Wednesday, 23 July 2025

Four Things

 1.  When you sit and think about the 'antics' done by Team-Obama in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2014....if this were a 'play', it would involve more than 300 'actors', over 600 pages of script, and requires close coordination with a dozen news media outlets.

So, if the AG gets serious....there will have to be at least five special prosecutors, and spread out to cover more than one-hundred different topics.

Only my humble view....you haven't seen much of anything yet.  

Oh, and the people who planned out 6-Jan, and did the Congressional BS?  Yeah...even they are connected and will likely be dragged into a grand jury.  If their stories fail....just on that stupidity....they will do a couple of months of jail-time.

2.  Is Colbert going to last to spring of 2026?

I doubt it.  CBS doesn't have much wiggle-room.  But I think once Colbert reaches maximum insult potential on Trump.....a new legal case will start, and CBS will have to send Colbert into some suspended status, with a replacement figure to cover the remaining 10 months.  Lawsuit against Colbert?  Figure $10M to $20M.  Whatever he made for profit the past decade....might be at risk.

3.  If you make the case of Biden being on Ambien somewhat in the past four years....wouldn't the same suggestion occur for Kamala Harris over the last sixty days of her campaign?

4.  Maybe not page one news....but acting US attorney for Minnesota says the state government of Minnesota conducted fraud exceeding $1-Billion.

May require a full year of investigation, but it would  appear more than 20-odd folks are going off to fed-prison....probably for more than ten years.

Three Things

 1.  Was Stephen Colbert 'ever' funny?  

I would argue in the first three seasons of The Colbert Report (existing from 2005 to 2014)...he had a 'gimmick' and it was new 'stuff'.

Toward the last two or three seasons...I thought the 'gimmick' had peaked...so it was shocker to me that CBS would be stupid enough to hire the guy in 2015 to be the late-night guy.  What appealed to the network...was this idea that he'd draw younger viewers.  That idea faded.....as the numbers talked about in the last week indicate virtually no plus-up from day one on younger viewers.

What's left at this point?  Mostly a disgruntled Colbert...seeing no future beyond spring of 2026, and a CBS footnote about his era.....noting it mostly as a failure.  He'll run a podcast show....probably making one-thirtieth of his previous pay-scale.  

2.  Should there be a honesty-policy by networks....telling you the show you are watching, the cost-to-produce, and the ad-revenue factor?

Look, if they went down this path....you'd eventually come to realize that NFL football is the only thing keeping 40 TV shows on the air.

3.  What happens to Zelensky of Ukraine in the 'end'?

At some point....either with Putin gone, or massive public anger in Ukraine......Zelensky has to go, or get terminated by some Army folks.  Who would accept Zelensky?  The US might go and accept the guy.  Course, if he lifts 30 suitcases of dollars as part of his situation....there might be questions.