a more with it candidate in the first place, Trump wouldn't be president again.

I mean if they chose better than Hillary in the first place that would have been the end of it but that doesn't excuse all the rubes for falling for his nonsense over and over again

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by blankall

I've been thinking about his some more.

I see both sides "scoring political points" from this. But what does that even mean? What happened to Kirk was an awful event. Isn't it the governments job to react to events like this and make changes to the law/policies? Isn't it the role of the citizens to push their governments to make changes?

What's this obsession with "scoring political points"? Following an event like this, American should be openly discussing gun control, radicalization, freedom of speech, etc... No one, except the shooter, planned this event for the purpose of furthering a political position.

Nah, what political points has anyone with any kind of name on the left tried to make?

[Hackey]

The network had enough of Jimbo whining and crying all the time and bringing down the ratings. Don't blame them.

[Fighting Banana Slug]

Originally Posted by blankall

I've been thinking about his some more.

I see both sides "scoring political points" from this. But what does that even mean? What happened to Kirk was an awful event. Isn't it the governments job to react to events like this and make changes to the law/policies? Isn't it the role of the citizens to push their governments to make changes?

What's this obsession with "scoring political points"? Following an event like this, American should be openly discussing gun control, radicalization, freedom of speech, etc... No one, except the shooter, planned this event for the purpose of furthering a political position.

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Nah, what political points has anyone with any kind of name on the left tried to make?

That's the thing. If the left brings out the gun control issue after someone is killed via gun violence, the right disparages that view as "trying to score political points", when in fact it is a pretty obvious response to an obvious issue.

[Fighting Banana Slug]

Originally Posted by Hackey

The network had enough of Jimbo whining and crying all the time and bringing down the ratings. Don't blame them.

We aren't blaming the network. We are blaming the pretty clear political interference from the FCC.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Hackey

The network had enough of Jimbo whining and crying all the time and bringing down the ratings. Don't blame them.

So I guess not?

[getbak]

He's back tomorrow... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...bc-1236374942/

“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” ABC parent The Walt Disney Company said in a statement Monday. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

So I guess not?

I'd quit.

No way I'd trust those guys again. Not in a million years. Get picked up by another network or do something else.

Someone stabs you in the back? You dont forgive them.

[missdpuck]

Yeah, I’m watching a livestream ( the whatever the hell Trump is babbling about) and there are people in the chat complaining about it, saying Disney is really self-destructing by bringing him back. They have no clue about the thousands of people who cancelled their Disney and Hulu subscriptions due to the cancellation. Are we even on the same planet?