… because they are always seeded with truth!
“Are you even going to give out your calendars? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society,”
I knew the moment I read that yesterday, it was a joke. Moreover, is seems to me to be a running joke.
These are officials at the top level of the FBI, involved in both the Trump and Clinton investigations, JOKING about having a secret society to undermine Trump’s presidency. You don’t have to take the joke literally to find this deeply disturbing.
Later last night when I heard pundits and overzealous politicians taking the text literally, I immediately thought that they were missing the point. Of course, there was no formal, secret society. Now 24 hours later, the mainstream media is using this overreach to dismiss it as “just a joke”, and to ridicule those who took it literally. Whether intentionally or unintentionally they are ALL missing the point!
My concern isn’t that it IS a joke, but WHY the joke was funny:
I know this is a comedic taboo, but let’s take a moment to dissect this type of joke. Jokes like this take a known truth between two or more people, and caricature that truth via literal extreme.
- If I drive too fast my wife and I might joke about my NASCAR career.
- If my dog lives to fetch balls, my friends and I might joke about his needing to see a doggy psychiatrist.
- And if I am a top official with the FBI, and along with others am abusing my power to undermine a duly elected president, we might joke about having the first meeting of our secret society.
The story here isn’t that officials at the top level of the FBI were formally members of an actual secret society conspiring to undermine Trump’s presidency. The real story is that officials at the top level of the FBI were engaged in activities that made them feel like they were… enough to joke about it!
