Jeff Danziger for December 29, 2020

But King Lear was a decent ruler before he went mad.

I would not give these past four years the honor of a Shakespearean comparison. They are much too tawdry and thuggish!

Let the great gods,That keep this dreadful pother o’er our heads,Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch,That hast within thee undivulged crimes,Unwhipp’d of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand;Thou perjured, and thou simular man of virtueThat art incestuous: caitiff, to pieces shake,That under covert and convenient seemingHast practised on man’s life: close pent-up guilts,Rive your concealing continents, and cryThese dreadful summoners grace. I am a manMore sinn’d against than sinning.

If Eric is Cordelia…

Hair Furor has enough trouble with plain old English. His head would EXPLODE if he was ever exposed to Iambic Pentameter!

Does anyone honestly believe any of Trump’s kids would get that reference?

Where’s Bishop Pickering’s golf club?

They are the panto, not the main event!

I personally I think the “Cordelia / King Lear” reference goes way over those bums’ heads. Daniziger gives the Trumps too much credit by expecting them to know classics.

That family is too ignorant to understand the reference.