We’re going to start with a rather simple joke.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams proposed putting social service kiosks in stores with shoplifting problems so the robber could access the assistance offered instead of robbing the store.
Sooooo close to a good idea – replace “social service kiosks” with an ATM that doesn’t need a card to use and he may have something there.
This is an actual plan - https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/05/20/new-york-city-plan-to-combat-rampant-shop-lifting-must-be-seen-to-believe-n748962 - that yet again leads to the question – who was in those meetings? Who said that with a straight face to a room of people? How is it possible the room did not burst out in laughter?
One must never forget that all the stupid silly, dangerous, disastrous, hysterical - https://thomas699.substack.com/p/parody-parity - things that are happening now involve humans sitting in rooms, talking about them, and then making them happen.
From the Biden Bunny moment article:
This was not a random event, an idea of one lone staffer who took it upon herself to “go the extra mile” to ensure the president doesn’t accidentally declare war on Delaware. Meetings took place to make this happen.
Consider, for a moment, the mindset of a White House press office that would lead them to decide to make sure a covering flack - dressed in a bunny suit - would be needed for the annual children’s egg roll to make sure Joe wouldn't say anything, um, stupid?
Having worked in public relations (and, independently worn bunny suits - don't ask), imagining what exactly happened in a meeting that decided the best solution would be a "bunny suit press deflector" is simply mind boggling.
To emphasize the point - someone had to say "let's put one of us in a bunny suit to follow him around the garden just in case" and everyone in the room agreed.
Just imagine sitting through that meeting with a straight face - I don't think actual humans can.
And therein lay the problem – when everything is true nothing can be satirized and we, therefore, have reached parody parity.
From Sandwiches Against Racism - https://thomas699.substack.com/p/sandwiches-against-racism - to anti-racist water - https://thomas699.substack.com/p/ending-racism-one-inanimate-object - to cadres of illiterate teachers getting a leg up in their career by spreading the word of revolution - https://thomas699.substack.com/p/does-cta-stands-for-california-teachers – all of it – people get paid think it up and to do it.
Shudder.
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