Their Shadows of Hearsay, 43rd Day of Autumn, 525 M.E. (Deneb): I don't even like Jimmy Kimmel. I mean, I don't like late-night talk shows in general. I guess, to me, Kimmel's somewhere in the middle of the bunch - not as good as Colbert, but better than Fallon. It's not my thing, and I suspect I'm not the networks target audience, anyway.

But as you know, the quisling underlords at ABC and Disney, fearful that Kimmel's jokes might offend the Stable Genius, have pulled his show off the air. This follows CBS and Viacom's announcement that they weren't renewing Colbert's show next year. 

We all know that television's a dying medium anyway and that late-night talk shows are aimed at an aging demographic with shrinking economic clout. We would pretend it's just a passing of the times, the talk shows going the way of the prime-time westerns and sit-coms that once dominated television before game shows and so-called reality tv. But that's not what's happening and we know it.

The party line is that Kimmel, at least, "went too far" in his remarks about the late Charlie Kirk. But I've watched and rewatched his final monologue, and his comments on Kirk's killing were the most anodyne of remarks and most of his criticism was actually of the Stable Genius trying to frame the events to his political advantage. And there's the rub: in the time of late-stage capitalism and mergers and acquisitions requiring regulatory approval, the Stable Genius now has a way to stifle free speech without overtly censoring content. 

The boys and girls at ABC/Disney pulled Kimmel not because they were explicitly told to, but simply because they were informed the Stable Genius didn't like the criticism, and they couldn't afford to upset a highly weaponized government regulatory system. The same thing happened at CBS/Viacom.

Every day this once-great nation slips a little deeper into fascism. Free speech is quickly ending, at least in mass media, our universities are under attack, and white christian nationalism is rapidly and explicitly becoming the governing ethos.      

I wasn't made for these times.