[jskdvsksnb]

> The guy who discovered Jon Stewart and Bill Maher

So this guy is like a pre-cog for detecting smug assholes? How can we harness this power for good?

[sk2020]

Well you’re not allowed to say a much more obvious thing about what all these people have in common.

[jskdvsksnb]

To be clear, I'm not being anti-semitic. Jon Stewart, to me, is emblematic of everything wrong with liberal politics in the United States. He spent 8 years dunking on George W and Republicans for being "stupid" while they consolidated power. He had a massive platform to mobilize liberals and instead they all made jokes about how uncultured Republicans were, while the Republican Party played a ground game that let them redistrict and take control of courts at every level to establish minority rule over the country.

Bill Maher - I don't follow him as closely, but everything I hear is basically regurgitated reactionary schtick. He says "the things they don't want you to say" which really means punching down at fat people, queers, people of color, etc. He's a relic of the early 2000s when you could attract a sizeable audience just by being a substance-less edgelord. As far as I know he's basically done a 180 politically because liberals used to enjoy that stuff but now it's more popular with right wingers.

The person in the article also discovered Ray Romano, so... he's 3/3 in my book.