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Shakespeare Lives


Now, lest anyone get the wrong notion, I am far from a Shakespeare aficionado. Despite having the volume on my hearing aids turned up, I usually get about fifty percent of what is being said on the Shakespeare stage. Oh I hear it, but I often do not understand it. This is different from listening to the British shows on PBS, like Doc Martin, where often I just can’t actually make out the words in their bastardized form of “English.”

With this upcoming “Impeachment Trial,” I think that I now understand more of “Billy the Shake’s” phrases.

Hoist with his own petard” is a phrase from a speech in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet that has become proverbial. The phrase’s meaning is literally that a bomb-maker is blown up (“hoist” off the ground) by his own bomb (a “petard” is a small explosive device), and indicates an ironic reversal, or poetic justice.

I predict that we will see the Dems and the RINOs hoisted with their own petard, as the Trump team is able to clearly bring out into the open the various and multiple fraudulent things that occurred during the election. Hopefully the RINOs will be hoisted the highest. (“Romney, Murkowski, and Cheney can you hear me way up there?”)

“All that glitters is not gold” (The Merchant of Venice) is a saying embodying an absolute truth stating not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so. As the truth about what actually happened in the election in some states comes out, the Biden victory will look like pyrite rather than gold.

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” (The Tempest)

To me this one is self-explanatory! Look at the White House and the Congress.

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” (Hamlet)

This can only be Shakespeare’s prescient referral to Nancy Pelosi.

“These violent delights have violent ends…” (Romeo and Juliet)

Such language! Perhaps, “The Shake-man” should be the one being impeached as he is not in office either.

Hopefully down the road the vicious and vengeful Dems and RINOs will get what they deserve.

“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” (Romeo and Juliet)

Hopefully this will be the theme as Republicans retake The House in 2022.

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.” (Macbeth)

A lot of things now being pushed by the Dems seem backward as illegals are getting the good stuff, while the middle class is getting screwed.

Hopefully the Joe Biden’s of the world will get their just desserts.

To close, Republicans remember:

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” (Measure for Measure)

and

“This above all: to thine ownself be true. And it must follow, as the night the day.” (Hamlet)

“Go,fight, win!” (not from Shakespeare but from the Contrarian)

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