Why Was Lee Majors At Mar-A-Lago?

The (sort of?) surprising answer!

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Lee Majors, most famous for his role as the six-million dollar man on the series of the same name, is reported to have hung out a Mar-A-Lago last week in a show of support for our nation’s rapist orange blight.

I haven’t thought about Lee Majors in probably two decades, which I suspect is a fairly average period of time in which to have not thought about Lee Majors. Still, having him juxtaposed with Trump does raise questions, such as, “What the fuck, Lee Majors? Why have you destroyed my mildly positive campy associations with your clunky 70s superhero show? Aren’t you better than this, you bionic butthead?”

I was not alone in my recriminations (though perhaps alone in my contemplation of what exactly a bionic butthead would look like.) Some people on social media speculated that failed actors or other creative people are prone to turn to fascism in their bitterness (the maybe-we-should-go-back-in-history-and-buy-Hitler’s paintings” argument). I’m tempted myself to riff on the innate reactionary tendencies of superhero narratives, yay I say to you even unto the clunky ones from the 70s.

But I don’t think we need to get all abstruse about it. There’s a pretty straightforward reason that Lee Majors is at Mar-A-Lago. That reason being…