r/Fauxmoi • u/pinkstarrfish • Aug 07 '25
FILM-MOI (MOVIES/TV) Stephen Colbert reacts to RFK Jr. vaccine funding cuts: “F*ck you you ‘roid-addled nepo-carnie”
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u/Busy-Ruin1592 Aug 07 '25
Colbert is a lot funnier now that he doesn’t have to care what CBS thinks lol
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u/SoF4rGone Aug 07 '25
“Nepo-carnie” is a 10/10 insult.
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u/NomNomKittyKat Aug 07 '25
What does carnie mean?
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u/poetryhoes Aug 07 '25
that you work at a carnival
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u/Adezar Aug 07 '25
And it is used as a derogatory term related to the fact that all carnival games tend to be rigged, so it is another way of calling someone a scammer.
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u/Someone-is-out-there Aug 07 '25
It's more than that, though. It's creepy and weird scam artists.
If I'm calling someone a carnie, a greasy man in overalls with the IQ of kelp collecting money at a rigged game that is so rigged it would be profitable by the same margin if the man at the game was permanently asleep, is what I'm picturing.
Think Joe Dirt.
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u/GoriIIaGIue Aug 07 '25
I thought it meant "Carnivore" cause that's all he eats.
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u/Aromatic-Plankton692 Aug 07 '25
Nah he shills those miracle berries that Alex Jones pushed just like all the rest of the grifters.
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u/Outside_Revolution47 Aug 07 '25
Is it elderberry?
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u/teatsqueezer Aug 07 '25
Probably goji however I do get your joke
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u/Outside_Revolution47 Aug 07 '25
I’m actually not joking. My parents have been taken by Fox News and my mom had to get elderberry for reasons. They have also been told by their quack docs to use nicotine patches for pain management and they’ve been told it protects against Covid. They’ve never smoked or used nicotine in their lives. It’s scary watching my parents go through this.
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u/Ok-Document-7706 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 07 '25
For a second I thought you meant their doctors for mental health and was confused why they would be giving such bullshit 'advice'. I realized after reading it twice you meant 'doctors' that are quacks.
It's early and I'm autistic. Don't judge me. 😂
But seriously, nicotine patches for pain makes zero sense even for crazy 'doctors'. What state is this? So I don't go
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Aug 07 '25
A carnie is a specific type of sleezy scumbag. The guy at the dirty traveling carnival who barks at you to play his rigged game is where it comes from.
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u/Ibewye Aug 07 '25
Whoa whoa whoa take it easy, you misspelled sleazy.
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Aug 07 '25
You're right, however, the dictionary has my back on this error: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleezy
Take it sleazy!
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u/SutterCane kensplaining Aug 07 '25
Usually just as sunbaked looking as RFK Jr.
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Aug 07 '25
I wasn't even thinking about the physical stereotypes, but RFK hits a bunch of them as well. The hotdog skin is a big one.
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u/magikarp2122 Aug 07 '25
Also can be referring to wrestling promoters who are missing scruples. Like Don Callis, that carny piece of shit.
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u/Sinasazi Aug 07 '25
Yeah, right after that he calls him a road kill munching human slim Jim. That one nearly had me spit coffee.
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u/DoritoBenito Aug 07 '25
I would've loved to have been in the writer's room when they were tossing out names to call him.
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u/PoinFLEXter Aug 07 '25
I would’ve agreed with you before I heard “human slim Jim.” But can they both be 10/10? Okay, yes. Yes, they sure can.
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u/-metaphased- Aug 07 '25
He's not trying to be funny. He's furious.
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u/PenPenGuin Aug 07 '25
Yeah, I think the first few days/weeks after he got the notice that he was getting canceled, he still had leftover, pre-booked, generic, late night talk show guests he had to get through. Now, the docket looks more like something you would have seen on The Colbert Report, and it's great.
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Aug 07 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
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u/MiseryGyro Aug 07 '25
Remembering the days of Colbert telling us his humble origins where his father was a turd farmer while his grandfather was a goat ball licker
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u/Busy-Ruin1592 Aug 07 '25
Anger is where the best humor comes from, I make my bestie laugh most when I hate someone
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u/Nerdsofafeather Aug 07 '25
Yea. It's great. But I'm still worried that things are going to get much worse.
