The president of the U.S. bragging that he got a late night comedian critic fired. That's un-American on so many levels.
@georgetakei no no, this is extremely american actually
@SRAZKVT @georgetakei This moronic insecure money-obsessed brute who can't take a joke is basically distilled America.
@SRAZKVT @georgetakei Specifically from the Confederate States of America. Turns out they didn't quite die out after the war was over, they just went into hiding
@georgetakei I don't think that this is from an official government account in a democracy.
@georgetakei to many this is totally ok .. they applaud the mad king. Let's face it: America is much uglier than we all want to believe and #ElectionsHaveConsequences as they can put #WhiteSupremist in power. It's likely going to get worse before it gets better.
@georgetakei At least for once there was no excrement involved. Oh, wait: there was a gigantic orange turd...

@georgetakei

Wasn't he always demanding dignity from Obama and Biden?

@georgetakei It's a new age dictatorship

Nothing less

@georgetakei I'm so sorry for what you're having to go through right now… (Yes, even for those who voted for him.)

@Cheatha @georgetakei

nah

save your pity for those who voted for harris

those ignorants and indecents who voted for trump, and those entitled losers who did not vote, they gave us this

we blame them

@benroyce @Cheatha @georgetakei or ... one might conclude that this IS #America.

There was no shortage of information and litigation since 2016 but #Krasnov steamrolled through 3 sets of primaries and overwhelmingly won the 2024 election. Would non-voters have prevented that result? I'm not so sure.

The rest of the world can be excused for concluding that this is #America fundamentally and react accordingly.

@TimFinnerty @Cheatha @georgetakei

that's fine. i fully expect the rest of the world to despise the usa right now. i certainly do

but i am american, so i have to fight for it

if you support that someone is making such an effort, if you believe improvement is possible, then at least say so. or if you cannot bring yourself to do that, at least fall silent rather than "usa bad forever." which is just empty cynicism and what is the value of cynicism except as an aid to fascism?

@TimFinnerty
Trump winning the Republican primaries means that this is what Republican Primary voters are. In 2016, 2020, and 2024 the majority of ballots cast were for other candidates. American voters as a whole are not this. We just have the stupid Electoral College system stealing the office from the what the people voted for.
@benroyce @Cheatha @georgetakei

@baronvonj @TimFinnerty @Cheatha @georgetakei

hillary won by millions of votes

hillary sucks, but she's no trump. that obviously matters. for delusional cynics and perfectionists, it doesn't. that only signifies how unserious such entitled privileged fools are

and how do we fix things like the EC, their reason not to vote?

well, we vote. to have enough in power to do something about it

but alas, there's a certain sort who loudly whines and then... no vote. preserving their suffering

@TimFinnerty @benroyce @Cheatha @georgetakei failing to clear 50% of the popular vote hardly counts as "overwhelming"

Trump II is pretty uncontroversially the result of people who should have known better choosing to be silent

@georgetakei

We are governed by just the stupidest fuckers my god

@georgetakei Can I suggest we all spam him with absolute piss-takes of him? His tiny hands, his thin skin, his narcissism, he won't be able to cope. Hopefully he'll have some sort of aneurysm.
@georgetakei it’s more than just Colbert, they ended the whole damn show. SERIES FINALE from an institution like The Late Show bc the host told a joke that hurt the orange one’s fweelwings

@georgetakei

Stephen Colbert is now eligible for that political retribution payment that Trump gloats about so much.

@georgetakei

He's such an insecure little piece of shit

@georgetakei It's also big time major league embarrassing.
@Eetschrijver @georgetakei
This is worse than 'Orbanism'.
Orban, however, tried to maintain the illusion of democracy and the law.
This behavior is vulgar bullying, intended to whip up his followers. An provocative demonstration of invincibility and impunity.

