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They didn’t flinch, they gleefully collaborated.

I fear one big problem with them flinching so quickly is that it gives the Trump cult plausible deniability to not blame the dictatorship for doing the things that they are doing.

I mean, the government did not censor Kimmel, it was a business decision made by a private entity. Right? RIGHT??

Hopefully more hosts follow and point out the major hypocrisy from MAGA.

That will do nothing. They enjoy their own hypocrisy. They don't care about consistency of principles and are quite happy to just want everything their way while no one else gets anything. They're quite happy to abuse language by saying whatever suits them in the moment. It drives their opponents crazy as they try to point out how inconsistent and irrational they're being. The fascists don't care, but they do love to see you get frustrated. It's just part of their sadistic fun: messing with people, playing with their prey until they are ready to exterminate them.

To complain that fascists are hypocritical or inconsistent is to miss the point of fascism, at least if your hope is to shock them into being more reasonable. I know this quote from Sartre is everywhere but he said it well:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Well, there are checks being written behind closed doors and vast changes to financial balances

The checks are counterfeit and the balances have been tampered with

Talking about Constitutional Law in the modern day feels more and more like you're becoming a Sovereign Citizen. Waving around a piece of paper and screaming "You don't have the right to do that!" at a room full of men with tasers and guns and handcuffs.

Rich people can fly anywhere on extremely short notice. It’s called NetJets

You need to understand politics better at a fundamental level. Lawyers do not make winning modern politicians. Theater majors do. Charismatic business majors do.

Jon just happens to also know shit from decades of calling out corruption and pushing for change.

You guys need to stop electing celebrities ffs

You're not wrong, but I don't see a lot of better options on the table and the guy at the very least understands politics and seems to be resistant to being owned.

At least John has a history of fighting to make Congress do the right thing. He has far more relevant political experience than Trump.