Madness

Maybe Colbert will just start tearing people new ones. What has he got to lose? I didn’t think he’d be the first one to get the ax, though conditions were ripe for him to be made an example, all the ingredients were in place.

Trump might be elated at the moment, but he has to realize that Colbert and Kimmel and the rest aren’t likely to go away. They’re just gonna find more receptive landing spots, new perches, from which they will show no mercy. The media landscape is so diverse that Trump will find himself playing a constant game of whack-a-mole with the army of detractors arrayed against him. The only tool in his stupid arsenal, besides litigation, would be to threaten prison time in Alligator Alcatraz, or just pull the plug on the internet. I suppose that’s not beyond the realm of possibility.

How did we get here? How did we get to a place where previously normal governance—even with all its vaguaries and insufficiencies and share of shady, incompetent characters—has given way to nothing more than a daily, bad soap opera featuring an unhealthy, empty-souled, power-hungry megalomaniac who doesn’t give a shit about America, who lies like most of us breathe, who’s always trying to keep his head above water and fighting fires of his own setting?

To keep paying lip service to this 79-year-old child is a grave disservice to children everywhere. Even the MAGA faithful deserve better.