They wuz railroaded!!!
OT but I almost forgot to wish everyone a happy Shakespeareâs Birthday.
My new group, the Midtown Manhattan Militia, will be starting patrols to find and arrest the foreign billionaires buying up all the spaces in the new high-rises being built here.
Starting with Trump Tower!!!
(In a whacky twist, weâve discovered that theyâre also financing buildings : )
thanks. 'Tis appreciated.
I just hate to space it out myself and not have a little momentâs appreciation, and I know we have a well-read gang here. Just earlier today there was a Hamlet reference. And some great conversations happen here over some OT remark about a favorite libation or jazz player or who knows what.
Union Pacific RR cuts ties with Nazis.
If Shakespeare had written Trump, it would be Caliban as a horrid Lear.
The Bard would have crushed Dotard.
So the militia that doesnât want people coming over where âthey donât belongâ is illegally camping out on property where they donât belong. Got it.
In an affidavit, the FBI said it had become aware in late 2017 that Hopkins âallegedly made the statement that the United Constitutional Patriots were training to assassinate George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, because of these individualsâ support of Antifa.â
Learned of threat in 2017, action taken to remove threat Spring 2019.
Good thing the threat was slow moving.
Also for the love of Gahhdess if youâre going to use your phone to record video would you please rotate it? #nothard
âLove all, trust a few, and do wrong to none.â
Itâs such an interesting question. I remember thinking a long time ago that Trump would not be a good literary subject because heâs fundamentally uninteresting. He reacts exactly the same way to a given stimulus every single time. And heâs a dullard; his inner life is just a dreary cesspool. How much time would anyone want to spend with him? Five minutes would be an interminable hell. If you were in an asbestos rowboat on a sea of lava for those five minutes youâd jump out before enduring a sixth.
I think the most relevant play is Macbeth, not because Macbeth resembles Trump at all, but because the inexorable unraveling seems to be playing out the same way. Starting out with a regicide makes you think this is bound not to go well, and with every scene it starts to go a little unweller. The mood of doom, the foreshadowing, just grows and grows. And finally the messenger comes, and says, âI looked toward Birnam, and anon methought/ The wood began to move.â And Macbeth, realizing how much heâs been deceived, bursts out, âLiar and slave!â Itâs just like Trump saying, âIâm fucked,â but of course with an intelligent, articulate villain in his place.
When a railroad tells you to get off their land, you vamoose. The fines for trespassing make a NYC parking ticket look like a love note.
I wonder how many times they have found a small group of people in a very remote area and decided not to bring them inâŚit would not surprise me if some of these guys fantasize about having the opportunity to âdefendâ the nation against âinvadersâ. Border Patrol should have shut them down immediately, having what is essentially a posse running around armed the teeth and following racist ideology mixed in with desperate asylum seekers is just asking for trouble.
Great analysis. The growing dark weight in Macbeth is definitely the arc here in the Trump era at least for sane and caring folks. Shakespeare would have had Trump as some Richard III type, except he would be in and out, creating the matrix for the stupidity and callousness of the courtiers (Jared, Miller, Pence, et al). A comedy of dark and deadly errors, without much recourse.
âA whore! A whore! My kingdom for a whore !!!â
(my apologies, Sir Will, and Happy Birthday. )
Were any dogs harmed by the loud and sustained whining of the Militiaboys when they had their fat asses kicked off private property?
Oh, Richard III for sure. How many people would come to Trump in his dreams, accuse him of his crimes, and say, âDespair, and die!â
If I had to apply Shakespeare to the Whiner in the White House. I would suggest Polonius from Hamlet. The old windbag
But I think Dickens is much better. I mean, Podsnap from âOur Mutual Friendâ encapsulates the entire Whiny Administration.
Itâs also his death day.
After seeing some of them in the pictures, Falstaff was all that came to mind.