No, the point of self-deprecating humor is not to make a mockery of yourself or to reveal yourself as a moron—perhaps you can understand why it would be absurd for a comedian to have that goal—it is to create humor through exaggerations of reality. Like most conservatives you are challenged by comedy.

Comedy makes fun of things, in this case including many left-wing talking points. If you take that as a promotion of left-wing talking points, you clearly don't understand comedy—as I said, not a strength of right wingers.

Only a moron would think it was a representation of the left.

Comedy and right wing talking points make for an oxymoron.

As you attempt, we could come up with ways to reconcile her innocent actions with more devious initial intentions. But her past experience certainly wasn't part of the craft of season 1, and I think the writers missed an opportunity to create greater depth by suddenly making it all more interesting. Little hints…

Curious to see how they're going to reconcile her newly revealed past with her character development this season, which seemed quite maternal, genuinely loyal to Nate (think of how she reacted at the car rental) and complete in subverting any connection to a shady past. We'll see what develops, but it might have been…