First they came for the stodgy comedians…
…but I did not speak out because this is my review of Dark Sky Brewing Office Supplies Hazy IPA:
What? I have better shit to do than worry about Jimmy Kimmel. I have an Office Space themed IPA to review.
Okay fine. This began earlier this week with the reports that Kimmel was fired over his remarks on the Charlie Kirk assassination. Initially it was speculated a “Trump aligned” FCC leaned a bit on ABC and their parent company, The Mouse, Inc. If this was true, I would once again put in the Standard Libertarian Disclaimer: censorship is bullshit. (Cue the Family Guy FCC Song)
Amazing how 20 years ago things were actually funny enough to worry about censorship on the grounds of indecency.
Thankfully, as CNN reports we don’t have to worry about that anymore:
According to one of the individuals familiar with the situation, Kimmel was prepared to deliver his monologue on his show Wednesday night and planned to address the right-wing backlash to his remarks made earlier in the week regarding the politicalization of Kirk’s killing. This individual describes Kimmel’s planned monologue as “very hot,” taking aim at the MAGA base.
It was then that Disney executives had conversations with Kimmel about “taking down the temperature” of his monologue, according to the individual. Nexstar announced its plan to pull Kimmel’s show at the same time.
That’s when Disney CEO Bob Iger and Disney Entertainment Co-chairman Dana Walden made the decision to preempt the show indefinitely — in hopes of protecting Kimmel and the Disney brand from accelerating the controversy.
So it turns out this was much more likely to be an excuse to sack this loser because shareholders exist and The Mouse loves its customers shareholders. Suddenly I feel better about the whole thing. Fuck this guy. Had his lectures about racism somehow been funny, he might still have a job.
You know what was funny? Office Space. Mike Judge is the Gen X genius that truly captured the nihilism in existing in the dark ether between the Boomers and Millennials. I bought this knowing I would have to make the reference to the red Swingline Stapler, but I am not going to do that, because I will ruin the joke. The beer though? Its a hazy IPA, and it is hazy as hell. I had epic beer farts after drinking this, which kind of sucked but that’s sort of what yeast does in your stomach. If you’ve had one, you had them all but if its your thing I’m all for it. Dark Sky Brewing Office Supplies Hazy IPA: 2.1/5 30 IBU, 8% ABV
So hazy means a lot of proofing yeast?
Apparently, not.
No, only that it’s unfiltered.
They usually also skip the fining step, use different hopping schedules, and go with low flocculation (yeast grouping up and becoming heavy enough to settle, like people) yeast.
I also heard that Nexstar and/or Sinclair started complaining before the FCC guy said anything.
If Team Donald is paying attention maybe they’ll just let the left bury themselves going forward, instead of handing them free ammunition.
We can dream.
It looks like the donkey has kidney problems.
planned to address the right-wing backlash to his remarks made earlier in the week regarding the politicalization of Kirk’s killing.
By throwing
gasoline100% renewable ethanol based fuel on the fire?“Based on our own research and a review of related work, we can confidently say that most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right, and right-wing attacks account for the vast majority of fatalities from domestic terrorism.
Based on government and independent analyses, right-wing extremist violence has been responsible for the overwhelming majority of fatalities, amounting to approximately 75% to 80% of U.S. domestic terrorism deaths since 2001.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/20/right-wing-extremist-violence-is-more-frequent-and-more-deadly/
I’m not following any of those links because I’m sure it’s bullshit.
That has been the running theme on Reddit for the past week. “Most violence is right wing!!!” On a similar note, one of the great coups of lefty narrative making of the past half century has been turning fascism into a “right wing ideology”. It’s amazing how pervasive they have made that myth. It comes in higher than “Ronald Reagan closed all the mental hospitals!!!”.
“one of the great coups of lefty narrative making of the past half century has been turning fascism into a “right wing ideology””
It is compared to communism. I don’t buy that all authoritarianism is on the left. “National Socialist” doesn’t mean they actually were socialist.
National Socialism was a flavor of socialism. It was a collectivist totalitarian ideology that more properly deserves to be grouped as adjacent to international socialism. Every explanation I have heard as to why it is right wing has made the erroneous asssumltion that right wing equals nationalism. Most of its economic platform is socialism lite. Everyone knows that Marx was the ideological father of socialism/communism. It’s far less known that the ideological father of Italian fascism was Giovanni Gentile. He described it as a socialist ideology at its base. Mussolini was one of the leaders of the Italian Socialist Party before WWI. They were competing for the same types of people with different versions of collectivism.
““National Socialist” doesn’t mean they actually were socialist.”
That was a significant (although not only) reason for the Night of the Long Knives. Hitler and his allies in the leadership were v. uncomfortable with Rohm’s calls for a second revolution that would be more socialist in nature.
