{"id":25397,"date":"2023-08-31T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=25397"},"modified":"2023-08-30T23:35:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T03:35:51","slug":"recording-poetic-justice-for-laughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/31\/recording-poetic-justice-for-laughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording Poetic Justice for Laughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what to write about when I\u2019ve foresworn speculating about the coming revolution?\u00a0 Well, the only thing to talk about then is what it\u2019s like at ground zero.\u00a0 We\u2019re all witnesses to a seminal moment in American and world history.\u00a0 We get to watch a myth die.\u00a0 The Democrats and the Deep State are cooperating in the murder of the America we grew up in.\u00a0 And they\u2019re doing a thorough job.\u00a0 I\u2019d say that fully 35% of Americans are as disillusioned with this country as it\u2019s possible to be.\u00a0 Probably another 30% are confused and a little scared about the way things seem to be going.\u00a0 And the other 35% are a combination of idiots, wokesters and crooks.\u00a0 And every day is another experiment to see what Madhouse America will teach us.<\/p>\n<p>A continuing theme has been the prevalence of geriatric crooks running our government.\u00a0 Biden and Feinstein have of late been joined by Mush-brain Mitch McConnell.\u00a0 And he\u2019s giving Dementia Joe a run for his money.\u00a0 But whereas Joe just spouts nonsense, Mitch suddenly seizes up like the Tin-Man from the \u201cWizard of Oz.\u201d\u00a0 When he stands there staring into space I expect him to mumble \u201coil can\u201d through frozen jaws.<\/p>\n<p>But old crooks are hardly our biggest problem.\u00a0 Truly everywhere we look we can see madness and dysfunction.\u00a0 The litany is endless.\u00a0 But this week I had an epiphany.\u00a0 Laughter is an answer.\u00a0 What I look for is poetic justice.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s Sanctuary Cities squawking at the cost of housing illegal aliens.\u00a0 Or tribal police manhandling environmental protestors blocking the roads to Burning Man.\u00a0 Or transgendered NGO workers discovering that African and Middle Eastern governments really do want to do very bad things to them if they fly the rainbow flag.\u00a0 Or woke baristas discovering that having their customers robbed and assaulted by homeless crackheads every single day is going to make a coffee shop quite a bit less profitable.<\/p>\n<p>Each of these events has something in common with the others.\u00a0 First off, each provides a healthy dose of schadenfreude.\u00a0 That alone makes them valuable because laughing at our enemy\u2019s misfortunes is priceless.\u00a0 But they also provide a morsel of hope.\u00a0 Because each one showcases some weakness of our enemies based on their adopting some tenet of their philosophy that flies in the face of reality.\u00a0 And it\u2019s this refusal to face reality that contains the seeds of their downfall.<\/p>\n<p>Now whether that downfall is imminent or centuries in the future is the problem.\u00a0 For all I know, illegal aliens may continue flooding the country for several more generations before collapse takes down the USA.\u00a0 In that case my mockery of the complaining city fathers of NYC or Chicago is pretty weak tea.\u00a0 But what certainly is true is the joy I experience when I mock these people.\u00a0 So, whether or not the big picture is changed by my enjoyment I\u2019m positively impacted.<\/p>\n<p>And I think I\u2019ve discovered that readers like these stories too.\u00a0 I think a lot of people are like me.\u00a0 They hate the enemy and take joy in their discomfiture.\u00a0 Some people might say this is petty or even wrong.\u00a0 I disagree.\u00a0 Celebrating their defeats even minor ones is an objective good that should be developed.<\/p>\n<p>So that is why you can expect to see more current events posts that mock our adversaries\u2019 misfortunes.\u00a0 From my point of view this is a useful output for my site.\u00a0 So, let the flames begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what to write about when I\u2019ve foresworn speculating about the coming revolution?\u00a0 Well, the only thing to talk about then is what it\u2019s like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2945,5,288],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biden-humor","category-current-events","category-humor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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