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(5,755 posts)LakeArenal
(28,858 posts)He think Biden has a schtick. Whereas, Bernie had none. 🙄
Biden not his guy emphasized.
Then you get the but..... hes a good guy.
Not great agenda. Just a heartfelt guy.
I was very disappointed. That he basically said hed have to hold his nose.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)As evidenced by the bomb his new movie has laid. With a meager 40% approval rating (like Trumps!) on from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, it is apparently out of touch to the point of insult. What happened?
East Coast slickness meets heartland folksiness in Irresistible, a political satire so broad and blunt that it flattens every joke and deflates every setup. Movies like this should skip and jab; instead, this second feature from the writer and director Jon Stewart (after his impressively accomplished prison drama, Rosewater, in 2014) lumbers and flails. Set shortly after the 2016 election, it feels like an artifact from a particularly contentious past, a stale corn chip trampled into Party-convention carpeting.
. . . Attacking both political affiliations with equal disgust, Irresistible seems disappointingly fatigued, its glossy veneer concealing a hollow core. Stewarts plodding script, far removed from the light-footed political commentary he regularly delivered on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, evinces no apparent zest for its subject.
. . . Trafficking in the elitism it purports to deplore, Irresistible presents a homespun cliché of Middle America, where Wi-Fi is like gold dust and political ads scream with flags and fear-mongering. This patronizing tone can at times be troubling
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/movies/irresistible-review.html
LakeArenal
(28,858 posts)2naSalit
(86,843 posts)political views. I love him as a comedian but I think he stinks when it comes to politics. He should stick to what he knows and keep his political views out of the public realm. He needs to take some classes to get more educated about the political structure we have and that what he's advocating is not in line with that.
LakeArenal
(28,858 posts)Its great to find out Im not the only one.
2naSalit
(86,843 posts)He lost me when he went out of his way to bash HRC.
LakeArenal
(28,858 posts)I dislike that.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)People like John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, Steve Carell, etc.
Trevor Noah didn't have as strong a supporting cast, the last time I checked. I stopped watching it after awhile, then dropped cable entirely soon thereafter.
Edit: Stewart stepped down in August 2016, which fits for me. I dropped my cable subscription not long after Trump was declared the winner in November. I couldn't stand the idea of seeing him constantly on cable, as had happened before the election.
applegrove
(118,844 posts)They are our touchstones for reality, political comedians. Thank god for the internet and the new venues we can hear them in.
Swede
(33,296 posts)But Jon can start a new show with so many venues.
applegrove
(118,844 posts)was whatever people were saying online during the day, his take was always completely original.
Rhiannon12866
(206,295 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017589800
Stephen Colbert - Guest Jon Stewart
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017589569