You can tell a leader really knows his stuff when he uses the phrase, ‘do a coup.’ (quick, get me a typewriter!)

July 2021

“In a new book about Donald Trump’s final year in office, the authors write that Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, feared Trump would attempt to stage a coup to remain in power after losing the election. Trump responded on Thursday: ‘If I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is Gen. Mark Milley.’ You can tell a leader really knows his stuff when he uses the phrase, ‘do a coup.’” —Jimmy Fallon 

“For the next 15 minutes, he named all the people he would do a coup with: ‘I’d coup you. I’d coup you. You’re coup-able.’” —Jimmy Fallon 

“OK, you’ve clearly put some thought into this thing you’re ‘not into.’” —Stephen Colbert

“We really need to come up with a better early warning system than tell-all books. ‘We’re in danger — quick, get me a typewriter!’” —Seth Meyers

“In a new book, Milley reveals that following the election night, he thought the ex-president ‘was stoking unrest, possibly in hopes of an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and call out the military,’ saying, ‘This is a Reichstag moment.’ No surprise — the last president was very popular with the alt-Reich.” —Stephen Colbert

“Of course, the Reichstag fire was in 1930s Germany, when an attack on the country’s legislative branch was used as a pretext to solidify fascist control. What the MAGA crowd did this year was totally different — because it was in English.” —Stephen Colbert

https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-magisterial-collection.html 

“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night 

of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”