National Nightmares & Political Satire

The world could use more political satire, especially the United States. Seriously, for a quickie value assessment, examine the power of humor-based entertainment from cartoons to late-night television. Then ask yourself, had you rather have a beer with a witty friend that keeps you in stitches or warm suds with that weird guy who glares with stink eyes?  

Let’s Make it a Sport

Okay, now let’s tackle our current national nightmare using shallow, illusory sports analogies. The contestants are Attorney General William Barr and Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Their respective franchise owners are President Trump and the American People.

I know, I know, it shows my bias to separate Trump from ‘We the People.’ But come on ref, can you really blow your whistle and throw a penalty flag before the game even starts? Besides, I capitalized ‘People’ in homage to Trump, so there—right back at you.

And it’s fair. The A.G. is backed by the would-be leader of the free world—if he wanted the world to be free. Rumor has it that despots and dictators around the globe are in league with Trump. He ‘loves’ them—they love him—they bet on him in Vegas.

Opposing the tyrant’s henchman is Special Counsel Mueller, a true patriot and modern-day Paul Revere. Heaven knows the American People could use a few heroes.

Speaking of kings and patriots, Team Trump’s participation in this league is a shocker to many. Americans collectively rejected monarchs centuries ago—went to war over it. If you’re old enough, you might have studied the Revolutionary War. I have all kinds of theories but Trump is hard to explain.

Game Time

Enough with the chatter, the game has begun. Team Trump came out lying on all cylinders and scored a lot of points. Their star, the Attorney General, came out sucker punching the Special Counsel with all his might. He did everything but pick up a folding chair to bash his opponent with.

Mueller just stood there and took it like he had one hand—maybe two—tied behind his back. Trump and the A.G. spun and spun their deceit and ran up the score, plenty to nothing.

Silence from the Special Counsel continued—for two years! How could patriots overcome that?

Finally, Mueller fought back with his secret weapon—the truth! Nothing but the truth . . . and a few broadcast television cameras.

Mueller slammed the A.G. hard by simply sticking to the basics: Russia attacked our election, stupid. It’s in the report. The Russia probe report you didn’t read. The $25 million report . . .. Okay, okay, I didn’t read it either, but I caught part of it crawling on a Kyron somewhere.

Mueller won the round and evened the score. Barr buckled, sending Trump into a panic and then a flailing tweetstorm.

TV works. Humor works. The game is ours to win.

Robert De Niro is Proof

Actor Robert De Niro, who portrays Muller on NBC’s Saturday Night Live cold opens, implored Mueller to go all-out and testify in Congress. He effectively told him to soak in the television spectacle and take over Trump’s freak show. Could be the best way to ensure the American People win round three and save democracy.

New Projects for Political Satire

Speaking of humor, current projects are earning fans and future projects are keeping me busy. Thank you!

“Breaking Truth” appears to be morphing into comic realism masked as “breaking news.” Fiction should stay fiction, people! Oh, how the gods of narration mock us. Scarier still when you consider the story opens with the line, “We’ll all be killed!” and ends with “Jersey.” Not to mention tales of a diabolical dictator like when the President fires off live rounds from a tank during his military parade. Spoiler alert: no earthlings were hurt and the dazed crowd loved it!

“Who Iced Santa” won an award vicariously through the artistry of Sam Van after she whimsically depicted a scene from the toy lobby in Washington. “Cash cow on K Street” won best of show. Follow Sam Van and more of my antics via the social media links below.

Red Arrow Guy reached a milestone on YouTube . . .  www.youtube.com/redarrowguy with 2 million downloads of history Obama-era footage and opinion. The early Tea Party videos are hilarious and ironic, now that dinosaurs rule the world.

Have Fun with Instagram & Twitter

@redarrowguy on Twitter and Instagram: Red Arrow Guy’s mission is to save democracy with satire, one connected dot at a time.

@shameyawards on Twitter and Instagram. Shamey Awards dishonor political elites but are affectionately bestowed with truth, justice and snark!

Both are more than a little outside-the-box, appending snarky opinion to images of current events.

When appropriate, hashtags like #wingnuttya and #meanism link the two.

“Year of the Weplex” will provide new homes for all of the above and several more creative inventions . . .  like creatology.com and dotcomism.com. What could be more creative than creatology? Or more of a web enigma than dotcomism? Coming soon. YOW!

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