Stephen Colbert with his 2011 Peabody.
I watch very little TV (except the news), and what I do watch is because of other influence(r)s, namely Marla. I won’t miss Stephen Colbert‘s show one bit, but what Americans don’t realise they’ll miss is the freedom to say negative things or at least make jokes about about their leaders. How thin-skinned do you have to be, despite the fact that you are the “leader of the free world”, to use your power to make a guy (and his staff) unemployed, and then to boast about it on your Lying Social feed?!
Mark my words, Americans, you will regret this day (last Thursday). Nobody can predict what will happen tomorrow, but trump continues to chip away at freedoms you’ve taken for granted for so long, that you won’t even recognise what you’ve lost when they’re taken away because it happened to someone else, someone you don’t like. If Colbert’s mocking and calling into question certain of trump’s actions, as he did with Biden and Obama before him, don’t amount to anything in two years (November 2028), then why get so exorcised about it now? Your own constitution will achieve what all of his wannabe assassins have failed to achieve … so far. His presidency will end as scheduled and you’ll carry on.
Or will it and will you? That’s the thing we can’t predict for now. Look for action on this after your midterms, especially if they don’t go his way. You haven’t seen anything yet.
While we’re on the subject of your president’s abuses of power, I’m no supporter of Cuba. Fidel Castro’s soldiers fought against my father in Rhodesia in the 1970s. But that was half a century ago. Since then I’ve travelled to Cuba (along with a bunch of Americans on a Canadian flight), and had a long and very interesting conversation with one of those former soldiers. Despite the lies of “little” Marco Rubio, Cuba is not a “national security threat” to the US, at least, not as far as I understand that term. They possibly could be to Florida, but I’m pretty sure nobody in Washington State (or Alaska) is quaking in their boots at the very mention of the place. No, you’re very obviously going to pull a Venezuela and go in and arrest Raul Castro … because you can.
Hey, if you really have balls and want to show the American people how tough (and stupid) you are, go to Moscow and arrest vladimir putin. Piece of cake. You’ll be in and out in five minutes.