A Clownish Attempt at a Coup
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🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | For four years, you marched and organized for equality and justice for our lives and for our planet. |
| 0:11.0 | And then you voted. |
| 0:20.0 | You chose Joe Biden as the next president of the United States of America. |
| 0:30.0 | The goal of the outgoing administration is clear from the grief they file in the Supreme Court. |
| 0:36.0 | It asserts that I quote, the entire ACA thus must fall end of quote. |
| 0:43.0 | There is an orange menace of cutressants who will no longer be able to occupy the White House. That's a big deal. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernin. So how's your coosiety today? |
| 0:59.0 | I'm going to say mine was coming on hot and heavy yesterday, especially when I remembered the proud boys had been told to stand by. |
| 1:06.0 | And soon they might be unleashed like pot-bellied in-sale mastiffs to open fire on the anarchist jurisdictions, including my own neighborhood. |
| 1:15.0 | A friend said she wasn't worried about a coup and I should just stay inside. |
| 1:21.0 | And then the Republicans started to give their usual take on things. |
| 1:25.0 | Google, gobble, eap, or brain falls up when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. |
| 1:31.0 | By the way, remember that from Hamlet? |
| 1:34.0 | Is Hamlet crazy or only pretending to be crazy? Are the Republicans or for that matter am I? |
| 1:40.0 | But then today my son asked whether I'd rather be defeated in a coup, a push, or a hunt. |
| 1:45.0 | We talked about how lame it would be to go down in a weird little cute push, or defeated in a fancy French coup, silent pee. |
| 1:52.0 | And then we talked about the H.J. and Hunta, and somehow that took the sting out of this thing. |
| 1:59.0 | Okay. As you all know, I'm in a sign war with my Trumpish neighbors, and I was very ready after Biden's decisive defeat of Trump to take down my discrete Biden-Harris-Lonsign and head over to their lost cause Trump flag redout |
| 2:14.0 | and show them some condescending noblesse oblige offer condolences on their decisive loss, and ask that we let bygones be bygones and celebrate our common humanity now. |
| 2:26.0 | I wanted a Wimbledon handshake at the net. Good show, chaps! |
| 2:31.0 | But then this ham-handed coup thing started, and their flags didn't come down, so neither did my discrete and classy sign, and the standoff remains. |
| 2:41.0 | Just to spell it out fairly. I'm on the side of righteousness, and they are cruel want-wits, and that's the size of it. |
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