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Ever wonder if Ted Turner wonders what went wrong with Captain Planet or regrets how it came out?

When Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic The fucking Hedgehog, the franchise that is a black hole of autism, and arguably why this comfy webzone even exists, does a better job of teaching kids that Pollution is Bad than your own cartoon about 5 kids with magic rings and the warrior spirit of the Earth, maybe it's time to re-evaluate your life choices.
Propagandists do not regret making propaganda. That was the problem with Captain Planet as a show; it was never about telling a story and it's noticeable because it was an 80s-90s cartoon show, when children's cartoons could be as good as Batman: TAS or 90s X-men.
I'm guessing you haven't seen the "new" Magic School Bus. (I don't remember how long ago it came out.) TBF, I haven't seen it either, but I've heard that it's just more woke shit.
Of course not. I was talking about the 90s cartoon. Captain Planet was woke from the word go. We just didn't have a word for it back then because Captain Planet was an exception, not the rule of children's cartoons.
 
I guess it's a blessing I never saw that.

They original song was at least catchy.
Should note that they just put out a complete series budget DVD release. Saw it at Walmart today and almost bought it, until I remembered I still have several dozen DVD series sets I'm still behind on finishing
 
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I firmly believe that Trump would've easily lost had the Democrats not thrown their entire weight behind Hillary, fucked over Bernie Sanders in spectacular fashion, and then have the subsequent court case rule in favour of the Hillary and the rest of the DNC fucking him over in such a gigantic, public spectacle. This isn't to say that Sanders would've been a good president with hindsight had he won; the man's platforms were so focused on domestic issues that foreign policy was basically an afterthought.
People really give Sanders way too much credit. He is the senator of Vermont, a state so rustic and independent that they could probably function with that seat completely empty and little would change. Beyond fulfilling those obligatory bureaucratic functions, Sanders doesn't do much beyond publicly rattle off socialist ideas that would never work in practice (because again, he has a very comfortable life, kind of like most champagne socialists.) This probably goes over well in Vermont because niggers who abuse socialist gibspublic amenities don't live there, yet.

Sanders' one valuable niche to the larger DNC is his ability to corral politically-ignorant voters who don't actually understand any of the ideas he proposes (if they did they'd understand why those ideas can't work), intentionally die in the primaries, then tell all of his supporters to go vote for whatever democrat actually defeated him. He is a pied piper. This is not some conspiracy theory, we had Wikileaks emails where he corresponds with Hillary's team and gets paid for doing this sort of thing. None of this is getting into how he sounds like Zoidberg yelling at a drive-thru and would get torn apart in a debate with Trump.
 
I was never super into care bears, but I do remember having a few vhs's when I was a really little kid. I don't think I've ever heard your song, but this is the one song I do remember.
And dammit, I just realized that now my YT algorithm is gonna be full of little kid shit.
Grumpy Bear was God Tier and the Care Bear Cousins had some good designs to them.

All the other Care Bears were lame and the high point of the franchise was the second Care Bear film and Dark Heart.

Also anyone see the Rock and Morty take on Captain Planet? They got three of the original cast members back to play their Rick and Morty counterparts and let's just say, there is a Brooke Shields/Baby Doll plotline with the gender flip version of Captain Planet and that is the least fucked up shit in the episode
 
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Amish are (newly) with us. https://youtube.com/shorts/unMoWMyDOBY
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And if there's any doubt about who for. 180,000 newly registered. 180,000. Newly.
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For reference, the 3rd biggest state for Amish is Wisconsin, with 26,365. Small as that might be, it still would have been enough to flip it last time, 0.63% with 1,630,866 and 1,610,184. Pennsylvania is the biggest state for the Amish, with 92,600. It would have flipped that state too, last time.
Also, this would be a completely unpolled demographic, definitely an opportunity for an upset.
 
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How old is Will Ferrell? He's looked 45 for about 30 years, lol!
one of the funny parts is seeing how old people used to look in their 20s. Will Ferrell in that clip is about the same age as Pete Davidson is in Bupkis, or Andy Samberg in HotRod, where they're both manchild but look closer to actual teenagers. Joe Kerry from Stranger Things was also the same age in Free Guy. the host of the tortoise sketch SNL did recently is also the same age as Will Ferrell was in that clip. . In general people used to look way fucking older a long time ago.

the babyfaceification of society is a neat trend to study, he looked older there than actual old men in their 40s do today.
The old 2016 saying that "Democrats take Trump literally but not seriously; MAGA takes Trump seriously but not literally" keeps getting refreshed unironically.
its so annoying that they take trump literally but not seriously. if a man said a woman was "acting like a bitch" they understand what he means and won't take it literally but seriously. the fact that the liberals have been the party of dogwhistles and codeswitching and "reading between the lines" up until a decade ago only to pretend to be literal autists is fucking bullshit.
. Hes oddly relatable and charming.
exactly, despite being rich he still eats crappy fast food, watches crappy movies, and calls into crappy radio shows. Remember Trump's movie reviews? name me another politican that would be able to go 5 minutes on the quality of a tv show.
y but this was before the internet had any power over people
this is the other part, i was listening to some podcasts from 2006 and despite them obviously being mainly shows for college educated whites by college educated whites, their takes on every issue was insanely more conservative than you'd assume. even talking about the Westboro baptist church you'd see way more nuanced takes than you did anywhere outside of Tough Crowd. Like i didn't realize the cable news media was as bullshit as it was today on every issue, only the percentage of people that got their news from them vs forums like this one was way fucking higher.
Loomer is a crazy cunt
You know how movie and tv show reboots will have a woman in place of the male lead like in The Equalizer or Ghostbusters? Loomer is the real life equivalent of that. Like think about every weirdo freelance detective or journalist from the 1970s and 1980s we had on tv and movies? That's what she is, only being crazy and luckless in love and unattractive isn't as endearing in women. Shes basically the woman version of Eliot Gould in Long Kiss Goodnight.
Can she not make decisions on her own or something?
something people don't realize but Kamala doesn't have any real experience in federal government, just like obama she had 4 years as senator before running, but at least he had the brains and advisors to help him figure out how shit works, kamala has no one, i would be surprised if she even knew the layout of congress, she probably needs help going anywhere in the mall
then she would have absolutely come across as more genuine and human.
thats one of the good things about trump, everything he does comes off as human. even the things they mock him for like Bill Clinton going "i will not listen for music for half an hour and dance for your amusement child! enjoy prison!" Its fucking obviously endearing because its sincerely him, and Trump is such a notoriously rich guy he has his name in gold on everything, why is he more down to earth than "middle class raised" women?

