After CBS cancelled Colbert’s show to placate President Dipshit, I joked that the network would replace it with a new program:

“The Super Happy Love Kissy Kissy Trump Forever Hour.”

Today that doesn’t feel like a joke.

It seems like the direction of all corporate media. The Mango administration flexed its muscles: Brandon Carr, the head of the FCC, threatened ABC, and ABC buckled, pulling Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely.

Worth noting: Kimmel never disrespected murdered MAGA podcaster Charlie Kirk. He mocked MAGA for using his death as a political cudgel.

The Sinclair Broadcast Group, an ultra-right conglomerate that owns several local ABC affiliates, vowed that Kimmel will never appear on its channels unless Kimmel makes a heartfelt apology to the Kirk family AND a “meaningful personal donation” to Kirk’s organization Turning Point USA, the lovely group that maintains a blacklist of professors.

For those sleeping in the back of the classroom, this is EXTORTION.

Kimmel has yet to respond to any of this nonsense, but I hope he has great lawyers.

Under El Presidummy’s administration, the First Amendment now comes with a big ole asterisk: “Speech for me, but not for thee.”

Historically, authoritarian leaders have always targeted comedians. They cannot handle being laughed at, and Farty Pants has the thinnest skin. Why else do you think he’s still raging online about Rosie O’Donnell? He absolutely cannot let any slight go. Reacting to Kimmel’s cancellation, he promised that Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers were next.

And that’s the other thing with authoritarian regimes: You can never, ever bend the knee far enough to satisfy them. Give them an inch, they want your bone marrow.

As David Frum of “The Atlantic” said, “This is not cancel culture because it’s not culture. It’s state repression. It’s an order from the government. Here is the script you must read. If you do not read it, you will be taken off the air.”

We’re only nine months into Rump Roast’s Retribution Tour.

In this time, Dollar Tree Voldemort has sued the media, defunded NPR and PBS, forced museums to erase Black and LGBTQ history, and attacked universities across the country.

The goal is to control what we think, that we are all of one glorious mind in our utter reverence for this petty orange tyrant.

I read “1984” as a kid, but I never imagined I’d one day be living it.