“There is nothing good nor bad but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. Well then it isn’t one to you…nothing is either good or bad in itself, it’s all what a person thinks about it.” — Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2

“Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” — 1984, George Orwell

Reasonable minds will always differ as to the value of various historical events and the farther out we get from these events and are able to see them in context, the clearer their effect on our lives becomes. But in no way is anyone sane going to arrive at a characterization of the Trump years as “glamorous” or “romantic” — unless anarchy and violence sandwiches washed down with pitchers of lies is your preferred bill of fare. In that case, you will find the following believable.

Ain’t it grand? See, here’s the thing: if you just look at it the right way, it all makes sense. Of course smearing caa caa on the floors and walls of the Capitol is glamorous and romantic. What, did you think otherwise?

See, now this is how you’re going to have to go back and review these issues, with a different lens over it all.  Maybe we should define our terms differently. Maybe that’s the problem:

Romance = I brought a model into the White House and lied that she was fluent in different languages. So why isn’t this Camelot II?

Glamorous = Did any other prez have followers dressed in furs, tattoos and Viking horned helmets? Huh? No, didn’t think so.

If tear gas canisters, suicides and funeral speeches are not your idea of glamour, maybe you don’t want to write about the Trump administration. At least not the last weeks of it, you don’t.

But I think it’s great Donald has this revisionist history version of his presidency to chant to himself at night after the lights have gone out. That will be very helpful when he’s in the House of Many Doors.

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    • Not.

      Even.

      Close.

      “Spamalot,” at least, was funny and did absolutely no harm to anyone (except maybe people who were injured from laughing too hard).

      • Please note my use of the words dark and twisted. What made Monty Python enjoyable was their ability to use goofy satire to send-up anything they cared to make fun of. The legend of Camelot and King Arthur was a ripe target of an idealistic myth to cut down to size.

        The whole Camelot nickname given to the Kennedy administration didn’t come out of the blue. The handsome, tested in war idealistic young President with the glamorous wife and his unlikely ascent to power setting about to assemble a cast of the “best and brightest” naturally evoked a real life Camelot type of thinking in many people of the era. Of course, the reality never lived up to the image. Yes, the President and his team were smart as hell but had their share of dumbass stumbles to go along with their successes. Still, at the time it was heady stuff.

        Trump fancied himself far smarter and more “chic” than JFK and given his age I’d be willing to bet he expected to be regarded as something even better and have a more glamorous WH than Kennedy. A laughable concept to be sure, but we’re talking Trump who spent his life having hurt feelings at never having been accepted by his home city’s ruling elites who recognized him as the classless grifter he always was.

        The people Trump surrounded himself with in his administration were the opposite of the type JFK drew into his. Trump was the anti-JFK and his administration was the anti-Camelot. Hell, I’ve long said the one thing about him that one could say was part of Camelot was Mordred, and the rendition of The Seven Deadly Virtues! I’ve long wanted to see a Broadway caliber star in a fat-suit and made up to look like Trump performing that number on an Oval Office set!

        So yes, I think if Monty Python were to do a dark and twisted version of “Camelot” using American politics and a mix of JFK admin characters morphing into Trump and his people the satire would be dark, twisted and deservedly vicious.

  3. Yes, “glamorous times”. You betcha’. When I think about “glamorous” I always picture some fat assed idiot flushing government papers down the loo. “Glamorous” always brings idiots and toilets to mind.

    I keep wondering when the rock-bottom of drumpf’s stupidity will be reached.

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