Give It Up For Seth Meyers September 26, 2025September 26, 2025 Hegseth puts us all at risk. Short and to the point: Why put all the American commanders in one room? Nat B.: “Very glad Timothy Snyder wrote this piece. Astoundingly stupid and risky to do what Hegseth is doing. And does ANYONE think this gathering would be happening without Trump’s approval??” Seth Meyers takes a closer look at our leader’s performance among the nations of the world. And now that Sinclair is putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air, maybe Seth will be safe, too. A lot of Americans — including the tragically assassinated Charlie Kirk as well as the former Donald Trump (as you’ll see) — consider (or at least once considered) the First Amendment to be one of the key things that make America great. AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 683 From the macro to the micro, but it’s still telling. A friend was headed from Miami to JFK on a flight scheduled to leave at 9:03am and land at Kennedy three minutes past noon. We had a 7pm dinner reservation. He texted me at 12:27 to say he was off the plane and I texted, “Welcome to New York.” No, he explained, he was off the plane in Miami. There had been mechanical difficulties. He reboarded at 4:04pm. I changed the reservation to 8:30pm. He got off the plane — at JFK this time — at 8:17pm I changed the reservation to 9:15pm while he was in the air, but, understandably, he was in no mood for dinner. I ate some expired beans, baked a sweet potato, and did my taxes. But what sort of compensation was American giving everybody, I asked. Under Secretary Pete Buttigieg, rules were soon to be implemented guaranteeing long-delayed passengers (other than for weather) substantial compensation. Airlines might have had to raise ticket prices slightly to cover this occasional extra expense, in effect passing the cost on to NON-delayed passengers; but it would have made the flying public a bit happier — and given airlines yet more incentive to prioritize the kind of maintenance measures that minimize delays. The Trump regime scrapped all that. “American gave us each a $10 meal voucher,” my friend reported. Which is more than they were obligated to do, so I guess it was very generous. Welcome to the regime that kills the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau . . . kills aid to the starving and oppressed around the world . . . that cancels cancer research and has set HUGE health care cuts to take effect right AFTER the 2026 midterms so no one notices before they vote . . . You know I could go on. But watch Seth Meyers. So fun. And if you happened to be on that flight with my friend, I hope you enjoyed your Cinnabon. Have a great weekend.