Fandango’s February Expressions 1
All’s Well That Ends Well
Isn’t that what everyone who murdered a bad guy always says? After which the judge says: “Um, I don’t really think so.”
All’s well that ends well if everyone plays by the same rules which typically, people don’t. Let’s take the impeachment trial. Strike that. Let’s NOT take the impeachment trial. It ended. but did it end well? I suppose it depends on who you ask.
Did Shakespeare get it?
Ending well is subjective. You shoot the one you think is a bad guy. Because he’s black or Hispanic or Jewish and you figure all’s well because there are bodies littering the ground. Other people probably don’t agree.
I think we need a little more in the way of definition of “well.” Also, maybe “end.”
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I agree!
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It is the nature of sayings and platitudes to be overly simplistic and occasionally, downright silly. And when, as in this case, it’s a line pulled from a longer speech, it’s completely out of context, too.
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The impeachment trial “ended, but did it end well?” No, but maybe in November, American voters will wise up and vote that moron out of office and will vote the Republican majority out of the Senate. If not, we will have achieved the end of what is left of the American democracy and all will not have ended well at all!
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I lot of people are thinking along the same lines as you are. If this isn’t a “heads up” to Americans, then I don’t know what would be. What I worry about is nobody seems able to think long term. To say we’ve got a short attention span doesn’t begin to cover it.
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McConnell said he’s not worried about a voter backlash against Republican senators over the way they handled the impeachment trial. He said that by November, most voters won’t remember what happened in late January and early February. And he’s probably right, dammit.
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Maybe the U.S. DOES deserve this asshole. If we can’t remember less than a year past, what ARE we except excited by toys? I think Trump could win nationally if he’d promise to give every American a new iPhone. They’d ignore everything else and drool over their phones.
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Sad, isn’t it?
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An overly simplistic view, I think. On both accounts.
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All sayings and platitudes are overly simplistic. If they are quotes, they are always taken out of a larger context and often don’t mean what people think they mean. I try to avoid them. Not always successfully, but I try.
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You’re very right. Well I guess that’s why they are cliched!
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The thing that makes them so dangerous is that there’s enough truth in them for the simple-minded to feel they’re solving world problems. If only all we needed was a slogan!
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Yes, exactly so.
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