Knight to Rook

 "You need to pull that Tampon out of your pussy." 
Says the "comedian" with jokes that only punch down and offer zero self reflection.  
"I just don't you find you funny, and your humor cruel."
I say as time runs out. 

When I was younger I thought South Park was hilarious.  
Because it was. 
When I was younger I thought Family Guy was hilarious. 
Because it was.  

But there's a threshold for any comedian.  
A point where punching up becomes a lateral move and trying to tell those same jokes about people that you're now punching down at just aren't funny anymore.  
And in my opinion, that's exactly what happened with both of those shows over time.  
Sure, they still have the occasional good episode, solid joke. 
But they always come from punching up or being self reflective. 
That's why I've always thought Trey and Mat were brilliant and Seth one of the sharpest wits in showbiz. 
Because as they grew so did their targets and that's dangerous. 
But the show's themselves, at least from an outside perspective, became self referential without awareness and largely mean spirited humor with the soul behind them. 
Just my opinion. 
Most that continue on and on until they essentially kill over stage.  Like Carlin.  Kept punching up, kept taking the piss outa people that most others wouldn't. His spoken word style of poetry turning, largely, internally reflective rather than referential.  There are dozens, if not hundreds I could put on that pedestal next to him, but even in their world they are rare. 

Which brings me to the situation of the trump administration going after comedians and news sources they don't like. 
I'm going to take the piss out of Fox "news" till the end of days.  Because, well, just watch that slop and tell me I'm wrong.  And they might equate the arguments I have for the dismantling of meta and preventing the C-Suit there from being able to file bankruptcy to save their fortunes, like our very own president did.  6 times?   At least that could be proven in court. 
No.  
the difference is you don't have to Watch CBS, or ABC, or FOX, or NBC.  Or any of the major affiliate channels, you can change the channel.  You can turn it off.  
But With Meta, Facebook, Instagram. They shaped the landscape of social media.  They destroyed every competitor that came along rather than competing.  Used the information scraped from private messages, completely gave up on moderation when they found out exactly how labor intensive of an undertaking it was to moderate that much content.  I'm not talking about censorship, but verifying sources and labeling them with warnings.  
Like every fucking broadcaster has to do. 
"This is Satire."
"This is Opinion."
"This is the Source."
"This source is unconfirmed" 
You know, ethical integrity for the information disseminated by your platform. 
They go after the comedians because they're funny, people listen, the best shows, the best comedies are founded truth. 
Ask Superman how he beat the clan.
But that's the trick of the trade. 
Every one of the producers, directors, c-suit dick heads knew before broadcast were ready to accept the consequences, should there be any, of their actions. 

Zuckerberg, with meta, has demonstrated that he believes there are no consequences for his actions.   That he can take from peoples work, repackage, re sell it and claim no one has the skill to compete.

With Amazon? 
Bezos did the same thing. 
The only saving grace is that he used his operational loss to provide added value to the consumer. However, that doesn't excuse the labor rights violations and that needs to change. Prices might go up short term while the workforce stabilizes but in the long run there would be more, well paying jobs, and stable households.  And the small increase in over all cost will balance out by the exponential savings in worker safety and stability in their own lives.  
The only thing necessary in that regard is for the Labor department to raise the standards under which companies are required to operate once they reach a certain economic level of influence.  Using cost saving methods of a Mom and Pop shop.  Where people are choosing to run their businesses because that's what they are called too if you will by making sacrifices on their own accord.   Those sacrifices people make on their own is far different than a Trillion dollar corporation that funnels that savings into the accounts of people that have more money than they could ever personally spend. And are making those decisions for workers they haven't hired yet, and banking on those same workers using supplemental government aid programs that they refuse to pay into through their tax obligation. 
Instead the very same workers being taxed to essentially pay themselves through the very same programs.  
90% of the wealth, less than 1% of actual taxes?  That's bad math on my part sure, maybe it's not that large of a gap, but it's not far. But on their part, regardless of the split, they're still taking 90% of the profits while everyone else squabbles over the 10% that's left over while being taxed in the neighborhood of 30% when all sources are accounted for.

With Musk? 
Just a bad businessman propped up by Tax relief programs meant to kick start a new industry but instead used that position to enrich himself and give out free passes to industries that need to transition to continue business as usual. 
I'm fairly certain most of the larger Oil Barons, particularly those from the middle-east would be happy to trade something else if the world markets would accept it.  But nearly a century of being fought over for no other reason than that oil has made them distrustful and the world at large seeing no value in their cultures beyond that.  When many of the foundations of scientific advancement, math, solar power, water filtration, arose from those places before the oil was coveted by those from the outside. A viscous cycle. 
That's why Musk should have his personal assets seized and liquidated and his companies awarded to competitors in his field(s).  Or rather, the fields of those that were actually doing the work while he pumped out ill researched and poorly designed products that are a danger to their owners, operators, and people around them. 
Let's be real, if he had pursued any of the design rigor on the cyber truck that  any other car company in history has used that vehicle would never have been put on the road.  And if he had build the Tesla to the spirt of the subsidies he received to do so then he would built something more akin to the Slate truck than the proprietary, un maintainable, vehicle they call Tesla. 
Yes, Tesla, over all has been a net positive for the electric industry and the development of battery technology. And Starlink a godsend in communications technology.  But using tax payer funds to become a Trillionaire while people starve,  in and of it's self is a war crime.  Backed by his own admission on his own platform.  
U.S. Money, distributed under U.S. Constitutional law, to enrich an oligarch with an attempt to shout down voices he didn't like under the guise of free speech.  
I can take a joke.  Hell, I can take a punch.  But I tell ya, just because I don't agree with a comedian or the jokes they tell.  Or a news source that thinks full of shit.  Isn't going to stop me from doing what I do. 
After all, they only talk behind my back because they can't or won't keep up with me. Or instead try to knee cap and remove so they can point and laugh as I fall.
While those I follow in the footsteps of, those that stand beside me, as equals, those that  I count as friends, call me far worse in private to my face than any schmuck with a microphone would have the testicular fortitude to address me directly.  Because they know, as long as honest and offered in good faith I will listen, I will laugh, maybe cry if it hits hard.
But it keeps me honest.
Keeps me going.
Bring the roast, because roasts are punching up, are friends taking the piss. 

But don't think just because you took some MMA classes and got some talking points from some "Alpha" male...the fuck they calling themselves now? Chads and Chuds?  Fuck I'm getting old and have heard too many iterations of the same bullshit to care about honoring what ever titles they give themselves now to justify misogyny and abuse. 

"But Jack, aren't you doing just that?  Talking behind their backs in your little blog no one reads?"
"Na, that orange button says publish.  The law of the land says what you post under your accounts is your copy right.  That's how Facebook and other social media companies have been able to dodge the legal bullets fired at them for what's posted on their platforms.  So which is it Asshole.  Are you hands off providing secure storage and communication?   Or are you scraping across their copyrights to fuel your AI models that barely work outside of lab conditions? Because you've claimed one while selling the other."  

Check and Mate bitches.