@georgetakei

Lol. Trump Koolaid Addiction

I am a small elderly woman and even "I alone" can beat Trump in a fair fight, unlike young MAGA men who believe 80 year old, sleeps-on-the-job, unsteady, too weak to stand, wears hidden high heels Trump can beat them in a fair fight.

That FakeTrump video was meant for the #trumpaddicts

@georgetakei
Do you think anyone has told him yet that Stephen guest hosted an hour long show last night? The first night after his show ended.

@georgetakei

That corpulent scab-coated fucking felon can't heft a half-can of diet shitwater without wheezing to sound like he swallowed 100 bees.
The superhuman qualities Donald Trump's rape-cult give to him are sick. These are all fucked-up little boys and the girls they really fucked-up, drawing pictures of Daddy they hope he puts on the fridge to prove they're his bestest Nazi squat pile.

Sickness. Trumpers are a disease.

@georgetakei But in doing so, Trump has kicked the beast and poked it in its cage. Colbert is now out of the network cage and might be free to do even more to incite his crowd.
Every action has a reaction.
Right down to the closing “you say goodbye, I say hello” sung with Sir Paul McCartney.
It ain’t over till it’s over.

@georgetakei There is a term that was used during the first term, that can now be bestowed upon the Ellisons'.

It referred to "the retainer of genitalia"...

@georgetakei So much for Melania’s statements against political violence
@georgetakei Shows what a petty little person trump is
@georgetakei Everything he does is un-American.
Since his family had emigrated from Germany, I already dread the day that someone finds a way to put the blame for all that shit on us again ;-)
@georgetakei Best description of Trump 2016 I have seen: "unamerican on so many levels"!
@georgetakei american people made it and continue to make it happen, so it is american.
@georgetakei i do no longer think, its unamarican, Looks aus the usual over there
唉,这确实让人担忧。总统把批评者搞丢工作,不管是谁,这都不像个民主国家该有的样子。言论自由不该是嘴上说说而已。

@georgetakei they aren't the party of free speech: they're just the party who protects abusers of all kinds (racial, sexual, etc) from consequences while punishing anyone who dares speak out against them.

They want to scream slurs at you, then play victim when you criticize that. Or worse (looks at chudthebuilder)

@georgetakei forgive me, sir, from quoting the other space adventure franchise, but this has real strike-me-down-and-I-will-become-more-powerful-than-you-can-ever-imagine kind of energy

& I'm wondering, why do people like @mehdihasan & @georgetakei keep re-posting Dotard Tumor's garbage?

You are just helping him spread his hateful propaganda!

Case in point: just a couple comments on Mehdi's ex-twitter post

do you need another example of why we don't help fascists spread their propoganda?

Sky News #Australia posted it on YT & finds it "hilarious". how do you like being in the same company as the fascist trash at #SkyNews?

notice i didn't link to it. if someone is such a piece of shit they want to see this crap that badly, they'll have to go out of their way to do so. i'm not spoonfeeding people the Dotard's propaganda for him

@mehdihasan @georgetakei

@georgetakei

They should drag him out of the white house…

@georgetakei Back in the day, people went to the circus to see clowns and trained monkeys, now you have the same thing at the White House.

@georgetakei

Hi George.

I hate to break it to you, but that is precisely how the rest of the world has perceived the USsians for a long while...

We had hopes and dreams of democracy.
We thought of the US as the better world.

We do not any more.
You had your chance.
You messed up.
Bad.

Unless you find a way to put it right, the dream is dead.
Just as the trust in the US or it's promises of a free world.

We hope to welcome you guys back in the realms of democracy once you get rid of your governing class one day.

But you guys got the nukes.
We can not help you.

Good luck with the revolution.
Hope it turns out OK.

@georgetakei May Colbert soon get to return the favour.
@georgetakei People are just things to the zealots of the regime

@georgetakei

A. We’re not a democracy. Not even close.

B. Why is Hasan supporting the Nazis by posting this on a Nazi platform?

@georgetakei Time to throw Trump in the container.