The Brilliance of Ben Wittes
A fairy tale on the crap-show that is the US House of Representatives
I woke up early this morning, and instead of getting out of bed, I picked up the iPad and did a little light surfing. I played my daily Wordle (I solved it in 4 turns - yay!), and then I tapped on the Protonmail app, and what did I see?
The Dog Shirt Daily had an early post, and it was a brilliant parody. Ben was taking the chaotic situation in the house and used a fairy-tale voice to make fun of the idiocy the resulting hilarity is just perfect.
Try this on for size:
But they couldn’t choose someone to sit in the Chair.
These many men and embarrassingly few women had a few things in common: They all, for example, opposed the Other party. They all disliked the president, who was from that Other party. And they all represented a certain sort of people—which is to say not the type of people that the Other party represented.
But these many men and embarrassingly few women had some problems too. Big problems. For one thing, they didn’t actually believe similar things. Some believed in X, and some believed in not-X. Some believed in Y, and some believed in really-not-Y. Some believed in helping A fight a war against B, but some really liked B, because his murderousness was manly and not woke, and they didn’t like A at all. And while they all opposed what the Other party was doing, they did so for very different reasons and with no common sense of what they would do instead.
Just poetry.
Read it for your self, and let me know if you don’t get a few good chuckles, if not hearty guffaws.
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