The sad thing is that a lot of those late-night comedians "used to be" funny... a long time ago, before the dark times...
I think the consensus is that it was 2012, that election just straight broke things, including late-night television. After that, everything was sacrificed on the alter of progressive politics - more blood for the blood god. Anything that had joy, meaning, or value - BOOM - onto the alter it went. Late-night TV, Sports, comedy, movies and kids shows; everything from then on had to push an agenda.
Big money corrupted. I used to tell my students in the sections on ethics in some courses, "You can't buy a better grade from me for $100 or $1000. I know because I've had offers like that and turned them down. It was easy. You can't buy it for $50,000 because I was once offered something worth at least that much. And turned it down. But please don't come into my office with a big suitcase full of used $10s, $20s, $50s, and $100s totaling $1 million, because I'd like to think I would just turn it down, too, but I don't want to be tempted that hard. Moral: We all have our price and I hope mine is high, but let's avoid putting ourselves where we might be sorely tested."
Those late night people sold out for big money. Now they're just whores. Expensive ones, but whores just the same.
As someone who watched Letterman obsessively from the debut of his Late night show in 1982, I can pinpoint when this comic downturn occurred. It was actually the previous election in 2008. Basically, Obama broke late night comedians because they couldn’t bring themselves to make fun of a black man running for (and then holding) the most powerful office in the world. It saddened me, but after months and months of “McCain is old” jokes with only a few “Obama is so cool” jokes to balance the scales, I gave up on Letterman forever.
Great newsletter, even if I still had to skip over Better Call Saul! The difference in Monkeypox vs. Covid mask-shaming is remarkable. Also: Fauci knows he is currently untouchable, so he can come out being evil. His PENSION will be greater than the President's annual salary.
Two other items I wish you'd brought up: The first is an FBI cover-up, revealed by whistleblowers of Hunter's laptop and corruption:
Fauci can talk all the stringent lockdowns he wants. I don’t believe people will do it a second time. I believe you’re correct that he’s untouchable. I can’t I’m good conscience wish him dead but I sure won’t be crying when the creep goes room temperature.
"I don’t believe people will do it a second time." <-- THIS
There are plenty of people still driving with masks on (you didn't need to have a Biden sticker on your car; I already could tell) and continue to say things like, "I was going to drop my car off at the shop and maybe work at the office today. But, you know... the 'rona." as if this was some part of the Hive Mind.
I think people are fed up with all of this. Look at Sri Lanka and the Farmers in The Netherlands. You let people walk out of a CVS with hundreds of dollars worth of merch but they're going to physically challenge people without masks? Pfffft.
"The difference in Monkeypox vs. Covid mask-shaming is remarkable."
Well, you see, you not wearing a mask _causes_ others to be infected but choosing/allowing vehicles going the wrong way on a one-way street is *waves hand* just correlation.
My next D&D character is going to be a half elf lawyer named Peson Covfefe who's giving up on lawyering to go study wizardry.
Jokes aside, one of Trump's biggest brand mistakes was not just completely owning the covfefe typo. Grab it! Embrace it! Market the living snot out of it! He could have slapped #covfefe across merchandise from red hats to..... other, uh, things he sold (he sold a lot of flags, right). Hell, I would have renamed my SuperPAC "Covfefe for America." It would have been hilarious AND would have castrated the media's the fun over a single weekend. That's called win-win.
"castrated the media's fun", though I did have a typo in there with a second "the." It's just a little hyperbole about being a killjoy for what they were enjoying. No actual or suggested genital mutilations were involved.
Forget about the typo, the real insanity is the message that they're trying to convey that over the last month things have "gotten better" and that "you aren't spending as much as gas than you were a month ago when gas prices were at their highest." Great point, grandpa, except I'm still paying almost 5x the amount per month for gas for my two cars ($100 per month in January 2021; nearly $500 this month). This is like saying, "Well, we robbed you at gunpoint and took all of your money, but hey, here's a shiny quarter I found on the street". The next person who tells me that "at least gas prices aren't $5 per gallon anymore gets a punch in the face, and a nice reminder of what gas prices were when Biden took over ($2.39 btw)
They're like day traders, and pretend we are as well, getting high on every bump and falling into depression each setback.