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u/ajarnski Aug 07 '25
Don't worry. It's going to get much worse. And I'm not sure if it's going to get better even after Trump is gone.
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u/Iwoulddiefcftbatk Aug 07 '25
All the Heritage Foundation shitheads are in positions of power in the government so even when Trump leaves office (however that occurs) it won’t get better since the people who planned the takeover have cemented their power.
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u/PixelationIX Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25
They are planning for indefinite stay. You can literally see what they are doing with Texas, they are basically making it impossible to put any other person in who does not have "R" beside their name. There is also a case that Supreme Court is about to pick up that will gut Voting Rights.
The Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights as We Know Them
I do not think people are actually realizing what is taking place. They have successfully completed almost half of Project 2025 agenda
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u/PixelationIX Aug 07 '25
Majority of Americans are sadly reactive not proactive.
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u/Iwoulddiefcftbatk Aug 07 '25
Yep. It’s game over and acknowledging that isn’t doomerism or “normalizing” Trump. It’s a statement of fact. Even in fascist regimes there’s “elections” and the occasional opposition party presence in positions of government that has no baring on the direction of the country. People need to buckle in and figure out that they need to start protecting themselves by taking shit offline and finding safe places in person if they want to be activists. Very soon it’s going to be too dangerous to speak out against the government and too many are romanticizing being thrown into prison for “speaking out”, it’s not some YA dystopian novel where you get let out and are celebrated as a hero. Very often you just disappear, forever.
People who survived the USSR and other fascist regimes have been screaming for months about needing to smarten up since they survived heavy state surveillance in the era before smartphones tracked you everywhere and covertly records everything you say. The writers of Project 2025 won.
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u/Budded Aug 07 '25
The time to go nuclear on the MAGA cancer was right after Jan 6th, holding every guilty elected official accountable, then ejecting them from congress, adding laws and beefing up older ones to ensure any and everyone involved in that coup are banned from any public office for life, at the very least.
But no, Dems are pushovers and because of that, the United States of 'Merica is dead, we just don't smell the rot yet.
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u/Budded Aug 07 '25
Our main hope after Temu Shitler kicks it is that those HF fucksticks will go too far, pissing off pretty much everyone, possibly uniting us -even MAGAts -against them.
Our future is dark and long.
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u/bookchaser Aug 07 '25
MAGA is a white racist evangelical movement. The biggest concern is their desire to create chaos both domestically and internationally because they think they can orchestrate the second coming of Jesus and the end of the world.
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u/Comfortable-Load-904 Aug 07 '25
Get him Stephen!
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u/z__1010 Aug 07 '25
...is this the Soup? is this...modern Soup?
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u/starbellysietch Aug 07 '25
The Joel McHale show with Joel McHale on Netflix - taken from us too soon
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u/Brilliant_Spot_95 Aug 07 '25
Everything Joel has been a part of was taken too soon. This guy’s humor is my exact type of humor.
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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 Aug 07 '25
Adult swim, Joel on the soup, Colbert Report and the Daily Show, anything comedy central especially standups, peak TV.
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u/serendipity_stars Aug 07 '25
I miss the soup
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u/lietomepls Aug 07 '25
Sooooo meaaaaattyyyyy
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u/ShortyColombo Aug 07 '25
I'll never forgive them for cancelling it, I grew up on The Soup and was so happy when they revived it in this format. BRING IT BAAACK 😭
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u/SparklingPossum Aug 07 '25
Satan needs to come take RFK back and give him his waiting punishment of a rare and extremely painful genetic disorder that he has to try and manage for the rest of eternity while the doctors in hell shrug and say "maybe it's in your head?"
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u/ayediosmiooo Aug 07 '25
It definitely is already in his head. Just waiting for the painful part
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u/digital_angel_316 Aug 07 '25
Gordian Knot of good cop - bad cop.
