The suspension of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" has been called censorship and even fascism. I will admit that although what he said was inflammatory that was Kimmel's stock in trade over the past nine years or so. There were rumors that the show was on the chopping block for a while now as viewership dropped. As everyone should realize, TV shows are there to make money for the networks and TV stations that show them. To do so the show needs to reach customers and potential customers for the products that are being advertised on the show. "Jimmy Kimmel Live" has been losing viewership in a dramatic way since it adopted the bashing of Trump and republicans as the base of all it's jokes and dialog. Regardless of what side you are on within the spectrum of political discourse you should recognize that a large percentage of people disagree with you - again, whatever side and/or opinion you have! Kimmel's constant bashing of Donald Trump specifically and the Republi...
This post will be a bit different as I do not have a dialog or point to make specifically. Our government is divided into three separate but equal parts - the legislative branch - the House and Senate, the judicial branch - the Supreme Court, and the Executive - the Presidency and all departments and cabinet. We normally speak of "control" of government relating to what party has the majority in the House, Senate, and the Presidency. Control of all three, along with the power of the Presidency to nominate Supreme Court judges and the Senate's power of approval of the nominees means that control of the Congress and Presidency is a powerful thing indeed. I was thinking about what party has controlled Congress and the Presidency in recent times. I defined "recent" as after WWII - 1947 to current - 2025 as I write this. I came up with a chart showing the party in majority in the House, in the Senate, and holding the office of the President for each two year term o...