We needed Barack Obama to lay it all out for us: “Imagine if you hire your plumber. You’ve got an overflowing toilet. It’s a problem,” he said during a rally in Michigan. “[The plumber] comes in and, you know, you’re waiting for the toilet to be fixed. He starts, ‘Have you heard about the latest conspiracy of the Lizard People?’ and he starts talking to you about all this stuff. ‘We gotta do something about that.’ You’d be like, ‘No no no, I just want you to fix my toilet.’ You’d find another plumber.”
What Obama has done as he crosses the country for Democratic candidates in tight races is to say that crazy motherfuckers are crazy motherfuckers and we need to say they’re crazy motherfuckers and stop acting like their crazy motherfucking is in any way valid. In that Michigan speech, Obama brought up how Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s opponent, Republican Tudor Dixon (which sounds like what you’d call a shitty mobile home park to make it sound fancy) said in 2020 that Democrats are trying to topple the U.S. government and control people through Covid-19 restrictions because they lost the Civil War. Obama exclaimed, “Now first of all…what?” And then he turned to the laughing crowd and gave a confused/concerned smirk, adding, “Wha…what?” The “the fuck” is implied. He continued, “I mean, I know some people go down these rabbit holes on the internet. They’re up too late. But that’s like a subway tunnel. That’s deep. That’s the darkest rabbit hole I’ve ever seen.”