We're not interested in a recent 10% drop because we don't see the little dip, we see the massive $500-a-month hole in our checking account. They playing for the polls tomorrow, the next Fed Report. We're thinking more "will I still have a car? a job?" and saving enough so that we can retire.
I'm retired, and it isn't doing me any good, either. I suppose my SS may go up a few bucks a month next January. Maybe I'll still be able to afford those cheap, non-beef hotdogs. Beanie-weenie here we come!!
Exactly It's also not just gas prices; my home heating oil cost was $190 per month and now it's up to $450 per month (can't wait for the winter), and my retirement account has lost $230,000 this year alone; I haven't checked how bad the grocery costs have gone up, but I'm sure that's just as dramatic. So forgive me if I don't appreciate the small drop that has happened in the last few weeks.
“The community most affected is the LGBTQ community,” says the condescending bureaucrat who can’t tell the truth even when people’s lives are at stake. Are Lesbians, Trans-vestite/sexuals, and Questioning people getting infected and spreading Monkeypox virus and it’s awful anal sores? They are not. Men who have sex with men, especially those promiscuous men who have lots sex with men they don’t know at government-approved (and often sponsored) celebrations of homosexuality, are responsible for spreading this miserable virus. So let’s leave the L’s, T’s, and Q’s out of it, and tell the G’s and B’s to keep their precious in their pants until this virus is under control. We’ve already had at least two children infected by close contact with men who have the Monkeypox virus. (Thinking about what “close contact” might mean in this context is too disturbing for those of us who value a good night’s sleep.) Now we know that defenseless members of our society are being hurt by this utterly unnecessary sexually transmitted plague. But even with this knowledge, our government continues to prioritize the feelings of homosexual men over the health of innocents. They refuse to call for these adult men to change their behavior. Remember their blind devotion to this crude sexual ideology the next time public health bureaucrats tell you to wear two masks and cancel your father’s funeral.
If only the community of men who have sex with men had had recent prior experience with a serious sexually transmitted disease, they might have been aware of the kinds of safe sex precautions and patterns of sexual continence that cut the risk of STD transmission to negligible levels.
One would think that having undergone the horrors of a decades-long communicable disease crisis that decimated their community and that they learned could be decisively contained by means of safe sex practices, men-who-have-sex-with-men would have been the least likely to suffer an outbreak of a new STD epidemic and the most careful about avoiding being infected with it and spreading it.
The real mind-blowing realization is when you think back in history and realize that this Democratic bias isn’t a new phenomenon. Reverse the party of every presidency and the history books would be quite different. Kennedy’s legacy would shift to emphasize the mob ties of his father, the narrowly averted disaster (rather than decisive leadership) of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the womanizing, etc., etc., rather than Camelot. And he’d get much less attention for setting our cap for the moon than a Democrat Nixon would get credit for overseeing the mission that actually got us there. Our entire view of history is distorted through the lens of the biased press that’s been in Democrats’ pockets forever.
"We the Peons, in order to form a more perfect union..."
I hate when Biden peson my leg and tells me it's raining!
Funny! And quick!
I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.
"It's really important that we do not use this moment to propagate homophobic or transphobic messaging."
How about: "Don't have butt sex with multiple partners - even you Heteros!"
Even more precisely: "don't have unprotected sex with multiple partners you can't see - even you heteros!"
#4thCupOfCovfefe
Now I'm ready to put in a solid afternoon's work.
The sad thing is that a lot of those late-night comedians "used to be" funny... a long time ago, before the dark times...
I think the consensus is that it was 2012, that election just straight broke things, including late-night television. After that, everything was sacrificed on the alter of progressive politics - more blood for the blood god. Anything that had joy, meaning, or value - BOOM - onto the alter it went. Late-night TV, Sports, comedy, movies and kids shows; everything from then on had to push an agenda.
