–Curtain Goes Up
–-ACT I: Okay, many millions of Americans are unemployed. What do they need? They need jobs. Who are the biggest employers in the United States? Small businesses. Trump’s administration funded small businesses to the tune of $350 billion dollars so they could pay their bills and keep their employees. End ACT I
–ACT II: Trump, Pence, Mnuchin, et al. ask Congress to refill the small-business fund with an additional $250 billion. Speaker Pelosi refuses, while allowing herself to be filmed by TV clown in her mansion as she consumes quarts of gourmet ice-cream in a professional-caliber kitchen. END ACT II
–ACT III: Okay, so many millions of Americans are unemployed. What do they need? They need jobs. Who are the biggest employers in the United States? Small businesses. What is the response of Pelosi, the Democrats, and the media to those small businesses and their unemployed fellow citizens: “Tough, let ‘em eat cheap diet sorbet.” END ACT III
–Curtain Falls
–If life was fair, a reviewer of the foregoing play would recommend that it needed one more act to have a happy ending. In the fourth act, the reviewer might well suggest that Pelosi, Schumer, Hoyer, Durbin, Gov. Cuomo, Gov. Whitmer, Schiff, Bill Gates, Governor Wolf, and Gov. Murphy be shown shivering and cooling their heels inside an old, drafty stone prison as they wait to meet their fate via Monsieur Guillotine, this time built of the fine, sharp steel made by U.S. steel mills saved by Trump’s tariffs.
That reviewer also might suggest that the producer procure a guillotine for each of the doomed miscreants, so they could all be sent to their home-in-hell at once. For final touch – adding a bit of good-clean pizzaz a la Busby Berkley – the blades, as they fall, would be accompanied by the strains of “Happy Days are Here Again!”
Is that not a great event to envision?! It probably won’t occur, but, for just a few seconds, close your eyes and sing the lyrics that must have been written for precisely for such a joyous and richly merited event. Now, as Planned Parenthood seeks sellable body-parts among the headless corpses, let us all sing out with gusto …
Happy days are here again!
The skies above are clear again,
Let us sing a song of cheer again,
Happy days are here again!
Altogether shout it now,
There’s no one who can doubt it now,
Let us tell the world about it now,
Happy days are here again!
Your cares and troubles are gone
There’ll be no more from now on! …
So long sad times, go long bad times,
We are rid of you at last;
Howdy gay times, cloudy gray times
You are now a thing of the past.
Happy days are here again!
The skies above are clear again
Let us sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again! [1]
–Program Notes:
-1.) “Happy Days are Here Again” was written by Jack Yellen and Milton Ager in 1929. See, http://www.protestsonglyrics.net/Great_Depression_Songs/Happy-Days-Are-Here-Again.phtml. To hear the song performed by the wonderful Annette Hanshaw go to https://www.youtube.com/?pbjreload=10
