Mar-a-Lago, “The Winter White House” aka Versailles. That place where $220,000 a year keeps you in “the room where it happened”. The place where Trump photo opped a cute Twitter picture “writing” his inauguration speech. The place where, apparently, he is celebrated for fighting to allow minorities and women in the door.
That place.
Trump loves spectacle. Mar-a-Lago is his playground. Fuck him.
Time to man the barricades.
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A little French history is called for tonight in my estimations. So grab some cake and let’s look at the world through the lens of the French Revolution, the fun part before Robespierre started the killing sprees. (side note: the French revolutionaries created their own calendar, that’s some chutzpah)
This is the last days of the French aristocracy and the Divine Right of kings, “l’etat, c’est moi” and all that. And the French aristocracy perfected the art of aristocracy. They found ways to burn money in spectacle that made the Romans look like Mennonites. And the clothes! Oh the clothes.
Versailles was the center of it all, seat of the King and home of the royal court. I imagine it much like Jonathan Rhys Myers’ Henry VIII but in silkier, sillier costumes. A bit of Romain Duris’ Moliere to round out the accent helps too. But you get the picture. Sex, Spectacle, and Excess. In that order.
How could one not revolt against (and be revolted by) such excess while everyone else was living horribly and working to pay the taxes that kept the party going. The Bourbons kept the party live like no one since Caligula (on a good night).
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So, yes. The French Revolution needed a brake and could not find one using both wings of Comite. When a period stretching over many months in your history is called “The Terror”, you know some scary shit went down. When a former comrade has accused you of being anti-revolutionary what do you do? Where do you stop?
That’s how the French did it in the 18th century. A guy named Robespierre did such a good job of creating a machine to ferret out anti-revolutionaries that he himself lost his head. Got to step back there for a second and appreciate the supreme surreality of that.
And what is the takeaway from all this, you ask?
The takeaway is simple. Keep your eye on the ball. As long as you aren’t remembered as the guy who got famous for killing fellow radicals in the foxhole (and then losing your own head) then you are helping the Revolution and the Movement.
It doesn’t matter who the generals are. It matters who the Sergeants are. The people on the ground and in the ballot box who make up the real power of the Resistance.
anyway, that’s how I see it …
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from your humble diarist:
“Trump was busy tweeting My Pet Gloat” from Bindle in the latest from the “Socialist Fuckstick” himself, UID 3 in your programs and #1 in your hearts, Markos.
Lorinda Pike probably didn’t know what she started with a thread-spawning comment in Joan McCarter’s Republican Obamacare FP piece. It is a lovely little side eddy of a conversation.
Lamont Cranston points us at the real target of our ire in Hunter’s Enemy of the People analysis on the FP. Style points for “Pumpkin Pinochet”.
from Belinda Ridgewood:
This funny comment by ems mom mocking you know who about Obama’s subversive ‘role’ in the resistance! From Donald Trump and his Fox friends believe they know who is secretly coordinating all the protests by Jen Hayden.
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