“Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc.) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition,” Ginni Thomas quote-texted, adding: “I hope this is true.”
An ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art. Through the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the “action” of a painting or sculpture, the poet may amplify and expand its meaning.
A notable example is “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” in which the poet John Keats speculates on the identity of the lovers who appear to dance and play music, simultaneously frozen in time and in perpetual motion.
Keats might have been talking about the Minority Leader as well as Supreme Judge & Mrs. Thomas.
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Joke’s On US
Three laughers together
at some atavistic cabal,
sitting in the front row
of a mad melange.
Two of them,
who just don’t care
’bout public perception,
wear ladies’ underwear,
all giddy
above the law.
You are a better person than I –
don’t mean that –
if you can look at this trio
and not fret frantically
about freedom’s future
and equality
for the little people.
A better person might scream
and throw themselves
atop the nearest loved one
at the mere thought
of this chubby chucklers
in control of America.
Creeps me out for sure.
So, picture this.
Ginni rhymes with whinny,
Clarence maybe larynx
And Mitch.
What rhymes with Mitch?
Three laughers together
at some atavistic cabal,
sitting in the front row.
Two of them
wearing ladies’ underwear,
all giddy,
above the law.
An Open Secret
Here is a secret no one in Washington is willing to say out loud: Ginni Thomas is an idiot. The only reason she was texting the president’s chief of staff instead of being the angry cat lady on Facebook is because she married a man who got himself appointed to the Supreme Court.
There’s nothing wrong with dilettantes. Some of the most interesting people I know are dilettantes. But generally speaking, the adults in government understand that dilettantes are supposed to be marginalized: You give them just enough access to the grownup table so that they think they’re prized for their inner worth—and so that their senior partners don’t feel disrespected—but not an inch more.
That’s the entire career of Ginni Thomas. Literally everyone in conservative Washington knows this about her. I’m sure her Washington friends will publicly testify to her being smart and effective. But in private, it’s a different story. I wish I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard people in the various precincts of Conservatism Inc. laugh about the self-important preening, unserious dabbling, and incompetent hackery of Ginni Thomas over the years—in the wistful way a butler might indulge a wealthy child.
One of the freedoms of being politically homeless is not having to pretend that Ginni Thomas is an activist, or an intellectual, or a personage of any rank. You can acknowledge that she’s just a 50th-percentile internet commenter who was given a fast-pass into #ThisTown because of her husband.
And while no one is going to push Clarence Thomas off the Court—sorry, he ain’t never going to be impeached—maybe the upshot of the current scandal is that the rest of America will finally understand what Ginni Thomas is.
– Jonathan V. Last for The Bulwark.
And it’s not funny.
And it is no laughing matter.
Doesn’t even rhyme.