Matisyahu's Blog

End of the first week of my leave and one thing I am also looking at is getting some barbells to do some light weights when I am at home – when watching some television being able to get some reps in which will help to tone and define my arms (the walk I try to go on every night do the legs pretty well). I’m going to go for a quick look around at the shops on Monday it for no other reason than to get out of the house and get some fresh air.

The one thing I hope is that with the collapse of MAGA that we’ll see a return of comedians who aren’t interested in having a podcast to suck up to those in power. The whole point of being a comedian is being an outsider, to punch up not punch down, to hold those in power accountable and not to spend time sucking up/defending those in power, be a social critic by holding up a mirror to society. Every time I see a comedian suck up to those in power on a podcast it reminds me of Bill Hicks retort of “government approved rock and roll” except replace ‘rock and roll’ with comedy and you get the vibe of what comedians appear to be doing these days.

I’ve been following South Park and to be honest the best way to deal with this current political climate is to mock it relentlessly because it doesn’t deserve to be given the respect let alone a serious critique given the whole movement itself is based on vibes rather than a coherent philosophical world view. Sometimes the only way to adequately critique administration’s bad behaviour is to demonstrate how ridiculous they are in much the same way that Lewis Black did with their ‘Gay Banditos’ to demonstrate how ridiculous the Republican claim that same sex marriage was going to destroy ‘traditional marriage’.