I know I’ve posted this before but, when I teach this to my intro classes, I always group this together as “collectivism,” showing the common traits. It also means I can point them to the collectivist nature of the New Deal and similar approaches in other countries.
The foundation of leftist ideology is ‘dont believe your lying eyes’. Without that the entire body of it blows away like smoke in the wind.
Kimmel never said Kirk’s shooter was MAGA even though that is explicitly what he said and we all heard it. All of their arguments are like that.
And one of the other arguments that lefties make to tar fascism as “right wing” is that they fought against communists. I view that as internecine warfare, similar to the Shia and Sunni or Protestants and Catholics.
“I don’t buy that all authoritarianism is on the left. “National Socialist” doesn’t mean they actually were socialist.”
And here we are again. When I read that it sounds like gibberish because to me ‘authoritarian’ means the opposite of self-reliant individualism which is what I associate with ‘right’ or ‘conservative’ but that is not what you mean when you say them….I dont think.
Clearly ‘socialist’ refers to ‘collectivist’ which has a direct ratio with authoritarinism, which I call ‘left’.
I am guessing you are saying it is a mistake to associate ‘right’ with the opposite.
Maybe we should stick to ‘collectivist’ vs ‘individualist’.
Oh, and National Socialist does mean socialist because…they were.
Spend a day in the Documentation Center
It’s socialism.
Turns out using the spectrum of politics from the French Revolution to try to categorize all politics ends up with confusion, who’d a thunk it. The right being the side of individualism and the rights of man is a 20th century American thing. It doesn’t translate at all to the context of a socialist revolution against an absolute monarchy. At this point almost any political grouping is going to have traits that at one time or another have been on both left and right.
The other thing they try to do is characterize fascism as a racist nationalism policy rather than government directed economy (where it had been for decades).
Or using the colors from a receding election cycle to permanently label factions. Nice choice to use “red” for the Republicans and get them embrace being red.
Hitler was a Communist in his early years. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The New Deal was basically “Fascism with American Characteristics”.
It’s fascinating to read Bill Bryson’s “One Summer: America 1927” to see just how popular fascism was in the US.
+1 Bellamy salute
They arent counting domestic terror attacks, they are counting deaths. Oklahoma city is most of the actual ones, 9/11 is in there too but I am not sure how they count that. they are very selective about the time too.
You are correct, it is all bullshit.
My count? OK city…maybe, not sure about McVeigh’s politics being a motive. I know he was pissed about Ruby Ridge and Waco but then who wasnt? Abortion clinic bombings and assassinations. I cant think of anything else explicitly right-wing.
The vast majority of assassins over the last century + have called themselves communists or anarchist. The mass killers were all lunatics with personal grudges against mankind.
It is Salon so it is guaranteed to be 100% bullshit.
Are they including the 35(ish) people killed during the BLM riots as left wing terror victims?
If not, it’s bullshit for that reason alone.
Kimmel peaked with ratings in 2014 and has been on a steady dive since then. He is at a 1/4 of what he was then. I’ve never seen his show, but I have seen clips of his champagne socialist shtick. I am obviously not his target audience. His days were numbered and it looks like they found a good excuse to shitcan him. Now he can claim to be a free speech martyr and the proggies can eat it up as they continue to scream fascist!!!
Office Space is an all time top 10 comedy movie that stands up to time and repeated viewings. Speaking of repeated viewings I watched Pulp Fiction with the wife last nite and it also stands up. I caught it three times in the theatre when it came out and maybe watched it once or twice since on video. I thought Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was Tarantino’s best effort in a long time. Hope he makes another movie. It was depressing to note to my wife that PF came out 31 years ago. How the fuck is that possible?!
I was shocked to read the other day that Fallon had lower ratings than Colbert and Kimmel. He was always painted as the “not asshole” one although his true colors came out this week.
Reservoir Dogs is the only Tarantino movie worth watching. Good sound track, too.
His first three movies had some of the best soundtracks of any films ever made, the songs work absolutely perfectly with the films. Once Upon a Time also has a standout soundtrack. I hadn’t heard Neil Diamond’s “Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show” in decades before that scene where Pitt picks up the hitchhiking Manson family jailbait.
I liked that one too. Stealer’s Wheel was actually a good band with more worthwhile tracks in addition to “Stuck in the Middle With You”. And of course Gerry Rafferty is great.
Reservoir Dogs is how I found out about those bands, which may not have happened otherwise considering them being “before my time” (I was born in late 80s).
You are objectively wrong. Kill Bill was awesome. Sat XX down to watch it with me one Saturday her sophomore year, then she went as Beatrix for Halloween and EVERYBODY knew who she was.
I couldn’t get into it, but I tend to prefer realistic historical movies. I’ve read reviews of it that said it was an homage to comic books or samurai movies or something, but it just wasn’t my cup of tea.
