Still Past His Jail TIme

     We all know Donald Trump nurses grudges for years, decades, even. His pudgy orange puss is still burning over President Barack Obama roasting him at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. He still has a mad-on about Rosie O'Donnell, as he's demonstrated twice lately. And when his brother, Fred Jr. (Mary Trump's father) died, Trump went to a movie, obviously remembering that bowl of mashed potatoes he dumped on his head when he was seven.

      It's impossible to imagine how a human being can be such a thin-skinned little prick. I honestly don't think there's a suitable analog in world psychiatric history. Normal adults move on. But Trump is not a normal adult and I would posit that he's still not an adult except in a biological, geriatric way. 

     I think we can safely add Jimmy Kimmel to Trump's lengthening list of pathological grudges, one that's probably longer than the Manhattan phone book. It was during the Academy Awards that was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel that he'd given Trump a smackdown in real time for the ages. Trump was watching the Oscars and decided to take a swipe at Kimmel, calling him untalented (Again, Kimmel was the host of the Academy Awards, an annual show with a television viewership of about a billion people).

     Kimmel thanked Trump for tuning in then asked him, "Isn't it past your jail time?" Imagine a shot of Trump's double-woven head in the foreground watching Kimmel and his pudgy little fist shattering a glass of Diet Coke as Kimmel faced him in front of a billion people. There's no coming back from that, if you're Donald Trump.

     So Kimmel's indefinite suspension from his show came as no surprise. The guy who's recently sued the New York Times for $15 billion and the Wall Street Journal for $20 billion had no problem pressuring his stooge Brendan Carr at the FCC to pressure Disney and ABC to get rid of Kimmel just as CBS had with Stephen Colbert.

      And all Carr had to do was put out a post on social media doing his best "Nice place you got here. Be a shame if something happened to it" act and threatened to pull ABC's broadcasting license. Knowing in advance what a bunch of wet-legged corporate cunts are running ABC, they responded the next day by suspending Kimmel.

     Trump could count on this because they just paid him a $15,000,000 bribe to drop his defamation lawsuit (CBS paid him $16,000,000), even though legal experts said both networks could've easily won them in court. Now ABC's parent company Disney is facing massive boycotts that are being posted all over social media. If they're so concerned about their license and bottom line, let's see how they survive this. Maybe they can call the executives at Target and ask them how they're faring these days.

      And no one in the similarly wet-egged mainstream media seems to have the guts to even speculate if Trump had something to do with this, if he got on the phone with Carr and basically ordered him to threaten ABC into firing or suspending Kimmel. It all goes back to the Oscars and Trump getting humiliated in front of a billion viewers.

     A few nights ago, Kimmel said in his monologue some things about the MAGA movement. He said, “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

     Even so-called liberals on Twitter have strung up Kimmel in effigy and used him as a piñata, calling his remarks "idiotic." To them, I say, "Go fuck yourself." What Kimmel said was the absolute truth and had to be said. And now the FCC and Trump are trying to masquerade their ginned-up rage as morality and public duty.

      What it comes down to is that now we're living in an environment copied and pasted right out of the Third Reich where anyone who insults Dear Leader can expect to get deplatformed or canceled. This is a chilling moment in US history in which criticism can be credibly called hate speech (which is still protected under the First Amendment) and legally actionable.

     And nobody in Trump's inner circle seems to care or notice they're doing all this on the behalf of a bloated man-child who reacts to criticism like a three year-old who doesn't get that candy bar he demands at the supermarket.