Bill Mahrer has a point here, but it needs to be kept in perspective.
Most of us Boomers can remember when late-night comedy shows rarely had any political content. Johnny Carson’s viewers had no interest in the subject, and even if they did, how much entertainment value could the escapades of Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter possibly provide?
The circumstances are completely different today. It’s true that Trump and his support base believe that Trump is an honest and effective servant of our country and is doing his best to make America great again. As such, they take offense at being the butt of jokes.
But the rest of the country understands that Trump is a criminal conman who is doing everything in his power to turn the Unites States into an autocratic nation. The entire purpose of his second term in office is to punish his enemies, make money, and stay out of prison. Now, we have many millions of people who think of this as the only news in America of any real importance at all. They look forward to a nightly blend of news and comedy along those lines before they head off to dreamland.
To simplify this, until Trump, there was neither demand for nor supply of sharp-tongued R-rated political humor. Now there is plenty of both. We need to let Americans have what they’re demanding. If it annoys the MAGA group, they’re free to tune into Fox News, NewsMax, and the rest of the ultra-right-wing propaganda machine.
Re: Late-Night TV Comedy, Let’s Give Americans What They Want
I’m not a financial pro, but here’s some advice:
Don’t live on a budget. Make a lot of money and live far beneath your means. What value does luxury actually bring to your life, especially if it makes you nervous about running out of cash?
As I told my kids when they were growing up, “Unless you’re completely shallow, showing off your money is an idiotic thing to do. You make false friends and have people glomming onto you to sell you stuff you really don’t need.”
Warren Buffett still lives in a modest house in Nebraska, a state in which he could buy an entire country. Maybe there is something about him and his values that could benefit you.
I see.
There’s not enough land in Spain to support rooftop and ground-mounted solar at a fraction of the cost.
LOL.
It’s possible that right now, there are other civilizations observing the human race, studying us from afar, and noticing our decline into savagery and eventual extinction by turning billionaires into trillionaires.
People say that the principal weakness of human beings is that we can’t plan for the future as a species. Dogs are arguably even worse, though they aren’t consumed with greed. They don’t plot the starvation of millions of other dogs so they themselves can have enough food to last a billion years.
As an elderly man, I’ll be leaving this planet soon, but I won’t cease pondering this until my heart stops beating.
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