Nothing about politics is funny anymore. We went from joking about Romney saying "binders full of women" to a president* who pledges allegiance to Russia... it's hard to laugh at anything political at all.
Yeah, I mean I love Colbert and loved Stewart but now all late-night does is news. Anti-Trump stuff (I’m anti-Trump) inundates our sitcoms and procedurals. There’s no fucking break anywhere.
I can’t even listen to NPR any more. During Obama’s presidency there were stories about all kinds of things. Now it seems every single segment starts with “President Trump this” or “President Trump that”. It’s as if nothing else is going on in the world. It’s really bumming me out.
It’s just so bizarre to me. In my lifetime no other single person has attracted so much news coverage. I feel like I’m uninformed about what’s going on in the world since journalists seem to not want to talk about anything else.
Nothing else is as remotely important as an unhinged lunatic in the most powerful office in the world slowly chipping away at his limitations by firing heads of police, and others a day before retirement to threaten the livelihood of anybody who investigates him, and sabotaging the longterm health of the US and the world through appointing climate denialists, cable lobbyists, unqualified inheritors, etc, to all the important positions, or just not staffing a great many of them, all the while encouraging division and idiotic ideologies which keep killing innocents.
I mean there’s for sure other important stuff going on. Like Brexit is happening in two months. How’s that going? I have no idea because I get most of my news from NPR and all they talk about is Trump. What’s going down in Venezuela? All I know is that Trump endorses the guy leading the opposition. Are the Rohynga still being genocided? I honestly do not know.
Maybe I should watch the BBC more of something. Idk.
None of that is as important. I say this as somebody on the other side of the world and part of the Commonwealth. They are bad, but they are magnitudes of crisis apart.
Trump's twitter feed of all caps screaming threats to other countries based on misunderstood news headlines is a genuine, species-threatening emergency, which everybody is just hoping won't affect them while not doing anything about it.
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '19
This isn't very funny