Desperate Reality TV Star Quotes Shakespeare

          "To be, or not to be, that is the Question:
          Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
          The Slings and Arrows of outragious Fortune,
          Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles,
          And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe
          No more..."

               Hamlet, Act III, Scene I

          "I've seen firsthand the corruption and the sickness that has taken over our politics...They knew they would throw every lie they could at me, and my family, and my loved ones.  They knew they would stop at nothing to try and stop me.  But I never knew as bad as it would be, I never knew it would be this vile, that it would be this bad, that it would be this vicious.  Nevertheless, I take all of these slings and arrows gladly for you--gladly."

               Donald Trump, Final Act

     The funny spellings in the Shakespeare quote above derive from the 1623 Folio.  Despite the passage of 393 years, a longer span than this country has even existed, Shakespeare's meanings, coming from the melancholy Dane's mouth as he contemplates ending his life amid a set of problems too overwhelming to surmount, remain clear: live, or don't live; fight, or don't fight; put up with turmoils one has gotten oneself embroiled in, or don't.  In Hamlet's case, his problems stem from his failure to act upon his dead ghostly father's command to kill the usurper who poisoned him and then took for wife Hamlet's mother.  Hamlet's back and forth philosophizing, rather than engaging in direct action, lead to multiple homicides and a suicide.
     It's hard to say who in the Trump Campaign (an organization resembling more and more the feel of the Hitler-in-the-Bunker film, Downfall) borrowed from Shakespeare for his West Palm Beach, Florida, speech on October 13.  I almost expect him to be quoting Old Testament prophets next.  He said he "[takes] all of these slings and arrows gladly for you--gladly."  For you, because Trump the Candidate died (like a stand-up comedian dies) for your sins.  Because he suffers, we are saved.  He's announced his martyrdom, and his loss of the election, already known by the Republican Party at large, is not his fault, because he, in his innocence, "never knew it would be this vile...this vicious."
     Radioactive Man Surprised Someone Notices He's Radioactive.
     His initial statement above, "I've seen firsthand the corruption and the sickness that has taken over our politics," reveals he knows something about one obvious origin of that corruption and sickness: himself.  That his "Campaign CEO" Steve Bannon, a Breitbart News scum-mucker, has been lately running the Trump machine, shows at least that corruption and sickness in news media and politics fester inside Trump Tower, like the malicious schemes of the Dark Lord Sauron in his own tower, the Barad-dûr, in The Lord of the Rings.
     Trump's "hot mic" statements from 2005, talking about how he "grabs a pussy," and gets away with it because he's a "star," that he kisses women without restraint, all jibed with recent accounts of women coming forward with their stories of past Trump violations of their bodies and personal space.  One New York Times account from two days ago prompted a phone call from Trump to the paper's offices wherein he lashed out, threatening a lawsuit (something he's done thousands of times, including to comedian Bill Maher for saying Trump's parents were orangutans, thus explaining the tycoon's appearance).  His tone in the described call was vehement enough to warrant my reaction that, from a psychological standpoint, the story's writers hit a nerve, meaning, the abused woman's account is true.
     That's my opinion, though.  But it's fascinating when someone so vicious and vile himself complains about not realizing, when he entered the presidential race, he was getting into a game that goes both ways, as in football, with offense and defense.  He's being hit now with stories about his misconduct with women, and it looks as if his victims are legion, and some of them want to talk, especially during the next few weeks, when it will do the greatest good.  Used to the position of power, Trump finds himself struck at by unpredictable sideswipes at his character, the quality of which reveals itself as the foul thing I and others saw many years ago, before he inflicted his grotesque Fascist persona on America the day he announced his candidacy for president.
     My advice to Hillary Clinton for the final presidential debate is to grab her opponent's cock.

                                                                               Vic Neptune