My original plan for today’s bloggy entertainment was to cobble together a bunch of random subjects and thoughts and present this pleasant mix to you. Then the real world got in the way and I knew I couldn’t write a fun blog until I dealt with some of the very bad stuff weighing heavily on my mind and the minds of every decent person. If it’s any consolation, I will do my level best to keep every item as short as possible.
CLIMATE CHANGE. It’s real and it’s terrifying. My heart breaks as I see the devastation and loss from the Los Angeles wildfires and the hardship and losses from the frigid storms that struck so much of the rest of the country. This isn’t some weird theory or woke assault on our freedoms. This is science making us all its bitch due to avarice and ignorance and unthinking right-wing zealotry. Is putting even more money into the already bloated payments to CEOs and stockholders worth all this horror? Can we afford to keep ignoring science even though we’re already facing an uphill battle trying to mitigate the continued damage? Can we not as a caring nation be unitedly disgusted by Trump and his Republican goons politicizing these disasters? It’s worse than Nero fiddling while Rome burned because these human monsters want to push draconian conditions and extreme misinformation on areas in need. Something Democratic Party lawmakers have never done except in the wild fantasies of the Fox News crowd. My dreams, my nightmares are haunted by the deadly fire and ice I watch on the news. It is literally Hell on Earth.
TRUMP. The Constitution is crystal clear on this matter. Donald J. Trump cannot be President of the United States. Yet he will be sworn in. The Republicans in Congress will not honor their oaths of office. They are driven in turns by fear, greed, lust for power and an unreasoning hatred of the “evil” minorities who exist only in their deranged minds. The Supreme Court justices, even those not appointed by Trump, will not uphold their oaths of office. Even the Democrats, who should and do know this clear truth, will not oppose his inauguration. So the worst man in our nation’s current history – bully, con man, coward, crook, liar, racist, rapist, insurrectionist, traitor – will again become the President of what we all hoped was the greatest nation on earth.
With Trump will come a noxious collection of clearly unqualified appointees, avaricious billionaires and arguably insane zealots. They will gut the various agencies they are supposed to guide for the benefit of the American people. They will visit hardship and soul-deep misery on innocent people. They will make every day less safe for all of us and for the world.
If you voted for Trump and any other Republicans, you are in my eyes, as vile as they are. Maybe you were too lazy to do even the most basic homework exercising an informed vote requires. Maybe you thought they hated the same people you hate. Maybe you foolishly think their cruel and self-centered policies won’t hurt you just as much as they will the decent people who voted against Trump and his fellows. Maybe you’re criminally stupid. Or maybe, like Trump and his ilk, you are actually evil. Whatever you are, I will always wish ill for you. I will always wish your happiness and hopes crumble into the foul-smelling dust of your souls. As much as I cherish redemption stories, and have written more than a few of those, I fear you are beyond redemption. You are damned by your own actions.
SAY GAY! For more reasons than I can possibly emulate at this time, the constant attacks on the LGBTQ+ community are something I take very personally. The attacks on trans people, adults and kids, are especially heinous. For Republicans, it’s a replay of Ronald Reagan’s bogus “welfare queens” gambit. It worked then and, even though Reagan is presently burning in Hell for that and so many other sins, the GOP plays this tune over and over again. They target a group of innocent folks just trying to live their lives and work their evil to convince their dumbass voters that these people are somehow a bigger threat to our country than corporate greed, corrupt officials and gun violence. The GOP make Marvel’s Hate-Monger look like an amateur...and he was probably Hitler. They’ve been joined by so-called Christians who, obviously given their support of Trump, haven’t a clue as to actual Christianity. They disgust me.
I ask you to raise your voice in support of the LGBTQ+ community in all its wondrous variety. If you can, I ask you to donate to organizations that work to protect and elevate that community. I ask to reject the GOP-driven hate. Because, in so many ways, we are all part of the community.
PRESERVING HISTORY. Joe Biden was not my perfect president. Can there ever be such a person for a rational human being? But, if his actual history is preserved, if the evil ones don’t succeed in rewriting history, I believe the future will be far more kind to him than our times were and will recognize him as one of our greatest and most successful leaders. Biden did many good and even great things during his four years and did them under the most challenging of circumstances. Trump and his mob never stopped claiming Biden’s election was fraudulent. Even so, Biden served our country and the world well. He deserves our respect.
PATHETIC TROLLS.Whenever I write something like today’s offering, I know certain individuals are joining to try to post comments on it. Some are people who faced karmic and actual consequences for criminal actions against me and paid a price for that. Some are the usual right-wing zealots who naturally hate people like me. There is even a demented creep who was booted off the original Official Tony Isabella Message Board in the World Famous Comics days and, more than two decades later, still keeps trying to hurt my feelings or something. What all of these lowlifes have in common is that you never see their comments here. I reject them before they appear. This is my blog. I simply don’t want to give such bad people even a moment’s fame. So they comment for an audience of one who smiles at how small they are.
DAVE CHAPPELLE.Is there some clause in Saturday Night Live’s contract with NBC specifying they must have a certain number of toxic hosts every year? Or are they trying to appeal to the same clueless audience that watches Fox News?
There are so many better talents available to SNL. Amber Ruffin. Dennis Leary. Kat Dennings. Roy Wood Jr. Neil Degrasse Tyson. Desi Lydic. Itkarsh Ambudkar. Alok Vaid-Menon. Jason Statham. Michael Strahan. Kathy Bates. Ted Danson. And those are just the first dozen names that popped into my head.
Heck, if I’m not doing a convention that weekend, I’d be willing to host the show. As long as they guarantee I get to appear in at least one sketch with Bowen Yang.
NEIL GAIMAN. You utter piece of shit.
That’s a wrap for today’s bloggy thing. I’ll be back soon with happier stuff.
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