Phil Elmore

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The Mandalorian and Grogu movie made $30 million less, inflation adjusted, in its first weekend than Solo, a film that was such a flop it ended plans for an entire trilogy Giving control of Star Wars to Kathleen Kennedy destroyed it and cost Disney billions of dollars

You're much more of a slave to the 1% that commit 50% of crimes than you are to the 1% that create 40% of the wealth.

I think people who are very outwardly “woke” tend to actually be shitty people

Anyone realize he said “this room is boring” only because he can’t see the screens and it seems like an empty room to him ??😱🤔

The tragedy of Stephen Colbert is that he really is a brilliant comedic talent and—according to those who know him in real life—a kind and thoroughly decent man. He could have maintained his liberal political beliefs while ring-fencing them from the Late Show and no one would have cared. Instead, though, he sold out, electing to become little more than a regime-media court jester, a funny man’s Rachel Maddow. He chose pandering to an actuarially decaying audience of geriatric shitlibs over remaining funny to a broad and politically inclusive audience, and he ultimately paid the price through declining relevance, reduced ratings. and decimated advertising revenue. It would be tragic, if it weren’t so completely well deserved.

Growing up the only 2 Presidential assassination attempts anyone knew or talked about was Kennedy/Reagan plus Lincoln during history class. Now people try to kill President Trump nearly every week, and yet liberals continue to stoke hate and divisiveness in the media. PATHETIC

Today I finally did a chore I’d been avoiding for six months. It took 15 minutes. And I’m committed to learning absolutely nothing from this experience.

The real irony of Colbert supporters blaming Trump for his firing is that if Trump never existed, Colbert's show, with its massive production expenses and extremely modest audience size, likely would have been canceled years ago.

You... you know the "C" stands for "Computer," right?

It is highly irregular for stunt performers to share top billing with the lead actor/actress. How often do you think Pedro was actually on screen during the film?

there was something beautiful about library checkout cards because you could literally see the history of human curiosity attached to a book. like a tiny ghost trail of strangers connected by the same story.

You're the person people talk about after he leaves. They aren't saying good things.

If you wonder why Gen X is the way we are, just remember that our teachers all hyped up a shuttle launch and then it blew up in front of us on TV. No counseling. No hugs. No explanation. They just wheeled the TV out of class and went back to teaching English class.

How did a country of 300 million mostly honest, hardworking people end up with so many leaders who are corrupt?

I don’t think I’ll listen to lectures about employment from the people who told coal miners to “learn to code” or laughed at anyone who got fired for not taking the Covid jab.

When a major political party thanks a comedian for his work, it proves he failed.

Let's examine what REALLY happened. When Donald Trump was a private citizen, a government contractor stole his private tax data and leaked it to the media. Because the government failed to protect his private records, Trump and his family sued the IRS for $10 billion. On May 18, 2026, the Justice Department settled the case. Trump agreed to walk away with zero dollars for himself. In exchange, the government put $1.776 billion into an "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to help ordinary citizens who say they were also unfairly targeted by federal agencies. The government also agreed to completely drop its ongoing tax audits against Trump's businesses. Trump declined $10 billion he was statutorily entitled to under 26 U.S.C. § 7431 and converted it into a compensation pool for other citizens, so calling this a corrupt enrichment scheme is factually backwards. If anyone else got that award they would have taken it and ran. Joe Biden and every other Democrat out there. The fund’s text explicitly says “there are no partisan requirements to file a claim,” meaning Democrats, independents, and Republicans are equally eligible. The audit waiver is bound to pre-May-18-2026 conduct, not “perpetuity immunity forever” as the ridiculous media and out of job former attorney Liz Oyer claims. Biden pardoned Hunter for crimes he was actually convicted of and Jim Biden while Jim was under two active federal investigations, with an 11-year window and zero public-facing remedy and the same commentators called that defensible. Literally. So the Biden family could issue pardon for crimes committed and active investigations but Trump, who was actually agreed and is statutory entitled to this money set up a fund to help Americans who were victims of political persecution, and the demented media is calling it some kind of corrupt act? Of course that same demented media wants judicial oversight. Would that be the judicial oversight that consistently rules incorrectly in any case involving Trump and gets overruled sometimes 9-0 at the Supreme Court? Not one prior U.S. president has faced this volume of criminal prosecution, civil litigation, and unauthorized disclosure of confidential financial records simultaneously, so pretending this is a normal political cycle is dishonest bs. The Obama administration used the exact same Judgment Fund mechanism in Keepseagle $760M, no congressional appropriation and the press called that justice. But it was actually much worse because in the Obama case this settlement was made against the advice of career DOJ officials who thought they could win at court. Trump personally receives zero dollars, zero damages, and zero direct financial benefit from the settlement the only thing he gets is the audit waiver as protect protection so he won’t be targeted by the same Weaponized government should they ever get power again. Congress will never legislatively compensate Jan 6 defendants, FACE Act defendants, or dismissed-case targets, so the choice was this fund or no remedy at all for documented victims of politically motivated federal action. The media is very dishonest in this country and there’s a lot of experts who are even more dishonest. I am not an expert at anything except research and common sense. It is just basic common sense that when you have a president issue blanket, pardons for crimes that nobody even knows about that may or may not have been committed on his way out, and the media doesn’t bat an eye, but then you have a president who is actually wronged and who uses his settlement money to help those who are also politically persecuted smeared as corrupt the problem is the media. -Insurrection Barbie