Like Hamlet’s father’s ghost I am, “during the day confin’d to fast in fires, till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purg’d away.” But occasionally I am freed to roam the earth. Today and Sunday are those days and I feel like a nocturnal creature blinking in the sun wondering what mythical land I find myself in where light and joy still exist.
But be that as it may, this paradise of freedom still exists within our own blighted reality. So, I was unsurprised when reading today’s headlines that they were very reminiscent of those I remember from the before-time of last week when I was still a free man. But they were slightly crazier. Joy Reid appears to be close to the breaking point. Now I can’t be totally sure of this because she is always at least incoherent. Possibly to herself she seems rational but for me it’s like listening to the mutterings of a schizophrenic bag lady. It is remarkable that NBC continues to employ her. But that’s another issue.
In this video clip she tauntingly declares that she and her followers know what “we” mean by DEI. She seems to be having a psychotic break. Apparently, this knowledge of hers is supposed to be a potent talisman and we should fear it. But instead of being afraid of her, I’m actually a little afraid for her.
I mean, sure, she’s a hateful wretch and a race baiter. Certainly, she wishes evil against people not like her. But she’s also a moron. Her IQ must be somewhere around 75? And I feel society has a responsibility to protect someone like that from her own stupidity. Believing in things as far from reality as she does, leaves her open to fatal errors.
For instance, she believes herself to be highly intelligent. This could lead her to try using her own judgement in a life-or-death situation. As an example, she could judge that a pineapple was an appropriate food to swallow whole. And if she attempts it from the relatively smooth side of the fruit, who knows, maybe she could do it. She does have a really big mouth. If she greased it with oil, who knows! But what if she tries swallowing it crown first? Those leaves are quite stiff and sharp. I fear that it might lodge in her esophagus and finish her off. I don’t relish watching a video clip of her on X where she is expounding on the guilt of White people or Donald Trump or Santa Claus for keeping her people down and then having to watch her trying to remove a wedged bromeliad from her oral cavity. The whole idea disturbs me terribly.
What would make sense is if some kind of SWAT team could swoop in and rescue her from herself. She could continue here career, such as it is. But she could do it from the safety of a padded room in an insane asylum. There, under the care of trained, psychiatric professionals, she could be dosed with Thorazine and swaddled in a strait jacket and allowed to rave and foam at the mouth and if necessary, soil herself, without any serious fear that she would expire of self-inflicted wounds.
And that would make me feel better. In fact, I think I’d become a regular viewer of her show. Especially if there were the hope that other characters could be added to the rubber room. Maddow, Morning Joe and his bride and Chris Hayes would all be worthy additions to the room. There could be special events. Electro-shock therapy, firehose-hydro-therapy and maybe even a lobotomy could be added to the program to spice it up.
Now that would be must-see tv.
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That defines DEI in my viewfinder. I’m sorry but our “strength” is not forced diversity for the sake of diversity. I don’t see it being preached in NBA, or NFL that we need to get some non jumping, slow running white guys weighing in at a buck twenty each to “diversify” the bench.
Joy is very unhappy that we notice things like that. “It must be racist!” she says. And who are we to doubt such a brilliant “journalist?”