I’m not going to watch Real Time with a Certain Late Night Comedian/Pundit Who Shall Henceforth Remain Nameless tonight, because I’m done with him.
I understand that Markos himself is going to be a guest on tonight’s show. Sorry, but I’m still not going to watch.
The reason I’m not going to watch is because I already know what the show is going to be about: an hour-long non-stop concern-trolling bitch-fest about how the “woke left” has just “cancelled” Star Wars actor Gina Carano, and how very bad that makes the Democrats look, and how the Democrats are going to lose the 2022 midterms and Trump is going to come back with a vengeance (literally and figuratively) in 2024 because of it, because everyone hates “cancel culture.”
I suppose there was a time when this particular comedian/pundit was smart, informed, funny and insightful; I did, after all, watch his show for the entirety of its run until halfway through the last “New Rule” of the last episode of the last season last November. I was even in the studio audience once. But in his advancing age he’s becoming the world’s least funny, least insightful, most insufferable concern troll; it’s his entire shtick now, both on and off of Real Time.
Whether there’s any legitimacy or not to the frustration of older comedians like him that they just can’t tell the jokes they used to anymore, frankly, that’s his problem. What he’s done and has been doing for at least the past two or three years is fawning that problem off on Democrats, the national Democratic Party itself. He’s been saying over and over again that the anecdotal annoying behavioral and rhetorical excesses of the “woke left” costs Democrats votes and pushes people toward the RNP, without ever saying that it shouldn’t and that there’s no reason why it should.
What he’s tacitly suggesting is that the Democratic Party should solve his “cancel culture” problem for him, let him go back to telling his old jokes, and prevent him from being “cancelled” like Gina Carano, basically threatening Democrats and their supporters with Republican electoral success as a consequence of failing to do that. In other words, he’s telling everyone that it’s both appropriate and reasonable, if not necessary and essential, to vote Republican in order to stop the scourge of “cancel culture.”
With “allies” like this, who needs Tucker Carlson?
So, I hope that at some point during tonight’s concern-trolling “cancel culture” bitch-fest that maybe Markos will mention to his host that it’s not realistic to believe that anyone goes into the voting booth thinking, “Gee, I really like the idea of expanding access to health care, investing in education, regulating industry to protect workers and consumers and the environment, shifting the tax burden to those who can afford it, and treating women and minorities decently … but you know what, the left was mean to Gina Carano that one time, so I’m going to vote against all of that.” Maybe it’s time someone told the host that he can bitch and whine and concern-troll about “cancel culture” all he wants, just leave the Democratic Party out of it, and stop encouraging people to vote Republican in retaliation for something the Democrats aren’t responsible for and can’t be expected to control.
Markos, if you’re reading this, please review the linked diaries herein and give this some thought before you go on the show. Thank you.