All the World's a Stage

 Since 2008 we have had three presidents and two of them have been democrats. Really, all three should have been democrats, but that is a story for another day. If you were looking to break into the ever-expanding pundit field in 2008, you would have looked at the handsome, smart, black, Barak Obama and you would have easily reasoned that the smart punditry money was to be made in being against this man. He was going to be around for a couple of terms. His job security was your job security. And if things went as they righteously should, he would be succeeded by Hillary Clinton- our first female president- and you'd be looking at 16 years of solid employment. OK, not really a guarantee there, but a pretty safe bet. Good for the country too, if you care about things like that. 

Well, conservative pundits don't care about things like what is good for the country. They are very selfish motherfuckers who only want what is good for them. Like republicans in general, they want to be on offense all the time. That's how you score points, right? It's easier to be the proverbial hammer pounding on nails than to be the architect who designed the house. 

There's money in defending Trump, for sure, but attacking Biden, Harris and Obama are so much easier than portraying Trump in a positive light, which is harder than nailing Jello to the wall. While on defense, attacking those three is probably 90% of the game plan, but they still have to pony-up defenses of Trump far more than they want to do. You might think they would love a purely fascist regime where it was deathly forbidden to speak ill of "the Boss", but you'd be wrong, and they'd be out of a job. They don't want that. AI could do their job. I don't do Chat GPT, but I bet that in seconds you could get it to spit out a paragraph of how wonderful Dear Leader is. Right? Who would need Ben Shapiro, Tim Pool or the late Charlie Kirk (remember him?) when you have a machine or whatever the fuck Chat GPT is? You don't even have to unalive Chat GPT to make it famous- it's already not alive!

I've disrespected pundits all my life. They are playground bullies who never grew up but did get older. Trump himself is a pundit, with his name-calling and the constant derision of his predecessors. His tweets on Truth Social are as good as any idiot's posts on Facebook or Twitter. That's not saying much. In fact, I think he steals from Facebook trolls. I've read a lot of Trump's posts that sounded suspiciously like they were crafted by "Joey Fucknutz Buncha Numbers" from Facebook. I've read a lot of posts there where I thought, "Oh my fucking God- this guy is smart enough to be president!!"

Recently I saw a clip from Sam Seder where his lovely young cohost, Emma Vigeland, told a story about going on a Tim Pool podcast. Long story short, Tim's an idiot and she is a well-prepared, intelligent young woman. It didn't go well, and it ended with Tim calling her a "pedophile". Well, that's punditry in a nutshell these days. The interesting thing was that immediately after that, he asked Emma if she wanted to hang out, maybe get some sushi. I don't think he was macking on her. Not sure he even likes women in that way. Not that there's anything wrong with that... Whether it was an attempt to get into her pants or to genuinely just hang out, the little shit had just deemed her to be a pedophile! How is that conducive to sushi and camaraderie? 

It just isn't in the real world. Pundits are not in the real world. 

It mightcould be that he assumed she was cut from the same cloth as him and that she was an actress playing a role as he is. There are still people who think the good ol' days of Tip O'Neil debating an opponent on the house floor and then going out to dinner with said opponent was indicative of the respect that the old-time politicians had for each other. Bullshit. That's the dog and pony show that politics has always been. Before she recently reinvented herself, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a rabid Howler monkey on that same house floor- when the cameras were on. Off camera, she was a personable, charming southern gal. All the political world is a stage and most- not all- participants are actors. DC is Hollywood for ugly people. 

Emma and Sam wondered if maybe Tim didn't really believe his bullshit. They pointed out that, off camera, Charle Kirk was well known to be a nice guy as well. Megyn Kelly and Ben Shapiro are probably C U Next Tuesdays 24 and seven. But I don't know. Tucker Carlson off camera might not always be a giggling little bitch. Again- I don't know. We see these people on video, which is their best at being worst, and we don't necessarily know who they *really* are. Not sure they know either. Anyway, it's a living, I guess. It beats working!