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baleen - 2013-04-04

I really liked their magic act when I was a kid. I even liked their shitty indie movie. Now I wish somebody would take this ugly fat bullshit hack and force him through a burger grinder, then serve him to himself for second breakfast.


Old_Zircon - 2013-04-04

Same here. I even liked the little book of bland sci fi fiction they included as one of the props with "how to play with your food." but at this point Penn is one of the most annoying media figures I can think of and Teller is guilty by association.


IrishWhiskey - 2013-04-04

I think that's silly. He's wrong about some stuff in stupid ways sometimes, and I disagree with his politics. But even when I think his argument about global warming being a scam is misguided, he's doing it less offensively and with far less of an impact that countless news figures and elected officials.

I have about the same level of "hatred" for him as I do for Oprah and Dr Oz, when they promote The Secret and homeopathy. Actually Dr Oz is way worse, because he's passing himself off as a doctor and expert, rather than a stage magician with a mute partner.


SteamPoweredKleenex - 2013-04-04

No, but Penn instead trots out "experts" for his show that are used to ridicule carefully-edited opposing footage. It turns out the people arguing his side are Cato Institute shills or worse, giving out "facts" that can be as harmful as Oz's line of bull.


Old_Zircon - 2013-04-04

I don't have any "hatred" for him, I've never met him. He might be a great guy off the air. I just wish he'd have stuck with what he was best at instead of becoming the Ted Nugent of stage magic.


baleen - 2013-04-04

Yes, Penn is yet another blowhard who does not deserve bandwidth yet is given plenty of it. He bleeds arguments to logic and authority in the most petty ways, and I guess what gets me about him the most is that he's painting himself as an informed "outsider voice" on whatever subject he happens to be covering from week to week.

The kinds of people who want to feel like they have a special inside angle on a popular subject are the kinds of people that give the Alex Joneses and Penn Jillettes of the world the time of day. Their viewers want to be the special people at the party, they want their echo chambers of intrepid "detective work" to be recognized in the ocean of mundanes and sheeple, but in the process end up consistently being the most imbecilic, unbearable people in the room.


Paracelsus - 2013-04-05

Agreed, fuck this bloviating, tedious asshole. Stick to sawing ladies in half, fuckface.


IrishWhiskey - 2013-04-04

It's not really offensive, it's just not also insightful.

It's basically just calling Trump a clown, like Snookie, only trying to be respectful about it because he knows him personally. Whoopie.


Old_Zircon - 2013-04-04

Yeah, the lack of insightfulness is the reason I submitted it, and with a few exceptions exceptions it's pretty typically of BigThink videos, which is why I subscribe to them.


Old_Zircon - 2013-04-04

Basically it's a nice, bite-sized way to keep up with the worst aspects of the TED Talks worldvies, with the occasional Jaron Lanier video thrown in as a palate cleanser.


Hugo Gorilla - 2013-04-04

If Trump is Scrooge McDuck, I don't want to meet the guy who out asshole'd Trump from being Flintheart Glomgold.


Xenocide - 2013-04-04

Penn has his ducks mixed up. Trump is more like John D. Rockerduck, the lesser of Scrooge's business rivals. For people with lesser beards than mine, John D. is a self-aggrandizing moron whose money comes mostly from inheritance and whose talents lie not in business, but in getting his name in the paper and repeatedly going bankrupt. Through it all he insists he's the world's greatest financial genius, even though he's actually millions in debt to Scrooge and most of his companies are poorly managed ponzi schemes.

Now let's all ponder why this character wasn't named John D. Rockerfeather. Dammit, Disney, the pun was right there for the taking!

In other news, Warren Buffett is EXACTLY like Launchpad McQuack.


Bort - 2013-04-04

Well goddamn. This is EXACTLY why I love this place.

Ten stars for Xenocide, five nega-stars for Penn.


Stopheles - 2013-04-04

One star deducted from Xeno's comment for misattributing the character (Rockerduck was Carl Barks, not Disney DAMMIT).

999,999 remain.


Raggamuffin - 2013-04-05

Does the "D" stand for "Duck" I wonder?


Old_Zircon - 2013-04-05

I would also accept 'John D. Duckerfeller.'


spikestoyiu - 2013-04-04

May I suggest my "the kind of people who have goatees" tag?


Old_Zircon - 2013-04-04

Now that's a useful tag!


Old_Zircon - 2013-04-04

I wonder if wearing a goatee is what happens when the kind of person who wears a fedora grows up and gets bitter because nobody will pretend his WACKY ANTICS are funny anymore.


spikestoyiu - 2013-04-05

Now that's the kind of scientific study that I can really get behind.


Old_Zircon - 2013-04-05

fedora : goatee :: PUA : MRA


Caminante Nocturno - 2013-04-04

Did he film this on the way to do some vampire LARPing?


WHO WANTS DESSERT - 2013-04-04

Fuck this guy and the Cato Institute he rode in on


Hooker - 2013-04-04

If someone asked me to talk about my mom I wouldn't gush like this. Jesus.


Binro the Heretic - 2013-04-04

Nobody is saying Trump's hair is a rug. We're saying it's a laughably obvious and ludicrous combover.

The birther question did not "need" to be asked. It had been answered many times before Trump asked it.

Trump and other megamillionaires do not perform a useful function for society. They convert valuable resources into piles of nearly useless money to fuel their massive egos. They dangle the promise of a better life over our heads only to raise it up a little more when it's almost within our reach. They like to tell themselves this makes them the "prime movers" driving humanity to achieve when in reality it causes us to become so focused on merely surviving, we have no energy left for true advancement.

I'm sure he's fun to be around, though. Most successful con artists are.


cognitivedissonance - 2013-04-04

Right... his hair is a method by which he can distract people who question his beliefs. It is an absolutely batshit self-mortification technique that he uses to try to pin his "enemies" as shallow, and only actually works for people already on his side.


MacGyver Style Bomb - 2013-04-05

The quotes on the back of his latest book reads like a list of "People We Can't Stand."


memedumpster - 2013-04-05

Defending Donald Trump sounds like an advanced philosophy class on the path to a law degree. The one that has Arguing For Rape and Cannibalism as a prerequisite.


SolRo - 2019-10-14

That’s a good idea!

A lawyers job is to defend their client to the best of their ability

The two ways to fail that class should be if you refuse to defend trump in court or if you want to defend trump in public


Uulanbaatorbaby - 2013-04-06

Wow, Trump cares about his children, just like regular people. I guess he can´t be that bad then!


Tripitaka - 2013-04-10

Oh I get it, Trump's just a dick because a sea monster ate his ice cream. It all makes sense now!


The New Meat - 2013-06-04

For you.


Nominal - 2017-03-21

Update from 2017: fuck you, Penn!


John Holmes Motherfucker - 2019-10-15

I don't have a problem with Penn Gilette sort of liking Donald Trump in 2013. The fact is, he didn't support Trump for President. At least when I read something he wrote in the fall of 2016.


SolRo - 2019-10-17

Spoiler: Donald trump was a terrible human being even in 2013.


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