In Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a supercomputer known as Deep Thought takes 7 1/2 million years to discover the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. That answer, if you haven’t read the book (spoiler alert for philosophers, physicists, psychiatrists, and temple priests) is 42. That’s it. Simple. From those dialogues of Plato to Heidegger’s Being and Time, those physics works from Aristotle through Galileo to Newton to Einstein, and those psychology/psychiatry works from Burton to Freud to Dr. Christian Conte, yes, all those works thoughtfully considered over lifetimes of deep thought and experience were unnecessary. 42. That’s it. That’s all they needed. That’s the answer. *
Enter Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris is an analog of Deep Thought. She’s discovered the answer to every question. That answer (spoiler alert for anyone living in the vacuum of outer space) is Donald Trump.
Questioner: Why did you allow more than 10 million illegal aliens, including murderers, rapists, and gang members to enter the country?
Harris: Donald Trump.
Questioner: Do you regret leaving Afghanistan so abruptly that you left billions of dollars in military equipment, a military airbase, women deprived of education, and thirteen of our soldiers dead?
Harris: Donald Trump.
Questioner: Do you think you could have done more to prevent more than 100,000 fentanyl deaths?
Harris: Donald Trump.
Questioner: How will you decrease inflation in your opportunity economy?
Harris: Donald Trump.
Questioner: Will you spend taxpayers’ money on transgender surgeries for prisoners and illegal aliens?
Harris: Donald Trump.
Questioner: Would you do anything differently from what you did during the last four years?
Harris: Donald Tump.
*Many have tried to make sense of Deep Thought’s answer, derived it said from 6 X 9 (which, as you know, is 54) as the product of a base-13 multiplication: When asked why he chose the number 42, Adams said it was random; it had no significance other than it was insignificant. Many theories were proposed, including that 42 is 101010 in base 2, that light refracts through a water surface by 42 degrees to create a rainbow, or that light requires 10^−42 seconds to cross the diameter of a proton. Nope. None of those. Deep Thought’s answer is as nonsensical as every answer by Kamala Harris.
Those who read A Hitchhiker's Guide, get the joke. Apparently, there are many in the media, like Colbert, the women of The View, and Stern who either don't get the joke or who get it, but are so obsessed by hatred for Trump and by ideology that they ignore the joke that is Kamala Harris. Strangely, SNL, having missed the comic opportunities of the Obama-Biden years and the Biden-Harris years, have suddenly become aware of the treasure trove of comic material embedded in the empty head of Harris. That it took so long for SNL writers to recognize the opportunity for comedy provided by the "opportunity candidate" seems reminiscent of the 7 1/2 million years that Deep Thought took to arrive at its answer. For those of us desiring comedy that applied to everything and everyone, a seeming span of millions of years has passed during which no Democrat was ever the butt of jokes. All those wasted Biden stumbles, all those teleprompter errors, all those off-teleprompter gaps and gaps (like Harris's '32 more days, 32 more days, 32 more days") were missed opportunities to reach a wider audience.
Enter Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris is an analog of Deep Thought. She’s discovered the answer to every question. That answer (spoiler alert for anyone living in the vacuum of outer space) is Donald Trump.
Questioner: Why did you allow more than 10 million illegal aliens, including murderers, rapists, and gang members to enter the country?
Harris: Donald Trump.
Questioner: Do you regret leaving Afghanistan so abruptly that you left billions of dollars in military equipment, a military airbase, women deprived of education, and thirteen of our soldiers dead?
Harris: Donald Trump.
Questioner: Do you think you could have done more to prevent more than 100,000 fentanyl deaths?
Harris: Donald Trump.
Questioner: How will you decrease inflation in your opportunity economy?
Harris: Donald Trump.
Questioner: Will you spend taxpayers’ money on transgender surgeries for prisoners and illegal aliens?
Harris: Donald Trump.
Questioner: Would you do anything differently from what you did during the last four years?
Harris: Donald Tump.
*Many have tried to make sense of Deep Thought’s answer, derived it said from 6 X 9 (which, as you know, is 54) as the product of a base-13 multiplication: When asked why he chose the number 42, Adams said it was random; it had no significance other than it was insignificant. Many theories were proposed, including that 42 is 101010 in base 2, that light refracts through a water surface by 42 degrees to create a rainbow, or that light requires 10^−42 seconds to cross the diameter of a proton. Nope. None of those. Deep Thought’s answer is as nonsensical as every answer by Kamala Harris.
Those who read A Hitchhiker's Guide, get the joke. Apparently, there are many in the media, like Colbert, the women of The View, and Stern who either don't get the joke or who get it, but are so obsessed by hatred for Trump and by ideology that they ignore the joke that is Kamala Harris. Strangely, SNL, having missed the comic opportunities of the Obama-Biden years and the Biden-Harris years, have suddenly become aware of the treasure trove of comic material embedded in the empty head of Harris. That it took so long for SNL writers to recognize the opportunity for comedy provided by the "opportunity candidate" seems reminiscent of the 7 1/2 million years that Deep Thought took to arrive at its answer. For those of us desiring comedy that applied to everything and everyone, a seeming span of millions of years has passed during which no Democrat was ever the butt of jokes. All those wasted Biden stumbles, all those teleprompter errors, all those off-teleprompter gaps and gaps (like Harris's '32 more days, 32 more days, 32 more days") were missed opportunities to reach a wider audience.
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