Until Sunday, I was a huge fan of Jim Carrey. Alongside Jeff Daniels, Carrey is responsible for the greatest movie in history: "Dumb and Dumber."

On Sunday, however, Carrey sent out a particularly idiotic tweet.

I woke up this morning in Hawaii with ten minutes to live. It was a false alarm, but a real psychic warning. If we allow this one-man Gomorrah and his corrupt Republican congress to continue alienating the world we are headed for suffering beyond all imagination. ;^\ pic.twitter.com/Kwca91IIy2 — Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) January 13, 2018



There are a number of reasons that tweet is so stupid.

First off, it plays to the notion long adored by foreign leaders like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping of China that Americans are inherently weak. When he woke up and saw the news, Carrey immediately assumed that a ballistic missile attack was going to kill him. Why? The most appropriate response here would have been "I woke up this morning in Hawaii and thought, 'do I have ten minutes to live?'"

Never surrender to fear.

Second, Carrey misplaces responsibility for the false alarm on Trump rather than the Hawaii state government. He's not alone. As a quick Twitter search of "Trump Hawaii" will show you, the liberal intelligentsia has largely queued up behind the idea that Trump is somehow to blame for this mistake. The collective assessment seems to be that because Trump was informed it was a false alarm and didn't tweet a clarification to that effect, he is responsible for the panic. Enter Jamie Lee Curtis.

This Hawaii missle scare is on YOU Mr. Trump. The real FEAR that mothers & fathers & children felt is on YOU. It is on YOUR ARROGANCE. HUBRIS. NARCISSISM. RAGE. EGO. IMMATURITY and your UNSTABLE IDIOCY. Shame on your hate filled self. YOU DID THIS! — Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) January 13, 2018



Of course, Trump probably didn't tweet because he assumed Hawaii's government would be actively pushing out the news that this was indeed a false alarm. It would have also been very confusing if he had tweeted in contradiction of the alarm, and in fact he would have surely been excoriated for it.

And that speaks to the fact that Carrey, Curtis and their fellow oracles are missing the broader point here. The mistake was one of a state government employee and a state government that took 38 minutes to clarify the error. This is utterly inexcusable, but no one will apparently be held accountable. Rather than the state employee being fired and a sense of accountability being enshrined in Hawaii, the offending individual has simply been reassigned. Other higher-up heads? They are apologizing, but none has resigned.

Finally, there's Carrey's contention as to what might have motivated a real North Korean attack: Trump "alienating the world."

Yes, if only Trump sucked up to Kim Jong Un then we would be safe and secure. That's true mindlessness in action, but it at least proves one thing: Carrey has now come full circle and rendered himself Lloyd Christmas.



