No. of Recommendations: 3
1. To defend Donald Trump from charges that he incited the Capitol insurrection, on February 11, 2021, Jordan tweeted, “How do you incite a riot that was already going to happen?” (Note: This is Jordan’s version of a zen kōan. It sounds like an insoluble riddle until you remember that the reason the riot was “already going to happen” is that Trump spent months orchestrating it.)
2. On December 29, 2020, Jordan expressed his outrage about COVID lockdowns by tweeting: “60 million Americans are subject to a stay at home order or curfew. 11 million are right here in Ohio. What would the Founders say?” (Note: Most likely, they would say, “Verily, thank you for doing exactly what we did in 1776 and again in 1778, when we closed off the entire city of Boston to combat the spread of smallpox.”)
3. In a similar vein, on December 4, 2020, Jordan tweeted, “Dr. Fauci says Americans should ‘avoid travel’ over the holidays. What will he cancel next? Saying Merry Christmas?” (Note: Intimidated, perhaps, by Jordan’s rapier-like sarcasm, Fauci never instituted a ban on saying “Merry Christmas.”)
4. On January 6, 2013, Jordan argued that it was pointless trying to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, claiming, “Bad guys aren’t stupid, they’re just bad.” (Note: Jordan is living proof that you can be both.)
Source: Borowitz