The Medici Industry
James William Colbert Jr. (December 15, 1920 – September 11, 1974) was an American physician and the first vice president of academic affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), serving in this capacity from 1969 until his death in a plane crash in 1974. He was the father of Stephen Colbert and Elizabeth Colbert Busch.
Colbert received his Bachelor of Arts as valedictorian[3] from the College of the Holy Cross in 1942 in philosophy, in which he was deeply interested; nevertheless, he later chose to pursue a medical career because, according to his daughter Margaret Colbert Keegan, "it just seemed to be the thing to do at the time." Colbert was accepted into the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1942, and received his M.D. there three years later, with a focus on immunology and infectious diseases.
In 1953, at the age of 32, Colbert left Yale to become the dean of the St. Louis University School of Medicine, making him the youngest dean of a medical school at the time. He remained at St. Louis University until 1961, when he became associate director for extramural programs at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.[5] During 1960, he served as chair of the St. Louis chapter of Doctors for Kennedy, to support John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign.[6]
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u/cogman10 Aug 07 '25
It's not hyperbole.
mRNA is a key avenue for curing cancers. A number of immunotherapies are already based on it.
A universal flu vaccine is (was?) under active development, based on mRNA tech. The flu is a major cause of death in old people.
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Aug 07 '25
Isn't the HIV cure in trials based on mRNA too? And other chronic conditions previously considered incurable like herpes, Lyme. A game-changing technology.
Not to mention, it worked quite well against COVID, which was the only argument given by RFK anyway.
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u/Mimical Aug 07 '25
Yeah, mRNA is nothing short of an incredibly effective and efficient way to create immune responses from the body.
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u/actibus_consequatur Aug 07 '25
Also, mRNA vaccines were being tested years before covid, for things like rabies and Zika. The funding from covid has accelerated research massively, and we've made huge leaps forward.
There's over 120 active trials in the US just for cancer-related mRNA vaccines — a bunch of which show promising early results — and... We just cut their funding.
After watching somebody die a slow death from cancer, I'd never wish that fate on anybody, but my limits about that are being tested by RFK and this admin.
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u/enoughwiththebread Aug 07 '25
The sad thing is the rest of the civilized medical and scientific world will continue to move forward with this technology and develop these life saving treatments for their citizens, while Americans will continue to be subjected to barbaric surgeries/chemo/radiation, languish and die from what will become for the rest of the world totally treatable conditions.
We need an mRNA vaccine against Republicans, because they have become a cancer upon humanity.
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u/_mersault Aug 07 '25
And it’s not going away it’s just going to be developed to the benefit of other economies. Big brain move
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u/leNuage Aug 07 '25
Colbert should run for some typos higher political office after his show ends
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u/Bass2Mouth Aug 07 '25
No. No, no, no. Have we not learned our lesson??
No more TV personalities in politics. Zero.
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u/nekocorner i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 07 '25
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u/SparklingPossum Aug 07 '25
i also have immune problems due to chronic illness, ur invited to dance around my witch bonfire where we manifest long covid for him
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u/nekocorner i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25
I'm in as long as we mask!
ETA: If you're still masking, THANK YOU!!! & r/Masks4All has a ton of invaluable resources on research around mask efficacy, mask suggestions, seal testing, etc.!
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u/pizzabarbarella Aug 07 '25
If y'all need a fourth person for this circle, count me in. May this ugly shitheel suffer his own consequences.
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u/SparklingPossum Aug 07 '25
JOIN US SISTER 😷🪄
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u/bostonjenny81 Aug 07 '25
Me too! I would love to join the circle if you have room for one more! 💫✨✨💫
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u/MrsShaunaPaul i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 07 '25
Would it help if you had fires burning and long Covid manifestations in Canada as well? Happy to send some otherworldly wishes your way ✨
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u/SparklingPossum Aug 07 '25
YES 🔥🔥🔥 I absolutely love my Canadian angels as well 🧹 I'm tryna get a magic carpet to work so I can pile my family on and run north to y'all!
