Walking on the droll side…
There’s not much to laugh about these days, but even in the bleakest times, I still turn to humor, much of it dark, about the human condition, in an attempt to lift myself out of the doldrums.
For example, this from Doonesbury.
The use of irony…
A Twitter post referring to Tucker Carlson’s white-supremacist, anti-vax, cult followers reads: You may hate him, but this guy has killed more Nazis than anyone in the past 70 years.
The thought of Tucker Carlson being the real Antifa did make me laugh. But second thoughts turned me cold and paused over the fact that Carlson’s refusenik devotees were taking thousands of their unvaxed children with them.
ABC News reports that since the onset of the pandemic, nearly 7.4 million children and adolescents have tested positive for coronavirus, and in the last week alone, approximately 170,000 pediatric cases were reported.
Trump’s sheep are funny
I’m bored to sleep by of the steady stream of professionally-crafted Trump jokes that fill the first 15 minutes of the three late-night TV shows. But I can’t help but laugh aloud at mainstream news coverage of real life in the grotesque world of Trumpian cult politics. No comedy writer could make some of this shit up.
For example, I busted out laughing while watching DT admit to Sean Hannity in front of a Dallas crowd, that he has been vaxed and boosted. Some of his anti-vax cult followers in the audience taken by surprise, let out a chorus of boos upon hearing the words vaccine and booster. Trump was stunned by the booing. He put on his stern papa face, shook his finger, and scolded his followers, “No, don’t, don’t, don’t.”
What struck me as funny, however, was not just that. It was that the booing ceased immediately upon their leader’s command. It seemed like a scene from Monty Python’s, The Life of Brian. You know, the one where Brian tells his followers he’s not the Messiah. “You don’t need to follow me. You’re all individuals.” And the crowd echoes in unison, “We’re all individuals.” The difference is that when the MAGAs declare Trump is their Messiah, the cynical DT doesn’t disabuse them of the idea.
These MAGA rebels, steeped in the anti-PC language of the right, had suddenly realized that they had taken the wrong line. Perhaps they had been too tuned-in to Qanon and missed the change in the Trump Party line. The new line, as DT explained to Hannity, is, give me all the credit for the vaccine, go after Fauci, and get vaxed if you feel like it — or not.
Some may say that’s not funny. But I’ll take it where I can find it.
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