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Go anti-woke, go broke.

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[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 74 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Fuck Phil McGraw. He's a dumb prick who actively makes the world a worse place with his bottom of the barrel trashy TV shows.

Good news.

[–] Whiskey_iicarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You mean dr. Phil the guy who invented the bum fights video series back in the early 2000s?

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's zero reason to take credit away from the bum fights guy for his own brand of trash, but you can definitely say you mean Dr. Phil, the guy who saw profit and value in doing a bit with the bum fights guy for views.

[–] Whiskey_iicarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You are correct. They are equal parts trash, one just had a national TV show he spewed his "folksy" wisdom on.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

They both exploit desperate people for profit, but one of them is honest about doing so. The other one is just misery porn camouflaged as therapy.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree but that's not his worst evil on our society. It's the torture camps he sent kids to and promoted.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

It's shocking just how evil normal every day things are. We gotta shut down all those camps

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 67 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hopefully, this caused a lot of personal financial harm for him.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And stress on his cardiac muscles.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And stress on his cardiac muscles.

I like the sentiment, but I'm not certain that he has a heart.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

That's why I used different words 🤪🤪

[–] auraithx@piefed.social 41 points 3 weeks ago

Gotta be real embarrassing to have your anti woke crusade fail in this climate.

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oprah unleashed a lot of harm

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder if she feels any shame

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 3 weeks ago

She's still a billionaire, so no.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Daily Wire (bssically Ben Shapiro)'s streaming service/movie production branch is also going financially tits up lately.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

he also harbored gina caranos anti-woke, pro conservative movie once.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Don't forget ladyballers, which was originally supposed to be a basically 'opinionated' documentar, where just some of the gang try to sign up for an actual, realworld basketball league, as women.

This original concept of the movie was scrapped after they were told they would all have to actually start on HRT and progress to the point that their metabolic panels came back showing they were now within whatever parameters that local/minor league used as their definition of 'sufficiently transitioned', and none of the crew/actors would do it.

So, they made it into a fucking terrible 'comedy' movie instead.

Shapiro is on camera admitting this, laughing the whole time, utterly missing the fact that... that this happened basically destroys 99% of the 'facts and logic' he uses to generate his rhetoric regarding trans folks.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago
[–] f1error@thelemmy.club 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Woke = compassion. GQP hates compassion.

It's my hope that Dr. Phil eats a shotgun as he pulls the trigger.

I don't have compassion for the GQP/Trump-ers/MAGAts, I wish them the worst, and I'll do my part to deliver before I'm deported/imprisoned.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 3 weeks ago

Didn't you know that compassion has no place in "Christian" America?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

woke= anything conservatives doesnt like that makes them uncomfortable, usually around bigotry ,race, gender, poc not following thier "social norms"/. most profound in cinema, movies/shows.

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 13 points 3 weeks ago

At least Oz was an accomplished heart surgeon before he turned to grifting. This guy can't even claim that much.

I hope he dies alone and penniless.

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

Dr Phil is a prick. The end.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 12 points 3 weeks ago

May he rot in the hell he believes in.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I hope Dr. Phil ends up with incurable syphilis of the taint.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago

he should go to MEMHET OZ for some snakesoil cure.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Not woke, go broke.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Get wrecked, fucker

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Go antiwoke go broke

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

just like tim allens anti-woke show that never made headlines, and jerry seinfeld with his wierd commercial.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

tim allens anti-woke show

Last Man Standing? I accidentally caught a bit of that. Tim Allen was a grandparent complaining that his kids weren't allowing him to brainwash his grandkids. About the most boomer coded shit I've ever seen.

Now that I think about it, I never really liked the episode of Home Improvement where they made environmentalists into strawmen and punching bags.

edit: oh god, he made another one.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

What a shame. /s

[–] don@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

Broke mind virus strikes again!

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 6 points 3 weeks ago

Good. Get fucked "Dr" Phil.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 3 weeks ago

Does this mean his ice show is gone?

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Welp, that was inevitable.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Whenever I hear about Dr. Phil I think of this

https://youtu.be/GgqrM-tcD1w

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh no. Anyway…