Roy Cohn isn’t Funny, and So is Amazon

Looking under the mattress for Japanese-American citizens sent to the internment camp at Heart Mountain near Cody, Wyoming, June 1942.

Yes please, come right out and say it—American politics is funny, a kind of joke really.

If only we’d wake up to to this: that Everything, every thing in our current political moment leads back to Roy Cohn through Donald Trump. These hard working people in San Francisco, people who have two working eyes and two working ears, have to deal with this horrid person who is president and is allowed apparently to scramble reality into a brand new form of bottom feeding for profit, a bullshitter who has swallowed his own bullshit! Keep this guy far, far away from the nuclear botton, from even looking at it..

Roy Cohn is dead, he died in 1986, he doesn’t even know who he is anymore! In fact, however, Roy Cohn bequeathed a bi-furcated replicant who’s been allowed to go crawling through the gunk of a bygone past to get as much of the dirty money down there as possible.

One has to laugh. Perhaps it’s only me, laughing! Perhaps I watched too much baseball the other night, all 18 innings. The mind begins to wander away from balls and strikes to the sudden realization that the Amazon logo appears to be a phallus! The resemblance is so obvious, it must be clear to everyone in the crowd. I wonder, was the Amazon phallus appropriated (stolen) from the Nike swoosh? And that someday very soon the Nike swoosh will become the property of Amazon too! This is the way the corporate world works

Hypothetically, if this is the case, I could drag the Amazon logo (phallus) into the nearby Costco warehouse and…and then what? Ask the guy at the Costco check-out line, ‘how much is this phallus?’ I could keep the dialog going. ‘This is the relatively new Amazon logo, isn’t it, the one pasted on all the Amazon delivery vans and trucks…?’

I suppose I could haggle a little bit, I could use my best language and say, ‘I’d like to appropriate a used Amazon logo for myself, there being so many of the vary same type of thing, and in such a variety of sizes to choose from’…’

Yes, American politics is the joke of the no joke, the irony of the irony: that you and I have been gifted with an actual, real-life criminal, as a president.