When did democrats lose the ability to make fun of themselves?

When did democrats lose the ability to make fun of themselves?

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When Republicans became so much easier to make fun of.

When it was proven that they were right

His point now being proven.

Neither party can make fun of themselves. The only time both parties are made fun of is when it's done by libertarians which was what the old Simpsons writers were and the political jokes were way better for it.

This.

Look at The Daily Show, Real Time, Colbert Report, etc.

>daily show
>colbert

Man, they fell off hard once bush was gone. I bet they secretly hope trump wins so they can have a career again.

When they realized they were the worse of two evils and they desperately need to manipulate people into thinking they're good.

>This.
>Look at all these biased shows owned by Democrat donors.

Are there any conservative comedians?

there's nothing funny about feminism, religious tolerance, and racial egalitarianism

The differences between the genders and races is where a lot of humor came from before political correctness took over the left side of politics.

When everyone has to be potrayed as exactly the same comedic conflict never really arises.

Do you truly and sincerely believe the only form of comedy that exists is jokes about race and gender? Because that seems to be what you are implying.

>before political correctness
Before ww2?

That's all they talk about though.
That's literally the only Dems claim to moral superiority, and that seems to be the point of Liberal comedy these days.

This should clear things up

I said it's where a lot of humor used to come from. Not all of it. Differences between women and men fueled most situational comedies at one point, along with cultural or class differences which are now largely taboo to discuss in any serious way.

>The point of satire
Oh dear.
>comfort the afflicted by afflicting the comfortable
>LOW INCOME WHITE PEOPLE ARE STUPID AND EVIL, THE ESTABLISHMENT POLITICIANS ARE GREAT

This is the most pretentious thing I've ever seen. There's a reason all the left wing late night comedians are tanking, and it's simply because that progressivism has become the new status quo.

Advocating for the status quo is never funny

They still can, but they do it less. Partisanship has increased hugely with the latest election and recent global events. We weren't nearly as divided the last couple of elections. Hell, even the recession didn't lead to as strong of a partisan argument that we're having now.

The US as a nation lost its mind after 9/11

FUCKING DELETE THIS NOW!!!!!!

Republicans were very easy to make fun of in the 2000s.
That's kind of changed now and they haven't really done anything nearly as awful as the far left is doing more and more these days. At worst they're clumsy and doddering and out of touch with their actual voter base. Democrats meanwhile are actively trying to hasten the demolition of the country and its economy.

I consider myself a liberal, but that's not even true. Lots of people, including liberal comedians, make jokes about, say, low income blacks, and it's pretty fucking hilarious.

Also, no comedian would ever make jokes like the ones in that comic strip. Who even reads fucking newspaper comic strips anymore?

>out of context clip from fox news
>republicans
>funny face
>audience is hysterical

Republicans aren't any better. I was hoping Trump would cause most major Republicans to realize how extreme they've become and learn to laugh at themselves but I guess not. But to answer your question OP it was the Bush Jr years when it became the norm to shit on republicans and by extension making the democrats look smart. They also became much more extreme because hey knew no one would oppose them for a while

Liberal comedy is so bland and tame because they're afraid offending anyone

>the point of satire is to comfort the afflicted by afflicting the comfortable...

No it isn't, you just made that up.

>whereas the point of conservatism is the exact opposite!

Also false. Ask me how I know the artist is a Liberal.

>Truth is, ridiculing the non-privileged isn't particularly funny - it's just mean!

Probably the least true of all the aforementioned. Comedy is rife with cruelty and digging at "unfortunate".

That episode was written by John Swartzwelder whos a conservative

>the point of satire is to comfort the afflicted by afflicting the comfortable...
>Truth is, ridiculing the non-privileged isn't particularly funny - it's just mean!

Okay, let's look at Brexit.
The vast majority of people who voted to Leave were the disenfranchised, the poor, the working class. The people who had been screwed over. The people who wanted Britain to Remain were the elites, multinationals, people living comfortable privileged lives.

Guess who liberal comedians took the side of, and guess which side they ridiculed and painted as idiots?

Extreme on what? Conservatives have bent over and accepted every liberal social change in the past twenty years. The only thing they stand strong on anymore is gun rights.

