If you want to know how bad it's getting, look at what happened last night
Last night at 11:35, after thirty-three years of The Late Show on CBS and eleven years of Stephen Colbert behind that desk, the lights went down for the last time. His show was number one. He was winning his timeslot. And CBS called it “purely a financial decision.” But you do not cancel the most-watched late-night show to save money. Colbert was taken off the air because the President of the United States wanted him gone, and because a corporation seeking political favor decided compliance was safer than resistance. Paramount had an eight-billion-dollar sale pending that needed approval from Trump’s FCC. Colbert called the company’s sixteen-million-dollar settlement with Trump “a big fat bribe.” Three days later, his show was canceled. Trump celebrated on Truth Social: “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired.” Then he added, “I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.”
This is how authoritarian movements have always worked. They go after the comedians first, because humor reaches people in ways propaganda cannot fully counter. It lowers defenses, builds shared understanding, and makes the powerful look small. In Nazi Germany, the regime went after cabaret performers who mocked the Reich. In Putin’s Russia, one of the first targets was the country’s most-watched satirical show. They did not just want Colbert gone. They wanted the platform gone, the nightly reminder to millions of Americans that powerful people can still be mocked, questioned, and laughed at. When the laughter stops, they know they are winning.
But even as they silenced one of the loudest voices in the resistance, their own movement is fracturing beneath them. Republicans who control both chambers of Congress literally fled Washington rather than stand beside the president. House leadership canceled votes on the Iran War Powers resolution twice because they did not have the votes to defeat it. They walked away from Trump’s own funding package rather than put their names on the record. A party that controls everything still became so afraid of public backlash that it chose to run from its own votes. That fear did not appear out of nowhere. We put it there. They wanted us to be quiet. Instead, they are about to discover they created the loudest resistance movement yet.
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This video is based on my written post, available HERE, and based on the events of 5-21-2026.
*This commentary represents my personal opinions and analysis of matters of public concern, informed by publicly available information. Any references to individuals constitute opinion and commentary protected under the First Amendment.
Sources:
https://abcnews.com/US/stephen-colberts-late-show-canceled-cbs-citing-financial/story?id=123851902
https://deadline.com/2025/07/stephen-colbert-trump-60-minutes-settlement-paramount-1236457376/
https://deadline.com/2025/07/the-daily-show-jon-stewart-reaction-colbert-cancelation-1236464269/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/06/media/cbs-colbert-byron-allen-late-show-comics-unleashed
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-called-reporter-piggy/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/politics/house-trump-iran-war-powers
https://www.ms.now/news/house-adopts-war-powers-resolution-iran-trump
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/ballroom-funding-trump-congress-immigration-funding.html
It's time we, the people, make a statement, and act to let CBS know we don't agree by stopping to support them by WATCHING SOMETHING ELSE. We need to hit them hard in the wallet in every way we legally can!
As of Colbert's last show last night, I am no longer watching ANYTHING on cbs.