Make America Change and Hope Yet Again

Mack Hall, HSG
Mhall46184@aol.com

Make America Change and Hope Yet Again

Roderick Spode: “…this great country can go forward once more to glory!...Citizens…I say to you that nothing stands between us and our victory except defeat! Tomorrow is a new day! The future lies ahead!”

Man in audience: “You know, I never thought of that.”

-Jeeves and Wooster

Just like poor Charlie Brown believing, despite humiliating experience, that this time Lucy is not going to snatch away that football, the American people believe, over and over, that this time they’ve got a candidate. But again and again their football of happiness is snatched away - by Senator Clinton, Governor Christie, Senator Cruz, and a series of other Lucy Van Pelts.

As John Keats did not say, where are the candidates of spring? Ay, where are they?

They are gone, lost down the Orwellian Memory Hole along with pet rocks, the End of the World in 1999, the Hale-Bopp Comet spaceships, the End of the World in 2000, Jade Helm ninjas, the End of the World some other time, unmarked UN helicopters, the End of the World yet again, the Central Texas Disney World, the End of the World we really mean it this time, global-warming, the End of the World this September 13th, and those buckets of magic ice water that were said to cure disease.

Quick – who were the candidates who stood against George H. W. Bush in the primaries? Who was Bill Clinton’s first pick for vice-president? Who were the big noises for each political party only last June?

The current big noise promises to make America great again – just like all the other big noises since George Washington.

As a modest contribution to the low-Prole unreality show that by populist acclamation has replaced thinking in this nation, here is a matrix of well-used terms, some of them quite international, for future presidential campaign slogans. Read them, and then follow the instructions below for each candidate who is really going to save us this time, just like that last one, and the one before that, and the one before:

We are the people we are the 99% transparency we shall triumph the whole world is watching make American great again sustainable forward together hope and change long live our glorious leader the buck stops here remember the Maine power to the people no war but class war Le Québec aux Québécois justice for everyone je suis Charlie it’s Scotland’s oil heim ins reich every man a king Ross for boss change we can believe in si se puede bread and roses me no frego let’s keep fighting for progress Peron o muerte where’s the beef? reigniting the promise of America not just peanuts he’s making us proud again kinder gentler nation for people a new American century time for a change it’s time to change America integrity vote for change commitment honest putting people first building a bridge to the 21st century in your heart you know he’s right a time for greatness to begin anew peace and prosperity a revolution is coming happy days are here again he kept us out of war fighting for us rum Romanism and rebellion go Greens turn the rascals out forward the people’s president a green new deal for America had enough? strength and experience reform prosperity and peace drill baby drill America first country first hope let America be America again taking America back vote for leadership a real choice for America defeat the Washington machine unleash the American dream a safer world and a more hopeful America tea party working for America the choice is clear a stronger America prosperity and progress compassionate conservatism leadership for the new millennium we can’t wait everyday Americans need a champion I want to be that champion from hope to higher ground the people united will never be defeated bread and freedom a chicken in every pot I’ll build a wall it’s time for a change death to world capitalism greater together.

And stuff.

Cut up this scribble into individual words. Dump all of them into a gimme cap. Pull any four words out of the cap. Have those four words stitched onto the cap. Practice saying the words over and over while taking selfies. And there you are, all ready for Campaign 2016 for any political party you choose.

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6 May 2012. The Game-Changer Icon Blows the Whistle at the Tipping Point

Mack Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

The Game-Changer Icon blows the Whistle at the Tipping Point

As tweeted in the national news by various reliable sources close to far-flung centrists, liberal media bias talking points reached the tipping point with pin-point accuracy by crossing a red line drawn in the sands of time by sustainable viral rebels.  Categorically denied by the FLOTUS, affordable prescription drugs impacted climate change as both sides of the aisle came together to grow the game-changing economy in order to take back our streets from right-wing team-building earmarks.

Further, green diversity admitted to a personal error in judgment whose smoking gun was revealed in a walk-back whose timing could only be politically motivated.  This unfortunate chapter in the party rank-and-file was a benchmark game-change for the leader of the free world to double down on gender-based innovations.

In Europe, the war on women sought out the game-change healing process through settled science along the fiscal cliff.  Green jobs coming out of the firewall were hailed by sources close to the Vatican as a time to move on up the slippery slope to wreak havoc on net chatter.  The mainstream was downstream because upstream porcelain shares were noticeably higher.

In other news, closure was sought by firewalls everywhere so that Israel’s Iron Dome would be a wakeup call too big to fail on climate change.  A key endorsement by real-time right-wing advocacy groups insisted that his resignation was based on his need to spend more time with his family’s fully-automatic assault rifle with high-capacity pressure-cookers.  Although sources close to Hamad Kharzi said this move was an over-the-top effort sounding a death-knell for the nanny state science-deniers, due diligence in the wake of hate crimes called for an end to outside-the-box mandates.

In business news, sources close to Wall Street suggest that the enhanced infrastructure game change showed real concerns in the optics of loose cannons on deck.  Empowering the enhanced status of free-market synergy led to pro-active core values reaching a jaw-dropping reality check on Asian memes.  The robust credibility of main street’s best practices suggests that the palpable excitement of transparency is cooling off to sustainable limits.

Finally, in sports news, sources close to the south end of a north-bound free agent exploring other game-changing options on Saturday reported that a great many people were stunned and shocked to the very core of their existential beings, bringing about a world that they no longer recognize, defining a generation and changing their lives forever, to discover that one horse can run faster than another.

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