Kimmel: "You grow up reading Superman and you learn to value truth, justice, and the American way. And

[tblue37]

then you start to realize, especially over the last year, you don’t know where that all went. You don’t know what the American way even is anymore.”

“This is not an easy job to do, and sometimes it feels like we’re spinning our wheels. You see so many awful and destructive acts, all this damage we inflict on ourselves on purpose.

“And it can make you feel crazy trying to wrap your head around these things that are so clearly wrong.

“You grow up reading Superman and you learn to value truth, justice, and the American way. And then you start to realize, especially over the last year, you don’t know where that all went. You don’t know what the American way even is anymore.”

“When I hear from people who tell me that they watch our show, and the shows that my friends and colleagues do on the other channels, and that it makes them feel less crazy, it makes me feel less crazy too.”

https://charliesykes.substack.com/p/you-dont-know-what-the-american-way?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Jimmy Kimmel drives the bus down the middle of sanity.

If he can't save us, no one can.

[calimary]

2. What a GREAT quote! EPIC!!!

Gonna save that one for the next Call to Action email my Indivisible group issues every week. And I write a lot of it, so I can do that. We’re currently on Christmas/New Year’s break, but we’ll come ROARING back in January - and spitting fire!

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Which one, cm? ❤️

[calimary]

18. This one:

“You grow up reading Superman and you learn to value truth, justice, and the American way. And then you start to realize, especially over the last year, you don’t know where that all went. You don’t know what the American way even is anymore.”
- Jimmy Kimmel

[Nictuku]

3. Superman talking to the Next Generation

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Where are the faces of variety in that drawing? 🤔

[Beartracks]

10. a) It's a vintage drawing, of course. But also: b) those are the kids who need to hear that message!

On edit - I just noticed the little boy next to Superman is Asian. And one kid in the back is brown... in some indistinguishable way.

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[littlemissmartypants]

11. Sure Jan...

J/K

[Beartracks]

12. LOL

I did notice the Asian boy next to Superman, and a kid in the back left who seems brown-ish. So, hey, the original artist was indeed pushing the limits!

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[littlemissmartypants]

14. I like that you're doubling down on your support for Superman. 😆😉🤓

[IzzaNuDay]

17. I'm sending this to EriKa KirK

Like I would not have my child at a school with a TP chapter.

[yellow dahlia]

4. I often say: I am about Truth, Justice, and the American Way - I was raised on Superman.

Mr. Dahlia has said - I thought Truth and Justice were the American way.

[littlemissmartypants]

7. Mr. Dahlia makes an excellent point. ❤️

[yellow dahlia]

8. He just informed me - he stole it.

He was quoting someone else, but he can't remember who.

[yellow dahlia]

15. I found it. Richie Havens asked the question on his 1972 album, Live at the Cellar Door.

"I thought Truth and Justice were the American Way?"

[DFW]

16. The Cellar Door! I loved that place!

Even if I hated looking for a parking space anywhere near there!

[Cha]

9. TY & Jimmy Kimmel.. Well Stated,

Jimmy! We're with you!

[BradBo]

13. That's the problem with the voting youth.

Us baby boomers go lazy and let the corporations turn into a person and makes a new modern gilded age.

[GreatGazoo]

19. He stole that bit from Richie Havens

and Kimmel screwed it up.

Havens said: "I grew up watching Superman on TV and it confused me because it would say "truth, justice and the American way!" I thought truth and justice were the American way."

[Behind the Aegis]

20. A refugee, created by two Jews