Yes this, sure, but also he LITERALLY went to Russia, as they were invading Ukraine, and filmed some slop where he went into their supermarkets and walked around and said, "Hey... Now this is pretty fucking nice! They got broccoli and shit!"

It's so fucking naked.

If only he'd gone away into obscurity after Jon Stewart got Crossfire cancelled.

The cadence is designed to hypnotize people. The people that watch him just accept it all as truth and probably have no idea how often he's been caught lying.

He doesn't need money, he's a little prep school heir from step mommy with a father that also spent his life grifting for the republicans. What he needs is validation. He needs to feel like people aren't laughing at him. But they always are, and they always will. Same with trump - That's why they are now hoping to kill enough of the other side so that the only people left in the room are the ones who are not paying attention except to clap when they hear "freedom" or "woke".

Seriously though, the truth is that trump is 80 and he will statistically die relatively soon. The same fear applies, "they aren't going to laugh at me". Give him a chance and trump will literally throw the match in the gasoline soaked world behind him on the way out, just for the comfort that he won't be made fun of in death or properly exposed in full context by history.

Line must always go up. And of course he wouldn't use his own money to keep being on a show

Yeah I laughed at his comment that Trudeau was "whiffing at a foul ball."

Reminds me of a scene from some old movie where they figured out if someone was a spy by asking them about baseball. Peterson failed that test LOL.

Statements like "This isn't news" are never helpful. Something like that is really just meant for you to performatively proclaim, "I actually knew this already!"

Plenty of people who aren't as enlightened as you are just now learning or just coming of age to be politically aware. Maybe they were in one of the various operating religious/political cults in the world today sheltering them from objective reality. Leave some room for them to learn something new and feel ownership in that new awareness.

Just literally zero value in "duh! Tell me something I don't know!". If anything, it risks derailing the enthusiasm building in someone who wanted to help who now feels "stupid" and "not in the club" so they get quiet. Something useful enough in the second half of your statement though.

Specifically which influencers are directly working for Putin is new information.

Is that Krieger from Archer?