Well, that Mosque shooting disappeared faster than cocaine at a Hunter Biden party.

Seattle’s Democratic Socialist Mayor is losing businesses like no where else.

The Colombia Tower Club just closed after 40 years. Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go has closed all their stores. Jeff Bezos left, Howard Schultz founder of Starbucks left.

Their capital gains tax collection is down 50%.

Per Cushman Wakefield vacancies rates are 36.5 for commercial property. Pioneer square is at 50% vacancy.

The Needle, Seattle’s iconic structure is now a homeless encampment.

Business are running from socialist ideas and sanctuary cities.

At this pace tax rates will increase on those remaining. It’s just a matter of time for the city to collapse. Fewer people to tax, fewer jobs, more homeless.

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Stephen Colbert signs off from late night television, and the media acts like we just watched the first moon landing, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Beatles reuniting all at once.

“Historic ratings!” they cry. “A cultural moment!”

Yeah? Let’s talk about those numbers.

Colbert’s final show pulled 6.74 million viewers. And to be fair, that is a big number by today’s standards. It was the highest-rated weeknight episode he ever had. Bigger than his premiere. Way above his recent average of around 2.7 million.

But here’s the problem. Context is undefeated.

Johnny Carson’s final show in 1992 pulled over 55 million viewers. Fifty-five million. That was when America still had fewer people and fewer TVs. Carson had a 62% audience share. Think about that. Six out of every ten televisions in America were tuned into one guy sitting behind a desk telling jokes.

That’s not a TV host. That’s a national event.

Jay Leno signed off with nearly 15 million viewers. David Letterman got almost 14 million. Colbert, meanwhile, needed every other late-night host to basically go dark and funnel their audience to him just to hit half of what Leno and Letterman did.

And this was his BEST night, outside of his piggybacking on a Super Bowl one night.

That’s like a baseball player retiring with a .195 batting average and ESPN running graphics like Babe Ruth just left Yankee Stadium.

What happened to late night?

Simple. It stopped being funny and started becoming political group therapy.

Johnny Carson made everybody laugh. Republicans, Democrats, people who didn’t know who the Vice President was. Carson wasn’t trying to “educate” America. He wasn’t trying to save democracy between commercials for sleep medication and adult diapers. He just wanted to be funny.

Colbert and these modern late-night guys? Entirely different business model.

Every night became the same routine:

Trump joke.

Republican joke.

Democracy is ending.

Commercial break.

Repeat until pharmaceutical side effects include “thoughts of self-harm.”

At some point, late night stopped feeling like comedy and started feeling like being trapped at a dinner party with your angry NPR cousin who uses the phrase “lived experience” while borrowing money from his parents.

And then you see the staff photo.

Have you seen this thing? It looked less like a comedy show staff and more like a government agency. I heard estimates anywhere from 120 to nearly 200 people working on that show.

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