Last laughs. Last Hopes. Nuff said
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN
NEWSLETTER #91 NOVEMBER 1, 202
I'm sure you're as exhausted as I am: Sick of the punditry, polls and prognostications. Desperate to get this ordeal over with. Working and praying for victory on Tuesday -- or however long it takes and however turbulent the process. Here are some last laughs to get you through the next two days.
* Or, if you prefer....
* Sign on fence in New England
* Seen in Central Park
* Eat him for breakfast. (You don't have to be Jewish to love lox and whitefish.)
VIDEOS
* The Marvelous Mr. Mandy. Enjoy Patinkin's charmingly self-mocking, politically galvanizing GOTV video.
* Since it appears Trump won't leave under his own steam, we birds will have to carry him out. If you miss the avian metaphors in this witty, artful video, here's a cheat sheet: Everyday voters are the birds who rally together to pluck the misfit out of the White House and drop him where he belongs (not Mar-a-Lago). The wise owl who revs up the crowd represents smart, strong women (like Angelica Huston who speaks the owl's lines and Kamala Harris who speaks her own). The bald Eagles who carry Donald to the dump symbolize democracy saving the day. (The sign-off gave me goose bumps.)
* Trumpty Dumpty -- deliciously read by Alan Alda, Annette Bening, Glenn Close, and Meryl Streep -- has a message and a moral for today.
* Though I appreciate his efforts to discomfort the comfortable and satirize the smug, I'm not a fan of Sasha Baron Cohen's characters and costumes (or lack thereof). But the other day, when a speech he delivered last year turned up in my inbox, I was blown away by the real Cohen, wearing a suit and tie and speaking his mind. He sounded like an Oxford don and knew more about extremism, racism, antiSemitism and Islamophobia than you, me, and ADL put together. But he didn't just bloviate, he told the tech giants exactly how they could banish white supremacists and Holocaust deniers from the internet once and for all.
* Driving by a very long line of people at a local polling place, I asked, "How long have you been waiting to vote?" And someone answered "Four years!"
REMEMBER TO CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS TODAY AND YOUR GOVERNMENT ON TUESDAY
Get Out The Vote. Volunteer your time. Send money. Stay Safe. -- Letty
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