The Play’s the … You Know … the Thing

 

Perhaps the Dems are pushing a doddering and forgetful white man with a young female heir because they are trying to tell a story; the party is pathetic and a little crazy as it wanders in the wilderness, cast out by an ungrateful public. It is also ancient, white and white-haired. It will be rescued by the loyal young female who takes the old white guy in but is the actual ruler.

It’s King Lear for millennials and a psychodrama that appeals to people who still love the old white guy and to those who can’t wait to see him leave the stage both because you’ve elected the story to play out in real-time.

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  1. Barfly Member
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    If we’re living in a narrative, we ought to credit Pynchon as much as Shakespeare. 2020 is Gravity’s Rainbow, and we’re almost past the zero.

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  2. Percival Thatcher
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    To be King Lear, he needs two more daughters to plot against him, and a fool.

    AOC, Ilhan Omar, and for the fool … whoa, there are so many to choose from.

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  3. TBA Coolidge
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    Percival (View Comment):

    To be King Lear, he needs two more daughters to plot against him, and a fool.

    AOC, Ilhan Omar, and for the fool … whoa, there are so many to choose from.

    They can’t cast Hillary as her turn as Lady MacBeth was indelible. 

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  4. Percival Thatcher
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    TBA (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    To be King Lear, he needs two more daughters to plot against him, and a fool.

    AOC, Ilhan Omar, and for the fool … whoa, there are so many to choose from.

    They can’t cast Hillary as her turn as Lady MacBeth was indelible.

    That, plus she’s older than dirt.

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  5. Barfly Member
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    Percival (View Comment):

    TBA (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    To be King Lear, he needs two more daughters to plot against him, and a fool.

    AOC, Ilhan Omar, and for the fool … whoa, there are so many to choose from.

    They can’t cast Hillary as her turn as Lady MacBeth was indelible.

    That, plus she’s older than dirt.

    Aaand, she has no problem with dirty hands since she licked them clean. 

    P.S. Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States.

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  6. GLDIII Temporarily Essential Reagan
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    Barfly (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    TBA (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    To be King Lear, he needs two more daughters to plot against him, and a fool.

    AOC, Ilhan Omar, and for the fool … whoa, there are so many to choose from.

    They can’t cast Hillary as her turn as Lady MacBeth was indelible.

    That, plus she’s older than dirt.

    Aaand, she has no problem with dirty hands since she licked them clean.

    P.S. Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States.

    Liking…… just to see this repeated again. 

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  7. Flicker Coolidge
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    Percival (View Comment):

    To be King Lear, he needs two more daughters to plot against him, and a fool.

    AOC, Ilhan Omar, and for the fool … whoa, there are so many to choose from.

    Someone on a skateboard.

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  8. Hank Rhody, Freelance Philosopher Contributor
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    Percival (View Comment):

    To be King Lear, he needs two more daughters to plot against him, and a fool.

    AOC, Ilhan Omar, and for the fool … whoa, there are so many to choose from.

    It’s a lot harder when you realize the fool has to be wise.

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  9. Percival Thatcher
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    Hank Rhody, Freelance Philosop… (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    To be King Lear, he needs two more daughters to plot against him, and a fool.

    AOC, Ilhan Omar, and for the fool … whoa, there are so many to choose from.

    It’s a lot harder when you realize the fool has to be wise.

    And is loyal to Lear, as is Cordelia.

    Do you suppose Joe even has two friends?

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  10. Django Member
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    For some reason this reminded me of my hero Ambrose Bierce’s definition of a queen: The person who rules the kingdom when there is a king, and through whom the kingdom is ruled when there isn’t a king. 

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  11. cirby Inactive
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    I forget – which Shakespeare play is it where all of the King’s children are corrupt and taking money from enemy countries?

     

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  12. Django Member
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    cirby (View Comment):

    I forget – which Shakespeare play is it where all of the King’s children are corrupt and taking money from enemy countries?

     

    It’s covered here: https://www.scribd.com/document/477171053/Hunter-Biden-Burisma-and-Corruption-The-Impact-on-U-S-Government-Policy-and-Related-Concerns#from_embed

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/breaking-senate-finance-homeland-committees-release-report-hunter-biden-burisma-corruption-devastating/

    Wonder if NYT or WaPo will cover the story? 

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  13. Barfly Member
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    cirby (View Comment):

    I forget – which Shakespeare play is it where all of the King’s children are corrupt and taking money from enemy countries?

    See, that’s what I mean. Tragic figures in Shakespeare have elegant flaws, instead we get the white trash Biden Clan. Look, I watched Othello, and Joe Biden is no Othello.

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  14. Hank Rhody, Freelance Philosopher Contributor
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    Barfly (View Comment):
    Look, I watched Othello, and Joe Biden is no Othello.

    Are you saying he ain’t black? then who in the sam-hill is he going to vote for?

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