Last night, I listened to Rachel Maddow interviewing Hakeen Jeffries, who was at that moment in the House working to kill a MAGA finance bill which would kill a lot of people in this country and around the world.
Rachel asked him all the right questions in line with, “What are you doing to address Democratic voters who are critical of what they see as your inaction?” I think she actually used the word spineless.
Hakeem answered by, first, telling her what the Dems were able to do, what they had the power to do in the current horrible circumstances, and then he told her what they were doing and intending to do.
I listened carefully but was feeling sort of “I need to hear more, Hakeem,” even though I knew he was giving us details of everything he and the other Democrats were doing to ward off catastrophe.
Afterward, I thought that what I yearned for him to say was…impossible. Because what we want him to do — actually, we want to do it ourselves but we’re sitting in front of the screen watching this horrible mess —
Well, today, I caught this in the Times which, on a daily basis, gives us the best stuff from late night hosts, and here was Jimmy Kimmel saying exactly what we wanted Hakeem to do:
“I mean, seriously, if that guy walked into your office and told you he was there to start making cuts, everybody would jump on him and put him in a headlock, right? You’d zip-tie him and hold him until the cops showed up.” — Jimmy Kimmel
It’s what we yearn for, right? So we’re yelling at Hakeem to do it. Without directly telling him what we want him to do, at which point he’d undoubtedly explain why he doesn’t have the legal power to do it.
With or without legal power, what we all want is physically to grab Elon, do a citizens’ arrest, cuff him (anyway you want to read that), haul him off to somewhere and STOP HIM FROM ROMPING THROUGH OUR GOVERNMENT!! WHICH WE PAY OUR TAXES TO SUPPORT!!!
We don’t want to hear from him ever again.
And we New Yorkers don’t want him ripping $80 million in federal funds we got from Joe Biden’s FEMA right out of our City’s bank account (Citibank, to be specific). Which Elon, a/k/a the federal government, did. Funds we need to help the new immigrants. But the feds, a/k/a Elon, didn’t notify our comptroller that they took our funds. Our comptroller found out when he was checking our bank accounts and noticed that $80 million was mysteriously missing.
We don’t pay taxes to Elon or his espionage gang, do we? (Yes, espionage. What else to call it? If he were doing this to a corporation he did not control, it would be called corporate espionage.)
ARRRRRRHGHGHGHHGH!!!
There. I did this for all of us, so you can stop yelling at Hakeem.