Ah, Whatta You Know From Funny?!

One of my favorite jokes goes like this: A Muslim, a Jew and a Negro walk into a bar.  The bartender looks up and says, "Get the fuck outta here!"  Now that right there is funny, I don't care who you are.  But why is it funny? It's funny because it makes several assumptions in which the listener is keenly, if not unconsciously aware, one of which is its inherent projected bigotry. (An aside, I first heard that joke in the insightful Clint Eastwood movie Grand Torino, in which Clint's character tells it. Think about that for a second.)  Further, this joke embodies discrimination, racism, anti-wokism and independence, all of which can be funny when our culture takes them to extremes.  We counter extremism by mocking it; by laughing in its face, by ridiculing those who push it upon us.  And at this point in our history, very little of our culture is not being taken to extremes.

Let's put things in context.  One of the most serious problems facing our culture - and I might add, our constitutional republic - is Islamist extremism. I have written about the inferiority complex displayed by radical Islam many times, here and again here for example.  While CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), itself a terrorist organization,  screams about so called Islamophobia, it is merely a case study in projection—the psychological process of attributing one's own defects to others. In this case, the defect is hate of anything other than Islam.  Islamophobia is certainly about hate all right, but it's about their hate.  Meanwhile, Muslims murder women, rape children and slaughter Jews and Christians throughout the world.  Here in the Sates, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) describes itself as the nation’s “largest mainstream Muslim community-based organization."  However, ISNA’s roots trace to the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Egyptian movement that seeks to spread sharia (Islamic law) globally. The Brotherhood was founded in the 1920s and doctrinally opposes Christianity, Judaism, modernity, and secularism. The Brotherhood’s credo is “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope”.  Well, that's pretty clear.  There exists in Islam no option for "co-existence" as the ubiquitous bumper sticker demands.  It's their way or die, yet it is we who are branded as "Islamophobic."  Mock them and they lose their power over us. Fear them and their power increases. 

Speaking of mocking, the petty and infantile behavior of the Marxists in charge continues.  To keep the panic alive, the deep state must continue with the bat flu narrative.  To wit: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) closed Florida's monoclonal antibody treatment sites on Monday after the federal government abruptly removed the treatments from Emergency Use Authorizations.  This comes weeks after the White House tried to limited quantities of Regeneron available to Florida, which has been proven to be very, very effective in treating Covid.  As Florida exerts its freedom and sovereignty, the Feds under the Kenyan's third term continue to punish any defiance of the narrative. The Florida Department of Health released a statement on Monday evening condemning the "abrupt" decision to take away treatments that can prevent severe illness, hospitalization, and death in high-risk patients who have contracted or been exposed to COVID-19. Obviously deaths mean less to the evil in Washington than does the obedience they demand as other states' governors defy the Supreme Court's ruling against vaxx mandates, and double down on their tyranny.  After all, laws are only for the little people, not for us.  That's extreme, and it's funny.

What about the war drums we're beginning to hear?  Two smaller nations are being threatened by much larger neighbors, but we're only hearing about one.  China is threatening to invade and assimilate Taiwan, and we're told that Russia is about to do the same to the Ukraine.  But we don't hear much from Formosa; it's all about Ukraine.  The Big Guy's in the proverbial pocket of Xi Ping, so we won't be defending Taiwan should that come to a fighting war.  And because Obiden shut down the United States' domestic oil production, we now buy much of our oil from Russia.  So there's no chance Sleepy Joe will be fighting Moscow over Ukraine.  Sure, Putin would love to reacquire some warm water ports, but the fractionalization within Ukraine is intense.  Who needs that headache?  He's not going to start a war over that.  But the Neocons and Rinos and democrats here in the States need another war to boost their wealth and intensify their tyrannical grip over the good folks living their lives in the good ol' US of A.

So here we are in the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century, neck deep in chaos, turmoil and yes, malaise. We have dictatorial Federal governance, insane 7th century theologians, modern Marxists, Russian and Chinese saber rattling, billionaire depopulationsts, mad scientists spreading made-to-order viral bio weapons, insane masked Karens melting down in stores and planes and elevators, murder and crime and mayhem everywhere, government sanctioned looting, a two tiered legal system, an election system broken beyond repair, empty shelves in grocery stores, disrupted supply chains, high gas and energy prices, looming inflation, dwindling wages, women-boys, and decreased sperm count globally. 

What could be funnier than that?

Another aside.  The title of this essay is a reply from one of Eddie Murphy's characters in Coming To America wherein he tells this joke. Guy goes to a restaurant and orders soup. "Taste the soup" he tells the waiter.  Waiter says, "What?  It's too hot?  Too cold?"  "Just taste the soup."  Finally waiter says, Okay, fine.  I'll taste the soup.  Gimme the spoon." Guy says, "Ah ha!"   

Ah, whatta you know from funny!