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"Keep up the good work, Karma."

By Chris ZPublished 9 months ago Updated 9 months ago 1 min read
"...hoisted by their own self-centered, self-serving, and self-destructive, petards."

It's only real when it happens to THEM. They victim blame, and victim shame, when society's most vulnerable hit bottom. Conversely, they're the first to cry foul, pass the buck, and play the victim each time they're hoisted by their own self-centered, self-serving, and self-destructive, petards.

They avert their eyes when darkly-complected Americans get shipped off to God knows where, just as they averted them when darkly-complected kids were being rent from their mothers' arms, and caged, some 7 years ago.

They fingered their ears, knuckle-deep, when American citizen Jamal Khashoggi was butchered on orders from Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (an assassination that netted crime-family scion Jared Kushner's private equity firm $2,000,000,000).

They sat silent whilst a career conman-cum-convicted felon shook off umpteen world-class criminal charges, including, but not limited to, election interference, and theft of national security secrets.

They gleefully goosed COVID's proliferation with their antivax misinformation, their kneejerk victimization, and their PPE (mandatory in health care settings since the 1960s) politization. They dubbed the elderly, and the immunocompromised, whom their contrarianism-for-contrarianism's sake condemned to death as collateral damage.

They, collectively, wished the insurrection, and the domestic terrorists who partook in it, away. Their "the ends justify the means," party-over-country first pillar impelled them to abandon the same COPS they champion when said COPS bar prone, handcuffed black men from breathing.

They did all this despite KNOWING their pyrite golden god to be a twice-impeached aspiring dictator, a mercurial mad king who ushered in the most corrupt, and chaotic, administration this nation's ever known. They'll get NO sympathy from me, never mind financial help. I hope their farm soil turns to stone, seasoned with salt. Keep up the good work, Karma.

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Chris Z

My opinion column garnered more reader responses than any other contributor in the paper's 40-year run. As a stand-up comic, I performed in 16 countries & 26 states. I've written 2 one-man shows, umpteen poems, songs, essays & chronologies.

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