Sunday, May 15, 2016

"...Let's Be Honest...We Think Somebody Falling Down Is Funny....Now, Imagine That "Somebody" Is The Entire Country...."

Thousands of voices coming at you from a thousand different directions from a thousand different names in this surreal season of electoral entertainment.

Here's two more to add to your dancing and dining pleasure.

Bill Hicks.

And Guess Who.

No, not guess who?

Guess Who.

Hang in. I'll clear that up for you in a few minutes.


(CNN.com) A former spokesman for Hillary Clinton is sounding off on Donald Trump -- and warning Democrats not to underestimate him.

Jay Carson was Clinton's 2008 press secretary and worked for her family's foundation, and he recently took to Instagram to sound the alarm on the GOP presumptive nominee. 
"Here's the bad news -- this guy can win the general election pretty damn easily," Carson, who is now a producer on the Netflix series "House of Cards" and a Principal at Bloomberg Associates, wrote on his private account. "I hear far too many of my liberal friends calling him a 'joke' and acting like the general (election) is in the bag which is nuts because he's dangerous and he has a path to victory."
Carson told Democrats that underestimating Trump would be perilous. 
"Being profane and not reading the New Yorker are not disqualifying characteristics to many Americans," Carson wrote. "Remember, the NPR crowd thought George W. Bush was a 'joke' too and GWB looks like Thomas Jefferson compared to Trump in terms of danger for our country. We underestimate this guy at our peril."


Carson is the latest in an inevitably long list of people who have taken on the role of Jor-El in this little sci-fi/fantasy epic that "Decision 2016" has become.
For those not up on their DC Comics devotion, Jor-El was a member of the Science Council on the long ago planet of Krypton who was forced to send his baby son Kal-El to the planet Earth in a small prototype rocket when Krypton, as Jor-El had repeatedly warned, blew up. The rocket was small because it was only a prototype and he had not had time to construct a larger one before the big blow up what with all the time he had spent trying to convince the elders of the planet that the planet was, in fact, gonna blow up.

Baby Kal-El, of course, arrived safely on Earth, was found and adopted by a loving farm family and grew up to be a reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fighting a never ending battle for truth, justice and the American way.

Now, while the possible success of Trump overtaking the Oval Office isn't exactly on the same scale as an entire planet blowing up (or, come to think of it, it could very easily end up going that way, what with the mouth and the lack of tact and all that, I mean, come on, let's not kid ourselves, right?), the analogy of the voices and/or voices warning of the possibility of disaster here is pretty spot on.

And, Jay...and Jor-el.....well, now, they both start with "J" right?
What? Crazy and ridiculous, you say?
Oh...wait....you're talking about my little J joke there?
I thought you were talking about this election thus far.
Meanwhile, back to Jay.
No, not J.
Jay.
I'm down with what Mr. Carson has to offer here.
Not quite as down as George Costanza does with doing a little rock climbing with Tony, but pretty down.
With one little nit in need of a pick.
Carson's P.O.V and ominous sharing of same are, for my soon to be at risk dollars, valid and true.

What's not dead center true, though, is his aim.

Because I've been saying all along that the potentially damaging force at work in our little CNN/FOX meets SyFy drama here isn't the individual Earthling known as Donald J. Trump.

In fact, the potentially damaging force at work here is, in fact, a larger, and growing larger by the minute, chunk of that wacky, zany, never predictable mass of mob known as "we the people".

Although, with every good justification for doing so, I'm referring to them, of late, as "they, the people."
They, of course, being the mass of mob who are voting for this guy with every fiber of their being, every string of their heart, every lobe of their brain every chance they get.
Regardless of what the man says, does or how he represents himself as a potential leader of the free world.

"I hear far too many of my liberal friends calling him a 'joke' and acting like the general (election) is in the bag which is nuts because he's dangerous and he has a path to victory. Being profane and not reading the New Yorker are not disqualifying characteristics to many Americans,"Remember, the NPR crowd thought George W. Bush was a 'joke' too and GWB looks like Thomas Jefferson compared to Trump in terms of danger for our country. We underestimate this guy at our peril."

Again, the gist of all this is genuine and germane.
But the peril isn't so much in underestimating "this guy" as it is underestimating what "they, the people" are doing.
And, very possibly, will continue to do.
 
Vote for him.
Every one of the once upon a time Republican candidates took for granted, somewhere along the way in their appeals to the voters, that those voters were good people, caring people, strong people, compassionate people, reasonable people who only want what's best for America.

Let's review that theory for a moment.

1. Good. Check.
2. Caring. Check
3. Strong. Check
4. Compassionate. Check
5. Reasonable people who only want what's best.....

Awp. There it is.
What kind of reason is involved, exactly, in hysterically clamoring to climb aboard a train engineered by a sexist, misogynist, racist, narcissistic, meglomaniacal blowhard bully who is never ever wrong or apologetic about anything, who offers no specifics about what he will do once elected, who shows every reasonable symptom of someone who doesn't have a clue about what he will actually do once elected and, yet, got more than enough votes each and every time out to instantly eliminate every single one of the once upon a time other candidates with an efficiency that made that egg spawned thingy wiping out Sigourney Weaver's peeps on the Nostromo look like a warm and fuzzy puppy?
Jay Carson writes eloquently about what a foolish mistake it would be for Hillary and/or her brain trust and/or her supporters continuing to think of Donald Trump and his candidacy as a joke and, even more foolish, to underestimate the man.

Again, it's not the man that Hillary and her brain trust and her supporters need to stop underestimating.

It's "they, the people" that have proven time after time, after primary after primary, after caucus after caucus all the way to the front door of the convention center in Cleveland that what's happening in this country right now, while maybe fairly described as a fantasy, or even disaster, film is about as far from a snarky, satirical comedy as you can get.

And while it's perfectly understandable to find some, or all, of this plot amusing, the story line has long ago moved past the point of allowing us the luxury of laughing it off.

A once upon a time comic voice expressed it best.

Bill Hicks.

"It's always funny until somebody gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious."
Too much sarcastic snark about the Donald and "we, the people" are liable to see just how hilarious "they, the people" can make the ending turn out.
And, of course, to put the musical cherry on top....
Guess Who.
No, not guess who?
Guess Who.







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