They weren’t just trying to overturn democracy, they were trying to bore it to death (There’s just the one slide)

December 2021

“The House committee investigating the Jan. 6th attack on the Capitol is looking into a 38-page PowerPoint document sent to President Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, that included plans to overturn the 2020 election. PowerPoint? They weren’t just trying to overturn democracy, they were trying to bore it to death.” —Stephen Colbert

“So what was in these slides of sedition? We’re not exactly sure yet, but there is one deck that’s been circulating, that may be the deck in question, and one of the slides on that was a list of recommendations, including a plan to ‘declare a national security emergency.’ I’m sure exactly how you do that. I assume by breaking into every broadcast using the emergency [expletive] system.” —Stephen Colbert

“They were also planning to declare electronic voting in all states invalid. Instead, they wanted to rely on ‘legal and genuine paper ballot counts.’ OK, so if you can’t trust computers, how are you giving your presentation, via PowerPoint pigeon? They’re staging a coup-coup!” —Stephen Colbert

“Even the Mafia knows to use code words. If the Mafia ever made a PowerPoint presentation, it would say something vague like, ‘Plan for the guys at the place to do the thing.’ ‘OK, boss, what’s the next slide?’ ‘There’s no more slides. There’s just the one slide.’” —Seth Meyers

“They did everything they could, left no stone unturned, looked for every crack and crevice in our democracy they could possibly find to prevent the transition of power. Trump tried so many different avenues. He was like the guy in the grocery store during Christmas rush who keeps switching checkout aisles.” —Seth Meyers

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.”