I remember being excited to watch the first MLB game - Yankees in DC - and the first thing I noticed was a BLM image on the back of the mound.
Scherzer took the bump for the Nats, Stanton hit a ball to the Jefferson Memorial, and I just stopped watching.
Cautiously liking my Orioles again. Damn, I do love baseball.
They did used to be funny. Then their income depended upon clapping seals and Twitter hits.
Like how scientists used to do science then ended up being beholden to their funding sources and stopped being science-y.
Big money corrupted. I used to tell my students in the sections on ethics in some courses, "You can't buy a better grade from me for $100 or $1000. I know because I've had offers like that and turned them down. It was easy. You can't buy it for $50,000 because I was once offered something worth at least that much. And turned it down. But please don't come into my office with a big suitcase full of used $10s, $20s, $50s, and $100s totaling $1 million, because I'd like to think I would just turn it down, too, but I don't want to be tempted that hard. Moral: We all have our price and I hope mine is high, but let's avoid putting ourselves where we might be sorely tested."
Those late night people sold out for big money. Now they're just whores. Expensive ones, but whores just the same.
As someone who watched Letterman obsessively from the debut of his Late night show in 1982, I can pinpoint when this comic downturn occurred. It was actually the previous election in 2008. Basically, Obama broke late night comedians because they couldn’t bring themselves to make fun of a black man running for (and then holding) the most powerful office in the world. It saddened me, but after months and months of “McCain is old” jokes with only a few “Obama is so cool” jokes to balance the scales, I gave up on Letterman forever.
Great newsletter, even if I still had to skip over Better Call Saul! The difference in Monkeypox vs. Covid mask-shaming is remarkable. Also: Fauci knows he is currently untouchable, so he can come out being evil. His PENSION will be greater than the President's annual salary.
Two other items I wish you'd brought up: The first is an FBI cover-up, revealed by whistleblowers of Hunter's laptop and corruption:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/26/fbi-jeopardized-national-security-by-calling-verified-hunter-biden-evidence-disinformation-whistleblowers-say/
The second is the science of drugs and the Replication Crisis (you can check some of Tucker Carlson's assertions, but that's his point):
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/tucker_carlson_targets_up_a_serious_dangerous_crisis_in_american_science.html
Fauci can talk all the stringent lockdowns he wants. I don’t believe people will do it a second time. I believe you’re correct that he’s untouchable. I can’t I’m good conscience wish him dead but I sure won’t be crying when the creep goes room temperature.
"and someone has to get it, it might as well be Fauci."
Dark. I like it.
"I don’t believe people will do it a second time." <-- THIS
There are plenty of people still driving with masks on (you didn't need to have a Biden sticker on your car; I already could tell) and continue to say things like, "I was going to drop my car off at the shop and maybe work at the office today. But, you know... the 'rona." as if this was some part of the Hive Mind.
I think people are fed up with all of this. Look at Sri Lanka and the Farmers in The Netherlands. You let people walk out of a CVS with hundreds of dollars worth of merch but they're going to physically challenge people without masks? Pfffft.
How are those more stringent lockdowns working in China?
"The difference in Monkeypox vs. Covid mask-shaming is remarkable."
Well, you see, you not wearing a mask _causes_ others to be infected but choosing/allowing vehicles going the wrong way on a one-way street is *waves hand* just correlation.
My next D&D character is going to be a half elf lawyer named Peson Covfefe who's giving up on lawyering to go study wizardry.
Jokes aside, one of Trump's biggest brand mistakes was not just completely owning the covfefe typo. Grab it! Embrace it! Market the living snot out of it! He could have slapped #covfefe across merchandise from red hats to..... other, uh, things he sold (he sold a lot of flags, right). Hell, I would have renamed my SuperPAC "Covfefe for America." It would have been hilarious AND would have castrated the media's the fun over a single weekend. That's called win-win.
"castrated the media" is where I stopped reading. Sorry.
"castrated the media's fun", though I did have a typo in there with a second "the." It's just a little hyperbole about being a killjoy for what they were enjoying. No actual or suggested genital mutilations were involved.
