I’m writing this to try to find an answer to the mess we are in today. The fact is, Russian bots, trolls and right-wing “twitter twits” are waging a giant war on the truth and sanity.
It’s Obama’s fault!
I’ve had many people ask me, “Why can’t we put out phony Facebook ads? Why can’t we send out fake tweets?” And it’s a good question. The answer is, of course, we can. But the real question is what kind of fake tweets or fake Facebook ads do we create?
It’s hard for most of us because we’re, well, sane. And we have this quaint notion that facts are facts and lying is bad. Most of our parents told us this when we were growing up.
Even so, I don’t think this is a bad idea. So, again, the question is, what kind of fake news do we make up? When I don’t have the answer to a question I like to ask “What would Captain Kirk do?”
But in this case, I got nothing. But then I realized I was looking to the wrong person. The real question is “What would Mr. Spock do?”
You see, in Star Trek all problems were fixed in four basic ways. If there was a disease, Dr. McCoy found a cure for it.
If a computer needed to be shut down, Spock would either pull the plug or get it to do something that would drive it crazy, like computing the value of PI. If the warp core was about to explode, Scotty would fix it. Even though he would complain that he needed more time and he needed more power.
For all other problems, Kirk would either kiss it
or punch it in the face.
I don’t think anybody wants to kiss Trump, even though I know a whole lot of folks would love to punch him in the face.
BAM! POW! ZAP!
But here, I realized we need the Spock approach. We need to craft a story that will create a self-destructing Trump feedback loop.
We have to come up with a story that Fox News, the Russian Trolls and all the other right-wing nut-balls will grab onto and re-post like crazy.
And I think I have it.
“A recent bombshell report has come to light revealing a secretly recorded conversation between Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. In it, Obama reveals that he now totally agrees with everything that President Trump has done in the last year. He is reported to have said quote “I hate to admit it, but I was wrong. If I could do it all over again, I’d do everything that Trump did in 2017. Exactly the way he did it. Everything he did was genius. And very stable.” Hillary is reported to have replied “Yeah, I agree, and he’s like a really smart person too.”
Damn, he was right.
And very stable.
Now here’s what will happen. Fox News and all the other trolls will jump on this like a cat in a catnip factory. Sean Hannity will literally have an orgasm on live TV.
Eeeuuuu!
It will be everywhere. They were right! Trump is vindicated!!
But, how will SCROTUS react? Will he be pleased? Will he be happy? Hell no. His whole presidency, his whole mission in life has been about destroying Obama. It’s been about destroying everything he did. If Obama liked it, he hates it. If Obama did it, he undoes it. So how does he react? Just like this.
TRUMP: Obama would do everything I did.
TRUMP: But everything Obama did is wrong.
TRUMP: I must undo everything Obama does.
TRUMP: I must undo everything I’ve done. Everything I’ve done is wrong.
TRUMP: But everything I do is right.
TRUMP: But if Obama likes it, it must be wrong.
TRUMP: But that can’t be. Everything I do is great. Everything I do is the greatest.
TRUMP: But everything I’ve done must be wrong. But … I can’t be wrong.
This is about the time steam comes out of his ears and the dull light in his eyes blink out and he falls off his gold toilet in a catatonic state.
Does not compute!
So, there it is. Let’s get started. Post this on Facebook! Tweet it! Re-tweet!
As Spock would say. It’s highly illogical, but it could work.
I wasn’t sure about the title of this one. It could also be THE SANE STRIKE BACK, or A NEW HOPE FOR SANITY. All of them fit.
The truth is, in an insane world, the sane have to get a little crazy.
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Categories: Politics, Sci Fi - Fantasy - Time Travel, Television, Tom Curley
ALTERNATIVE FACTS AND ACCELERATED REALITY – BY TOM CURLEY 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
perfect. just perfect
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It could work!!
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Well it worked in “I Mudd”.
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Exactly! And the one with the M5 computer that automated the whole ship then began killing everybody.
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How does *he* think that’s a good idea?
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Does it make money? Then it’s a good idea.
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There are lots of ways to make money, but not all of them are truly good ideas.
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You think?
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Thinking is not a viable option here.
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And how cool is Elon Muskie’s red Tessla with a fake astronaut, R&R music and a big “DON’T PANIC!” sign in it? Maybe next he can make Dumpt greater still by shooting him into orbit around Mars.
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Yeah, that whole Elon Musk SpaceX thing is pretty cool, but what’s up with his selling flamethrowers to the general public? How does the think that’s a good idea?
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That;s how “The Marching Morons” ended. And Musk is even cooler. The whole astronaut in a convertible in space is the opening scene for the movie “Heavy Metal”
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I knew I’d seen it somewhere. I just couldn’t remember where.
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PANCHO, which version of “The Marching Morons”? The one with Gary Busey or the musical one with Mel Gibson and Janette MacDonald?
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Mebbe MacCheesehead 45 can do a Slim Pickens a la “Strangelove” and ride his beloved bomb to Hades. YEE-HAW!
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Ahhhh – the old “Get ‘Em With a Paradox Feedback” trick
Mehhhh? – beats anything i got – let’s go with it! 🙂
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Yeah, as some jerk once said “What have you got to lose?”
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Pancho, I say we let MacCheesehead 45 walk through a long, long wind tunnel to view rehearsals of his big parade. Hopefully, the wind gusts will twist his pomp-pee-dour into a deadly scarf and do the dirty deed.
Put Lenny Briscoe and DA Jack McCoy on this one.
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