Horrible People Prosper; Why Shouldn’t I?

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Yesterday, I watched Hank Green’s new Vlogbrothers video about robocalls.

By this year, according to statistics from the FCC, there will be more phone calls made trying to defraud somebody than there will be other calls. Visiting his in-laws down in Florida (in a community that skews older and more affluent), he says they get several fraudulent phone calls a day.

The calls tend to be anything from your typical Nigerian Prince scheme to the IRS is coming to arrest you and take all your money to If you want your computer to work, you need to pay me $50 for this software bundle.

Green says that these scammers make, on average, about $400 per scam.

The message that I got from the video was Wow, I wish I had gotten in on that! I’d make a killing.

Finally, a practical use for a theatre major.

It’s not that I want to hurt other people. Not really.

It’s that, after a lifetime of being kind and helpful and respectful and working hard and trying my best, I have shit to show for it.

Meanwhile, you don’t have to look any further than the White House to see the rewards of being a lying, grifting conman. Surely, I have the brains to do whatever the hell Trump is doing. If I could get over my moral scruples, I could spend out the rest of my years living in a gilded tower in Manhattan, with enough money to go to the theatre, to travel the world, to have a great circle of friends and suckers and sycophants.

I’d never have to be sad or lonely again. I’d be too busy having fun.

Sure, a lot of people hate Donald Trump, but there is a stupid large number of people who love him. It’s not hard to see why: if you look past the criminal behavior, the lying, the ignorance, the idiocy, and the cruelty, there’s a man who’s never done an honest day’s work in his life, living better than anyone who busts their ass on the daily.

I don’t even have to take it as far as being The Donald.

The one good thing about being a fat, white, perpetually middle-aged looking white guy is that I’d fit in perfectly as a Fox News entertainer. All I have have to do is throw away my values and pretend to hold their repugnant…