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Is it all a series of PR stunts? Might as well be.
There are precedents.
Like Tucker getting fired, where you bring awareness by way of concerned supporters, and then poach them over to your new platform en masse, acting like it's a blessing in disguise, yielding a massive welling of people coming over who want to see you in your new setting, get your take on what happened, so forth.
Look at what happened when Conan was replaced by Jay Leno on the Tonight Show (crawling out of the sod like an undead caricature of himself) -- Conan went on to do a podcast which has now garnered him much more success and freedom and viewership than he's ever had.
A massive viewership awaits Colbert and Kimmel in whatever they do next.
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2:48 -- holy shit. Yep.
"you can literally support somebody too much. I've learned this. In life, this happens. Too many compliments. Too much support. And then they turn on you."
FACTS. Absolutely true. 100%. Every time. Over and over. Yes. Remember. Know. Be sure of it. Be confident in this.
#neverforgetthisshitbecauseitisabsolutelyfuckingtrueoneveryconceivablelevel
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(09-20-2025, 01:02 PM)Luscious Atari Wrote: you can literally support somebody too much.
I get that he was joking about defending slavery (lol), but the observation is valid in any context, nonetheless.
I think the problem is inherent out of the gate: you're supposed to spend that energy on yourself, not outside of yourself.
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Be the driver.
Not the passenger.
Something I have struggled with over the years.
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(09-20-2025, 12:56 PM)Luscious Atari Wrote: Conan was replaced by Jay Leno on the Tonight Show (crawling out of the sod like an undead caricature of himself) -- Conan went on to do a podcast which has now garnered him much more success and freedom and viewership than he's ever had.
A massive viewership awaits Colbert and Kimmel in whatever they do next.
Well... one difference is Conan is actually totally fucking hilarious. I don't know that these other guys are on that level of funny.
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(09-20-2025, 01:11 PM)Luscious Atari Wrote: Well... one difference is Conan is actually totally fucking hilarious. I don't know that these other guys are on that level of funny.
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They want to reinstate Smith-Mundt, but I guess it's not a very straightforward process since they're deplatforming these talk show hosts via proxy instead.
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Trump was talking about getting rid of Kimmel way before the Charlie Kirk incident ever happened though...
That's the only thing that strikes me as odd.
Since Charlie's assassination, there've been calls to reinstate Smith-Mundt, but you almost never heard anybody calling for it before that.
Just weird shit all the way around.
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09-20-2025, 01:46 PM
(09-20-2025, 01:27 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote: Smith-Mundt
This is news to me...
Smith–Mundt Act - Wikipedia
"Section 1437 of the Act requires the State Department to maximize its use of "private agencies". Section 1462 requires "reducing Government information activities whenever corresponding private information dissemination is found to be adequate" and prohibits the State Department from having monopoly in any "medium of information" (a prescient phrase). Combined, these provide not only protection against government's domination of domestic discourse, but a "sunset clause" for governmental activities that Rep. Karl Mundt (R-SD) and Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs William Benton stated clearly: as private media stood up, government media would stand down."
