“Against boredom, the gods themselves struggle in vain; against laughter and ridicule every tyranny is defenseless.”
----Quotations of Chairman Joe
Every palace had its court jester. Every King has his critics. Even a monarchy tolerates and, indeed, sometimes welcomes criticisms and comic relief. Not so dictatorship.
We are witnessing the end of comic relief. First it was Stephen Colbert whose program is to be mothballed come next summer; the announcement of which, coming after yet another “presidential” tirade, sent a chill through the entertainment industry. Caesar Disgustus then announced that “Jimmy Kimmel is next”.
Jimmy Kimmel's time has arrived. In the wake of Kimmel's perfectly reasonable commentary on the idiot wrong's reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk, tRUMP and his FCC chairman Brenden Carr announced punitive measures forcing ABC to indefinitely postpone the broadcast of the show. Nextar, an ultra 'conservative', aka fascist, broadcast enterprise announced that it would no longer broadcast Kimmel's show and, since it's group of stations constitute a significant portion of the ABC network it was announced that the program is now in indefinite suspension. Disgustus crowed on his anti-social platform Untruth Anti-Social that Seth Meyer and Jimmy Fallon are next. Soon, everyone, save the fascist howlers and hate mongers will be expunged from the media and all will be in lockstep adoration of the Golden Swine.
So it is with fascist dictatorships. A friend of mine once related his experiences hitchhiking through Spain during the age of Francisco Franco. You didn't talk politics while traveling through Spain he told me, much less laugh about it. It was against the law to make jokes about Adolph Hitler, to do so would land you in a concentration camp. Fascists are a humorless lot. Gone is Kimmel, but Kilmeade is still holding court.
And so it is that rage has been brought to a fever pitch by an unhinged shitting 'president' enabled by media who have become adept at transforming that rage into internet 'clicks' and armpit deodorant commercials. By god, there is political power to be gained and money to be made by stoking rage, free speech and the republic be damned.
It is a perfect storm of self interest, political and commercial. The networks seeking accommodation with His Petulance so that this maladministration will not hinder the headlong rush to further concentrate the media into ever fewer hands, almost all of which are now full-blown fascist enterprises.
Gone is the independence of CBS which now has a political apparatchik in the house monitoring its 'political bias'. CNN has gone full Maggot. ABC and NBC have bent the knee as have the print media. Gone are Joy Reid, Whooppie Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell, and at least half dozen more who were critical of this thin-skinned megalomaniac. Anyone that pushes back on his endless lying; anyone who confronts this stinking turd with the facts; anyone who calls out our gold painted 'Caesar' risks termination.
His lies, his shameless assertions must be broadcast uncritically. We must all kneel and scrape before the throne of the almighty Caesar, and do so without benefit of any comic relief.
Which leaves us crying “where IS the court jester when we need him.”
Impeach and Imprison the Son-of-a-Bitch.
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