Trump only got the nomination because out of all the major candidates he was the only one who actually believed in preventing illegals from coming in and deporting the ones who are here. All the others wanted "comprehensive immigration reform."

The republican party has been all but castrated and liberals still bitch about how "obstructionist" they are. The modern day GOP is just a bunch of cuckservatives that need to be purged and replaced by actual right wing politicians.

This. Plus liberals make fun of the south and midwest in the US all the time

One of the reasons I'll never take them seriously, I love living in the Midwest. Everything's cheaper, people are more decen. The only problem here is the fat chicks and I can read the writing on the wall, that's going to be everywhere soon.

Seinfeld

When they realized they could just call anyone opposing them a racist/sexist/gun nut and win.

When you're narrative is that you're the good guys, you cant actually poke fun at yourself because you lose your moral high ground.

South Park seems to make fun of both equally.

Family guy too actually.

Hasn't changed worth a shit, all the teenagers just discovered Sup Forums last year and decided its cool to be neonazis. The rest of the world still thinks you're a joke.

MacFarlane manages to do this well enough because he's masochist- unlike other liberals, Seth doesn't see himself as the good guy, he hates himself, so he can easily make fun of himself and his own beliefs

I'm talking about real people in the real world, you're stuck fixated on talking about Sup Forums.
Really makes you think, huh?

Republicans

*audience calms in excitement*

Are racist

*Audience explodes into laughter and tears*

2001. Bush made the Democratic party so butthurt that the heat still resonate to this day.

This. They've gone so far left since the year 2000 that Bill Clinton of the 90's would seem like a Republican today

How have they gone left in any way?

what is so funny about leftists comedians? not being able to verify that your vegan pizza ingredients didn't touch any meat is absolutely hilarious!

Lets see; gay marriage, full on socialism, blaming white men for every problem, the constant cries of racism/sexism/transphobic. If you cant tell how liberal the Democrats have become since the 90's you weren't paying attention

>satire is only for the disenfranchised
The fuck? And also it doesn't stop ivory tower liberals from mocking poor rural southerners mercilessly. Fucking hypocrites.

Oh sorry I'm a retard, I thought you meant republicans.

But Doonesbury has never been funny.

Republicans are laughable to anyone with half a brain.

I find myself becoming more moderate these days, as a former Democrat, but you Republicans are really the stupidest people I have ever known. The Democratic convention compared to last week's Republican convention was a night and day difference.

>Comedy has strict rules that I, an elitist must enforce everywhere I go
what a dick

Go cry about black people and gay men in bathrooms someplace else

Doonesbury guy more or less said the Charlie Hebdo guys had it coming.

this is exactly what hes talking about lol. ive never heard a structured argument from any alt-right idiot. its all "nigger" "cuck" and "ov vey!".

you really do represent the cliche american and the whole world oaughs at you.

Democrats
WHITE MALE PRIVILEGE, MORE GOVERNMENT INCOMPETENCE AND CONTROL, LETS REWARD ILLEGALS, MUH FEELINGS

Republicans
DURR THE EARTH IS 6000 YEARS OLD, MUH GUNS, FUCK YEAH BURGERS AND MCDONALDS, FUCK NIGGERS, RICH PEOPLE CARE ABOUT US (they don't), FUCK YEAH MORE WARS

Is this the first election cycle you've started following?

MOST republicans and conservatives didn't want Trump to be their candidate believe it or not. And FYI, the republicans and conservatives have been whining and screaming ever since Trump became the leading candidate. But when you're faced with the choices of:

>throwing your vote away to a 3rd party candidate that has no chance of winning
>voting for a corrupt liberal establishment candidate
>voting for the republican candidate who will do SOME of the things you want and has a legit shot at winning

People will vote for the candidate that will at least do some of what they ask for and has a shot at winning. Most people don't just go, "awww shit my perfect candidate didn't get the nomination. Well fuck this election!"

