You that look pale and tremble at this chance, With Laertes, Queen Gertrude, and Hamlet himself poisoned and Claudius poisoned and stabbed, we have very few people left to tell the tale, but we do have one. Hunter Biden’s laptop lap dance with the computer repair service stands out, but we can add his father’s cognitive decline, Pelosi’s ice cream-fueled Marie Antoinette impression, and more. This gives us the chance to review some of their own-goals across the years in our era, even if they failed to combine to defeat their theft of the executive. The bad guys are falling like dominoes, hoist on their own petards. Mine and my father’s death come not upon thee. Laertes speaks up, a bit louder this time, so that at last the audience can hear, offering testimony that Hamlet has not committed treason:Įxchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. Claudius’ poisoned pearl was thus also his poisoned union. The word “union” also meant “pearl” back then, while also of course referring to marriage.

Hamlet: “Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, drink off this potion. That’s the kind of punctilious justice that in our time would require an honorable Attorney General unfortunately, we were saddled with Sessions and Barr.Ĭlaudius: “O, yet defend me, friends! I am but hurt.” His murder of the King is committed only after he knows his mother to be dead, so that she will not see him kill her husband (not that this would bother Kamala Harris), and since Hamlet is himself dying, his own honor cannot be subject to an accusation of princely self-interest. Still, Hamlet is closing in on the conditions he has been unconsciously seeking all along. (Side note the openly conservative blog that this story emerged from gets less search engine traffic from Google than it gets from any of Bing, DuckDuckGo, or Yahoo, even though Google commands 88% of the search market.

Think shadow banning, where your computer shows that what you wrote was published, but no one sees it. Hamlet: “The point envenomed too? Then, venom,Īpparently Laertes’ confession was whispered to Hamlet, and so the audience for the duel, the cable-news watching American public still 20 years behind the times, sipping their coffee and believing their tomorrows will ever be as pleasant as their todays, still does not know the truth.

The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, In thee there is not half an hour’s life. No med’cine in the world can do thee good Now it is time for Laertes to see how the worm has turned for him: It’s a bit like what happened when Biden proclaimed that Kamala was his point woman on the border crisis. Villainy, yes, but whose? At least Gertrude announced her poisoning before she died. Hamlet: “O villainy! Ho, let the door be locked! Treachery, seek it out!” Queen: “No, no, the drink, the drink – O my dear Hamlet – The drink, the drink! I am poisoned.” ( She dies.) Laertes: “…Osric, I am justly killed with my own treachery.”Ĭlaudius: “She swoons to see them bleed.” All co-opted by the Claudiuses of our time. And the same holds true for Senators Burr, Cassidy, Murkowski, Sasse, Toomey, or Collins. Mitt Romney may have cause to feel insulted by President Trump (remember the Secretary of State dance?), but there was no evidence before him supporting his vote to convict the President of the charges brought in the impeachment. Laertes has cause to fight a duel with Hamlet to defend his honor, but he doesn’t have cause to tip his foil with poison. Laertes: “Have at you now!” ( Laertes wounds Hamlet then, in scuffling, they change rapiers, and Hamlet wounds Laertes.)Ĭlaudius: “Part them, they are incensed.” Laertes: “And yet it is almost against my conscience.” Hamlet: “I do not drink yet, madam by and by.” During a break in the duel between Laertes and Hamlet, in which Laertes has been wielding a fencing foil tipped with poison, Queen Gertrude lifted a goblet of wine separately poisoned by her husband and intended for Hamlet - and she has taken a drink.Ĭlaudius: “It is the poisoned cup. We are now at the exciting finale of Hamlet.

Horatio i am dead