The Dems Can’t Laugh. And it Might be Their Undoing This November.

In this election, creativity and humor is only coming from one side. And it's not even close.

If Donald Trump isn’t murdered before the election (and after the 2nd attempt on his life over the weekend at Mar-A-Lago that remains to be seen), humor might be the secret weapon that gets him elected.

I’m not talking about Donald Trump’s humor, either. Although I personally find him quite funny - especially when he’s being self-deprecating. (I wish he’d do that more.)

I’m talking about the humor of the masses, via the internet, which vomits copious amounts of memetic hilarity into the world every time The Donald does something provocative - which, as we all know, is daily, sometimes hourly, it seems.

For example: after the debate, the media wanted the story to be about Trump making “racist” remarks about a small town in Springfield, Ohio which is being overrun by 20,000 Haitians who allegedly, according to locals, have a penchant for eating cats and dogs. Trump said as much causing the media to rend their garments in performative outrage.

But the masses decided the story wasn’t about “racism” towards Haitians, but Trump Making America Safe Again for pets who suddenly find themselves on the menu in Ohio. Within hours, social media platforms lit up with thousands of Ai-generated images, films and songs, erupting into every corner of cyberspace, which were then reposted, remixed and reshared tens of millions of times.

Trump kissing ducks. Super Trump saving cats. Trump as Rambo defending ducks in a golf cart equipped with anti-aircraft missiles.

And there was also this piece of genius:

It was all pure internet catnip and now all anyone can talk about is the open borders and the immigration problem overwhelming America, one of Trump’s strongest core issues - and one of Border Zsar Kamala Harris’s weakest planks in her nebulous platform.

Memetic impotence is apparently a thing. The left simply can’t get a thumbs up.

It wasn’t always so.

Hollywood, though progressive in the extreme, used to be extremely funny. Sketch comedy shows, though liberal like SNL, were very funny - consistently. They jabbed both sides of the political spectrum - not equally, of course - but there was a sense that everyone was fair game. They’d make fun of hick-a-billy dunce George W. Bush, but they’d also pan an utterly unlikeable Hilary Clinton, for instance.

Not so anymore.

The Left has become a decidedly unfunny version of Dana Carvey’s brilliant SNL character, The Church Lady, tsk-tsking everyone who won’t think, speak and vote exactly as they demand. That’s because the Democrats are in love with their own virtue, blinded by hatred and that turns out to be a poor recipe for comedy.

Will Ferrell, probably the funniest human being of my generation, now spends his considerable comedic talent on making movies, like this one below, a story about traveling across America with his now trans woman, comedy-writer buddy and reflecting together on how hard it is for his long-time friend to be a man in a dress demanding everyone make believe they’re a woman.

Will it have an audience? In San Francisco, perhaps. Will it be funny? I highly doubt it. Not even Will Ferrell can save this premise.

It doesn’t help that the Democratic party, which is now the party of elites and corporations, is consumed by bitterness and derision for average Americans. The Dems have made the typical middle-class keyboard warrior, who senses that palpable hatred being directed at them, their sworn enemy.

But in the past, if Joe and Jane Average American were riled up, they lacked a platform to express that dissatisfaction. They could whine about the corrupt elites at the coffee shop or in the pews on Sunday morning, but establishment media controlled the cultural conversation.

Then social media changed all that. No wonder the Democrats want to shut down Elon Musk.

Because now, a guy who affectionately goes by the handle “Catturd™” on Musk’s X platform has 4x the followers (2.9 Million) of ABC New’s Anchor David Muir (797k followers), the actor who plays a journalist on TV and hosted that Broadway performance they called a debate.

Catturd™ is funny. His opines on things like the challenges of raising children on Mars, should Elon Musk’s SpaceX ever get there. He’s also an inveterate Trump supporter, who happens to talk to more people, more often, than David Muir could ever hope to.

Catturd is relatable, David Muir is just an elitist turd. And his journalism is regarded as so much kitty litter by the working class who’ve tuned out and tuned in to Instagram, TikTok and X for their news.

That profile pic. Pretentious? You decide.

Humor is like the gunpowder inside a grenade - the more repressed, the more it explodes.

Wokeness with its repressive and oppressive rules, has created a working class with a whole bunch of kinetic energy stored up after being called racist, domestic extremists for the last 8 years. Thankfully, so far, rather than resorting to violence as a way to release that energy (unlike the violent Left), the Right have opted for unabashed digital mockery of their overlords.

Nervous-laugher, Kamala Harris, is one of those targets. She couldn’t crack a joke if her political career depended on it. And it might.

But seriously, has she ever said a single thing that made you laugh? Of course, not. But it is fun to laugh at Kamala with her canned lines (“Unburdened by what has been…”) and faux woman-of-the-people schtick. And so people do, and these comedic jabs at the VP land because they resonate as true.

For most of my life, it was the right that set itself up as a punchline, fretting about such things as gay Teletubbies and just generally lacking an ability to laugh at itself. Taking oneself too seriously is most certainly the enemy of comedy.

Now the Right creates things like the parody news site, “The Babylon Bee”. Check out this headline pumped out immediately after the second assassination attempt on Trump.

Compare that to this headline from the once-hilarious “The Onion” who went woke and now thinks this post during the debate was worth a chuckle:

Yes, the Right has developed a delightful, irreverent sense of humor - likely as a coping mechanism to deal with all the destruction the modern Left has wrought on the country they love. (The “right”, by the way, is anyone to the right of socialist, Bernie Sanders.) And so whatever the Right is, exactly, it’s one part modern day Ferris Bueller, mocking the sacrosanct Progressives with a wink and cracking itself up as it does so.

If Charlie Sheen’s been-there-done-that character in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off could talk to the Democrats, he might tell them “your problem is you.” And that they ought spend less time worrying about red-state Americans and old school liberals who just want to be left alone, and more time worrying about what happened to their ability to have an ounce of introspection or self-deprecation.

But I don’t think that’s possible, the Democrats are just too consumed with hate for Donald Trump and anyone who happens to think he’s preferable to Kamala Harris.

So the Dems can’t lighten up. And they can’t be funny. And they most definitely can’t produce a sharable meme despite Donald Trump being flawed and quite worthy of the honor.

Which means, if Donald Trump is alive come November - and I say that with all seriousness - an army of internet jokesters might help make him the president.

And wouldn’t that be a hoot?