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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBorowitz: Moving Vans Arrive At White House To Remove All Traces Of Competence, Dignity
Working around the clock, movers started clearing out the optimism and progress that had accumulated during the past eight years.
Once weve packed up that stuff, well start moving out the wisdom and maturity, one of the movers said. The guy whos moving in wants all of that gone.
After the movers complete their work, a cleaning crew will come in and scrub the White House of every last speck of compassion.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/moving-vans-arrive-at-white-house-to-remove-all-traces-of-competence-dignity?mbid=nl_011817%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%20(1)&CNDID=13562008&spMailingID=10253716&spUserID=MTMzMTc5NTg5MjQ3S0&spJobID=1081486665&spReportId=MTA4MTQ4NjY2NQS2
fleur-de-lisa
(14,652 posts)political satirist around! Nails it every time!
progressoid
(50,425 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,785 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)spanone
(137,268 posts)8~(
Wounded Bear
(60,060 posts)shenmue
(38,528 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Sometimes satire makes me sad. It so often tells a brutal truth.
R&
lastlib
(24,396 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(32,176 posts)Usually in an instance like this you could look to comedians for relief, comic relief.
But you will note this is not really happening, take Stephen Colbert for instance. He cant find a way to make people laugh over this situation because what is happening is not funny and all too real and scary.
The joke is on us, and until 3rd party voters admit they made a mistake and until trump followers do as well, we can expect this to actually get worse
Akamai
(1,779 posts)and wants liberal programs, such as: no more foreign wars, increasing taxes on the richest of us, climate change improvement, women's rights in work and over their bodies, etc.
Now the press is celebrating Trump, but his views are in the minority of the views of the country. The country is progressive and the mainstream media is lying (by omission) about it, or even lying directly about it. (And also, look at the bright, shiny object over there.)
we need a media that does not lie to us, and a Channel on cable TV that addresses these issues.
The first really progressive Channel on cable TV is going to attract a hell of a lot of viewers, including me and my far, far better half.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)It wasn't third party voters, it was those who did not vote. It is no joke. Do not tell others about "their mistake", accept the failures of those who did not stand up for our values during President Obama's term. If we fail to do so, we are doomed to repeat the Clinton errors, imo.
Eliot Rosewater
(32,176 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,639 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)furniture be delivered to the WH?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)tenorly
(2,037 posts)We all remember the long national - and international - nightmare that followed once the Clintons left office.
Gothmog
(152,036 posts)malaise
(275,413 posts)calimary
(83,459 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)Now I've got to go back to not sleeping nights like it was 7 - 8 yrs ago.
Hekate
(93,581 posts)Yeah, I haz a sad all right
TygrBright
(20,933 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,725 posts)You could shave with it. First sentence, it was funny, but less so as it went on, at least for me. I grew more and more nostalgic with each word.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,725 posts)When I 'entered' my comment, the confirmation page had a banner ad....for a moving company.
A little too on-the-nose.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)world wide wally
(21,785 posts)like this and his Russian bullldog
bdamomma
(65,137 posts)they were conned and he will be laughing all the way to the Bank unless Putin gets him on something like a video showing up.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Different Drummer
(8,242 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,971 posts)nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
delisen
(6,338 posts)milestogo
(17,049 posts)malaise
(275,413 posts)I'm worried for the house
spanone
(137,268 posts)🍷
bdamomma
(65,137 posts)that is the Peoples house, I wish they would remove all historical paintings and furnishings. He would probably sell them.