So many memes, so little time. A few laughs. And a lot to be thankful for
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN NEWSLETTER #94 NOVEMBER 25, 2020
I can't wait until the media will no longer be obligated to cover the mad king every day
--unless he actually shoots someone on Fifth Avenue, or ends up in jail.
I can't wait until we no longer have to dread his next move to dismantle democracy,
or his next appointment of an incompetent to an important post,
or his next self-congratulatory tweet,
or his next rant against a perfectly decent public servant,
or against CNN, or Obama, or Michigan, or Georgia, or New York or California, or...
But I digress.
As President Bone Spur makes his ignominious exit, here are some lovely memes
to send him on his way.
* Take a listen to how it used to be done: Brian Williams revistis past Presidents concessions .
* Time to clean up the mess he left behind.
* Another brilliant parody from Randy Rainbow This time "Don' tell Donald he's not Reelected Today" -- a send up of Stephen Sondheim's "I'm Not Getting Married Today,"from Sondheim's "Company."
* Advance tour of the future Trump Presidential Library. Be sure to click on the "Grift Shop." For Paul Musgrave's serious history of problematic presidential libraries click here.
VIDEOS
* Tell me you don't tear up watching this video of real people, each of whom could be put in a picture frame headed "America The Beautiful."
* I adore this commercial. The homophobic Christian group,"1 Million Moms,' hate it and they're calling for a boycott. So please buy a couple of extra boxes of Oreos today, or a carton of them on black Friday!
* It's hard to find anything funny about Covid but I salute the creativity of these memers for trying to keep us laughing in the midst of tragedy and despair .
FREE WISDOM
* Andrew Marantz on "How to Stop a Power Grab." Notes you might want to memorize for the future.
* "Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it." -- George Santayana
* "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
-- Voltaire .
In the last four years we've had our fill of absurdities (Clorox anyone? ) and atrocities (kids in cages, 250,000 fatalities due to presidential mismanagement of the pandemic.) Much worse was in store if we hadn't been rescued by Biden/Harris, 306 electoral and nearly 80 million popular votes.
*Given that the American experiment itself was on life support for a while, I was especially grateful to those who sent me this elegy from Whitman's "Leaves of Greass". (Some may be troubled by "love of comrades" being defined as "manly." For me, it's balanced by "Democracy" being embodied as"ma femme." And don't think I haven't noticed myself posting three pictures of dead white males. May all men be as wise.
For You O Democracy by Walt Whitman
Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon, I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America,
and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies, I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other’s necks, By the love of comrades, By the manly love of comrades. For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme! For you, for you I am trilling these songs.
Lots be to thankful for tomorrow and, hopefully, every day from now on.
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