Yes, an homage to old martial arts movies, plus, as a Glib once observed (I can’t remember who, sorry), I’m a sucker for heroine-centric stories and Tarantino writes awesome heroines.
Maybe. It’s the only one I actually enjoy rewatching so there is that.
True Romance.
Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown. Everything esle is either boring (Kill Bill) to stupid (Pulp Fiction) or bad (Hateful Eight).
Oh, forget about Jackie Brown. I would watch that again.
“forgot”
bleargh
Big Brother LARPing/a>
Trump administration used at least $50,000 in taxpayer dollars to create large signs featuring the president’s face or policies, alleges a new report released by Sen. Adam Schiff’s office.
The California Democrat calls the move illegal, saying the banners amount to “propaganda” mirroring “totalitarian dictators.”
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Axios the “report would only be valuable as toilet paper” and declined to comment on the specific claims Schiff’s office made.
Only Hitler would do that.
When you drive into Chicago on the toll road, there’s a big sign that says “Welcome to Chicago” with the current mayor’s name. Every time they get a new mayor that sign and many others are updated, probably pretty quickly. I’d estimate that costs a lot more than $50,000.
Yes, same in NYC and across NYS for the governor.
This is weak sauce even for that ridiculous piece of shit Schiff.
How much did those signs on the side of the highway telling the driver the road construction was funded by the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Actstimulus in 2009 cost?I wish I had liberated a few of those when they still existed.
How much did all the commercials for Obamacare cost?
I do enjoy that Trump has made the Establishment shitheads rail against government overreach and waste of taxpayer funds. Too bad it’s just a tool to “get Trump” and will be jettisoned immediately when a Dem takes over.
I don’t remember that one but I do remember the website costing $600MM and crashed when the exchanges opened.
https://www.ibtimes.com/obamacare-website-failure-analysis-why-site-crashed-so-often-during-2013-launch-2097354
They have come out against it, but no one believes them. We have all seen the BS they have pulled for decades at this point, and know this is more of it. Same as the pearl clutching about free speech this weak. They are still the party of hate speech, and nothing can take that away from them.
Credibility, they have none.
Schiff’s office alleges in the report that the use of taxpayer funds for these banners breaks the law because they qualify as “propaganda.”
While agencies are allowed to create advertising materials, these banners don’t or likely will not include any information about the departments or their work, says the report — instead simply featuring the president’s image and political slogans.
Schiff’s office compares the banners to those used by Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-Un, Saddam Hussein and Benito Mussolini.
Democracy has gone right down the toilet since Trump stole that election.
“But enough about my heroes,” he added.
National Socialism is right wing because it remains nominally capitalist.
It’s “right wing” in the same sense as the Chinese Communist Party is “right wing”.
It’s right wing because fascism was the western European reaction against communism. More thought went into the parties than that, but that’s how most ended up in those movements.
Trying to prevent commies from murdering nuns in Spain? You’re a fascist.
Trying to keep the land your family worked generations to save for from being “redistributed” by
communistsRepublicans made you a fascist.It’s “right wing” because it’s Nationalist, and therefore racist.
I’ve seen people trying to defend Kimmel’s statement by saying that Kimmel didn’t say the shooter was MAGA.
He said he was one of them.
The defenses of Kimmel are fucking retarded.
This is what they do. They’ve become experts at being slimy. They push right up to the line and then say “Well I didn’t say that EXACTLY.”
To be fair, most people give up that sort of thing by JHS at the latest.
Why?
Atkins, a long-time champion of lighter-touch regulation, has said getting more companies to go public — or “make IPOs great again” — is a key priority of his chairmanship. And he’s now opening the door to a sweeping review of corporate disclosures to see what can be put on the chopping block.
How does more companies going public make the world a better place?
Serious answer – it allows them access to capital at lower costs than if they were private.
I dunno about any of that but my company is a lot more pleasant to work for since going back private.
That in my experience is also generally true too.
Not every company needs to or should be public either.
Going public adds a lot of deadweight cost to the income statement. The company I spent a brief stint with a few years ago went public, and one of the costs that sucked them down into bankruptcy was the millions of dollars they had to spend every year on regulatory and exchange compliance because they went public.
Yet the efforts are already drawing pushback. Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, the sole Democrat on the agency’s top panel, warned this week that the regulator was “stacking the deck against investors” by granting companies new power to force shareholder lawsuits into arbitration.
“I think it’s really about silencing shareholders and entrenching management,” Crenshaw said in an interview. “This is a race to the bottom for us that no one else seems to be running.”
We need more bomb throwers like that asshole who sued Tesla over Musk’s compensation package. Which is why going public ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
I’m now in the “both things are true” camp. As in, he was fired because the FCC leaned on ABC, AND he was losing them money. I’m not crying over what Dave Smith called a “vaccines salesman losing his job”. But long term, the FCC monitoring “the public good” is an old relic that needs to be removed. And Bondi calling for prosecuting “hate speech” deserved the pushback she is getting.
