It's Okay Not to Get Mad at Every Little Thing
Sore winners
I didn’t watch the whole SNL 50th anniversary deal last weekend, because I forgot it was on. The only time I pay attention to the show anymore is when one of the past guest hosts has shot somebody, or when Hollywood makes an embarrassing movie about the show’s premiere back in 1975. I don’t hate the show. I just don’t care anymore.
So I didn’t see this sketch until today, after a bunch of people complained about it:
Huh. Well, that was pretty funny. Eddie Murphy does a great impression of Tracy Morgan, and I’ll take their word for it that black people don’t tend to watch SNL. The whole thing is self-deprecating humor. I ain’t mad at it.
Apparently, though, I’m supposed to be angry because Tom Hanks showed up at the end, playing a country-ass white fella in a MAGA hat who thinks a black man is threatening him instead of just wanting to shake his hand. Even the audience seemed taken aback by that one.
Outrage!
Outrage!!
Outrage!!!
I’ll never understand sore winners. MAGA has been getting exactly what they wanted for a solid month now, and it’s still not enough. They have to bitch and moan about an SNL sketch, of all things. They’re more like the libs they hate than they care to admit.
It’s just silly to get mad if you understand the callback. Hanks’ character is a reference to this “Black Jeopardy” sketch from 2016:
The whole point is that poor white people have more in common with poor black people than with rich white people. It’s as much about black folks’ stereotypes about white folks as vice versa. And that sketch is where the gag with the handshake originated.
It’s a refreshingly un-woke message from a bunch of liberals: No matter what Americans look like on the outside, we’re all pretty much the same on the inside. I’m supposed to get mad about that?
Here’s another example of MAGA not knowing when they’ve won.
The president of New York University’s College Republicans was forced to resign for calling Barron Trump “an oddity on campus” — with the group then asking the first son to join it in “shaping the future of our party.”
Kaya Walker, president of NYU’s College Republicans of America chapter, submitted her resignation Monday amid fierce backlash sparked by her comments to Vanity Fair about President Trump’s hugely popular 18-year-old son.
Walker told the mag that Barron was “sort of like an oddity on campus. He goes to class, he goes home.”
People got angry about the word “oddity,” but she wasn’t calling him a circus freak or anything. She was saying it’s unusual to have the son of a president in your class, but he’s just a normal kid who isn’t making any waves. That’s all. It’s not an insult.
Could she have worded it better? Maybe. But she’s like 19 or 20 years old, man. How about giving her a break?
Any insult, real or imagined, is intolerable to the hardcore MAGAs. They’re as fond of cancel culture as any lib.
Walker now regrets resigning, saying: “I don’t even know Baron Trump. I campaigned for his father. Why would I have any ill intent towards him?”
Great question. The answer is that it’s easier to fly off the handle at a stranger than it is to listen and think.
Has anybody even asked Barron what he thinks about the whole thing? If he’s not mad, why should you be?
Driving people out of your tribe for the tiniest infraction is not a sign of strength. That’s why I’m neither a Democrat nor a passenger on the Trump Train. Mob justice is fun while you’re in the moment, but in the long run it doesn’t help anybody.
In closing, a sincere message to all my MAGA friends and especially my haters:
You won. Get over it.
Streaming pick: Dark Match on Shudder.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a small-time wrestling promotion in the late ‘80s got tricked into a series of death-matches against each other for a bunch of cheering Satanists? Yeah, me too!
This is a scuzzy little gem from writer/director Lowell Dean, who gave us 2014’s WolfCop and last year’s excellent Die Alone. (I recommended that one a few months back.) The latter was like a particularly clever and heart-wrenching episode of The Twilight Zone, but this one is more like Tales from the Crypt. It’s grimy, it’s gory, it’s pretty damn funny, and it’s got the great Steven Ogg getting bloodier than the last time I played GTA V.
And yes, that’s Chris Jericho as the bad guy. Y2J vs. Trevor Philips! Jericho is an okay actor, actually. I mean, he’s playing a wrestler, but still.
Happy Humpday. How are you doing? Everything okay? Alright, I don’t need to hear the whole thing, I was just being polite.
I didn't watch the SNL 50 thing because it wore me out years ago. That sketch was pretty funny though. The MAGA unhappiness just proves that the edge hangers-on of whichever party in power evidently sees the need to prove their loyalty in the worst virtue signaling possible.
Sore winners are always a PITA.
That NYU College Republicans thing I saw a couple of days ago, and I was wondering what the point was. He's nearly 7 feet tall, he has Secret Service around him. He attend class and then goes home. Any of those would make him an oddity I think on most college campuses, let alone one as Lefty as NYU. I assumed she was just noticing that people notice that stuff.
I feel sorry for the young lady, but perhaps she learned something valuable, and I don't mean watch what you say. I hope she learned that most ideological organizations at any level are going to have some nutcases with loud, angry voices. Don't let them get to you. Hell, a few years ago a large yarn lovers group (or knotters or crocheters or something) split wide open over some stupid political thing. Don't let the nutcases get in positions of even minor power. They'll misuse it every time.
I tend to suspect these various minor (even minor at major levels, like whack-job Laura Loomer) hangers-on of MAGA understand that NO ONE CARES what they think, and they're not important at all, so they act out like unhappy 2-year-olds.
Ah, well.
If I don't get mad at every little thing, then how do I know I'm alive?
/s. Though I do need to cut back on the rage scrolling.
A new neighbor just moved in. Nice young woman. She had an open house last night. She's a communications manager for progressive Democrats. She also gardens and cooks. I think I'll just focus on that.