Black comedies are underrated. Let’s face it, many people just don’t get them. And you guys know who I’m talking about. We’ve all me those people: “Hmmm . . . I don’t see what’s so funny about that.”
Here’s the Washington Post, expressing outrage:
Many people already know this, but the responses to Cain’s continued tweeting suggest some don’t like it. “Herman Cain got the coronavirus after attending Trump’s indoor Tulsa rally without wearing a mask nor social distancing. Then he died. Now people are using his Twitter account” to claim the virus isn’t very deadly, tweeted physician and scientist Eugene Gu. “This is just so wrong.”
It’s not wrong, it’s hilarious. Matt Yglesias gets it:
Wasting time on twitter led me down the rabbit hole to more tweets:
OK, that’s kind of funny. But once again, I think people are missing the black comedy. Dr. Sean Conley works at an elite hospital. He’s no dummy. He knows that anyone with half a brain will understand that Trump’s tweets today looked positively deranged. Donald Trump Jr. was so worried about the torrent of all caps tweets from his dad that he considered an “intervention”. The Straussian reading of that press conference is that Dr. Conley was telling us that Trump’s even more crazy than usual. Voters will certainly understand this.
Yes, I know, some will say all this dark humor at the expense of a man at death’s door is hugely inappropriate. We should all be praying for the president.
But you don’t pray for someone with a minor illness, and Trump himself suggests that Covid-19 is nothing serious, nothing for Americans to be concerned about. So no need to pray for Trump.
Now you might argue that despite Trump’s claims, Covid is in fact quite dangerous for old people, and that we should pray for the President’s survival even if he himself is blind to the dangers. But his supporters say Trump doesn’t need our support, because he’s such a superman that the virus had no chance against him.
Either way, Trump was never in danger. Regardless of whether the virus is a minor problem, or Trump is a superman, or (as liberals claim) he only did well because he got drugs that are unavailable to normal people, Trump was never in the slightest danger. Hence it’s OK to mock him when he’s down.
The only sin with black humor is not being funny. Trump mocking Hillary when she got pneumonia was not black humor because it wasn’t humor at all. It was pure sadism. But as long as black humor is funny, anything is fair game.
We’ve got to deal with another 4 1/2 years of Trump. I suggest you develop a taste for black comedy or else it’s going to be a very dismal period.
Now where can I stream a comedy about Hitler, or nuclear armageddon? I need some light entertainment. Maybe I’ll watch Husbands and Wives again.