Dear Charlie:
First and foremost, I'd just like to take a moment to thank
Cary Elwes for tagging He Who Doesn't Deserve to Be Named with the absolute best nickname in history.
Mr. Elwes, you might recall, is the gent who played Westley
in The Princess Bride. His main adversary was Prince Humperdink, a "coward
with a heart full of fear" and "the slimiest weakling ever to crawl
the earth" who paid a group of thug assassins to kidnap his lovely never-really-meant-to-be-a-bride
and kill her so he could start a war with a neighboring country.
Thus, it was perhaps fitting that thirty years later, it's
Sweet Westley who just named the cowardly and foolish president elect...
Trumperdink.
It so fits. And his running mate, Pimple, definitely gives
off a Count Rugen vibe, what with that torture kink of his.
Speaking of Trumperdink and his loyalish attack dog,
everyone and their (racist, bigoted) grandma heard about the Hamilton kerfuffle this
weekend. And everyone was supposed to hear about it. Trumperdink made sure of
it. Though I refuse to link to his Twitter feed where he made a mockery of
himself and his baby-thin skin yet again.
Why, do you ask? Why make such a big fuss about a tempest in
a teapot at a play the average schmuck can't afford to attend and is sold out
until 2018, anyway? And that I doubt Count Pimple cared even half a shit about
because he doesn't strike me as man who minds being boo-ed, considering how much his own state hates him?
Elementary, my dear Watson.
Subterfuge. Camouflage. A smoke screen.
It's a distraction from the fact that Trumperdink settled his bullshit university fraud case. The "I don't settle" guy settled yet another case, admitting to
committing fraud to keep the case from going any further and having to answer
any uncomfortable questions or produce any embarrassing documents.
So he sent his six-fingered wingman to a play about early American politics put on by an amazing and diverse cast and let the real play begin.
But here's the thing: if this wasn't just a "nothing
wrong here; look over there!" diversionary tactic, it would actually be
pretty important. Trumperdink is, of course, a moron for ever thinking theatre
was a "safe place". Never mind that a politician could be so
thin-skinned as to let a little crowd-booing destroy their fragile self esteem
(please refer back to that "heart full of fear" and "slimiest
weakling" commentary earlier).
Theatre has always been the place where humans can battle
the gods and win, where a commoner can thumb his nose at a king. Theatre -- and
the arts in general -- has always given powerful voice to the powerless.
That's why it's one of the first things would-be tyrants go
after. They want to silence detractors, limit freedom of speech, limit the flow
of ideas and knowledge to what they want you to know, and nothing else.
So yes, it's a smokescreen to cover up the fraud thing, but
it's still pretty damn disturbing. As is the ridiculous "boycott
Hamilton" nonsense of people arguing that they should be able to go see a
play without being bothered by politics.
What the hell do they think Hamilton is about??
It's just an all-around fuckarow, and I could almost laugh
at the ridiculousness if it didn't signal deeper problems. Like how willing everyone
is to jump on something so stupid just to not have to face the fact that the
president elect just admitted to fraud just to make the case go away before
he's sworn in. Or that he still has 74 open cases against him, including sexual harassment.
Or that he's so financially compromised in every direction
that I can't even list/link them all because we may never know all of them
because he still won't release his tax records.
Ugh. I just can't.
This is where we are right now, folks. Forget that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 1.7 million votes and counting. It's always been long odds for enough electorates to flip to elect her instead
of Trumperdink.
All we can do is keep pointing out the utter unsuitability
of this giant orange buffoon for anything resembling public service. Point it out to our senators and representatives and party leadership and even our state and local politicians and ask them to stand up for us against him and his parade of hate-mongers. Point it out loudly and often.
I honestly
don't know what the procedure would be if we managed to get him ousted due to
all his unconstitutional financial conflicts of interest. Would Congress have
to accept Clinton by default, since she was the only other real candidate
and did win the popular vote? Would they swear in Count Pimple instead, God
help us please no?
Would there be some other option? I honestly don't know the
constitutional provision for a somewhat elected candidate being proven unfit
for office before the swearing in. If anyone knows, please please tell us.
We need some hope.
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