Surviving and then Thriving

                     

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humor, the writing is on the wall.      Alan Bennett

Comedy is the blues for people that can't sing.        Chris Rock 

One horse laugh is worth more than ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is vastly more intelligent.                                                               H.L. Mencken

When I simply read all the news and listened to the radio I sometimes grow increasingly anxious and depressed. I'm relatively confident that I'm not the only one. I've concurred that most sane people are sick to death of COVID. It's so discouraging that some of our people refuse to listen to science and get vaccinated.  The current Biden   administrations has tried everything they can think of  to encourage people to stay safe, get vaccinated and not infect others.   

Rather than continually being discouraged I came up with a personal solution. Many mornings I've taken to watching the late night comics---for their take on the news. First of all, I end up laughing out loud and secondly they are vastly more daring and informative than most of the newspapers or the radio news because they are unafraid. It's their job to make fun of idiocy.  There's plenty of that going around.

Trevor Noah nailed the Supreme Court hearings with this bit of insight: "why bother with the confirmation process when each time they ask the nominee a substantial question it is as though they are talking to a toddler. Father: 'Did you take those cookies?'  Toddler: 'I don't know nothing about those cookies'." Sadly it was a forgone conclusion that the nominee would equivocate, dodge and evade any question about their obvious bias and prejudices. This is the truth. "No, don't know nothing about those cookies". 

Remember back to the  Presidential debates? Jimmy Fallon said the press gave Trump points for not being his natural rude, obnoxious self, "it's as though they were talking about a four year old behaving in church".  Melania wants that mute mike. No, Jimmy we all do.

They all make fun of the fact that T is desperately trying to find an "October Surprise". He keeps suggesting there is a scandal about the Obama or the Biden family. Where? Then the president's in-articulation about destroying the affordable health care and replacing it with--  what? No answer. The president though he has had four years to come up with an alternative has no plan. Furthermore, he denies that his administration is actively trying to take away the pre-existing conditions guaranteed in the ACA. As we speak the GOP case is before the Supreme Court trying to do just that. 

Meanwhile they are replaying all of the 'crazy Uncle' speeches that T is giving to his super spreader rallies all over the country. No masks, no problem. In those rallies he exclaims about how 'Joe is going to tear down buildings and replace all the windows with little tiny windows'...and 'wind mills cause cancer and are killing off all the birds'... and 'the shower heads don't give enough water to have a proper shower'...and 'suburban women please love me'...and he still doesn't understand that the song YMCA was a rallying cry for the gay men of America. Most deplorably, although he thinks he can, he can't dance. After watching that spectacle Trevor said, "he just lost every black voter in America".

During the debate there was the question of our president inciting racism and enabling division in America to which T exclaimed, "I am the least racist person in this room, well it's dark and I can't see everyone"... ! The man makes for comedy, at our expense.

I will get through the next two weeks with grace and some laughter. This is what I hope for you dear reader and that you will vote ASAP and put an end to this misery. 

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