Yes And...

     This year has been like a never ending improv game.

     The kind of long form, unfunny improv that doesn't make it past rehearsals because it has failed.

     Improv's cardinal rule is to take what you are given in the scene, and reply "yes, and" --meaning you accept the information and add to it. This is a concept Michael Scott did not comprehend, and therefore he always brought a gun into the scene, supporting the thesis that he is not a smart person. Actually...hold on. That's not a bad metaphor for our current situation. The point of "yes, and" is to keep the story going. Only bullies and people who think they're funny shut down improv stories. Everyone else keeps them going with "yes, and" so the full story can stretch out, and the funny can be found organically, not forced in the name of a fast laugh.

       Anyway, there are so many "Breaking News" stories that are eternal long form improv lists. "Pete Hegseth is a War God" and we go "Yes, and he blew up fishing boats",  "Yes and he told the military they are fat and gay"... This adminstration started that way, and unfortunately the "humor" turned sour after the fourth "Yes, and". "Trump Is A Rapist". "Yes, and he bankrupt casinos". "Yes, and he's a documented racist". "Yes, and he called a woman 'Piggy'" . "Yes, and he told reporters they were stupid for asking a valid and accurate question". We keep waiting for it to be funny, or at least for the red hats to figure out that the whole administration is absurd. But as they've proven, stupid people don't understand satire and cannot recognize when they're being punked.

        The unabashed and deliberate cruelty that has been unleased is where I stop. I stop reading social media posts, I stop attempting to reason with red hats. You elected a rapist in the name of "He's a good businessman".  You're either stupid or cruel. 

        Turns out you are both. There is no room for any more discussion. In the history of the presidency, nobody this unhinged has been elected. A turd so hateful that he has unearthed the hate in other men like him, who believe they can bully and restrain and strip rights and break the law because they are stupid and feel entitled and need to blame someone else for their own inadquecy. 

        This deadly combonation has the rest of us---by "The Rest of Us" I mean educated, working class, generally female humans who feel compassion and can agree that the system was broken, but all that has been done now is to shatter what remained of any attempt at law or consequences or compassion--covering our heads while delivering food to our neighbors, continuing to pester our ineffective representatives and pretending we don't hear you when you call the new mayor of New York a communist or suggest that you can easily "take care" of liberals by going building to building across the nation and shooting them dead.

        I can't even look at you and say "yes, and..." because you're wrong and this isn't funny.

        I'm not scared of you. I'm not even mad at you any more. 

        All I have is pity for your inadequacies. Pity and the knowledge that eventually you are going to pay for this.

        Yes, you are going to pay. Yes, and...