Oboes, RantWoman? It's Arraignment eve, the Donald has pled for help from his rampart storming fan cult, Marjorie Taylor Greene has brought something, we are not sure what to New York, and we're doing OBOES?
Yes.
RantWoman has New York on her mined. RantWoman initially wondered whether these joyful young Oboists and English horn players hail from New York. No. RantWoman is sure there are plenty of oboists in New York but the ones here are the oboists of the 2012 National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, doing Swan Lake which probably means there are more cultural moments to be milked than RantWoman may get to.
Note time warp, and time warp sufficient maybe to sweep up some serious historical ruminations on the occasion of The Donald's first arraignment in his LONG life of courtroom engagements.
Among the historical detritus to sweep up:
--RantWoman was on a bus on the way to an election results watch party in 2016 when she learned that Orange Jesus had been elected President. The tone was somber. RantWoman was on a different bus on a sunny afternoon when a glance at Twitter delivered the news of the indictment announcement. OH BOY! The rolling anthropology project that is the E line was particularly anthropological that day. RantWoman decided detailed look at the news could wait.
--A few days pre-indictment, RantWoman had used the Twitter hashtag #ITMFA. RantWoman meant INDICT...Already. But RantWoman was jolted back to the onset of the Trump administration when yet again a GOP candidate lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote. RantWoman's social media almost immediately filled with the same hashtag #ITMFA except then the first intended first word was IMPEACH. Free speech is awesome. And no matter how unpopular or manifestly unqualified the winner of an election is, that just is NOT a great way to launch a new presidential administration, even one where the President goes on to overachieve with not just one but TWO impeachments.
--The oboes remind RantWoman of youth and joy and what is possible in really well thought out genuinely nonviolent protest. RantWoman has gone to several such protests in New York. Typical fashion statements: lots of jeans and T-shirts with various slogans. Tactical gear stunningly absent.
No matter how joyful many people feel about the upcoming arraignment, it is a bit unseemly to approach the occasion with that much levity, even if people might want to try cheerfully to overwhelm MAGA whose disciplined commitment to nonviolence seems, to RantWoman, non existent.
--RantWoman lived on the east coast in the 1980's. RantWoman never paid any attention to Donald Trumpbut does remember that Rudy Giuliani in those days was at least a fairly respected legal figure.
--RantWoman remembers her first visit to Manhattan, on fall break freshman year of college. RantWoman was travelling with a friend who it turned out was relying on RantWoman's wobbly vision and ability to follow directions to get us both around. RantWoman remembers wanting to look up all the time to find the sky and a horizon among the midtown skyscrapers. RantWoman also remembers her friend coaching her relentlessly that RantWoman did not need to say Hi to everyone who mumbled in our direction.
RantWoman mentions the city life virgin behaviors because the illustrious Ms. Greene of GA is having her own first time in the city moments. One of her first tweets about the experience spoke of all the people falling out on the street in drug-addled stupor because of liberal harm reduction drug policies. RantWoman's first thought: "Look lady, you what, took a shuttle to the hotel and had to walk a few steps to the registration desk. Did you really see...or are you just making stuff up to fit your narrative?" Luckily for RantWoman's sanity, someone immediately posted about how the death rates per 100,000 due to fentanyl are actually higher in the Gentle Lady from GA's district than they are in NY. So we can come back to that or readers can visit the MAGA Budget link below for a preview.
With all of that, a couple links noted for posterity below, and a little more saved for tomorrow, RantWoman wishes the denizen of Trump Tower a happy arraignment
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