For Your Amusement: GIDOVAIT

It has come to my attention that while the popularity of The Soprano’s FUHGEDDABOUDIT (forget about it) has waned, there has been a proportional response with Mick Mulvaney (the President’s acting Chief of Staff)’s GIDOVAIT (get over it). A review of the credibility of such an assertion is appropriate given tonight’s State of the Union address, tomorrow’s assured acquittal on the articles of impeachment, and the Democrats flub of the Iowa caucus as the result of a poorly launched app. First up on the agenda will be the ever popular question of whether or not you’re better off than you were four years ago? The stock market has doubled. Has your income? If not, GIDOVAIT! Next, if you’re one of those who found a job during the past four years you know how to express your gratitude. Of course, if the income from that job fails to cover your food and housing like your government assistance used to, well you need to GIDOVAIT! Third, if you’ve become one of the more than a half million Americans who are homeless, why are you wasting your time reading this blog? You need to GIDOVAIT! We know the tax burden on corporations has dropped significantly during the last four years with some of them paying no taxes at all. How’s your tax bill been? Getting a lot back this year? If not, GIDOVAIT! Health care costs gone down? If not, GIDOVAIT! You must be happy with the way the new trade deals are getting our neighbors to pay for the wall. If not, GIDOVAIT! How about immigration? No more of that chain migration that let large families without quality skills into our society. We need people with special skills like Melania (the First Lady), a model, or Viktor and Amalija Knav (her parents), a chauffeur and salesman for the Communist state of Slovenia and a pattern-maker. Think these skills don’t merit their entrance into the republic? GIDOVAIT! If you still think the words under Miss Liberty,  “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me–” have any significance, GIDOVAIT! If you think the president could have avoided impeachment by instead of saying the call was “perfect,” conceding as Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander did that an “inappropriate” request in the exchange may have occurred, GIDOVAIT! Finally, if you think a single popular vote is better than fifty electoral college votes to elect the leader of the free world, GIDOVAIT!