The World of Feckless Celebrities

I am sure you have heard about Robert De Niro's nonsense at the Tony Awards the other night.   If you were on another planet, let me recap.   De Niro comes out to make a presentation, says "Fuck Trump," and the Broadway sycophants rise to a standing ovation.   Of course, he certainly knew his audience.   If he tried to do that in a VFW hall somewhere in Norman, Oklahoma, he'd wind up looking beaten and bloodied like he did in "Raging Bull."   That was, by the way, the last decent movie this vile slob made.

Of course, we've had a plethora of celebrities running their mouths of late.  Roseanne Barr took to Twitter and went Ambien-induced nuts with one crazy comment after another.   When she made a "Planet of the Apes" reference about former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, he newly-restored good fortunes went up in smoke.

Then you had Samantha Bee, some numbskull from a show that three people watch which is aired on TBS which about five people watch, call Trump's daughter a feckless "see you next Tuesday."  The audience erupts in cheers or, at least, the equivalent sound that three people can make.   

So, the resulting double standard is that Roseanne loses everything, Samantha Bee is still on the air, and De Niro will keep showing up on any mess produced by buddy Lorne Michaels.   In my book, all three can keep doing what they are doing because it is a free country with equally free speech.  If you don't like what they are saying, you have the total power to turn them off.   Or simply ignore them.

More importantly, it's high time in this country for us to all collectively realize that no one should give a rat's ass what any celebrity has to say about the universal condition.   In reality, they are all irrelevant.   Every single one of them.  Nobody should care about what is rolling around in Samantha Bee's head, if anything at all.   And De Niro, once a great actor, has turned into a grouchy old man looking to chase kids off his front lawn.   Every role he has played for the past thirty years hits the same routine notes and emotions.  Are any of these folks worth listening to?

I'm always bewildered about celebrities' needs to wax political.   I don't form my opinion based on how Tom Hanks or Madonna think and neither should you.   

Look up the word "feckless" and you will see such adjectives as "worthless" and "ineffective."   To me, those are definitions that are synonymous with the definition for the word "celebrity."

Fuck them all, I say.

Dinner last night:  Salad.