Honestly i feel like plenty of people would be fine with a politician admitting "no i don't drink that slop" and not eating every garbage food served in Iowa right before the caucus, but because it worked in the 90s it has to work now i guess.
That's not a good look.
you can tell Kamala wasn't remotely culturally black at least until college because of something like that, blacks are "shia christians" in terms of their love of jesus, especially ones from her generation. its why every black leader is some sort of fucking reverand, This is like running as the GOP nominee in the 90s and saying this shit. its absolute contempt for your voters.
 
I guess my mom was too busy (at the time) being a single mother to pay too close attention to the stupid shit I was watching.

Side note: Ever since I became political, I've always thought that both my mom and my step dad were conservative.. At least up until they both caught TDS. I've actually recently heard them both say that they like J.D. Vance, but there's still a non-zero chance that they'll be voting Kamala, I'm too afraid to ask tbh.
Honestly after all this fearmongering against Trump, the fact that Vance comes across as intelligent and normal and will have been the vp for the four years when life steadily improves again, I think he's going to easily be a two term president immediately after Trump. He might spend that time fostering an entire generation of new blood to run the country.
 
The more I hear from this Keith guy the more I'm inclined to believe he's got a bad case of the Mondays, but all the time. I don't even need to hear about his history or who he is, he just seems like a onenote guy who's sold his soul and everything he is to be a hater. Although that kind of thing COULD be respectable depending on how you do it. what's his pull even?

Just some MSBNC guy who did sports commentary? I think this thread had a song mocking him in a rap style. Is he always so pathetic, limp, and noodly?
Oh sweet summer child you don't know the deepest lore of Keith Olberman??????????

He's the classic example of a spoiled brat who grew up having his ego propped up being told he was special by everyone around him. He got into sports journalism, landing a gig on Sportcenter where he helped popularize the AIDS that is "X but through the lens of pop culture reference". He was such an egomaniac that they fired him from SC and banned him from their studio for about a decade. He managed to worm his way into MSNBC after being fired and alternates between announcing baseball and gleefully covering the Lewinsky sex scandal before MSNBC let him go but brought him back after the great anti-war purge of 2003. Given an hour of prime time TV, he basically ripped off the Daily Show on cable news and went full anti-Bush, culminating in a ripping off of the famed Howard Beale rant from Network over Hurricane Katrina, which got him high enough ratings that he managed to get MSNBC to go full left and THE anti-Bush/conservative news network on cable.

But his ego kept building and he worked to bring up Rachel Maddow as his chief underling on the network getting her a show after years of her being second bannana and Keith's fill-in host for when he decided to no-show work. Keith started to get a huge ego and then three things happened:

1. His dad got super sick and died
2. He got caught breaking a rule saying you couldn't make under the table donations to politicians behind the backs of MSNBC management (you had to tell them what you were donating and to whom)

The later got him suspended and the former led to him taking time off but then led to Keith exploiting his father's death to no show work while being caught around town in NYC doing shit and having fun. To get him to come to work, they agreed to pay out big money to let him read short stories on the Friday shows but Keith still kept playing hookey. Finally, Rachel stabbed Keith in the back and got him fired. Keith threw a fit and was picked up by Al Gore for a revamped Current TV news program, but Gore lied about how much of his money he was going to spend on Keith's show and hell broke loose and Keith got fired and Current (which bet everything on Keith bringing in viewers and advertisers) died a year later.

He crawled back to ESPN to do a sports show with political commentaries that flopped (partly because it never had a proper time slot) and then ended up taking Obama propaganda bucks (funneled through Esquire Magazine) to do a Youtube show that showed him going full on insane in real time and pretty much killed a plan to give him a new show on CNN at the height of their TDS. And Rachel Maddow has repeatedly cockblocked any attempt to come back to MSNBC.
 
Bernie is a democrat shill that says shit and mean nothing of it. A eunuch. A slave to his masters.
The problem really was that Bernie wasn't going to win the primary, he wasn't a threat, and they still stabbed him in the back because they're cowardly shitstains afraid of Obama 2.0.

That's the real takeaway.
 
Honestly after all this fearmongering against Trump, the fact that Vance comes across as intelligent and normal and will have been the vp for the four years when life steadily improves again, I think he's going to easily be a two term president immediately after Trump. He might spend that time fostering an entire generation of new blood to run the country.
*assuming that he doesn't prove himself to be a pants-shitter in the Veep seat.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

...though, sidenote, this is also why I say Vance isn't gonna betray trump. Not because of any noble expectations on his part, it's just that he can quite literally inherit the trump hype and reshape the GOP in his image when all's said and done. nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by ratfucking trump. You can't as easily say that about any super-old fart.
 
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