>most major Republicans to realize how extreme they've become

Unless you're talking about Alex Jones tier republicans, the extremism has been coming from the left.

most of the things you listed aren't even leftist

>Tips Trump hat

When they realize they've done far more wrong than le evil republicans

americans politic as utterly depressing and retarded

politicians are crook and your crooks are incompetent actors and visibly incompetent criminals

it's a fucking joke how you can elect clearly braindead apes like you did Bush "bonobo" Jr and will do with Hillary the dishonest reptile

i love this argument because it reveals not only that liberals are just laughing at things they agree with but that they believe that should be the purpose of comedy (and often art in general)

Why don't we ever get people who are secretly conservative joining the the democrates and vice versa?

Most jokes on Sup Forums are funny before they become tired ass memes.

Liberal comedy is not even a comedy, it's just boring option piece with some laugh track here and there. It's copy-paste script made for 10 samey talk shows, tired and lacking any edge.
And why do these pansy, liberal guys love to change the meaning of words so much? Comedy needs to be surprising to work, this is why political comedy is mostly shit. At least with the right wing you can say "offensive" unexpected shit, so they have the slight edge there.

Stop falling for the trick that your right to bear arms is a left/right issue

Test

right wing comedy is the best comedy

it used to be until Sup Forums ruined it

This. But seeing as how phone posting and plebbit has made this place ironically right-wing, on top of impressionable teens thinking it's always been like this (both the site and real life politics), and general Sup Forumsfags being fags (I blame stormbabies invading circa 2010-11), expect shitposting with no regard for logic or history trying to explain how SJWs are democrats and want to end liberty.

Both sides used to talk shit all the time when something made fun of them. The right-wing usually couldn't take a dick though, yet talked the most shit.

SJWs themselves aren't liberal (don't want higher taxes, more civil liberties, or freedom of speech) and in fact I think if it weren't for their dislike of religion, they'd be right-wing. I am reminded of the 80s (and some of the 90s) when religious people thought metal was trying to make satanists, and how religious (and most likely right-wing) people wanted to censor music (they got the Parantal Advisory sticker instead). I don't find it a coincidence that SJWs use the same tactics and virtually the same arguments to fight for their (stupid) shit, and they sprung up in anti-religious sites.

Don't trust anyone who wants to enforce their limited worldview on others, including Sup Forums, SJWs, uber atheists, uber fundamentalists of all types, uber richfags, etc.

no, Sup Forums produces fantastic stuff

were you there for the trayvon trial?

building on this; the white working class have been an acceptable target for satirists in the uk for a long time now despite obviously being a disadvantaged group

the thing that rings most hollow is that "punching up" doesn't really have any solid definition which allows it to be used on a case-by-case basis against people they don't like, and it's that perfectly liberal response that lets you take the high ground and get indignant while feeling that you're making a difference (while making none at all)

most disadvantaged people don't engage with sature, stuff like john oliver and hamilton is watched exclusively by middle class people so the idea that anyone other than the middle classes are feeling comfort is a fantasy

also worthwhile to note how racist/sexist jokes can help erode tension between groups, yet i've never seen a liberal making fun of disadvantaged people in a way that's meant to build bridges or be poking fun, it's literally always sincere and spiteful

God this will be so embarassing once you grow up.
Thinking back to teenager days when you thought
>"Gawd everyone else is so stupid. All sides are so stupid. We should just be on the extreme middle. Everyone is evil. Everyone is wrong."

It's retarded how alt-right faggots call liberals sjws when they're both completely different.

...

DUDE I'M SMARTER THAN YOU LMAO

>Everyone

He was specifically mentioning the unbelievably retarded people with extremist beliefs, not everyone. Every single intelligent person on the planet is politically quite moderate, because those are the only positions supported by logic and rationality.

He's jewish. They're traditionally left-wing. And not SJW 'left-wing', more like 'defend the freedoms of kkk racists in court left-wing'.

I stand by being liberal, I would have voted for Clinton last time but I wasn't legal and it would have been pointless. Black president beats woman president, hands down. Frankly, I'm surprised you niggers can even post legibly considering you're most likely teens and don't know shit (and most likely can't vote lol), and grew up with texting. I'm 25 and no one I know supports Trump, and no one over 25 supports Sanders. Everybody remembers the good Clinton 90s, and would like that to return. Half you niggers don't even recall seeing 9/11, how can I take your opinions seriously?

>when you grow older you're going to feel like such an idiot for not taking a principled stance on the issue of internet subculture #1 vs internet subculture #2

lol

This.