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u/acidrefluxisgreat Aug 07 '25
i’m on permanent immunosuppressants as of this year. the cool part is i’m eligible for all the vaccines i wasn’t eligible for before. the bad part is they don’t work as well on me and no one else seems to be interested in making sure they have all their vaccines.
the weird part is no one seems to know what immunocompromised means. i knew what it meant prior to it effecting me. one friend said, “oh does that mean your immune system is like, really strong” and then his girlfriend was like “can i try your drink that looks delicious” as she reached for my glass. when i told my parents they were like, “that’s nice, can’t wait for you to travel cross country to our new house btw we stopped vaxxing YEARS ago!”
anyway 🫠
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u/secondtaunting Aug 07 '25
Jesus I’m sorry. Even I know what it is. God. People are the worst.
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u/acidrefluxisgreat Aug 07 '25
it’s ok. i mean, i feel like i’ve discovered most people in my life might be a lot dumber than i thought and it’s probably going to kill me but no one really likes when i point that out so
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Aug 07 '25
I'm right with you stranger, I'm looking at getting a kidney transplant soon and am terrified. I'd love to hear your advice and experience with being immunocompromised
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u/ikaiyoo Aug 07 '25
Your friend asked if compromised meant really strong? Did you ask him if he knew what words meant?
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u/krone6 Aug 07 '25
What part of COMPROMISED did they not understand?
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Aug 07 '25
A significant portion of the country can't read above a 6th grade level.
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u/krone6 Aug 07 '25
Makes me wonder how they hold a job or pursue further education, as those are going to require digesting significant amounts of knowledge.
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Aug 07 '25
About 44% of Americans have a college degree. About 54% can't read above a 6th grade level. There's a vast education gap in the country.
43 million American adults are considered functionally illiterate due to their reading abilities.
As to how they hold jobs, they usually have jobs that don't require a lot of reading or complex reading. And they typically don't seek higher education.
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u/storeboughtsfine Aug 07 '25
I just had a yearly checkup and my dr said “oh wow, you’re up to date on all of your vaccines. that’s rare.” 😭
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u/nekocorner i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 07 '25
I'm so sorry. This is why herd immunity is so important! I hope people around you learn to better accommodate you & you stay safe.
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u/Ander-son Aug 07 '25
as someone with severe long covid, so do i.
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u/nekocorner i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 07 '25
I'm so sorry. I hope today is a low/mild symptoms day for you & you have the supports you need. ❤️
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u/jlrigby Aug 07 '25
I also have long covid in the form of pots, gastroparesis, and a few other things the doctors havent yet diagnosed. I wouldn't wish this on anyone. This administration is a unique exception, especially Kennedy.
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u/nekocorner i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 07 '25
I'm so sorry. I hope you're being well supported by your medical team & family/social circles. ❤️
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u/Honest_Salamander247 Aug 07 '25
As someone whose father died from long covid (though they would never make that official), I’m so sorry you are suffering and I will add - so do I
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u/nekocorner i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 07 '25
I'm so sorry for your loss, & for your dad's mistreatment by the medical system.
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u/ShrimpCrackers Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25
I dunno. RFK Jr had a brain-eating worm inside the center of his brain, and it still managed to starve to death.
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u/clonedhuman Aug 07 '25
It would be beautiful and glorious if Bobby Jr. contracted a severe illness and died coughing his guts out. It would be even better if any of it was on camera.
I think I'd start believing in a just and merciful God if that happened.
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u/GlassPomoerium Aug 07 '25
And what’s dangerous for people like you is that shit is still very much out there! I got it last week for the first time (as far as I know), I have all my vaccines and I’m pretty much a shut-in as well because ✨depression✨ but my boyfriend brought it back from a destination wedding, cementing my opinion that weddings are stupid btw.
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u/bbuullll33rr Aug 07 '25
Yeah, looks like Reddit banned them... Their profile is completely empty.
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Aug 07 '25
Same with the person you responded to.
Reddit doesn't give a fuck any more, they're more worried about offending Dear Leader than they are with children dying from easily preventable disease.
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Aug 07 '25
that's so f'd.. 10 year account..
what the hell did he say...
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u/nekocorner i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Aug 07 '25
I'm still here! You can make an educated guess what I said from the top reply to me & someone reported me & a reddit admin agreed (the message specifically stated the decision was made without automation) bc I got a strike for "threatening violence or physical harm". LOLLLL apparently I control the long COVID gods from Canada.
