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The next New Yorker Cover... (Original Post) ProudMNDemocrat Sep 19 OP
URL trimming is needed. When posting X links on DU, remove the '?' and all that follows it: Celerity Sep 19 #1
Thank you. Done. ProudMNDemocrat Sep 19 #4
YW and I love your posts. Celerity Sep 19 #5
TACO Don's obsession with TV hosts is telling... ProudMNDemocrat Sep 19 #2
G.O.P. Kancel Kulture BoRaGard Sep 19 #3
It's way beyond cancel culture. littlemissmartypants Sep 19 #15
Vassal culture (nt) Pinback Sep 19 #32
It lacks culture of any kind. littlemissmartypants Sep 19 #33
It's MAGA Censorship Culture RVN VET71 Sep 20 #36
They should be careful. Carr will pull their broadcast license! Takket Sep 19 #6
This from Stephen Colbert...mentions Brendan Carr tweet from 2020 ProudMNDemocrat Sep 19 #8
Is the thumb covering up the "kill" button? sop Sep 19 #7
My exact thought as well! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Sep 19 #10
I don't think so. The last letter you see clearly is an "L". calimary Sep 20 #35
. dalton99a Sep 19 #9
Obligatory "hand is too large" snidery. nt eppur_se_muova Sep 19 #11
I don't think the cover will make tsf mad. He will take it as a compliment to his power. Whyisthisstillclose Sep 19 #12
Which will backfire as people boycott ABC, Disney+. ProudMNDemocrat Sep 19 #13
Psychopaths see little wrong with their psychopathy. littlemissmartypants Sep 19 #14
One thing none of the lists mention: ReRe Sep 19 #19
Very important point. llmart Sep 19 #22
Well, I'll never forget ReRe Sep 19 #24
I didn't see or hear about that. llmart Sep 19 #26
Oh honey, ReRe Sep 19 #27
This message was self-deleted by its author ReRe Sep 19 #20
This message was self-deleted by its author ReRe Sep 19 #21
David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, was Stephen Colbert's guest last night: Rhiannon12866 Sep 19 #16
Bluesky Covering As Well... MayReasonRule Sep 19 #17
Goebbel's Ends Careers Of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime MayReasonRule Sep 19 #18
I think he's too stupid to realize it's about him since it doesn't have his name on it. MIButterfly Sep 19 #23
Me thinks the button the thumb is over says "KILL" Mr.WeRP Sep 19 #25
One button is missing. Aussie105 Sep 19 #28
No, that's Steven Miller's phone BigmanPigman Sep 19 #29
I believe Trump and Miller some_of_us_are_sane Sep 19 #30
My dad worked for Ma Bell for 30 years BigmanPigman Sep 19 #31
Sometimes it works out some_of_us_are_sane Sep 19 #34

Celerity

(52,141 posts)
1. URL trimming is needed. When posting X links on DU, remove the '?' and all that follows it:
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 08:14 AM
Sep 19

In your case, it would be:

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Remove all of that.

DU software unfortunately displays parts of URL's that on many other boards are hidden.

YouTube videos also need to be URL trimmed when posted on DU. Same for many image URL's.

Cheers

Cel

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,260 posts)
2. TACO Don's obsession with TV hosts is telling...
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 08:15 AM
Sep 19

If they do not bend to HIS will, they deserve to be off the air.

Next up, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, the ladies of THE VIEW, and perhaps the longest running show on TV....Saturday Night Live.

Watch this space.

RVN VET71

(3,037 posts)
36. It's MAGA Censorship Culture
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 08:41 AM
Sep 20

I remember way back during the Bush-Cheney years when none other than Brian Kilmeade called for a resurrection of the American Department of Censorship which, he noted, did a superb job protecting our WWI efforts against the Nazis. Except, of course, there has never been a Department of Censorship in the U.S., much as Kilmeade might have wished there had been.

But what Trump is doing is not canceling. He's censoring comedians and others by getting them fired.