Go back to your containment board, kiddo.

I can't imagine the shock when they are forced to work with people who are vastly different than them in terms of ethnicity, religion, etc

>only 90's kids would understand
What a fucking sad reason to vote for someone

Not that guy but you clearly have Sup Forums's viewpoints down. Democrats are still the same, Republicans are still the same, in fact that is the primary reason the people are voting for Trump. Dems like to spend and increase taxes and try to advance society, Reps still like to lower taxes for the rich and increase military spending and keep people tied to 'family values' (this means abstinence, no abortions and less women's rights in general). Sup Forums thinks SJWs=democrats when that isn't the case. There's also newer right-wing assholes who don't care for the honorable and traditional views of the Republican party (I consider myself liberal but my favorite president is Nixon), and thus the Republican party has Trump as candidate.

The newer views of both sides clash with their old views, and they are particularly loud as fuck. But if you're NOT a retarded faggot teen, you can clearly tell who is who. SJW thinking and legislation is not something I want, and I am liberal as fuck. True balance is not giving one side more privileges than the other, and enforcing your views on another is also wrong. Let people be.

>ITT: triggered Sup Forums neckbeards

Not an answer

What are you even trying to say? You just seem angry and very confused.

The fuck? I specifically stated anyone over 25 (this means up to almost-dead people) remember the 90s. My grandma remembers the Clinton years, as do many other oldfags. Lucky for me, oldfags are the ones who vote in the greatest numbers and youngfags rarely vote.

In Recess (the cartoon show) the more popular kid (TJ iirc) was set to beat the nerd in the student presidential race. The nerd won because only the nerds voted, and cool kids don't vote. Moral of the story is, vote or stfu.

Is this supposed to be funny? It's a little giggle I guess, but "best comedy"? kek, you aspies are desperate

Also this isn't even "right wing". Shows made by avowed liberals like Drawn Together and Family Guy have had racial stereotype humor on this level.

The Bipartisan System is a failed concept

In theory it's supposed to be two groups with differing views trying to figure out TOGETHER what the right course of action is

In practice it just becomes a toddler level challenge pissing tournament

What are you implying?

>wahh wahh wahh

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Right wingers produce the best stuff because they aren't afraid to satirize taboos. Liberals do safe humor or intellectually jerk you off.

Left leaning comedy has definitely taken a turn into the SJW (read: unfunny) realm lately, but I think we can all agree that the Half Hour News Hour smoked major pole.

>'liberal'
>SJW

Pick one.

>smoked major pole.
Huh? Am I old now? What does this mean?

Yep I agree 100%

My mother is a bleeding heart liberal and my father is die hard conservative.

I use to try to talk to them about how it's all complete corrupt garbage and it really doesn't matter who you vote for but it's all for naught.

Try watching modern Daily Show and tell me its any better. Truth is political or ripped from the headlines humor isnt very good from either side

>a kike telling me that I don't own America
No shit, that's the problem. Steinbergs like him own it.

>Right wingers produce the best stuff because they aren't afraid to satirize taboos. Liberals do safe humor or intellectually jerk you off.

Not even remotely true. South Park, Family Guy, Curb, Brickleberry, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, American Dad, and Drawn Together were all made by liberals and all had non-PC humor.

Really, the only "safe" comedies are like ones designed for kids or Daily Show/clones.

>south park
>liberal

no

>family
>brickleberry
yeah, opinion immediately discarded. Kill yourself.

It's worked pretty well for a long time until this election cycle people have gotten so pissy about things. After all this mess is over and the political fringes either take over or leave the two parties, there's probably going to be only one moderate party who will dominate the country's politics from then on or in a best case scenario, people will just lose faith in political parties altogether and actually vote for the person and not the party.

Jews make up a small minority of the population, of the rich, of the government. By what metric are you claiming this?

Is this where we try to make conservatives look bad by role-playing as anime watching Nazis?

The two party system will not go away anytime soon.

The whole "system" of politics will not go away anytime soon.

What board am I on? Thought this was tele and movies

I'm pretty much left-wing, but holy fuck does the new-left make me mad. Their condescension of the working class and poor people is ridiculous.