Sick Tickets

Wha!!!!!  What the hell was that?  You gotta get aload of some duffouse by the name of Kenneth Copeland.  I don’t know who he is and have never heard of him, but you can hear him now.  He is supposedly a televangelist and a Trump supporter who had a Chernobyl meltdown over the election results.  This is something I can’t explain.  It’s like one of those visual jokes that you have to see and, in this case, try to understand.  I’m not sure what his objective is, so I will just have to go with a ridicule ploy.  The footage I witnessed is him standing at a podium and he lays into a laughing tirade over the Biden victory.  He carries on with the forced ha-ha’s for a half a minute or so when the video cuts out, so I don’t know how long his macabre force of show lasted.  His theatrics started off strange, then slid into weird and crossed over to creepy.  You will have to google this to see for yourself, since a video can paint a thousand words.

After running through this a couple times, I got to thinking there’s an article there that I can expound over.  When I see or hear someone who, at any particular moment, is acting off the charts, I think of a line Dolly Parton spoke in the movie “Steel Magnolias” when she said, “There are some pretty sick tickets in this town!”  Well, that there are, but we aren’t involved in a movie here, this is reality in real time.  This video made me wonder about what we call sick tickets in this world.  There are the obvious ones who stand out in history such as Genghis Khan, Jack the Ripper, Rasputin, Hitler, Stalin to name a few, plus a politician here and there who ran the gauntlet.  Now this televangelist may think it appropriate to ridicule the President-Elect, after all, his choice candidate is the present megalomaniac in power that has been ridiculing anyone he can get his hands on for years and that seems to be okay with over 70 million voters.  Thank goodness there were more voters who chose Optimistic over Ominoustic, Light over Shadow, The Allies over The Axis, The Force over The Dark Side and yes, Blue over Red!  What exactly makes up a Trumpet?  Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a defining lowest common denominator, something that can tie all the Trumpets together.  I’m reminded of what JFK said about the Republican Party while campaigning in 1960 about the elephant being their symbol and how in the circus they grab the tail of the one in front of them and walk around in circles getting nowhere.  Trumpets, they are an enigma to the Trump anomaly.  Stay tuned…..!


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