It’s as serious a government as America has ever had. Incompetent, corrupt, abusive, cruel, ignorant, arrogant, elitist, racist, narcissistic, but also very, very serious. Humor has a way of disconnecting us from the seriousness of things and I’m guessing that’s why you characterize it as a joke. It may be a figure of speech but you using it says something about you that I’m going to take seriously.