Making America Laugh Again

Get the Point!

Consider these variances:

Why don't you smile more, darling?

Your smile looks fake...

Why do you talk SO loudly, ma’am?

Maybe you should speak less...

You rarely laugh at my jokes, babe?

I find your giggles/laughs annoying...

To my fellow men, especially those with an affinity for Donald Trump and his ilk, do know that your inner “Mister” and “Harpo” from the The Color Purple and “Ike” from What's Love Got to Do With It is showing every time you cheer on, laugh, or extend financial support to his campaign and PAC’s! For those men (and some women) so enamored, I sincerely wonder how you were raised; what was your situation like with your momma and grandma with regards to your daddy and grandpa in the home? I don't expect many of you to respond to this query online, but you can always shoot me a private email and I assure you, I will exercise all discretion!

In full transparency, I grew up a "Momma's Boy" and with three older sisters, which is part of the reason why some of my male friends in college jokingly called me "Oprah Winfrey" because of my penchant for spending hours talking to close female friends; for those who only know me from the cyber world, trust me when I tell you that I've been around “girl talk” or “women's talk” for the entirety of my years and while I don't know everything that goes on in the hearts and minds of most women, I know quite a bit! In fact, if I know nothing else, I know that women cannot STAND to be told how they should look, how they should dress, how they should talk, or how they should LAUGH by anyone—but especially not by ANY man!

Thus, as a relatively secure man, I think that it’s important to address the slights that the clearly insecure 78 year old toddler, Donald Trump, is making on the campaign trail about his new Democratic presidential opponent Kamala Harris's—LAUGH! Just last night, Trump went on and on and on again not about public policy, but about the vice president’s laugh, concluding: "You can tell a lot by a laugh. I call her ‘Laughing Kamala.’ You ever watch her laugh? She’s crazy. She’s nuts.”

Vice President Kamala Harris (right) laughing with her sister, Attorney Maya Harris, during a 2012 interview

Yes, we can tell a lot about a laugh, such as the good natured aspect of person(s) who can find joy and levity from comments, jokes, and even during some of the toughest moments of our daily existences. 

You can also tell a lot about those who laugh at matters that aren't hardly funny, such as the sexist, racist, homophobic, and religiously biased “jokes” that are a regular feature under the Republican "Big Tent" whenever the orange hued clown in chief 🤡 is attacking people that he (and his followers) can't stand. 

Through the years, those "jokes" that elicited MAGA laughs have included stereotypical tropes about Black and Brown people, Muslims, immigrants, and the physically handicapped, with one of the ugliest moments that ended in uproarious laughs and applause coming in 2016 when Trump mocked a physically disabled reporter mercilessly on the stage.

Circa 2016, Trump mocked NY Times reporter Serge Kovaleski (left) during a campaign attack on what he called (and still calls) the “Fake Media.”

But like many insecure men, Trump's most disgusting comedic material has ALWAYS been reserved for women, whether it was bragging about “grabbing them by the p-word 😺,”kissing them without permission because he is “a celebrity;” “joking” that his own daughter, Ivanka, was "hot" and a "piece of ass" on Howard Stern's show, or making vile comments about menstruation with reference to journalist Megyn Kelly, Trump makes the mean jokes—and his mindless minions egg him on to new lows by laughing it up!

One of Trump's many mindless minions

And while Trump has been known to come up with childish nicknames for all of his public opponents, his opprobrium is overly offensive for women, like prosecutors Letitia James, Fani Willis, and now, Kamala Harris, who he has called "animals," "rabid," "nasty," and  "garbage" to the applause and laughter of his foolish followers who either don't know and don't care—or know better and still don't care about how disgustingly sexist (and racist) such comments are in the public square. 

Such is why Trump's jokes about the way that Kamala Harris laughs are yet the latest reminder that the “man-child” has no gentility, and has not a single shred of decency in his limited mind and vocabulary.

Kamala Harris's warm smile and laugh stands in stark contrast to Donald Trump's perpetual scowl and anger…

And while Trump may laugh at Vice President Harris's laugh today, as a former prosecutor myself, I can't wait for my turn to laugh when Harris, also a former prosecutor, runs rhetorical circles around his subject/predicate bereft behind on those debate stages come September and October—if he even musters the courage to show up when summoned!

I also look forward to seeing who laughs last when the Defendant Donald Trump gets sentenced as a 34 count convicted felon later this year…

But because we live in a time in which MAGA minions just LOVE to play dumb by asking non-MAGA's "why is that racist" and "why is that sexist," I would be remiss if I didn't point out that historically speaking, women in general—and Black women specifically—have been abused, marginalized, and often suffered irreparable harm by people in positions of authority in America who deign condescend about their looks, their lifestyles and lovers, and yes, their laughs; again, such condescensions have NO place in the modern public square!

So I conclude by saying to all of the women who subscribe or read my writings, please keep on:

Smiling if you want to—or not!

Dress in what makes you comfortable—and ignore the petty (and puerile) critics!

Speak loudly, speak softly, or don't speak at all—it's your prerogative!

Laugh, laugh heartily, and laugh some more if the spirit moves you—and spread your joy knowing that like the old Virginia Slims cigarette ads used to say, "You've come a long way, Baby"—and we, the decent people of this nation, aren't gonna let no man—or no MAGAs—return us to the days when women were seen but seldom heard in the public square!