Hey, has everyone heard the most gripping news of the last nine years? Movie and television stars super-duper, double-secret probation don't like President Trump.
I'M NOT KIDDING!
Welcome, Stephen Kruiser readers old and new, to my semi-annual column about not feeding the trolls. I do this pretty much to remind myself to not take the bait. Heeding my own advice isn't always a strong suit of mine, hence the habit of revisiting this topic a couple times a year. Also, I often get asked why I won't go off on the latest outrage over something a Hollywood lib said.
There are a variety of reasons for this. A big one is that I have been in the entertainment industry most of my adult life; I long ago became numb to the leftist lunacy in show business.
I've known a lot of famous people in my life. Many of them truly are interesting. Almost as many, however, are spectrum dullards who caught lightning in a bottle and — had they not become famous — would be foraging for snack insects in the fur of depressed petting zoo animals. It is this segment of the celebrity population that produces 99% of the vocal leftist trolls.
Yes, these people are already famous, but they're also obnoxious attention whores (not the cool kind of attention whore that I am) who believe that any publicity is good publicity. They're not whining about President Trump on X because they want virtual high-fives from their fellow lefties; they're doing it to get a full new cycle's attention from conservatives.
I referred to "feeding the trolls" earlier, but I prefer to call it "giving them oxygen." If I do write about one of them, I give their insanity more time to breathe, which I don't like. I would much rather choke it off before it can get out into the universe. Most of the trolls are painfully dull people. If you were alone in a room with one of them you'd be looking for a brick to smash your fingers with just so you could feel something again. We're giving them an audience they don't deserve. And one they despise as well.
Look, I know that highlighting the latest witches' screed from The View drives traffic, and I don't begrudge friends and colleagues for taking the clicks. We're all in this to make a living, after all. I'm simply letting everyone know why I won't do it. I've got plenty of bat-guano crazy Dem politicians to keep me busy.
There's also the fact that writing about this every once in a while gives me a chance to get in some digs without giving them any real publicity.
My powers of rationalization remain undiminished.
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