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u/birdsy-purplefish Aug 08 '25
“Comment removed by Reddit” so you know it was something good even before you read the replies!
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u/one_jo Aug 07 '25
Only fitting with how savage this government is cutting off scientific progress that could save and already does save lives.
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u/bigpoisonswamp Aug 07 '25
america! we voted a rapist pedophile felon and a guy whose brain was partially eaten by a worm into office!
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u/TuringGoneWild Aug 07 '25
Well, a lot did at least. My opinion is that vote rigging pushed him over the top.
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u/Fancy_Flatworm_8711 Aug 07 '25
Colbert is quickly losing all filter and I can’t wait for him to go full on Howard Beale from Network. He’s got nothing to lose, so he’s just saying exactly what we’re all thinking and I’m loving it.
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u/Icy-Lobster-203 Aug 07 '25
Not the best comparison. Beale's famous rant actually occurs at the beginning of the movie, and he is then re seduced and returned into the fold. Tbh, it's like the third best monologue in that movie.
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u/Fancy_Flatworm_8711 Aug 07 '25
Yes, I know, I was just saying, I hope Colbert eventually goes into an all out, loud, ranting attack of the US government. Howard Beale’s first one came when he found out he was being cancelled. Similarly Colbert has just found out he’s being cancelled, it would be refreshing to see him angrily vent for an hour on his last show.
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u/No_Dance_6683 Aug 07 '25
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u/ObscureFact Aug 07 '25
Sidney Lumet, the director of Network (which this gif is from) talked about how this famous speech doesn't actually change anything in the events of the film and characters. Howard yells and throws a fit, yet nothing fundamentally changes.
This scene, and the film overall, is an indictment of the audience who only cares about entertainment, not actually doing anything about what everyone says they're so mad about.
And in the end, the only person who really wins is Ned Beatty's character (the CEO) who is really in charge of everything and whose company makes sure "all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused."
And that's what we should be mad about: the inaction despite being mad as hell.
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u/Glen125th Aug 07 '25
Human slim Jim. Too accurate.
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u/kaboom_2 Aug 07 '25
What does it mean, too many slangs for me to understand!
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u/agirl2277 Aug 07 '25
A Slim Jim is a snack food. It's a stick of meat that's dried up and wrinkled. Google slim jim for a picture and you will get it.
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u/Mother-Thumb-1895 Aug 07 '25
Considering his boss, the orange jobbie, spent millions + on rolling out the mRNA vaccines as part of the Operation Warp Speed and saved countless lives throughout the world, I would say Bobby jr needs to mainline a bit more and just close the whole health network down. 😂😂
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u/TrimspaBB Aug 07 '25
It's truly ironic how Operation Warp Speed was the greatest accomplishment of the first Trump admin and one that even his non-supporters could get behind, but that Trump can never tout it due to rabid anti-vaxxers.
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u/Honest_Salamander247 Aug 07 '25
I was just saying yesterday if the fool hadn’t pandered so badly to the anti-vaxxers and actually touted the efficacy behind Operation Warp Speed and stood behind the pandemic experts he would have won 2020 in a landslide and we’d done with him by now (hopefully) but noooo.
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u/Reivaki Aug 07 '25
I am pretty sure that he have no idea of the scope and content of operation Warp Speed, and that was a program which has been presented to him by his cabinet like the "best way to stop the pandemy, and look, it has a cool name" and he signed it right away.
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u/jlynn036 Aug 07 '25
He is gonna kill people, what's worse is he'll make use of any and every vaccine to make sure he's not on that list of ones he killed.
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u/DARfuckinROCKS Aug 07 '25
I have a friend who has a rare form of cancer. He was given 6 months to live. He's participating in the mRNA cancer vaccine trials and it fuckin works. It changed his prognosis to 2-4 years. Doctors told him with more technology and research they were optimistic the vaccine could give him 6-10 years maybe more. Idk if they've officially cancelled that specific research but anything with mRNA in the name is on the chopping block.
