Iran, World War III, and Jokes That Might Be, But Probably Aren’t, Funny

We joke about pain, yet detachment is a part of the problem

Demonstrators dressed in Guantanamo Bay prisoner uniforms march past Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 9, 2020, during a rally on “No War with Iran.” Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

At some bad hour on January 3, the Twitter account of God quote-tweeted “No it didn’t. He’s still President” in response to CNBC’s “America just took out the world’s no.1 bad guy” tweet. This was in reference to the Trump administration’s…