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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 8/14
« Last post by SVPete on August 14, 2026, 05:44:09 PM »
How the Late-Night Emmy Became the Anti-Trump Award

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/how-late-night-emmy-anti-trump-1236668912/

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Then again, (Kimmel) could do something on behalf of himself. Or John Oliver. Or Jon Stewart. They’re all pals. And all have a strong claim to the variety Emmy, which this season rolls all the hot late night shows together, putting perennial winner Oliver as well as SNL back with everyone else for one seriously supercharged group of nominees.

But variety is more than just a hot category because of the quality of the shows. It’s a hot category because the top late night Emmy has become a vehicle — perhaps the vehicle — for Hollywood to register its opposition to President Trump. And the voters’ pick will tell us a lot about whom they favor to lead that opposition for the remaining two years of his term. (Hopefully they survive it.)

The commingling of late night and overtly liberal politics has been a narrative for a decade now, ever since Colbert’s ratings skyrocketed (for engaging in them) and Jimmy Fallon’s tanked (for not) in the president’s first term. It can be hard to remember a time when Jay Leno made Monica Lewinsky jokes (or Stewart made Obama jokes) and we all laughed no matter our party affiliation, but it happened in our lifetimes. I think.

Yet since Trump’s return to power, late night’s role as a domain of protest has been stronger than ever. Its Emmy is basically the anti-Trump award — Hollywood’s place to anoint its chosen resistance figure for the year.

If you have any doubt about this, let it be dispelled by the following fact: Real Time With Bill Maher, whose host is by far the Trump-friendliest of the bunch, was often nominated for the top late night Emmy in a pre-Trump era — every year but one from 2005 to 2017. He’s not been nominated since.

So, who wins the 2026 anti-Trump award?

Maher isn't even particularly pro-Trump. He's just not a Trump-Hater, and often is realistic and honest about fellow Libs/Progs.
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Are Democrats making contingency plans in case they lose? :devious:

I know that's far from a certainty, but I wonder, because it would be a complete disaster for them if they did lose.
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Ken F*** is the supreme leader of the ass clowns

Not worth my time, but Ken-Tuck was likely one of the cadre who are still butt-hurt that Merrick Garland didn't arrest and incarcerate everyone in the 1st Trump administration.
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General Discussion / Re: Democrat treason and sedition
« Last post by SSG Snuggle Bunny on August 14, 2026, 04:43:17 PM »
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The FBI and U.S. spy agencies received derogatory evidence about Joe Biden from 14 different informants but embarked on a secret operation to tamp down a Ukrainian corruption scandal engulfing his family during the 2020 election by formally designating Attorney General Bill Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, key members of Congress and journalists as Russian disinformation "conduits," according to explosive intelligence community documents declassified by the White House.

A spreadsheet that was recovered from U.S. intelligence agency files and made public Wednesday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force shows that spy agencies and the FBI created a list of more than six dozen prominent organizations, Americans or foreigners who became figures in the Biden family Ukraine scandal and the 2019 impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.

The spreadsheet neatly divided figures along political lines, with Democrats like the Bidens, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama and George Soros listed as victimized "targets" of Russian disinformation and conservatives like Fox News, One America News, filmmaker Michael Caputo and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani as "conduits" for disinformation.


https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/emb6am-fbi-marked-officials-journalists-informants
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General Discussion / Re: Trans Violence Is a Real Thing, and It Is Out of Control
« Last post by enslaved1 on August 14, 2026, 03:29:06 PM »
Another Trans Cult? 7-Year-Old Victim Was Groomed to Be Trans Before He Was Found Tortured to Death

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Is there another trans cult?

A woman and two men who identify as trans have been charged in Cincinnati, Ohio in the brutal torture and murder of a young special-needs boy. A Ngo Comment investigation found that the group, which included at least three men who identify as trans, had groomed the child into trans ideology from a very young age and appeared to have plans to transition him before police found him unresponsive in a closet, bound with duct tape and showing signs of torture.

William Michael Evans-Ellis, 7, was recovered from an apartment in the Oakley neighborhood in Cincinnati on Aug. 6. He suffered injuries consistent with being choked and held underwater, beaten and burned. A detective testified in court that it was one of the most disturbing child abuse cases he had ever investigated.

The child was found with “a number of injuries that would indicate physical beatings, blunt force injuries,” he said.

DDG the poor child's name and there's plenty of reporting on this horrific crime, but almost none make any reference to the many people living in the house identifying as trans. 
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Ken F*** is the supreme leader of the ass clowns

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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 8/14
« Last post by SVPete on August 14, 2026, 03:06:11 PM »
Awww — Jessica Tarlov Is Mad at Media Praise for Karoline Leavitt

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/08/14/awww-jessica-tarlov-is-mad-that-karoline-leavitt-is-getting-praised-n4956144

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Karoline Leavitt is leaving her role as White House Press Secretary at the end of August, and something remarkable happened on her way out the door: Reporters who cover this administration for a living actually lined up to say nice things about her. Naturally, that was too much for Fox News’s Jessica Tarlov to handle.

Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, who also serves as president of the White House Correspondents' Association, pointed out that Leavitt is "the youngest press secretary in history, huge achievement in and of itself, and was a very effective messenger for this administration." Heinrich also called her "very accessible and in the room with the president," drawing a pointed contrast with Joe Biden's press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre. "Often it was apparent that she wasn't as close to the decision-makers and able to give us valuable information, as Karoline has been in her time here," Heinrich said. "So, this is going to be a big loss for this White House."

NBC News correspondent Garrett Haake wrote on X that "it's impossible to overstate how much of an inner-circle figure Leavitt is in this White House, and how much the President trusts her as an advisor on any issue." Other anonymous reporters described her as playing fair while getting "very aggressive" toward questions "framed duplicitously or maliciously." One called her simply "the best press secretary I've ever worked with, and there have been many," crediting her success to the time she has spent studying Trump's reasoning up close. That same reporter had less patience for Biden's team, saying Jean-Pierre "didn't do either" of the things that made Leavitt effective, and that Jen Psaki looked at the press "with disdain."
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To her credit, when discussing the timing of Leavitt's exit, Tarlov waved off any suspicion. Then she immediately undercut herself, arguing Trump kept Leavitt around because she has proven herself to be someone who "does his bidding very well." "You know, she dodges, she attacks, she obfuscates," Tarlov said.

Tarlov then ran through what she claimed was a list of mistruths from the podium.

“I did want to review some of the mistruths, lies, whatever it was from the podium,” she began. ...

I wonder how much outrage Tarlov had and has for Psaki's arrogant stonewalling legitimate questions and Jean-Pierre's awareness-fee clueless talking-pointing.
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Ken F*** is the supreme leader of the ass clowns
...and stupid.
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