“Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC,” Trump added. “Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!! President DJT.”
So here we are. As comedian Wanda Sykes put it, “So, let’s see, he didn’t end the Ukraine war or solve Gaza within his first week but he did end freedom of speech within his first year. Hey, for those of you who pray, now’s the time to do it. Love you, Jimmy.” Just like that we’ve entered a turn in the USA where free speech only applies to the messages that the people in power want to promote. We’ve entered a space and time where truth has no value but the idea of what you want to believe has the most value.
We’ve entered a bad time in the United States, and it is one I don’t see this country ever coming back from. Set aside the optics of the thing–we dismantled the safeguards of our country in less than a year. The real lasting horror is that we are now clearly an unreliable nation as we bend effortlessly to whomever is in power at the time, meaning that every four years any arrangements in place with our country are at risk. I find this particularly desperate, given that we no longer have the largest banks in the world. In fact, that honor falls to China, who operates the 4 largest banks in the world, followed by 2 US banks, a UK bank (HSBC) and a couple of French operations. You have to get down to 12 on the list to find another US operation an then 19 and then….32. We lack the financial punch we did in the past and the one thing we still do better than anyone else in the world is spend.
People still care what the US does and thinks because we buy their stuff. That isn’t going to last forever, given the stripping away of trust that is so rampant due to the current condition. DJT killed the USA. We just haven’t caught up to that reality yet. We don’t know how to imagine what the world we live in will look like in three more years.