by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
In yet another sign that the United States is not only a failed state, but a political powder keg, we find ourselves in the curious situation where Stephen Colbert of all people is a lightning rod for MAGA Republicans. They say he’s not funny, which is demonstrably not true.
But the fact that Colbert has joined Dr. Tony Fauci as the whipping boy of the Right is both weird an ominous. The fact that given the choice of the astonishingly horrible Gutfeld! and Colbert the Right would rather watch Gutfeld! is a very dark sign for the future of the country.
The situation with Colbert is yet another sign that the country is tearing itself apart — the country can not continue to be dominated by a crazed minority of MAGA cocksuckers. There is going to come a point when either Blues bend a knee to MAGA-themed fascism or they are pushed out of the Union by Reds. The question at this point is simply a matter of specifics and logistics.
The country is so partisan and MAGA is so consumed by various Big Lies that as far as I can tell the U.S. Military is the only major American institution that hasn’t been destroyed by the forces of division. This is the case to the point that there is a small chance that instead of autocracy or civil war, the U.S. may be governed by some sort of military junta in a last ditch effort to prevent us from killing each other for political reasons.
But, as I keep saying, while my gut tells me Something Big is going to happen between now and, say, spring 2025…I just can’t game out what is it. It’s things like what’s going on with Colbert that are pings from a very, very dark and troubled future. If a nation like the U.S. can’t even agree on what to laugh at, then I don’t know what to tell you.