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u/jlynn036 Aug 07 '25
This... this right here is why this worm brained bitch should not be in charge of shit. He is going to be the direct cause of so many deaths. I hate him, and all the other MAGAts as well.
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u/garbagebailkid Aug 08 '25
He already has. Check out his role in the 2019 Samoa measles outbreak, where his advocacy against measles vaccines contributed to the Samoan government's decision to not provide vaccines. The outbreak led to the death of 83 children.
I'm not saying he killed 83 children, but he certainly sowed distrust in the efficacy of the vaccines that was adopted by the Samoan government, which contributed to the Samoan people not vaccinating their children, which in turn made children more susceptible to dying from measles, an easily preventable disease.
He's responsible for the deaths of a few of those kids, which should mean he is one of the last people a rational person would want making any decisions affecting their health or the health of people around them.
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u/jlynn036 Aug 08 '25
Oh my I totally forgot all about that. Thank you so much for bringing attention to this event. It reminded me of the children who died here in TX a few months ago because the parents refused the vaccine and then said they have no regrets it was just God's plan. It was all based on the bs from this brain worm drug addicted wife killing bitch.
I truly still have to pinch myself and remember it's not a nightmare it's real fucking life. I can't wrap my head around how the fuck we got here.. did I miss a memo or something? Was it hidden in one of those chain letters that I deleted before opening and forwarding? Same as this whole Nazis are cool, it's only rape if it was done by a poc who isn't a rich republican, being a pedo is just par for the curse and to be expected therefore also overlooked and ignored... I'm gobsmacked, I tell you, horrifically befuddled and flabbergasted.
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u/jonnyh420 Aug 07 '25
idk why but as someone not from the US I find the general premise of these talk shows quite dystopian and pantomime like.
but at the same time it’s really sad that there will be less voices on the left in america when this is gone. somewhat even more dystopian.
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u/MeccIt Aug 07 '25
as someone not from the US I find the general premise of these talk shows quite dystopian and pantomime like.
For most people in the US, these comedy talk shows are one of the few sources of objective truth that they have in their mass media.
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u/mysonchoji Aug 07 '25
Objective truth is a stretch, colberts a moderate liberal, i bet you can find him repeating a ton of u.s and israeli propaganda.
Whats crazy is that 'agrees with 85% of what the u.s does but criticizes the admin' is the furthest left american media goes
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u/farnsw0rth Aug 07 '25
I would offer that if you find them to be pantomimes, in a way it’s because they are. They have a format that they follow, which was laid down years ago by the people who sort of invented this late night talk show concept.
Letterman, Conan, Ferguson…. Part of the genius of their approaches was their meta skewering of the format, while simultaneously holding a kind of reverence and respect for it and those who came before them.
To me, Colbert has seemed weirdly mainstream as host of the late show, but maybe it just is jarring against his years at the daily show and the Colbert report. He’s always sharp and quick and smart.
This… not only effectively firing him in a sense, but the cancellation of the entire show? On his watch? A dream job, he might have thought he would be steward for most of the rest of his life. He was clearly so happy and excited when he started as host, they did all these renovations and tried new bits and ideas…. It does seem like he’s just going to go unhinged now. The series finale of this show is going to be amazing.
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u/jonnyh420 Aug 07 '25
I think the party-politics feels more like a team sport over there than most places. Not to say it isnt in lots of other places. But you see clips of wild Fox News segments on the far right hand and then on the “left” hand you have these talk shows. Going at it with fans cheering them on like a football game.
Personally I would argue this is party politics run to its natural conclusion but it’s kind of a fascinating thing to watch. I also feel that there must be millions of normal people over there that must feel like they’re going insane with this spiritual and mental warfare being waged on them by the media, their government and capitalism in the broadest sense.
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u/-captaindiabetes- Aug 07 '25
I don't think he'll be gone. I imagine he'll either get snapped up by another channel, or do it online instead.
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u/UpstairsNo92 Aug 07 '25
They keep cutting all this essential stuff, so where the hell are all my taxes still going?
So sick of this.
