CRINGE PIC: ARMAGEDDON CALLING

   

I DON’T KNOW about you, but this cringe-worthy pic of the American president surrounded by evangelical ministers in the Oval Office in early March gives me the willies and makes my tummy hurt. Apparently, this laying-on-of-hands prayer-o-rama happens during the Trump Dynasty on an ad hoc basis, when there are periods of conflict, or national tensions, or before major legislative initiatives and the like. No doubt President Tee will be wanting to hold several such ceremonies before the congressional midterms this November when his party (Republicans) is set to be crucified by an electorate all to ready to lay a (decidedly temporal) smack-down on the laggards and lay-abouts in both houses of congress.

👉I wonder how many of these Holy Joe carpetbaggers will be there praying for the president to get the memo from on high, watching askance while he punches in the nuclear codes during a sundowner moment and ushers in Armageddon? I suspect most would be high-tailing it a.s.a.p.

👉I GUESS I prefer my political elites to have both feet planted squarely on the ground, something that should remind them they’re on the same planet as the rest of us, even during those elevated moments when they imagine they can walk on water. Feet of clay, Mister Trump. Feet of clay.

 

SIDEBAR: The wonderfully ornate desk Trump is seated at is called the “Resolute Desk”. It was a gift from Queen Victoria in 1880 and was built from timbers of the British vessel HMS Resolute that had gone in search of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition.* In 1854 Resolute became trapped in ice and had to be abandoned. Subsequently, a whaling ship recovered it and towed it to safe harbour. [The Resolute looks like she'll float. I wonder if Trump would want to follow in Franklin's footsteps? Just say'in. Ed.]

BTW, my new desk is called “Woo-Woo! Lets Get the Party Started!”

 

CHEERS, JAKE.

 

1.   FRANKLIN'S TWO SHIPS, the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus became icebound and were abandoned in 1848 when 105 officers and crew made their fateful journey on foot to reach the Canadian mainland. None survived. All 129 crew members perished (24 had died previously). In 2014, a “Victoria Strait Expedition” research vessel discovered the wreck of HMS Erebus. Two years later, an "Arctic Research Foundation" vessel discovered the wreck of HMS Terror.