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I\u2019ve been following with great amusement the Jimmy Kimmel affair.<\/p>\nDon\u2019t know if I\u2019m right, but I wonder.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been following with great amusement the Jimmy Kimmel affair.<\/p>\n
I personally found the guy unwatchable and unfunny before he got his show.<\/p>\n
Jerry & I would sometimes try to watch him if there was a guest of interest on, but we usually didn\u2019t make it through the opening monologue before we\u2019d look at each other and whoever had the remote would turn the TV off.<\/p>\n
The wailing and gnashing of teeth, the screaming about freedom of speech, and all the rest of the cacophony from the leftists, and Democrats in Congress has been instructive.<\/p>\n
The Democrats in Congress apparently have no idea how the FCC regulations work.<\/p>\n
As a HAM Radio licensee there are a LOT of things that I can\u2019t say on air. Saying some things would cost me my license and by the way, if someone were to use my radio to broadcast bad words, lies, damaging rhetoric, or a whole bunch of other things, that\u2019s still on me<\/span> as the license holder<\/span>. If someone was offended, and reported it to the FCC, I could lose my license.<\/p>\n That\u2019s in a perfect world\u2026 Truth of the matter is the FCC doesn\u2019t have enough resources to put a stop to it. Anyone can buy a radio, licensed or not. There are too many people who have radios that for some reason love to interrupt conversations by holding their transmit button, or put tones on the air tying up repeaters for no reason other than to be a nuisance.\u00a0<\/p>\n Technically the FCC is supposed to track these people down and fine them. But they only have the resources to get the worst of the worst.<\/p>\n So maybe I have a slightly different perspective on the FCC.<\/p>\n All that being said, the FCC didn\u2019t need Trump\u2019s direction to threaten ABC\u2019s license. Kimmel, was by any stretch, being horribly offensive.<\/p>\n Moreover, Kimmel\u2019s show was pretty low rated according to Nielsen, He was also a liability because Turning Point USA could have filed a law suit that would have been pretty expensive.<\/p>\n The point is, Freedom of speech is limited on public broadcasts because the \u201cAirwaves\u201d (frequencies,) are owned by the Public, they’re regulated by the FCC. The regulations go way back, and haven\u2019t really changed for 60+years. They were about preventing offensive language from coming into people\u2019s homes.<\/p>\n This is also why you can get pornographic movies on cable, but not over the public airwaves.<\/p>\n If Kimmel had been on a cable only show, he could have been as offensive as he wanted to be. So long as people subscribed.<\/p>\n This opens a can of worms that the FCC and the government still haven\u2019t adequately addressed regarding the internet, subscriptions, sites, etc. That\u2019s why people like me really got bent out of shape when the Biden Administration announced their Department of Misinformation that appeared to be focused on the internet.<\/p>\n Especially since there had already been, as has come out in hearings, censorship directed by the Biden Administration directly aimed at specific individuals and phrases on Facebook, X, and other sites.<\/p>\n If the Trump Administration is doing the same thing, I\u2019m just as opposed.<\/p>\n All this is kind of the background for me not thinking Kimmel has a leg to stand on. He used the public airwaves to be very insensitive and outright offensive. ABC saw him as a liability. His ratings were low. The final nail in his coffin was that he refused ABC\u2019s directive to apologize. So, like any other employee he was fired. It\u2019s as simple as that.<\/p>\n My epiphany was an article this morning talking about Sen. Jon Ossoff\u2019s campaign. The campaign tried to paint Kimmel\u2019s monologue as \u201cSatire\u201d. Yawn, whatever.<\/p>\n Further into the article Ossoff\u2019s campaign painted Trump and his administration as \u201cAuthoritarian\u201d.<\/p>\n That\u2019s when it hit me.<\/p>\n The difference between a lot of the career politicians and the rest of us is that they may not have worked in or owned, small companies, ever.<\/p>\n They don\u2019t understand that Trump, and all owners of private companies are authoritarian<\/em>. It\u2019s the nature of the beast. The company lives or dies not by committee, shareholders, or distributed decision making, but on the decisions of one person. The Owner.<\/p>\n It is therefore not surprising that people who\u2019ve never worked for a solely owned company would view Trump as an authoritarian. It\u2019s also not surprising that Trump would be quite authoritarian in the Presidency.<\/p>\n If, in fact the Biden administration was being run by consensus because Biden was cognitively incapable of executing the duties of The President. Trump would be one hell of a shock to their system.<\/p>\n This could possibly extend to a significant portion of the Democrat base as well. I\u2019m not making excuses for either side, but I can suddenly see how both sides would be at odds.