Clowntown: The Greatest Show on Earth
I am not Lodestar, let me say that right off the get-go before I’m got gone. And yes, I will take a lie detector test if the President asks for one. The trouble for the Donald, of course, is that we all might flunk that test. We all think the guy is mentally deranged. And there seems to be no way to get him sedated, shackled or impeached before he does irreparable harm.
Now we have the spectacle of a White House full of spies and moles and leakers. Everyone is suspect and between you, me and the New York Times, we’re all guilty. We’re all cowards. We’re all claiming to be patriots. Welcome to Clowntown. The Volkswagen keeps filling up with more, impossibly more, all those cabinet members and staff, one after the other crawling into that tiny space with big shoes and rubber noses, how in hell can it hold us all?? I didn’t write that op-ed piece, we all testified. Not me. No, Mr. President, I wouldn’t say that out loud. At least not until you leave the room.
Clowntown sleeps fitfully these dark days. Was it him? Could it be her? Did that Bible thumping Pence, he of the ‘lodestar’ phrase, pull off the palace intrigue of the century? Will he poison his boss’s Big Mac next? The Republicans call the perpetrator a coward and if anyone would know what cowardice is, well, step right up and hop in that Volkswagen, boys, it’ll hold a thousand clowns .
It’s a circular firing squad, a Ringling Brothers Big Top Tent Show, a Gun Expo and a Revival Meeting at the AA weekly all rolled into one. The Greatest Show on Earth, Ladies and Gents, playing nightly on Netflix and Amazon Prime!! With no net beneath these high flying acrobats, watch their death-defying leaps across logical space!! How can you NOT watch? How long can they escape the plunge?
Who will be the next to fall? Who will take their place? Who do you believe? Who really cares anymore? The Show is Everything. And the Show Must Go On …. Step right up! Step right up! I did not write that op-ed. I am not Lodestar. I think it was the guy on the trapeze. Or maybe the last clown that got in the Vee Dub. Does it matter? Keep your eye on the Ring Master. You paid your money, take the ride. Step right up, it’s the Greatest Show on Earth. Clowntown, Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls! Like nothing you’ve seen before. Like nothing you’ll see again. Step right up!
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Tags: I am not Lodestar, Lodstar, NY Times Op-Ed
I’ve heard persuasive arguments that the op-ed was written by Kellyanne Conway.
I think they all got stoned in the WH bathroom and wrote it together on the back of a toilet paper roll. Mostly, I don’t care who wrote it. I like that nobody in the Inner Sanctum knows who did it. It’s like that scene in the remake of The Thing where the boyz are all strapped into their chairs to see who really is the alien. Trouble is, when the alien shows up out of one of them, well, maybe they should’ve left well enuff alone. Lots of aliens in this White House, I betcha.