"Should CBS RENEW Stephen Colbert's Late Show??"

And further encroachment into Alaskan public lands, so the clown can sell drilling rights to fossil fuel companies.

Regarding Colbert, although I do not watch television, I have seen clips of him many times. He’s fabulous. Frankly, I liked him even better several years ago, when he structured his comedy bits to give the impression he was a Republican and a clown supporter, but the sarcasm, cleverly and subtly understated though it was, was evident. He left the superficial impression that he was making fun of himself. And he was very good at it. Now, he’s much more direct and provocative, so the content is the same, but the delivery is different.

The title of this post came from an e-mail I got today. Clearly, if I opened the e-mail, I’m supposed to say yes, CBS should renew Colbert’s show. But I know I’d be talking to myself, or spitting into the wind, so I don’t bother to open them or sign. Also, I get versions of the identical question or issue at least twice a day, every day.

A completely unrelated e-mail (there are essentially loads of unrelated e-mails about various examples of the same broad problem) was about the current “government’s” plan to make Alaskan natural resources and public land available for fossil fuel source exploration and extraction.

And whether I agree that ICE shouldn’t be funded, or KA$H Patel or Pete Hegseth should be fired, or whether we should support “health care, not warfare,” or any of very many things. I sign some of them, and others I don’t. It’s not that I don’t feel strongly about them, and agree with every one, but that there’s a limit to how much of my own saliva I want running down my face.

And I have to admit that there’s another dynamic that leads me not to sign the ones I don’t sign: the current American “government” is driving itself off a cliff, and taking a number of us with it, and as much as I regret it, and it infuriates me, that the “government” is out to destroy this country and its people, and other countries and their people, it is this relentless destruction that is finally getting the attention of the enablers that put this “government” there, and keep it going.

I have every confidence that there will be midterms this year, and I want a level of rage that will lead as many voters as possible to “t’row da bums out.” That’s what it’s going to take: rage.

A married couple who are Republicans, friends of mine, and clown voters are now whistling a very different tune. The wife announced “I hate Trump.” The husband is now acknowledging that things are not going well. And he has told me that he voted for the clown three times. I’m sure his wife did, too.

Every destructive, self-serving step the current “government” takes makes that much more sure that things will turn around after the midterms. I have very good confidence the clown will get impeached, again, for the third time, and some confidence he’ll get convicted. Unless he gets ejected via the 25th Amendment (I get possibly up to many petitions like that every day).

I hate seeing people get hurt, stretched thinner, and killed, but it’s very abundantly clear that between me and the clown, I’m the only one of us who cares about that.

I don’t impoverish myself, because. as the line in “Rounders” goes, you can shear a sheep many times, but skin it only once. So I make as many donations as I reasonably can, but I don’t have lots of money. I can’t solve all of these problems. And if I could, I think I’d be making a mistake. It’s those problems, even including something like keeping Colbert off the air, that motivate the voting public to get their asses to the polls, and pull the eject levers.

And besides, I’ve never met Colbert (and I never will), I’m not one of his personal friends, and I’m not his accountant. Frankly, he’s done such a magnificent job for as many years as he’s been on TV that I have very good confidence that he’s been paid very well. It doesn’t harm him to go a while without a check. I doubt he ever has to work again. He loves it, we do, too, and he’s great at it. But he and his family don’t get harmed by his being off the air for a while. And anyone who very much misses him, because Bari Weiss blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, will be that much more incensed and motivated to go vote. There are no doubt people who didn’t, or maybe still don’t, agree with Colbert, but they don’t like seeing the clown and his inert legislative Republicans doing anything they want to anyone, and having their way with all of us. Even them. And destroying the natural beauty and resources in Alaska. And making excuses to start wars against Venezuela and Iran, and then telling them that’s why Americans have to pay more for medical access (or be priced out of it), and pay more for everything they want.

So, no, I don’t sign petitions asking CBS to put Colbert back on the air. I don’t want them to. I want them to continue to infuriate everyone (they’re only angry that they can’t watch Colbert: they’re not harmed by his absence), so as many people as possible will “t’row dem out.”