Former president Donald Trump called on Congress to investigate the multiple investigations into him on the local, state and federal level in a series of posts on Truth Social.
Nothing like having your party’s frontrunner currently on trial for multiple felonies.
I could swear in 2016 his campaign made a quip about investigating investigations.
Politics is a farce:
The earliest uses of this word in English, dating to the 14th century, utilize it as a synonym for forcemeat (“finely chopped and highly seasoned meat or fish that is either served alone or used as a stuffing”).
This is how the sausages are made, folks. This Trump character is a farce. He is what you’re buying when they sell the sizzle.
(edits: thumbs)
I don’t think I disagree with you but I also have no idea what you’re trying to say
I kinda knew that was a bit of a reach. OK, not to be too pedantic:
There’s an idiom (in English), “you don’t want to know how the sausage is made,” being an oblique reference to Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle,” a contemporaneous novel about the American meat packing industry in the early 1900s. Ostensibly a call to socialism, the fallout was the foundation of the USDA, a regulatory body over farm+to-market processing of meat and dairy. Everyone but the meat packers won with that.
Playing off that, there’s a character in Terry Pratchett’s Disc world series, one C.M.O.T. Dibbler, an avowed Saleman. His schtick is to “sell the sizzle,” with further subtle textual references to Mr. Sinclair’s works and a damning view of capitalism and sausage-stuffng.
Thus, we have Trump. Grifter extrordinaire, shameless self-promoter, malignant narcissist, and a putz never to be voted for, now an achievéd of the highest office in possibly the most influential nation of the 20th century. Galling, to be sure, but here we are.
Edit: again, thumbs
Man, this just reminded me I need to continue my Discworld journey. I started from the beginning and made my way through Sourcery, but paused to jump to Asimov’s Robots series and into Foundation. By the time I was done with that I forgot all about Discworld.
Years ago I found this sweet Discworld Reading Guide Infographic and thanks to you I will use it to hop back on the disc with Wyrd Sisters.
Please don’t insult Dibbler like that again. I’d cut me own throat before voting for Trump. For Dibbler I’d consider buying a sausage from him, if I were a wizard, and knew when my last day was going to be.
