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Go anti-woke, go broke.

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[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 70 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fuck Phil McGraw. He's a dumb prick who actively makes the world a worse place with his bottom of the barrel trashy TV shows.

Good news.

[–] Whiskey_iicarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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You mean dr. Phil the guy who invented the bum fights video series back in the early 2000s?

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 25 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

There's zero reason to take credit away from the bum fights guy for his own brand of trash, but you can definitely say you mean Dr. Phil, the guy who saw profit and value in doing a bit with the bum fights guy for views.

[–] Whiskey_iicarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You are correct. They are equal parts trash, one just had a national TV show he spewed his "folksy" wisdom on.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 9 points 20 hours ago

They both exploit desperate people for profit, but one of them is honest about doing so. The other one is just misery porn camouflaged as therapy.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I agree but that's not his worst evil on our society. It's the torture camps he sent kids to and promoted.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 6 points 22 hours ago

It's shocking just how evil normal every day things are. We gotta shut down all those camps

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hopefully, this caused a lot of personal financial harm for him.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And stress on his cardiac muscles.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 19 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

And stress on his cardiac muscles.

I like the sentiment, but I'm not certain that he has a heart.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago

That's why I used different words 🤪🤪

[–] auraithx@piefed.social 38 points 1 day ago

Gotta be real embarrassing to have your anti woke crusade fail in this climate.

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 32 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Oprah unleashed a lot of harm

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if she feels any shame

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 5 hours ago

She's still a billionaire, so no.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The Daily Wire (bssically Ben Shapiro)'s streaming service/movie production branch is also going financially tits up lately.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

he also harbored gina caranos anti-woke, pro conservative movie once.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Don't forget ladyballers, which was originally supposed to be a basically 'opinionated' documentar, where just some of the gang try to sign up for an actual, realworld basketball league, as women.

This original concept of the movie was scrapped after they were told they would all have to actually start on HRT and progress to the point that their metabolic panels came back showing they were now within whatever parameters that local/minor league used as their definition of 'sufficiently transitioned', and none of the crew/actors would do it.

So, they made it into a fucking terrible 'comedy' movie instead.

Shapiro is on camera admitting this, laughing the whole time, utterly missing the fact that... that this happened basically destroys 99% of the 'facts and logic' he uses to generate his rhetoric regarding trans folks.

[–] f1error@thelemmy.club 16 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Woke = compassion. GQP hates compassion.

It's my hope that Dr. Phil eats a shotgun as he pulls the trigger.

I don't have compassion for the GQP/Trump-ers/MAGAts, I wish them the worst, and I'll do my part to deliver before I'm deported/imprisoned.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 7 points 17 hours ago

Didn't you know that compassion has no place in "Christian" America?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

woke= anything conservatives doesnt like that makes them uncomfortable, usually around bigotry ,race, gender, poc not following thier "social norms"/. most profound in cinema, movies/shows.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago
[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 13 points 10 hours ago

At least Oz was an accomplished heart surgeon before he turned to grifting. This guy can't even claim that much.

I hope he dies alone and penniless.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 11 points 20 hours ago

May he rot in the hell he believes in.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

Not woke, go broke.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I hope Dr. Phil ends up with incurable syphilis of the taint.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 13 hours ago

he should go to MEMHET OZ for some snakesoil cure.

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

Those taint scars that may appear like syphilis were actually left behind from Oprah's vice grip.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

Go antiwoke go broke

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Get wrecked, fucker

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

just like tim allens anti-woke show that never made headlines, and jerry seinfeld with his wierd commercial.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

tim allens anti-woke show

Last Man Standing? I accidentally caught a bit of that. Tim Allen was a grandparent complaining that his kids weren't allowing him to brainwash his grandkids. About the most boomer coded shit I've ever seen.

Now that I think about it, I never really liked the episode of Home Improvement where they made environmentalists into strawmen and punching bags.

edit: oh god, he made another one.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

What a shame. /s

[–] don@lemmy.ca 5 points 23 hours ago

Broke mind virus strikes again!

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 5 points 23 hours ago

Good. Get fucked "Dr" Phil.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 23 hours ago

Does this mean his ice show is gone?

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 13 hours ago

Welp, that was inevitable.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Whenever I hear about Dr. Phil I think of this

https://youtu.be/GgqrM-tcD1w

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Oh no. Anyway…