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I made a contribution to the #IfTrumpWereSanta hashtag:
I want to pitch a new reality show, American Idolator, where the contestants all have to live for some months in a bubble under a crazed and capricious authority figure whose rages and terrors must be placated at all costs, and they all bad-mouth each other in anonymous interviews (on-camera silhouettes with disguised voices); each week somebody is voted out of the bubble as the subject of the most damaging leak. The hook for an episode is some incident where the Leader makes himself look like an idiot and all the contestants work to devise ways of helping him feel good about himself (like the early episode where he insists, against easily available evidence, that his poorly attended inaugural festivity is the largest inaugural festivity in history), etc. The last segment in each episode is a "cabinet meeting" in which the contestants go round the table vying for attention through extravagant flattery of the Leader, after which the Leader says "I'm not happy with" the preselected victim and they must pack up and go home. When they're down to the last two, the winner gets a Golden Calf or a big stone Ten Commandments or something.#IfTrumpWereSanta— Xmastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) December 23, 2017
Dear Santa,
You're incredibly smart and capable, and vigorous for your age. You've accomplished more than any other Saint. You've really made Christmas great again. It's such an honor just to be writing you a letter. Please bring me a million dollars.
.@realDonaldTrump please explain how your great #taxscam and famous dealmaking skills didn't stop this. It's like AT&T thinks you're stupid or something. https://t.co/eib65L2Uqk— Xmastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) December 23, 2017
Seventy-five bucks would probably cover Trump’s lunch tab at her father’s club, but really does nothing for those low-income families. https://t.co/Al9kTU430v— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) December 21, 2017
When was that? Nowadays if you can't afford McDonald's you're not paying any income tax and the Trump #TaxScam doesn't benefit you at all.— Xmastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) December 22, 2017
But as far as I know you weren't destitute when you were at Dartmouth and you've had good-paying wingnut welfare gigs since the day you graduated. https://t.co/4MnXgmgyZB Tell us about your days of no-McDonalds poverty, because they're not in the standard biography.— Xmastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) December 22, 2017
Trump should stop threatening the constitutional independence of the judiciary by calling for investigations of this and that and tweeting verdicts. If he follows your advice he's not an accountable president but an arbitrary #Emperor.— Xmastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) December 23, 2017
Strange how in all these years you've learned so little about our Constitution and how it works to prevent tyranny through the separation of powers.— Xmastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) December 23, 2017
And in some truly astonishing Scroogery via Jared Bernstein
Trump administration plans to let restaurant owners pocket waitstaff tips. You can't make stuff like this up. https://t.co/VCuipJ5sfb— Xmastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) December 23, 2017
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