Late Night Biden
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Louis Anquetin Girl Reading a Newspaper 1890 What I am wondering about: Why hasn’t US late night TV “comedy” circuit dug into Joe Biden
[See the full post at: Late Night Biden]I’m sorry, most all are not funny, I feel empathy instead. I watched his 2008 VP acceptance speech, it was a whole other Joe. There is overlap between impediment and dementia, so root cause is not easy to assign, but the concluding emotion I feel is empathetic embarrassment. Where dementia starts, so does the abuse by those that decided he was the nominee. Hapless Democrats seem hopelessly compliant. It’s incredibly tragic.
If Biden wins, who will know the identity of the President. It will be a bit like the EU, where none on the street can name the three(?). And maybe that’s the point. Instead of “The buck stops here”, it will be, “Where’s the buck?”.I agree that the entire Democratic Party establishment should seriously be in jail right now for elder abuse.
Recently the Spirit spoke to my heart about the social and political climate in this country, and here is how my mind interpreted what They told me: “People’s positions, including yours, are hardening like concrete right now. Let not your heart be troubled nor your mind unfocused by any of it.”
I dumped (gave away) my TV in ’94 and left 9 years later because of the Iraqi destruction and mass murder. I find it difficult, if not impossible, to forgive, feel emapthy or see humor in/for cold blooded murderers still practising their vile craft across the planet…
Comedy is a spectacle for the masses and you have a valid point but the real truth in my mind is nothing compares to the joy felt when one’s comments causes one’s partner laugh in a way that touches her soul. It is time to live fully without fear. These are dangerous times but embrace life and don’t hide.
@ V. Arnold
I have butchered a moose putting some in brine and freezing the rest as steaks, soup, stew, burger and stir fry. The the .337 Win mag is the correct firearm.However as I was trying to express previously, there is always trauma taking a soul for your survival. Everything wants to live. I have seen many American hunters in search of the big game so they can check it off the list. What a sad state of humanity that is possible due to money. Any comment?
Interesting topic that you’ve hit on. I am a late night TV junkie and have had many conversations about the various players. First of I think you can say that all of the late night hosts are liberals with democratic leanings and so is the late night audience. No right leaning host has ever succeeded. Jon Stewart was my favorite. A sharp wit and a low tolerance for fools. While certainly left leaning, Jon would have no problem and take some delight in ridiculing both democratic and republican baffoonery. Steven Colbert was brilliant in his right wing persona but floundered terrible trying to be himself. He suffered in the ratings until he found his foil in Trump, an easy mark with tons of baggage. He rode that whipping boy relentlessly and it took him to #1 in the late night ratings over silly man Jimmy Fallon who seemed to want to be more of an entertainer than a political analyst.
But how long can you beat the same dead horse? Colbert has gone from funny to mean, just one nasty comment after another. Seth Meyers also seems to have a visceral hate for orange man and takes great delight in finding a way to mock anything and everything Trump. Sorry Seth you’re not very funny, just plain mean. And now “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” which started out OK has now just degenerated into orange man bad, white man bad, every night, with a little relief from some of the secondary players.
I don’t watch anyway near as much late night as I use to. I want a little light humor before falling to sleep not “something to think about”. When I do watch I seem to migrate to Jimmy Fallon who I use to think was just too silly for my taste but now I find that “silly” is a welcomed, pleasant relief from the constant Trump bashing political analysis of the other hosts.@ Michael Reid
…However as I was trying to express previously, there is always trauma taking a soul for your survival. Everything wants to live. I have seen many American hunters in search of the big game so they can check it off the list. What a sad state of humanity that is possible due to money. Any comment?Just to say I agree; I have hunted deer for food also, no problem, but, it is taking one life for another as you point out. My understanding is that native peoples thank the lives they take for their survival…
Trophy hunting is an abomination, IMO…not to mention the damage it does to the species hunted for such…
A moose should keep your family well fed for some time…Oh, that’s right, I didn’t mention Jimmy Fallon and John Oliver, or Samantha Bee (does she still exist?). But it’s all the same anyway.
And Michael and VA: get a room.
Michael, despite the not perfect fit (K)N95 may have, they’re still much better than those bleuy things.
Something they said I understand is that smarter people decline from dementia far faster. Now Joe was 2nd from bottom in his class, but in general terms he was a pretty smart fellow. What I can’t understand yet is how un-smart the DNC was is rigging the primaries (again) against Bernie or other plausible candidates in the face of his quite obvious decline. Even lacking dementia, he is 77 years old, leaps older than any other candidate, older than Reagan was when he left, and you can see it now, he’s just too tired for a job that adds decades to the age of even young men like Obama.
That may not matter, since knowing this even better than we, they are set up for President Harris snuck under the tent, one of Hillary’s prime proteges, and one of the worst, most ruthless people in the whole Democratic party. It’s not often you can jump from starting an open-air slave market, accidentally, somewhere else, to rounding up innocent black children, putting them in work camps, and serially refusing a judge’s order to release them because –quote– they were making CA prison industry lots of money. Very difficult. But that leads my question of what did they think they were doing. What is – was – the plan? I don’t see one. They’re spinning, and pointlessly so. They have a lot of resources and opportunities, challenging one of the most polarized presidents in memory, yet they refuse to do all the good, sensible, and practical things they could do and always did before. No one in the Biden campaign is knocking on doors even now. Many states’ campaign offices are still essentially not set up. Although he’s managed some campaigning, almost all states are unvisited by anyone. How was that expected to work?
My read is that men wish to return to the circle of life, it’s built into them, yet they are lost, and when they have money and no time, seek this unconscious connection in what turns out to be isolating and unproductive ways. Same reason they flee to the country and built a McMansion monstrosity, mowed out to the back 40, vaporizing the relaxing nature they went there for. Can you fault them for not having time or not giving up easy wealth for deep and deadly poverty that living in the real country or with real nature would bring them?
It is troubling how Americans think “mean” = “funny”, their only sense of it, and why they have to import Canadian migrant workers to pick their jokes. What’s worse is that the audience can’t tell either and is just as lost. But they were carefully trained and bred to this end, pickled from infancy in psychopathic cruelty and unspeakable horror and depravity on CSI and everywhere. Should any show buck the trend and be wholesome and popular, or just not twisted, evil, and dark – and there have been many over the years – it is summarily cancelled.
Control the past = control the present. Control the present = control the future. That’s what they mean when they say “Control the Narrative.” Control YOU. With lies. Because the truth doesn’t have a “narrative”, a “spin.”
The other night I met up with some family members. For the most part I bit my tongue and kept quiet, but when my niece (who did part-time stand-up) commented how much she and her peers missed having an audience, I asked if giving up comedy was worth it.
“If it saves lives, it’s absolutely worth it! Duh! Only a psychopath would think it wasn’t!”Alas.
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