Anyway: WHERE ARE THE GODDAM EPSTEIN FILES? (I laugh. Because everybody knows Pam Bondi and Kash Patel have destroyed the juicy ones and redacted the rest beyond any use -- except , maybe, for the Clinton stuff.)

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,260 posts)
8. This from Stephen Colbert...mentions Brendan Carr tweet from 2020
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 08:46 AM
Sep 19


Stephen Colbert spot on with this opener from last night.

calimary

(87,916 posts)
35. I don't think so. The last letter you see clearly is an "L".
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 12:54 AM
Sep 20

The letter you see just before it doesn't have a horizontal line leading rightward from its bottom like you'd imagine "KILL" to have. Looks like it might be an "I". And it looks like it might be a longer word than the four-letter "KILL."

Heck, anybody's guess!



ProudMNDemocrat

(20,260 posts)
13. Which will backfire as people boycott ABC, Disney+.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 09:10 AM
Sep 19

Money talks. I am reading on the internet that people are cancelling their Disney+ subscriptions.

littlemissmartypants

(29,886 posts)
14. Psychopaths see little wrong with their psychopathy.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 09:20 AM
Sep 19

They live in a place of extremely high self confidence and delusion.

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior



ReRe

(12,029 posts)
19. One thing none of the lists mention:
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 10:09 AM
Sep 19

No sense of humor. Come to think of it, they don't smile unless a camera is pointed in their direction.
A picture of happiness they are not.

llmart

(16,878 posts)
22. Very important point.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 10:35 AM
Sep 19

Their "smiles" are never sincere - always phony, so not really a smile at all. They also don't laugh unless it's a Snidely Whiplash sort of laugh as a result of a "joke" which is usually just when they or someone else is demeaning another person. That's what is "funny" to them.

ReRe

(12,029 posts)
24. Well, I'll never forget
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 10:46 AM
Sep 19

that last rally they had in Madison Square Garden in NYC. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at what came out of their mouths. It was definitely R-rated (you wouldn't want your kids or grandkids to hear it).

llmart

(16,878 posts)
26. I didn't see or hear about that.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 11:18 AM
Sep 19

I value my mental health now that I'm old and outside of DU postings, I watch no coverage of them. I refuse to spend the remaining years I may have on this earth poisoning my mind with their hatefulness.

ReRe

(12,029 posts)
27. Oh honey,
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 01:39 PM
Sep 19

you're better off for not seeing it It was very mean and hateful. Particularly for Puerto Ricans. Charlie Kirk was probably in attendance that night. There was a point I had to turn it off. Maybe someone else can pipe in and tell us whether he was there or not.

Response to littlemissmartypants (Reply #14)

Response to littlemissmartypants (Reply #14)

Rhiannon12866

(243,648 posts)
16. David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, was Stephen Colbert's guest last night:
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 09:21 AM
Sep 19
Stephen Colbert - Guest "The New Yorker" editor David Remnick
https://www.democraticunderground.com/132289031

MayReasonRule

(3,847 posts)
18. Goebbel's Ends Careers Of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 09:58 AM
Sep 19

Manic Pixie Dream Grandpa (@mpdg.cloud) 2025-09-19T00:27:59.424Z


Nat-C or Nazi no matter the name the sordid depravity's always the same.

MIButterfly

(1,359 posts)
23. I think he's too stupid to realize it's about him since it doesn't have his name on it.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 10:41 AM
Sep 19

Somebody will have to explain it to him. As Mr. T said in Rocky III, "I pity the fool" who has that task!

BigmanPigman

(53,835 posts)
31. My dad worked for Ma Bell for 30 years
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 09:41 PM
Sep 19

We never had a party line but we did get free long distance if we called him at work.

A family member used to harass my dad all the time, as if he determined how much your phone bill would be. Then after the Bell companies were broken up due to being a monopoly his phone bills increased. He never harassed my dad after that.

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