So the Weekly Standard is going away.

If you haven't paid any attention, the Weekly Standard was a magazine that once held themselves to be the "true" conservatives. I read them a few years ago. They had some great writers and they really were conservative thinkers.

But the election of Donald Trump unhinged them. They fought him in the primary, they fought him during the election and they jumped on the anti Trump bandwagon full tilt. They hated him, especially Bill Kristol, former conservative.

Now I understand why people were hesitant about Donald Trump. There are a lot of things about him to be nervous about. He's crude, he says whatever the hell he wants. He's a billionaire playboy. He flaunts his wealth and enjoys his life.

But he turned out to be a hell of a President, you have to admit. So he won over a lot of his critics. People I respect who were not fans became fans. Jonah Goldberg is one. NRO writer. Conservative. He's admitted as much. Lindsey Graham is a great example. He opposed him in the election, now he vigorously defends him.

So what about the Weekly Standard? Well, they held their ground. They joined the resistance. They slandered the President. Libeled him. Attacked him. Bill Kristol is still attacking him constantly. And the worst crime they committed is they by default supported Crooked hillary. Or flat out did support her.

So what, you might ask? Well, I'm sure that had a lot to do with their demise. When your readership base is predominately conservative and you support a liberal fascist, you will lose readers. They lost me.

Now I'm seeing people feeling sorry for them. Sad, they say. Claiming they are closing because they "spoke truth to power" which is bullshit left wing code talk for they turned into godless commies.

Fewer readers. That's what shut them down. Simple as that. I promise you if they had the numbers of readers to make money they would still be going strong.

My daughter some years back was in a little sitcom on ABC Family. Ruby and the Rockets. Funny little show, starred the Cassidy brothers, David and Patrick. Brother Shaun produced and directed it. Great little show. Ran one season. Didn't have the numbers.

We had friend say well, it was because Hollywood doesn't like family shows. Or some other reason. Nope. They just didn't have the eyeballs. Simple as that. Why? Who knows. Happens every year to dozens of shows. If they had picked up enough viewers they would have run for years. But they didn't. Had nothing to do with politics or anything else. It's all about the Benjamins.

So I'm saying the Weekly Standard or Ruby and the Rockets. Same thing. Give em what they want and hope for the best. But when you get cancelled it's about the money. So Bill Kristol needs to ask himself what role he played in the whole thing.

So tough shit for the Weekly Standard. That's all I have to say about that.