Yesterday, after Donald Trump announced he is running for president, I posted this joke on Twitter:
"I believe Donald Trump will run this country like a business. He will burn it to the ground and collect the insurance money."
The first response was this:
"Democrats destroyed Detroit"
My response:
"Yeah, you might want to put that comment somewhere that makes sense. This was about Trump."
His response:
"You claim Trump would destroy business yet a reality check would say otherwise."
And then my response to that:
"You're being ironic sticking up for a buffoon reality TV host, right?"
No response after that. I suppose this is what passes for political discourse and an exchange of ideas on the Internet these days. Donald Trump may have a scary amount of money and even lots of popular support but lets not kid ourselves, America. Its all free PR for a fame whore who inherited his money, filed bankruptcy twice and like so many other things in this country he didn't really become successful until he branded his image and became another loud mouthed reality TV star snorting fame and spitting a catch phrase.
I post a joke and a troll under a rock with WiFi comes back with, "you claim…" No. I don't claim. I made a joke. Also, I have no idea about the local politics of Detroit but I do know that Obama, a Democrat, saved the car industry centered in Detroit when every Republican was willing to let it die…including Trump. But hey, facts should never get in the way of your point. What ever it was.
This morning I got an email from my website. I don't know if its the same troll or just another wannabe taking a shot at me but the email was brief and just said "Why would I get my information from a stand-up comic?" Here is why. We now live in a country where politicians who don't believe in climate change serve on environmental commissions about climate change. Lobbyists for the oil & coal industries write laws about pollution for the oil and coal industry and the news, reporting all this, has become the biggest joke so why wouldn't the most credible information and opinion come from comics like, Jon Stewart?
Stand-up comics are the only ones allowed to actually say the truth because as any comic whose spent more than a year telling jokes can tell you; people laugh loudest when you aren't telling jokes but just telling the truth.
I will always remember that when I started stand-up at the Holy City Zoo in San Francisco, there was a chalk board in the back by the bathrooms. There was always a comment or joke written on it. This is one that stuck in my head.
"A good comic tells the truth. A good audience hears that as a joke. A successful club books jugglers."
Sigh.
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