Lately, I've taken to getting my American news, otherwise known as The Trump Show (or the Daily Dumpster) from popular comedians such as Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah, for it has become otherwise so unpalatable, so irritating, so maddening as to be dangerous to one's mental and emotional health. Laughter, as an outlet for frustration and outrage, seems boundlessly preferable to anger, to smashing one's laptop with his fist or throwing one's cellphone against the wall. Indeed, these comedians are merely using as their material the factual happenings at the top of our government and in the halls of Congress, but they are doing so in a way that expresses a certain sharply honed camaraderie in disbelief and bitter astonishment. We are not alone after all. Here the cynicism, the rampant hypocrisy, the lies and fakery and lame excuses are laid bare and we are invited to laugh uproariously rather than weep hopelessly.
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