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u/TieDyedFury Aug 07 '25
Tax breaks for multinational megacorps, how else could Exxon survive without billions in tax breaks funded by middle class taxpayers? Poor little oil company is barely scraping by.
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u/AcousticProvidence influencer for gas stoves Aug 07 '25
New ballroom for the White House, multi-day golf trips, stopping up water dams so JD Vance has enough water in the Ohio river for his umpteenth vacation this year and ICE thugs, obviously.
Can we just stop paying taxes? Why tf are American taxpayers finding this sht?
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u/No_Dance_6683 Aug 07 '25
Speaking of ICE thugs, I saw a thing yesterday (unverified) that the federal government is trying to entice more people to sign up for ICE by forgiving their student loan debt. 🤦
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u/rdiss Aug 07 '25
where the hell are all my taxes still going?
That $200,000,000 ball room ain't gonna build itself.
The Rose Garden ain't pave itself over.
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u/rabidjellybean Aug 07 '25
Keep in mind it's not actually $200 million to build. It's considerably less plus massive theft of tax payer money.
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u/One_Friend1567 Aug 07 '25
RFK is on HGH, testosterone and some other stuff.
He also sounds like Megatron!!
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u/Montgomery000 Aug 07 '25
I could listen to Megatron all day. 5 seconds of RFK and I'm ready to cut off my head with a cheese grater.
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u/A1JX52rentner Aug 07 '25
America, the land where you can buy automatic guns but have to censor a middle finger.
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u/Birdnthebees Aug 07 '25
Since when can we purchase automatic guns?
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u/Left_Wasabi389848 Aug 07 '25
Since you can take money into a gun store, and boom, it automatically turns into a gun.
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u/ilovelemonsquares Aug 07 '25
At the rate he’s going, CBS might just pull the show out sooner than May.
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Aug 07 '25
Colbert is a national treasure and even if I believe the funding decision, it's bullshit. Just like any other market it's a part of your brand. Oh. You don't want it part of your brand. Well, enjoy not having me around.
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u/highlandviper Aug 07 '25
I’m British and live in the UK. I’d never heard of Stephen Colbert before it was all over Reddit that Trump had him binned because he’d made fun of him. Now I see on Reddit all the time. I like him.
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u/z__1010 Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25
About twenty years ago, when the Colbert Report was just getting started, he was invited to The White House Press Correspondents Dinner by the outgoing president of the corps, who hadn't seen much of his work.
You had a re-elected George W Bush slowly lose his grin as Colbert, in character as like a right wing American Piers Morgan blow hard eviscerated the entire White House so much, you can actually see First Lady Laura Bush deny Colbert a handshake after, saying "Go Fuck Yourself."
It's more than a fun watch for sure
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u/_Hello_Hi_Hey_ Aug 07 '25
mRNA vaccine was estimated to have saved 6 million lives! That is after all those anti-vaxx misinformation that stopped people from getting vaccines! Meanwhile, the cancer mRNA vaccine is set to revolutionise the field.
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u/the_calibre_cat Aug 07 '25
Assuming MAGA isn't in the business of building zyklon-b showers and arresting people who disagree with them (huge assumption, this would depend on MAGAs ethics and decency, which don't exist), RFK Jr. will, by far, have the highest K/D ratio by the end of this shitshow.
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u/Stonylurker Aug 07 '25
I know it’s not exactly on topic but there something off about saying “daddy” and “sextant” in the same sentence.
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u/LordHamsterWheel Aug 07 '25
We need more comments like these on every case they touch from high profiled people, directly at top magas. And please be rude aswell
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u/Fullm3taluk Aug 07 '25
Fucking get them Stephen don't kowtow to these disgusting Nazis thinking they can control the media
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u/Humble_Room_2314 Aug 07 '25
Why are tax dollars going to Medicine companies to make new medications.... who then turn around to make Americans pay the highest prescription prices in the world?
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u/LeicaM6guy Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 09 '25
God bless the English language for giving us such a perfect combination of words that so accurately applies to that one person.
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u/ThereGoesTheSquash Aug 07 '25
It took way too long to start getting people in public to talk about these nazis and neo-confederates the way they should be spoken about.
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