Anyone else struggling to find humor from literally anything in our daily national news these days thanks to the deluge of demented dribble coming out of the White House? That’s why it surprised me when one terrible tidbit from the latest in ludicrous lies tickled my funny bone. Especially because it involved stomach-churning, nail-biting threats to Social Security benefits. Not an amusing subject at all.
The crap being bandied about and repeated by Republican idiots in Congress involving so-called dead people receiving retirement benefits isn’t amusing either. MAGA morons claim these recipients would have to be dead because of their supposed age—deemed by dufus DOGE hackers to be impossibly as old as 125.
It turns out that underage Musk minions, lacking in both a clue or professional ethics, also can’t accurately read computer code used by the Social Security Administration, resulting in this preposterous fake claim. Which would be funny if it weren’t so diabolically, dangerously stupid.
The part that’s humorous is when it occurred to me how this would play out in my Other Worldly novels, given the race of aliens—the extraterrestrial kind as opposed to the immigrants MAGA lives to hate—known as Red Orbiters who can stall their age at any chosen point in life.
Hence, these aliens might appear to be a mere 33 when they are in fact 125 years old, as one of my main characters is, along with another who is roughly 300 years old. I’m introducing a new character in the next novel in progress, Alien Origins. He’s twenty-one years old in appearance, because that’s when he chose to stall aging, but he is in fact eight centuries old. Not that he always acts his age—any more than the MAGA and DOGE brats do.
I’ve already addressed bigoted Republican hissy fits over aliens gaining citizenship and Constitutional rights, owning property, operating businesses, and voting as well as running for political office—not to mention having sex with humans—in the first seven Other Worldly novels, so perhaps I should have Red Orbiters now be accused of receiving Social Security benefits for more than a hundred—or eight hundred— years.
At this point, it’s not like it would be any more preposterous than what’s happening in real life. And it could be amusing. Not to mention cathartic.
Meanwhile, one of my favorite memes circulating social media involves the advanced age of the ignoramus dumbass bloviating from the White House. It depicts a woman flipping the bird with the caption, “Is he dead yet?”
That’s the fun cathartic thing about being a writer of snarky sociopolitical novels. You can kill off the evil guys willy-nilly, at will, whenever you choose—and with great satisfaction. As opposed enduring sensationalized coverage of fake assassination attempts designed to get the demented felon reelected.
The problem with killing the bad guys off is one still has to deal with things like the sad and sadistic spectacle we are now experiencing, including the threat of losing benefits already earned. Because we are still faced with the aftermath of dictatorial destruction run amok. As well as the folks continuing to support this insanity, many of whom actually rely on Social Security and veteran’s benefits.
You can’t fix stupid, even if you can kill it off in novels, and sometimes make it funny.
You cannot make this stuff up. And you definately cannot fix stupid😡