The Big Guy

In 1996, you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing Alanis Morrisette’s song Ironic. It was huge. It was the third single released from her blockbuster album Jagged Little Pill. The song went Gold and remains Morrisette’s highest-charting song. It won a Juno Award and received two Grammy nominations. The video for the song was nominated for six MTV Music Video Awards, winning three. The video is also included in VH1’s Greatest Music Videos. It remains on her concert setlist to this day. It’s poppy and catchy. She belts the chorus out like an anthem. For many people, it is their anthem from the 90s. It’s just one of several amazing songs on an amazing album. The only problem with Ironic is that none of the situations described in the lyrics are actually ironic.

An old man wins the lottery and dies the next day, there’s a black fly in your Chardonnay, a man afraid of flying is in a plane crash on his first flight, it rains on a wedding day, meeting someone you like then meeting his spouse…none of this ironic. It’s all bad luck or poor timing. The only line in the song that is ironic is “It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.” I was reminded of this song by a Bob Gorrell cartoon.

A lot of MAGAt goon cartoonists have been claiming there’s enough evidence to impeach President Joe Biden over corruption. The only problem for goon cartoonists like Bob, Steve Kelley, Dick Wright, Tom Stiglich, sippy cup-thief Branco, and many stupid others is that there’s ZERO evidence that President Biden is corrupt. None, nada, zilch, zero. None. But just like Republicans in the House and on Fox News, the lack of evidence doesn’t stop them from claiming there’s evidence. And, it’s working because a recent poll shows that a majority of Americans believe President Biden did something corrupt despite there not being any evidence of it. Who needs evidence when you can just make a lot of noise?

What Bob, who’s a cartoonist who rarely actually draws, did that made me think of Alanis (which is kind of weird because she’s awesome, intelligent, creative, unique, and original and Bob is none of those things) is a cartoon he drew listing all the “evidence” except none of the evidence he lists….I’m going to shout now…IS FUCKING EVIDENCE!!!!

In the cartoon, Bob has pasted a donkey he drew many years ago and has since repurposed a gazillion times, saying, “Okay, but where’s the evidence?” Behind the donkey, is a bunch of words that are supposed to be evidence.

Bob lists “evidence” like Hunter’s laptop. Nope. That’s not evidence, Bob. Despite all the shouting about Hunter’s laptop, there’s nothing on there that implicates President Biden in a crime. In fact, there’s nothing on the laptop that implicates Hunter in a crime. Bob also forgets the laptop was in MAGAt hands before anyone else saw it which means it would be inadmissible as evidence.

Bob lists “ten percent for the Big Guy” as evidence, which is something on the laptop. But again, this isn’t evidence. It’s assumed that the “Big Guy” is Biden and in an email, one of Hunter’s business partners is proposing to give ten percent of a business deal in China to Biden. But, the deal was rejected. We don’t know for sure who the “Big Guy” actually is, and this was in 2017, when Joe Biden wasn’t in office. Even if this is true, that there was “ten percent for the ‘Big Guy'” and the business deal wasn’t rejected and had succeeded, it still wouldn’t be evidence of a crime. Fun fact: doing foreign business is NOT illegal. Republicans don’t seem to have any issues with Donald Trump doing business with China and the Saudis.

Bob mentions shell companies. Again, nothing connected to Joe Biden. He mentions Burisma, which has been debunked. Bob mentions firing the Ukrainian prosecutor but forgets that the prosecutor never investigated Burisma or Hunter Biden. Bob added “allegations” to the list which is crazy because allegations are NOT evidence.

And that’s all the IRS Whistleblowers had that Bob mentions, allegations. And, they didn’t allege any crimes were committed by President Biden.

Bob also mentions Devon Archer, a former business partner of Hunter’s who testified before Congress. The thing is, Archer debunked allegations that Joe Biden had any involvement in Hunter’s businesses. So Bob is either very stupid or is being dishonest. Remember, loud noises over facts.

If you want evidence of someone taking bribes, then look at Texas where the state legislature is weighing whether or not to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton…for taking bribes. Guess who’s defending him. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump which must mean that they’re OK with government officials taking bribes, or maybe they’re just OK with Republicans taking bribes.

The only reason Republicans actually have to impeach President Joe Biden is for revenge. Don’t take my work for it. Take Donald Trump’s. It’s been reported that not only has Trump been talking to members of the Goon (Freedom) Caucus about impeaching Biden, but he suggested revenge was the main factor in an interview with Megan Kelly two days ago.

Talking about the impeachment inquiry against Biden, Trump told Kelly, “They did it to me. And had they not done it to me, I think, and nobody officially said this, but I think had they not done it to me … perhaps you wouldn’t have it being done to them.” For the record, when it was done to Trump, there was plenty of evidence both times.

Alanis Morrisette knows Ironic isn’t ironic. She has parodied her own song on a late-night talk show, exhibiting a sense of humor, and making fun of herself. She is very self-aware. Bob Gorrell is not. While Alanis knows her song Ironic doesn’t contain any real irony (except for that spoon thing), Bob doesn’t seem aware that his Evidence cartoon doesn’t contain any actual evidence.

Now, is it ironic that MAGAts ignored and defended Trump from trying to steal an election he lost, setting up fake electors, demanding a state election official to “find” him votes, ordering a white nationalist insurrection, stealing classified documents, obstructing justice, and extorting a foreign leader with military aid, among other crimes while going after President Biden on flimsy allegations?

No, it’s not ironic at all. It’s just hypocritical.

Update: Sippy cup-stealing Branco basically did the same idea using the same flawed argument as Bob Gorrell.

Music note: I listened to Temple of the Dog and the Talking Heads.

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