“It is to Laugh!” Weekend Open Thread

"IKVETCH" license plateThis one goes out to my landsmen in Newport Beach, which may well be the very capital of Jewish Republicanism — its Mecca, so to speak.

You are being tweaked.  And it’s really, really funny.

The website Yiddish Curses for Republican Jews has elbowed its way onto the scene and it’s making a splash like you wouldn’t believe.  It’s a curse generator — one to which you can contribute, if you think you’re enough of a wit — that deploys the deadly Yiddish wit that forms the substrate for 48.3% of all American comedy at the machers who just don’t get it.  Let me spin the wheel a few times so you can enjoy!

“May your grandchildren baptize you after you’re dead.”

Oy!

“May you have a rare disease and need an operation that only one surgeon in the world, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, is able to perform. And may he be unable to perform it because he doesn’t take your insurance. And may that Nobel Laureate be your son.”

Oy-oy-OY!

“May your son the doctor introduce you to his fiancée, Bristol Palin.”

GEVALT!

“May you spend your whole life supporting and voting for and sending money to Israel, and may you one day be actually forced to move there.”

That’s not funny.  OK, yes it is.  We’re just not supposed to make those sorts of jokes in front of the goyim.

Growing up a Jew in Orange County taught me one thing for sure: most people who read this aren’t going to appreciate it.  Therefore, this is your weekend Open Thread.  (P.S.: people on suspension, of which there is only one and he shall here be unnamed, don’t even bother trying to comment on this one.)

One more thing: if anyone wants to come up with an Orange County Curse Generator, that could be a mitzvah!

About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)