The Perfect Metaphor
Yesterday, during the avalanche of news that Biden had just won the election for President of the United States, Rudy Giuliani and other swamp creatures were holding a “big news conference” on the outskirts of Philadelphia in the parking lot of the Four Seasons. Hotel, you ask? Oh, no. It’s much better than that. The Four Seasons Total Landscaping. When I saw it on Trump’s Twitter feed yesterday morning, I thought it was just Trump’s usual idiocy, but it’s better than that; a LOT better than that. Trump had actually tweeted earlier that said “big” press conference would be at the Four Seasons Hotel, but when he found out that indeed it was the landscaping company, someone deleted that tweet and issued a corrected one. So, apparently Trump doesn’t have a building named for him in Philadelphia so he gave orders to get the Four Seasons Hotel, so some harried and bullied staffer rushed to book the event, apparently not thinking there was more than one Four Seasons in Philadelphia. So Rudy shows up here:
That’s right, here is the former “America’s Mayor” turned presidential slanderer giving Trump’s “big news conference” from the shabby parking lot of a landscaping company sandwiched between a crematorium and porn shop. Next to the boat with Trump flags at the bottom of Lake Travis, there is no better metaphor for Trump’s disastrous infestation of the WH. Oh, and here’s the boat:
Here’s hoping the landscape company owner got paid up front.
That is a delicious combination of Trump’s Follies. Thank you.
1I like to think the staffer, fed up with the bullying, knew exactly what they were doing.
2Reminds me of Lloyd Bridges diver Mike Nelson in Sea Hunt. “By this time my lungs felt ready to burst as my air supply was just about gone.”
3The writers of VEEP likely thought of such a plot twist but deemed it to nutty even for that show!
4And Rudy put on a show that was worthy of the location.
5Supposedly they knew it was a landscaping company, but just wanted a parking lot next to a freeway on ramp. That’s Rudy, no doubt, always looking for a getaway route, and being next to a porn palace I guess was his idea too.
p.s. If you’re buyers no that I do have a great investment opportunity, a lovely bridge.
p.p.s. Thankfully Mike never ran too low* and lived to a ripe old age – “It’s go time!”
* Lloyd said one problem they had on Sea Hunt was actors falsely claiming they could SCUBA so they could get the job. They had to deal with some underwater panic and rescues that weren’t in the script.
6Probably right after the press conference, Giuliani ducked into the porn shop to “tuck in his shirt”.
7There was something Churchillian about the event, or perhaps bulldoggian, the timing, and locations, without of course the oratory. If there had been a speech it may have gone something like this:
We shall fight them on the roads to the golf course, we will fight them on the links, we will push through the masses in front of the White House on our return. We will fight them in the parking lot of a landscaping company, surrounded by an adult “bookshop” and crematorium- – but we will never surrender! Like O.J. Looking for the real killers, we will continue our search for voter fraud on golf courses across this great nation, should it take years to come. We shall go on to the end!
8Hahaha! Even Big Joe’s Redneck Bar down the street wouldn’t even let Rudy in. Seems he drinks like a fish and never pays his tab.
9BTW that is Rudy’s favorite east coast Porn Shop next door, just sayin.
At the very least, lex, it would be irresponsible not to speculate.
10Well, the landscaper won’t have to buy any bovine-derived organic fertilizer for quite some time, just sweep up the stuff Rudy spouted.
11Sarah O @4: Maybe it wasn’t included on VEEP but I do remember that tiny Stonehenge on This is Spinal Tap. I almost heard Rob Reiner’s narrator explaining.
12The only venue better would have been the 4 Seasons garbage recycling center.
13“…between a crematorium and a porn shop.” El Jefe, you just defined the trump administration for the ages.
14Yes JDM, very irresponsible. But even Trump’s secret best friend ‘everybody’ says so!
15OMG, that boat video!!!!!!!!!!!!
Found several videos of Rudy’s presser on YouTube. Will watch later.
I also found this amazing footage of a “person at the landscaping company” as she took a call from the Trump campaign.
16https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXuoKzelf6Q
Actually, trump told Rudy to book the Four Seasons and to pay for it out of his own pocket. So Rudy did.
17Buttermilk Sky @14: one of my grad students expressed it as a perfect metaphor for “go flux yourself and die”. And she is the nicest one in my lab ….
18Organic fertilizer inside and outside the store.
19There are no coincidences in this comical presentation. This is karma once again coming around after an extended time of going around. There is no way you cannot compare this event and the past four years to scenes in the movie Idiocracy. Just glad that the circus and all of the clowns currently in the WH will soon be leaving town and the nation can begin to drain the swamp that they created.
20Yup! Some people talk about the arc of justice. Try the arc of karma. It always knows where you are at and will find you no matter what. Guiliani is going to wind up in a padded room running his mouth off brainlessly. I’m taking bets that tRump will end up in criminal court and lose. Then maybe karma can take a break and chill out somewhere on a sandy beach with a gentle breeze blowing.
21That golden escalator apparently had an extension to the subbasement.
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