no reputable
reputation to ruin so
snatch-and-grab artist
I would love to get out of my category named A New Dark Age.
This blog is supposed to be about witty word play and not so much about current events but when commentary about the current man in office is using some of the most creative word play, what can I do?
The term ‘A New Dark Age’ is taken from Winston Churchill’s Finest Hour speech where he warned of what could happen if the world saw Germany victorious, saying:
… if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
That New Dark Age is where we are now.
In the NYT Opinion piece, Dance$ With Emolument$, Maureen Dowd writes:
Other foreign leaders got the message that emoluments were welcome. In an Oval Office meeting where Trump continued to relish his role as protector of the white patriarchy, the South African president jokingly told the American president, “I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you.” (This might be the line that best sums up the Trump presidency in the history books.)
Trump replied breezily: “I wish you did. I’d take it.”
Trump Inc.’s money grabs were taking place against the background of the president pushing through his “big, beautiful bill” extending his obscene tax cut for the rich while slicing billions from programs that help poor people stay alive.
“The guy promised to make American families more prosperous,” David Axelrod said. “He just decided to start with his own.”
In a galaxy long ago and far away, there was shame attached to selling your office. Sherman Adams, President Dwight Eisenhower’s chief of staff, lost his job and ruined his reputation after he accepted a vicuña coat from a Boston textile manufacturer doing business with the federal government.
Trump has no reputable reputation to ruin. He’s a snatch-and-grab artist.
“I think social media and Donald Trump’s persona have numbed people to the idea that certain forms of behavior are off-limits,” Tim O’Brien, a Trump biographer, said. “No institution has been able to rein in Donald Trump. He got impeached twice. Didn’t matter, so Congress couldn’t rein him in. He had all sorts of federal and state prosecutions that ended up going nowhere, so law enforcement couldn’t rein him in. The media has been covering him as close as anyone could ever be covered, and the media couldn’t rein him in. I think it makes people just sort of turn away and accept it as inevitable.”
Trump has no reputable reputation to ruin. He’s a snatch-and-grab artist.
No reputable reputation to ruin.
As Mr. Dylan said, when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.
We, on the other hand, stand to lose a lot.
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