Just how pointless is Facebook? Why I’m glad you asked. Since I have a Facebook page, I can tell you from experience that it is incredibly pointless. It even allows a group that prays for the death of our current president to exist unimpeded. FB says it doesn’t violate any of their user policies, and I suppose it doesn’t violate anything other than good taste and decorum. Of course the lovely religious folk who populate the page claim it is merely a good-natured ribbing of a man they have political disagreements with. No sir, it is certainly not vile hate-speech or a thinly-veiled death threat – it’s satire.
My question is, why do rightwingers generally seem to lack a sense of humor? Did you ever see the Half-Hour Comedy Hour? It was just like Dennis Miller, conservative and brutally unfunny. You’d think after voting for Bush twice they would have at least learned a thing or two about unintentional comedy. But seriously, when did jokes involving death become funny?
Let’s try out some conservative joke creation. Did you hear the one about the non-smoking mother of three who died of lung cancer after years spent in a microwave popcorn factory where the management violated OSHA regulations and refused to provide their employees personal protective gear? Here’s the punchline. They didn’t have to provide safety gear because all their employees are undocumented Mexican immigrants and no one could complain. See folks, mix irrational hatred with equal parts racism and death and that equals pure comedy gold!
Here is their *joke*,
“DEAR LORD, THIS YEAR YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTOR, PATRICK SWAYZIE.(SIC) YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTRESS, FARAH FAWCETT. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE SINGER, MICHAEL JACKSON. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT IS BARACK OBAMA. AMEN.”
First off, why is this in all caps? Does screaming add to the sheer hilarity? Second, you have much bigger issues if your favorite actors are Patrick Swayze and Farrah Fawcett, and if your favorite music is Michael Jackson, you have no taste in music at all. Seriously, not to speak ill of the departed, but they all fucking sucked. So it stands to reason you would think Obama sucks, because you’re obviously all clueless assholes. Wait a minute – maybe that’s the joke, they all suck. Wow, if it is, that joke is even worse that I thought…
Listen, I’m no fan of a lot of what Obama is doing. Mostly because he is continuing multiple Bush era policies. Including (but not limited to) not just maintaining, but escalating our two wars, increasing defense spending, continuing the practices of warrentless wiretapping, indefinite detentions, and extraordinary renditions, extending the Patriot Act, selling out to banksters and insurance companies, nuclear plants and off-shore drilling, and worst of all, continuing the revolving door policy of hiring industry insiders to oversee industry regulation. Frankly there is a lot that is the exact same, and it’s all bad…
Come on folks, you get to vote again in a couple of years if you don’t like it. This shit is beyond the pale, I hated Bush but never wished him dead. Praying for someone’s death isn’t funny, and it isn’t Christian. A non-Christian shouldn’t have to tell you that…
Doug is forty-something, married with children, an artist, musician, and lab technician, an arrogant asshole know-it-all, he's politically progressive, and developmentally arrested. He also blogs at DougDisneyland.blogspot.com, where it really is all about him...
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