That's one thing I hope to see generally in the future, having a greater emphasis on independent media for this sort of thing, as well as entertainment in general

Trump could do it in the next election, its basically what he does with his twitter now.

I agree, I would never suggest labour has always been a bad party, just over the past decade or two it's just gone completely off the deep end, instead of just trying to help those in need it's turned into us vs them

not that corbyn's leadership is helping anything, between him thinking we have infinite money to his own party running rings around him, hardly inspires confidence

I'm surprised there's not more politicians following Trump's example in that regard

His Andrew Neil interview was shocking, he didn't understand the government creating bonds added to national debt.

It's been a massive success for Trump and made him more personable to people I think

I always thought of Corbyn as a Zealot but he just came across as dumb on that interview.

intentional or otherwise, the jabs he takes at people and the occasional meme makes him feel more like an everyman, despite the fact he's obviously a much higher class than most, financially

corbyn seems to have a big issue with interviews where he gets pressured. The one that always comes to mind is how he couldn't give a straight answer on MAD

that combined with the people he calls friends makes it look like if he ever did become prime minister, our security would be a disaster

Trump is going into 2020 still having his "outsider" cred even though he's the incumbent. That's amazing.

Yeah he was once flying over Atlantic city with some Russian models, someone stated only white Trash go there, the model asked what white trash was and Trump said "Like me but poor"

when it comes down to it, I think people are just more interested in what Trump does and less what he says, while it's entertaining it's not important until it interferes with what he's trying to accomplish

Most of the outrage is from what he said when his policies are not much different than other presidents. People keep thinking that if they just get their ideal candidate the whole system will change but the system is way too powerful.

Regardless of whether people support or hate Trump, I hope one of the bigger takeaways of his presidencies is to pick your president with confidence they'll do what they say they'll do, or at least make the effort to do as much as possible. For their own dignity if nothing else. If I remember right Trump is the president that has achieved the most of his campaign promises?

rather than taking the tribal route, going for the one less likely to lie to your face about what their goals are

one thing I wish we had more of in the UK, given the amount of politicians that claimed to be leavers only to be remain once elected

I don't know if he has achieved most of his campaign promises, I know Trudeau has achieved more campaign promises than other Canadian PMs

Admittedly I only remember hearing this years ago, so I don't know how accurate that ended up being for Trump, at the very least he seems more active in actually doing things, or it comes across that way compared to his recent predecessors

I mean, when most of your promises involve spending money, sure, Trudeau's got it in the bag.

still amazes me that ultra woke canada voted for him after all the blackface scandals, just shows the power of the tribe I suppose

Yeah most of their outrage with racism is just a tactic to take down their opponents

It shows how bullshit the left's outrage is over stuff like blackface.

It's all fake.

I do have to agree there, given how often people that complain about how morally bad something is, only to engage in it themselves

Andrew Cuomo said nigger on the radio, and do you see people asking for his head on a pike?

At least he didn't say Fedo

Fredo

I can't wait till we reach a point in time where we're past the victimhood thing and can all poke fun at each other again

you still can, you just have to stand by it

What I wonder is if the backlash will be we go towards more freedom or right wing Authoritarianism

saying "sorry" for jokes is conceding that you were wrong

very true, is easier when there's less they can target, makes it all the more important when people with louder voices can do it and show how weak the outrage actually is

absolutely, given I have a big love for comedy I don't apologise for jokes just because someone is offended by them. I obviously don't go out of my way to be malicious, I just stand by my own intent, they're the ones choosing to be offended by it at that point

the world seems to have forgotten Hitchens' answer to "I am offended!"

"so what?"

I'd like to hope for freedom, but with the pushing for words being violence, it's going to need to be backlash against more than edgy jokes

When I was younger if someone got actually offended by something that only made it funnier. If someone said something you didn't like you'd hide it otherwise they'd only ramp it up.

That's more or less what I say when someone is offended, it's not my problem if the mean words hurt you

the offense can often be the biggest source of humour in a joke