The take-no-prisoners George Carlin would have turned 80 on Friday. It’s hard not to wonder what the guy who famously berated a country where “Anybody can be president. That’s the problem” would have made of the Trumpster calamity. Prescient, he savaged both politicians and the soulless culture that made them, arguing, “If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.” From his trippy weatherman: “Tonight’s forecast: Dark.”
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