Thursday, April 4, 2019

Late Night With Seth Meyers

First of all I like Seth Meyers. The guy is funny, good hearted and really seems to enjoy what he does. He was brilliant on Saturday Night Live as a Weekend Update anchor. This morning I watched two episodes of Late Night (April 1st and 2nd) and was saddened.

Why two episodes? I just wanted to make sure the content that was so blatant in the 1st wasn't an aberration. Arggggggg, why does late night TV have to be so political? It was worse than watching MSNBC that jumped the shark the night Trump was elected.

Barack Obama's former Secretary of Homeland security recently said that anything more than 1,000 apprehensions a day is unmanageable and he doesn't know how DHS is processing 4,000. He called the current situation at our Southern boarder a crisis... Yet everything Trump is trying to do is a joke.

Making fun of the President is funny... The guy cheats at golf, says his dad was born in Germany and tweets out crazy shit at all hours of the night. It's funny, but the constant drum beat that he needs to be removed from office is just wrong. Continuing to insist the Russian's worked with his campaign to defraud Hillary Clinton in 2016 is seriously undercutting the administration and regardless of what you think not good for the country.

Maybe I'm delusional? Maybe I look at the administration in too positive of a light? I look at numbers for a living and the Trump administration has done things allowing businesses to grow at a level I didn't think was possible just two years ago. Matter of fact there were only a handful of economic experts who thought we would ever see 3% GDP growth again. Reducing corporate taxes, cutting out multiple layers of bureaucracy, encouraging overseas capital to repatriate, reducing small business and self-employed taxes by 20% was bold.

Everyone on the left and the mainstream media said the taxcut would bankrupt the country. That hasn't been the case.


Good economic news, NATO paying more for its own defense, North Korea stopping its nuclear bomb and missile tests, two extremely qualified Supreme Court nominees, full employment in general and historical low unemployment for women and minorities is just part of a narrative you will not hear on Late Night.

The deep state or what I call the bureaucratic state has fought Trump at every turn and yet he keeps advancing his agenda. It's impossible to argue that the country is worse off now than it was just two years ago but yet the mainstream media and Seth Meyers believe that bashing in the President's head at every single opportunity is actually good for the country.

I wish the media, including late night hosts would read "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell. If more politicians and media pundits understood basic economic principles and how capitalism actually works the benefit would far outweigh the onslaught of visceral hatred of Donald Trump that spews forth on a daily basis.