Muggeridge's Law
Leftist Democrats see "Let's go, Brandon" everywhere - maybe they know Biden sucks worse than an F-5 tornado and are just primed to hear other people say so.
We all know there are people on the left - most of them, actually - who either are genetically unable to get satire or take a joke - or have worked so hard to be outraged by everything they don't like, they have trained themselves out of having any sense of humor at all.
I just got the below screenshot for a group of which I am an administrator, proving that fact. This is about a clearly photoshopped image of cargo vessels off the coast of California spelling out "Let's go, Brandon".
Farcebook is calling it “stolen satire”, claiming it is “stolen” from the Babylon Bee and presented as fact.
Well, alrighty then.
I’ve always thought that is kind of the definition of satire, something so absurd that it couldn’t be true but with just enough connection to the truth to be funny. I’m pretty sure the Bee counts on their work getting shared. That is the point – at least as I understand the Internet of funny things.
It even sounds like the perpetually aggrieved leftist raw nerve scolds may well have misunderstood the Southwest pilot when he said, “Let’s go, Braves” on a flight from Houston to Albuquerque to cheer on his favorite MLB team (playing in Houston that night) rather than him saying “Let’s go, Brandon”.
When you are so hypocritical and indoctrinated, sometimes you hear what you want to hear or maybe you know Biden sucks worse than an F-5 tornado and are primed to hear other people say so.
A regular contributor at NBC/MSNBC, Ken “Collusion” Dilanian, reported that he called the Secret Service about a gun manufacturer who put “Let’s go, Brandon” on the uppers for AR-15 builds, claiming it was a direct threat against Biden.
And as President Depends would say, “God love him, he was serious”.
Malcom Muggeridge, the great British journalist, author and satirist, once said:
“We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known.”
This has come to be known as Muggeridge’s Law.
In 1989, Tom Wolfe explained the genesis of Muggeridge’s Law:
“While Malcolm Muggeridge was editor of Punch, it was announced that Khrushchev and Bulganin were coming to England. Muggeridge hit upon the idea of a mock itinerary, a lineup of the most ludicrous places the two paunchy, pear-shaped little Soviet leaders could possibly be paraded through during the solemn business of a state visit. Shortly before press time, half the feature had to be scrapped. It coincided exactly with the official itinerary, just released, prompting Muggeridge to observe: We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known.”
Given our times, I am actually surprised the Babylon Bee can continue to be as successful as they are. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fame has taken to calling them “America’s Newspaper of Record”, simply because so much of their satire comes true.
Here is a lengthy “fact check” from USA Today.
Unbelievable.
Almost, anyway.
These people are so mentally ill and possess so little self-awareness, they can’t even see how absurd and ridiculous they are. If we lived in a serious culture, where there wasn’t a market for outrage on the left, these people would all be homeless – because ginning up agitprop is their only skill.
I’ve been around the sun a few times and I have learned that the people who react the strongest to mocking are those who know they deserve to be mocked – and these people deserve every bit of mockery and ridicule that can be heaped upon them.
My advice to the leftist media?
Get help.
Now.