Crazier by the minute

And now Kyrie Irving is hyping anti-Semitic junk on the interwhatsis, which perhaps is mitigated by the fact Kyrie is a tinfoil-hat-wearing nutjob from way back. So  I suppose this might just be water seeking its own level. 

But we get crazier by the minute here in the land of the free and the home of the loon, and God knows where it ends. With someone trying to assassinate the Speaker of the House, I suppose.

Oh, wait. Someone did try to do that.

Some lint-brained galoot all jacked up on the My Pillow Guy's ravings assaulted Nancy Pelosi's 82-year-old husband in their California home the other night, fracturing his skull with a hammer while shouting "Where's Nancy?"  Had a pocketful of zip ties on him, too, presumably to tie up Paul Pelosi so they could wait for his wife to get home.

Thank God she was clear across the country in Washington.

Scary times. Insane times. And you know what's even scarier and more insane?

That the MAGA/Q-Anon crowd immediately began selling another conspiracy theory about the whole thing, something about a homosexual tryst gone wrong.

Yeesh. There ain't enough padded cells in this country, I swear.

Oh, some of the MAGA Party congress critters did jump on various social media platforms to offer Thoughts and Prayers and other performance-art pieties, like saying violence is never the answer. Of course this week they'll be right back to stoking it with more conspiracy-kook bingo.

But I digress.

("Indeed," you say)

The point is conspiracy-kook bingo is a growth industry here in the 50 states, and for some reason an inordinate number of celebrities and athletes tend to gravitate toward them. Kanye/Ye/Whoever got the ball rolling on the latest round of anti-Semitism with his insinuation that Jews ran the entertainment industry and were stealing from people of color. Kyrie weighed in by posting links to anti-Semitic literature and film on one of his social media accounts. And so it goes, and so it goes.

Any day now I figure the Protocols of Zion will resurface, that ancient anti-Semitic classic.

The Protocols of course are the wellspring of the whole Jews-control-the-world lunacy,  seized on by Adolph Hitler and a bunch of other fine folks as the foundational bedrock of their psychotic ideology. That they have long since been debunked as a forgery never seems to matter to the successive generations who've embraced them.

Coming soon: Kyrie Says Protocols of Zion Are “Revealed Truth"; Claims They've Been "Silenced By The Haters Of Free Speech."

Which of course is another aspect of all this, and even more frightening. People who should know better (hello, Jason Whitlock) have latched onto the notion that if you push back against the poison of the Kyries and Kanye/Ye's, you're trying to "silence" them. Whitlock, once a respected journalist and now just another MAGA foot soldier, even labeled those who dare challenge them as "cowards."

Which raises the question of exactly who's trying to silence whom.

All I know is, there sure are a bunch of folks who know exactly what Kanye/Ye said and Kyrie posted, because they've seen it all over the interwhatsis. This doesn't exactly sound like they're free speech martyrs to me, but what do I know.

I'm actually sane, see. At least periodically.