We are a long, long way from what the Dems did against free speech during COVID. I’m ok watching them rend their garments for a while, but let’s stop this before we go another step down that path.
*Shrugs*
Tucker Carlson had the highest rated show on all of television when he was fired for saying things his bosses didn’t like.
I’m going back and forth with it. On one hand using the FCC as a leg breaker is wrong and sets the precedent its okay for the executive branch to do it later on down the road to people you may like.
On the other hand, they did exactly that during COVID and they’re incapable of seeing how their actions led to this.
One of my main arguments was that the pendulum will swing back, so don’t set a precedent the other party will run with. We all know that’s no longer in play. When the left is out of power they play on the values of the right (like free speech), but when the left is in power they now have zero problem throwing every precedent out the window.
The only real solution, and it’s temporary at best, is to remove powers from the government and make it hard to add them back. Like completely destroying USAID, and in this case, getting rid of the FCC entirely.
They’re still convinced that every authoritarian policy and impulse during Covid was morally right.
I’m wondering why the networks keep all these money losers hanging around.
Could it just be for the virtue signaling and cocktail parties…?
As for the FCC… yet again we’re seeing that what happens depends entirely on which Team is in power. Team Left would never, ever question the same or worse coming from their side.
This week Walter Kirn theorized that they are still useful to drug companies. That makes sense, they were basically vaccine commercials during COVID, and I’m sure drug companies are still the majority of commercials.
Unless there were backchannel comms I haven’t heard of, the FCC “leaned on ABC” basically amounts to a pretty vague statement by the FCC honcho that they might have to look into some things.
I think the amount of pressure from the FCC here is bigly overstated. I think once the affiliate and the advertisers picked up the phone, it was a done deal. If the FCC had said nothing, he would still be gone.
No idea how big or small. So could be bs.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/fcc-disney-jimmy-kimmel-brendan-carr-media-regulation-197bdf0a?st=KybjZs&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’m going with “a” factor and not “the” factor. Or even, the FCC’s statement gave them cover for doing something they were trying to do already.
From the Ded Thread and a negative comment on NFL Thursday football: There is a place in American society for Thursday football. That is when the high school freshman and JV teams play.
Speaking of, if the NFL is getting record viewership, I guess football fans as a class are not turned off by the dumbed down politicized product?
Or they just tune out the meaningless platitudes – it’s not hard.
“Temporary” “emergencies”
The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order allowing it to strip legal protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants.
The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that the administration wrongly ended Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans.
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Chen found that the Department of Homeland Security acted “with unprecedented haste and in an unprecedented manner … for the preordained purpose of expediting termination of Venezuela’s TPS” status.
“Time’s up.”
Well to be a good neighbor the administration could provide each of the returnees with their choice of an M-1 or an M-1 carbine (with 7 magazines) and a can of ammo as they deplane in Venezuela.
Oliver North waves hello
Indeed.
Well to be a good neighbor the administration could provide each of the returnees with their choice of an M-1 or an M-1 carbine (with 7 magazines) and a can of ammo as they deplane in Venezuela.
*uptwinkles*
Maybe a pocket Constitution.
But what use are they to the next Democrat administration then??
The FCC has been regulating broadcast since 1934. I dont believe for one second this has never come up before and the parameters of their mission been drawn.
I do know this: When you hear someone use ‘unprecedented’ in any political argument it means it has happened before.
When broadcast TV and radio were the only options, there were definitely fights over “fairness”. This isn’t even close to being something new. But like so many other things, people under a certain age will act like this is something they invented, and they’ll give it a silly name.
Wow, The Turning Point is….turning a point. The edifice of wokism is collapsing right in front of our eyes apparently.
This bears repeating:
““Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
Kirk getting shot was the moment people realized if they dont fight back they are going to be killed. Now lets try to keep the pendulum from swinging too far in the other direction.
I first heard the accusation of someone not being “politically correct” from a college “buddy” (actually, I couldn’t stand the guy) in 1988. It was one of my first inklings that something ain’t right with that crowd and that moment stuck with me ever since. A couple decades later I heard from him on LinkedIn and he’s the exact parody of a control-freak leftist wastrel that I knew he would grow up to be.
And the new season of Beavis and Butt-Head is effortlessly funnier than anything Trey and Matt are doing.
I saw the Epic Beer Farts open for the Butthole Surfers back in the day.
I remember Butthole Surfers
On the other hand, they did exactly that during COVID and they’re incapable of seeing how their actions led to this.
Their cause is righteous. The end justifies the means.
IPAs are the devil’s work. Once again Mex, you took one for the team.
Amen.