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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Moses Addresses the Israelites

Trump Style

By Tom Harley

[Originally posted on Sheep and Goats, March 26, 2020. Republished here by permission of the author.]

And the sons of Israel proceeded to come out of the Red Sea. They congregated and Moses addressed them:
    “We came out of the Red Sea. It was very red and very wet. Nobody else could have done what we did. Egypt tried and they got wet, very wet, wet like no one ever saw. But we did not get wet because we are great, very very great, the greatest country that the world has ever seen. And I am the leader. You are not. Nobody else could have done what I did. Everybody on my team is doing a great job. Others are doing great jobs, too, very many others, but we are doing a great great job.
    “It is hot in the desert where we are walking. Very hot. Incredibly hot, hot like no one ever saw, but it is not too hot for us, even though it is very very hot. And later we will cross the Jordan River and it will be better, better like no one ever saw. Very, very much better, and everyone is doing a great job and they will do a great job later, too. Now I’ll take some questions:
    “Okay, Abiram – you first. Yes, yes, okay, yes. No, no, not at all. What is the place called where we are? Yes. Sinai. So we are crossing the Sinai Desert. It is not racist at all....”
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Read the rest on Tom’s Sheep and Goats blog.


Copyright © 2020 by Tom Harley
Tom Harley, who has also been known as Tom Sheepandgoats, in association with the blog “Sheep and Goats,” lives in Rochester, New York. He is the author of several books whose titles you can see on his Amazon author’s page.

4 comments:

  1. Thank you for suggesting this, Tom. We appreciate well-wrought parodies of America’s joke of a president.

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  2. Neil P. Hoffmann via MoristotleTuesday, January 19, 2021 at 8:38:00 PM EST

    Sadly I no longer find a parody of Trump funny. Nor mocking Exodus, which I remember thinking as a child was a heck of a story, No harm intended I'm sure. Don't mind me.

    I'm anxious about tomorrow. How about you?

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    1. You know, you're right. I mean, about me too. It isn't funny, is it? Just sad. And that Tom’s piece might be taken as "mocking Exodus" hadn't occurred to me....
          Not worried about tomorrow. What will be will be, and we will survive. I am sad, though, to think of the heavy burdens the new administration must bear.

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    2. Neil P. Hoffmann via MoristotleTuesday, January 19, 2021 at 8:42:00 PM EST

      I doubt that your friend was ill-intentioned, but words are funny that way.

      I'm concerned about Biden's safety. We know that the military is not free of wingnuts. Someone with the opportunity and a high powered assault weapon?

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