<\/p>\n Most Republicans I know have tried at least once to start and run a company of their own. Myself included.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why the Democrat talking point of \u201cTrump had several failed business that filed bankruptcy,<\/em>\u201d while clutching their pearls, has zero impact on so many business owners from both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n It happens. You put together a company, it goes along pretty well, you try to increase business, and if you\u2019re lucky you succeed. If you\u2019re unlucky, the business fails.<\/p>\n (I can personally attest to what happens when you have a business partner that decides they need a new car instead of paying for new brakes, or starts taking cash out of the business instead of paying for supplies the business needs. Bottom line, no more business partnerships for me, ever again. I had the last <\/em>laugh, though it was a Pyrrhic victory, since I had all the knowledge & technology and my business partner didn\u2019t. The parable of the frog & the scorpion comes to mind. He also didn\u2019t have the ability to adapt to changing conditions. But he got a new vehicle…<\/i>)<\/p>\n People who have always been in positions where they were employees, have no understanding of why a business owner must by definition be an authoritarian<\/em>.<\/p>\n Suddenly I understand why for example, California business taxes are so high, and why there are so many fees. Why for example, business income taxes, at least here, have to be prepaid based on an estimate of income. It\u2019s because the people imposing the taxes & fees only see the dollars. They have no clue about good months and bad, nor do they have any idea about formerly good customers suddenly not paying bills.<\/p>\n They see and predicate their actions on the force of government to demand payment. That\u2019s something that the average business owner can\u2019t do. Sometimes, business owners will never get paid for their efforts, but they\u2019ve paid for the materials that they supplied in good faith to their customers, and still have to prepay taxes as if they were getting paid based on their Accounts Receivable.<\/p>\n A business owner will cut a customer off if their bills are 30, 60, 90 days in arrears. That\u2019s harsh but it\u2019s business. No hard feelings, and as an authoritarian business owner you can make a decision to gamble by extending additional credit to honorable people who are going through a rough patch with their businesses.<\/p>\n Government will simply come in and seize assets so they always get their money. Government minions, like corporate employees, have no skin in the game at all. If a government office shuts down or a company closes, then those employees will cry and whine about finding a new job but they\u2019ll never understand the factors that led to the closures. They\u2019ll call it corporate greed or authoritarian policies.<\/p>\n Yes, I\u2019ve complained about upper level executives getting golden parachutes while the rest of the employees got screwed. The problem there is the executives typically aren\u2019t in the trenches doing things to make the products. They\u2019re having long lunches with other corporate executives trying to figure out how to whip the employees to be more productive with less resources.<\/em><\/p>\n Translate that to people in Congress especially career politicians, and you understand why even in a bad economy the taxes keep going up. Why Newsom for example, sees no problem increasing the gas tax while his state is in a breathtaking deficit, and he has the highest unemployment rate in the country.<\/p>\n Career politicians don\u2019t see the connections. They literally see a dip in tax revenue and leap to the conclusion that people are cheating on their taxes. That\u2019s why you get laws that say over $600 in payments from an individual or company must be 1099ed. And why tips must be declared.<\/p>\n I\u2019m glad Trump might be a bit of an authoritarian. I\u2019m glad there\u2019s someone at the top that understands what it\u2019s like to have failed businesses and successful ones.<\/p>\n Oh, and I\u2019m really glad Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert are cancelled. It will be interesting to see if the vile women on The View<\/em> get the message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Don\u2019t know if I\u2019m right, but I wonder. I\u2019ve been following with great amusement the Jimmy Kimmel affair. I personally found the guy unwatchable and unfunny before he got his show. Jerry & I would sometimes try to watch him if there was a guest of interest on, but we usually didn\u2019t make it through … <\/p>\n![\"Adobe](\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/adobe-express-file-1-2171750180.jpg\" "\\"adobe-express-file-1-2171750180.jpg\\"")
I think all our politicians should have those experiences because then maybe they\u2019d be a little more careful with the balance sheets of \u201cWe the People<\/em>\u201d instead of spending money that is not theirs, like drunken sailors on shore leave.<\/p>\n