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Today is the day Thursday, May 21st, the last episode of Stephen Colbert and David Letterman's. And so, David Letterman was on the show the other day. I didn't watch it. I can't stand him. He is such a punk, but he is he's this article. Letterman then asked who owns the furniture on the set, to which Colbert said everything belongs to CBS and Paramount. Are they affiliated with Skydance? That's the new owner. Letterman added, "After Colbert confirmed that to be true, Letterman said, 'It would be a shame if something happened to it.'" The host The two hosts later climbed to the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater, where they engaged in wanton destruction of CBS property with the help of stage hands. The pair tossed
the show's couches and Colbert's desk chair off the roof and onto a giant CBS logo below. And just for fun, they also hurled some watermelons and a cake provided by CBS. In his parting message, Letterman said, "\{quote\} In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow, goodnight and good luck, mother blankers. \{end quote\}" God, that's disgusting. Spoiled two spoiled brats. Two multimillionaire spoiled brats. There's millions of people in the United States that would say "Why don't you give me the furniture? I don't have any furniture." That's That's not Nothing about property rights. You just take somebody's property once that you're told that it belongs to CBS who paid overpaid both of them, but I think
Colbert is making $20 million a year. And he's losing and he's he's lost the network probably 100 million over his lifetime, and he has no sense of gratitude. So, he goes up and takes somebody else's property and destroys it. Why don't they charge him with it? Theft or vandalism or something. And then he throws it down on the just destroys something. It's like nihilism. It's It's disgusting. Both of them have a really bad trait, and they introduced it. You saw a little bit with Johnny Carson, but it was sincere, and it wasn't mean to be malicious.
I don't think you saw it with Jay Leno at all. You didn't somewhat a little bit with Dick Cavett, but that little side look and you know what I mean, that kind of cynical like I'm kind of smarter than everybody and you know, you Jon Stewart does it a lot. You talk and then you have a pause and like only the really cool people like us on the left get what I'm getting at and nothing they say you really know whether it's true or false or they believe it or not. It's all cynical, skeptical and that brought he brought that element into Letterman did and so did Colbert. So, if you were talking to him and he said, "Well, it's really good to see you." You don't know whether he's he's making fun of you or he's sincere and
everything had a double entendre. And then [clears throat] that's kind of rem characteristic of our society, you know, in the 21st century, but it's too bad. And you look at these older hosts of a bygone years, they were sincere. And um It's uh Yeah. that they somehow have this They don't believe in anything. status as sages or the wise men of America. It's always this kind of make a Bill Maher was that way. He is still, but he's trying to improve a little bit at least when he gives some talks on things he he gave a talk on anti-Semitism. He looked sincere, but something about the left, they're always smarter than you, they're always cynical, they're always more skeptical or and you're kind of a nutty person to take it at face value or
you just have your core values with no nuance. And I think we're tired of all that. That's the whole university, you know what I mean? Yeah. Well, um let's move on to um this Democrat in Iowa admits being uncomfortable with whiteness as she seeks to flip a competitive house seat. So, here's the story. A Democrat by lying in Iowa admitted a feeling uncomfortable by the whiteness of her hometown in Minnesota after returning from a stay in New Mexico years ago. Sarah Trone Garriott, 47, is running unopposed in the Democrat primary.
Uh, she's running against uh, Zach Nunn is coming under fire for her comments. Yeah. I remember the first time I came back to northern Minnesota to visit. I was kind of shocked at how many white people there were, Trone Garriott recalled of the area where she grew up in a resurfaced podcast episode. The feeling was very different. I was like, "Whoa." And again, I'm uncomfortable in a different way. Who thinks this way, Victor? I don't know if you were a Mexican-American or black person, you said, "I'm really uncomfortable with blacks. I just don't I can't believe there's so many black people." That people would say you were Uncle Tom, you were false consciousness,
you were deluded, you were insane, you're cruel, you're racist. There's no finer person than Larry Elder, and he ran, and they were calling him all sorts of the white These type of white people were calling him names cuz they didn't think he was authentically black when he represented the best of black culture. They call him like a white negro or something like that. Yeah, they did. Nice. You know, it's so when you I hear that, it's usually from very upper middle-class people that haven't been around poor white people.
One of the unique things of the San Joaquin Valley is it had a lot of diasporas. In the late 19th and early 20th century, we had a lot of Chinese and then Japanese come, mostly as farmers. We had, of course, a lot of people came across the border. We had a lot of Mexican-Americans, but the biggest from 1930 to 1954, 20 years of the Oklahoma diaspora. And that was over a million people came with nothing. And so when I went to one I'll just give an example in grade one to three at a little school called Jefferson. It's now on the bad side. It was then of Selma. There was a two-story house right next to the playground. And I say that student body that I went my twin brother
and I and maybe five farming families were the only so-called white people in there. It was in the barrio. It is today. And nobody knew what you were. Nobody said there you're Mexican, you're white. I mean I had no I mean people would make fun of you being white if you were, but there was no animosity. The teachers were all integration, assimilation, acculturation. But my point is next to the there's this house. Had no paint on it. It was an old two-story wood house. [snorts] And there were three girls that lived there. And their parents were either divorced or not there or alcoholic or drug-ridden. They had nothing. And they were very, very pretty girls.
Like 10, 12, but they had what I had what they used to call a Welsh overbite, you know. I got it from my grand They called him Bucky Beaver. And I had to have braces, but they all had an overbite and people made fun of them and called them Bucky bucktooth. But the point I'm making is they had nothing. And the teachers would get clothing and food and bring it over to the girl cuz they were almost abandoned. And when they came uh I when they got to I went to also school with them. One of them I'm not going to mention anything that would incriminate or she was absolutely beautiful, but she had nothing. White. And people in that and she lived in that area and they were very mean to her. It wasn't because she was white and
they were Mexican, just because she was poorer than they were. And I saw a lot of families like that. I can remember growing up here when a family came every year from Oklahoma. And as soon as they came I said to my mom I won't mention their names cuz I think they're still around, but I said the Thompsons are still here and I'm he's going to get this big pole and we're going to knock down a possum in the big pecan trees and then they eat it. Can you believe that? They And she said, "Don't ever make fun of the Thompson. They're the nicest people. They're hard working and you're no better than they are." And but the my point is that common white poverty was endemic from the from Bakersfield up to Sacramento, especially from Fresno to Bakersfield. And you know
they had nothing. And this idea that I'm ashamed of my whiteness, of my white privilege, is that what you're saying? These people had no privilege. People when you looked at East Palestine, they had nothing. And when the and when Pete Buttigieg, he didn't even show up when they had that toxic spill and then when he did, he looked like he was from outer space. He stood out so much. He was and his voice it was condescending and it was just they don't understand this country at all that the greatest number of people who are poor are white.
Maybe not percentage wise of the white population, but they're poor. They don't have a lot.