Rats.
Forget about the typo, the real insanity is the message that they're trying to convey that over the last month things have "gotten better" and that "you aren't spending as much as gas than you were a month ago when gas prices were at their highest." Great point, grandpa, except I'm still paying almost 5x the amount per month for gas for my two cars ($100 per month in January 2021; nearly $500 this month). This is like saying, "Well, we robbed you at gunpoint and took all of your money, but hey, here's a shiny quarter I found on the street". The next person who tells me that "at least gas prices aren't $5 per gallon anymore gets a punch in the face, and a nice reminder of what gas prices were when Biden took over ($2.39 btw)
They're like day traders, and pretend we are as well, getting high on every bump and falling into depression each setback.
We're not interested in a recent 10% drop because we don't see the little dip, we see the massive $500-a-month hole in our checking account. They playing for the polls tomorrow, the next Fed Report. We're thinking more "will I still have a car? a job?" and saving enough so that we can retire.
I'm retired, and it isn't doing me any good, either. I suppose my SS may go up a few bucks a month next January. Maybe I'll still be able to afford those cheap, non-beef hotdogs. Beanie-weenie here we come!!
Exactly It's also not just gas prices; my home heating oil cost was $190 per month and now it's up to $450 per month (can't wait for the winter), and my retirement account has lost $230,000 this year alone; I haven't checked how bad the grocery costs have gone up, but I'm sure that's just as dramatic. So forgive me if I don't appreciate the small drop that has happened in the last few weeks.
Uncertainty sure makes it difficult to plan.
Peson is bad, but I would argue that "trunalimunumaprzure" was much worse.
https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1322218253247303681
“The community most affected is the LGBTQ community,” says the condescending bureaucrat who can’t tell the truth even when people’s lives are at stake. Are Lesbians, Trans-vestite/sexuals, and Questioning people getting infected and spreading Monkeypox virus and it’s awful anal sores? They are not. Men who have sex with men, especially those promiscuous men who have lots sex with men they don’t know at government-approved (and often sponsored) celebrations of homosexuality, are responsible for spreading this miserable virus. So let’s leave the L’s, T’s, and Q’s out of it, and tell the G’s and B’s to keep their precious in their pants until this virus is under control. We’ve already had at least two children infected by close contact with men who have the Monkeypox virus. (Thinking about what “close contact” might mean in this context is too disturbing for those of us who value a good night’s sleep.) Now we know that defenseless members of our society are being hurt by this utterly unnecessary sexually transmitted plague. But even with this knowledge, our government continues to prioritize the feelings of homosexual men over the health of innocents. They refuse to call for these adult men to change their behavior. Remember their blind devotion to this crude sexual ideology the next time public health bureaucrats tell you to wear two masks and cancel your father’s funeral.
If only the community of men who have sex with men had had recent prior experience with a serious sexually transmitted disease, they might have been aware of the kinds of safe sex precautions and patterns of sexual continence that cut the risk of STD transmission to negligible levels.
One would think that having undergone the horrors of a decades-long communicable disease crisis that decimated their community and that they learned could be decisively contained by means of safe sex practices, men-who-have-sex-with-men would have been the least likely to suffer an outbreak of a new STD epidemic and the most careful about avoiding being infected with it and spreading it.
One would think.
Well, the first only killed people, monkey pox seems to cause a few weeks of serious ano-genital discomfort, so maybe that will slow them up.
Peson is a unit of measure. Two pesons equals peple.
20 peples is a crod.
The real mind-blowing realization is when you think back in history and realize that this Democratic bias isn’t a new phenomenon. Reverse the party of every presidency and the history books would be quite different. Kennedy’s legacy would shift to emphasize the mob ties of his father, the narrowly averted disaster (rather than decisive leadership) of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the womanizing, etc., etc., rather than Camelot. And he’d get much less attention for setting our cap for the moon than a Democrat Nixon would get credit for overseeing the mission that actually got us there. Our entire view of history is distorted through the lens of the biased press that’s been in Democrats’ pockets forever.