What I'm sick of: Being kibbitzed about saying "fascist...Nazi...dictator..." - no, Jon STEWART.

[UTUSN]

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Those are *descriptives* about what's happening, not random/mindless/kneejerk insults. Will look for STEWART's latest crap.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/jon-stewart-defends-trump-against-192653376.html

Jon Stewart Defends Trump Against Fascist Claims: ‘What Would You F–king Do?’ | Video

.... “This is the cycle we find ourselves in. The first law of Trump-o-dynamics: Every action is met with a very not-equal overreaction, thus throwing off our ability to know when s–t is actually getting real,” Stewart explained. ....

He then proved his point again by showing intensely negative Democratic reactions to Trump’s pardoning of multiple people. “That is his constitutional power. Again, for some reason, we have given presidents the power of a king. And then we say, ‘Oh, by the way, with that power, you are not going to get all kingly and s–t on us right?'” Stewart said before breaking it down in simpler terms.

“Do not hate the player, hate the founding fathers,” Stewart added. ....

The Comedy Central host went on to criticize the political left for yelling fascist, calling it “almost a reflex.” ....

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In my young days, I accepted his being a Lib at face value. I never followed his stuff, just what popped in my feeds. Then, feeling my way, went through a few years of confusion - like, I saw the CNN Crossfire when he threw a hissy fit. & some of us here claim he *only* attacked *ucker CARLSON - no, there was a flaming Lib present and the whole show got cancelled. I was flummocked, but bowed to the comedian-hitting-both-sides thing. But then he started "reaching out" to BecKKK and O'LOOFAH, and when BecKKK threw a so-called "unity" party on the Mall, STEWART followed up with a so-called Lib one that was just a semi-Hippie thing with soap bubbles and Rennaisance Fair thing and the Mythbusters dweebs, and (as much as we crap on MAHER) what MAHER said, "If you're going to have an event it needs to be ABOUT something." So STEWART tore himself for me, like is he Third Way or No Labels or what.

I recently learned "kibbitz." I used to absorb the meaning as "complaining," but Search tells me it means "giving unasked for advice." That's what he does. To everybody, but lots to US.

[Skittles]

1. why did Stewart start turning into such an apologist

VERY disturbing

[UTUSN]

4. My monitoring of him goes back, like with Tweety.

In my young days, I accepted his being a Lib at face value. I never followed his stuff, just what popped in my feeds. Then, feeling my way, went through a few years of confusion - like, I saw the CNN Crossfire when he threw a hissy fit. & some of us here claim he *only* attacked *ucker CARLSON - no, there was a flaming Lib present and the whole show got cancelled. I was flummocked, but bowed to the comedian-hitting-both-sides thing. But then he started "reaching out" to BecKKK and O'LOOFAH, and when BecKKK threw a so-called "unity" party on the Mall, STEWART followed up with a so-called Lib one that was just a semi-Hippie thing with soap bubbles and Rennaisance Fair thing and the Mythbusters dweebs, and (as much as we crap on MAHER) what MAHER said, "If you're going to have an event it needs to be ABOUT something." So STEWART tore himself for me, like is he Third Way or No Labels or what.

I recently learned "kibbitz." I used to absorb the meaning as "complaining," but Search tells me it means "giving unasked for advice." That's what he does. To everybody, but lots to US.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. "kvetch" is "to complain"

[UTUSN]

11. Thanks

[Behind the Aegis]

12. As a head's up, it can be a noun too.

"He's a real kvetch!"

[UTUSN]

14. Well, that fits STEWART for me! Even better, or really *worse*.

[Silent Type]

2. Blame ignorant voters. trump told them exactly what he was going to do, and enough voters preferred it.

[newdeal2]

3. Why is he wasting his time lecturing us on this?

I stopped watching over a decade again and haven't regretted it for one minute.

[UTUSN]

5. Thank you, me also.

[Meowmee]

6. Terrible statement from him

[UTUSN]

9. Thank you.

[Crunchy Frog]

8. I love him but he's past his expiration date.

He was perfect for the W Bush era, but I think the current era is beyond him. I think he should have stayed in retirement.

[UTUSN]

10. Yeah, we grow.

[Skittles]

25. I always wondered about the timing of his retirement

yes indeed

[Cha]

13. He's Sickening.. just How FULL of SHIT is Jon Stewart?

[UTUSN]

17. COLBERT is a loyal friend who sticks by him like in a hostage video.

[Cha]

29. Colbert sticks by Stewart? In spite of him being WRONG?

Does Colbert call out Mump the Rabid Mad "king" Dic?

TY

[Mountainguy]

15. What part was he wrong about?

"I'm very big on- and I know it's annoying, but specificity and nuance," Stewart said. "And I think if you cry 'fascism' at every administrative overreach, even the ones that are constitutionally OK, you will find yourself out of fascism bullets when the time really comes."

Hit the nail on the head.

[UTUSN]

18. The many parts that what we describe & call out are *true*.

"the time really comes" - started in 2015 and is fast overwhelming.

[Melon]

20. I agree....everything is Hitler.....everything is Nazi..

We’ve completely destroyed our verbal weapons by assigning them to everything. They are becoming meaningless and part of one big impotent tantrum that are being used constantly to the right.

[Skittles]

22. so let me get this straight

repukes can scream ENDLESSLY about CRT, DEI, WOKE, etc, but we're not to call them what they they fucking are, FASCISTS?

[thebigidea]

31. verbal "weapons" are absolutely useless anyway without the backing of a huge propaganda network

Calling people fascists was never powerful, will never be powerful.

[brush]

37. So Musk Nazi-saluting twice as trump stood by approvingly didn't give you a clue that fascism might be in the offing?

Sometimes things are what they appear to be.

[Skittles]

21. America's democracy is literally starting to disappear

why the FUCK would he start whining about it being called out for what it IS?

[Mountainguy]

23. Is it?

Because everything happening is from power given to Republicans by democracy.

[Skittles]

24. the very idea that a multi-felon rapist conman WHO TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT is "PRESIDENT"

SHOWS US OUR "DEMOCRACY"HAS SOME SERIOUS DEFECTS

[Mountainguy]

27. Won't disagree with you there

but it is democracy. Plato wrote about it's risks 2400 years ago, and he was right.

[Skittles]

30. I wonder what he would have thought of the Electoral College

over and OUT

[UTUSN]

32. "Its"/Possessive, not "it's"/contraction - also, the crux of the dispute here is that you (& STEWART)

are accusing us of using the words indiscriminately as mere invectives instead of heartfelt, accurate descriptives. We mean what we say, not flinging things around.

[Mountainguy]

33. Nobody cares

[UTUSN]

34. Things matter.

[Mountainguy]

35. They don't

[Blues Heron]

26. Yeah, they are abusing the great power vested in the executive

With great power comes the great responsibility not to abuse it.

[brush]

36. So what trump and the AfD-backing, Nazi-saluting Musk aren't exhibiting fascism to you?

[choie]

38. The time has fucking come.

[Blues Heron]

16. We are supposed to elect people who don't abuse the office. If they do yeah we hate that.

Stewart is a tool.

[UTUSN]

19. Thank you. I just don't know what the heck he is. Just that he doesn't help.

[JohnSJ]

28. Stewart should go back into retirement. He isn't particularly funny either, same as Bill Maher.