And if one of these vows or broken? Boy, will you hear about it. Otherwise, far left progressives threaten to take their ball and go Green in November. And a progressive candidate should damn well be closer ideologically to Bernie Sanders than Hillary Clinton. A progressive presidential candidate cannot have supported stop and frisk. A progressive presidential candidate cannot be an experienced establishment politician. A progressive presidential candidate cannot be a tough prosecutor in their past. A progressive must want to pay reparations. A progressive must want to tax the rich more and pay CEOs less. A progressive must support abortion rights in all cases and conservative judges in none. A progressive must be pro-Palestine and anti-gun. A progressive must be for Medicare-For-All and the Green New Deal.
The left’s purity tests now demand countless political positions. Progressives, for example, are expected to oppose this president in every way, yet his administration presides over rising wages, remarkably low unemployment, and he champions a withdrawal of American commitments across the world, all things progressives should applaud. Many Americans should feel Jaime’s frustration with the endless vows one is expected to make to maintain their honor. No matter what you do, you’re forsaking one vow or another.” But what if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It’s too much. Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. Season 2, Episode 7 - Jaime Lannister to Catelyn Stark: “So many vows. And who can forget Joffrey’s baseless tough talk about challenging and defeating Stannis Baratheon? Does that remind you of anyone who has never been in a physical alteration that wasn’t scripted? “He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way.” Our King President said that.Ģ. Joffrey surely considered himself a very stable genius, too. It feels right on the money - someone who’s so underconfident that they have to project overconfidence. Joking aside, I think the comparison is most apt in this quote, when Joffrey has to say about himself what shouldn’t need to be said. Martin himself has said that Trump is basically Joffrey if he lived to old age, calling him, “just as petulant and irrational as he was when he was 13 in the books.” I am not the first person, nor will I be the last, to compare President Trump to King Joffrey. Tywin Lannister: “Any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king.” Joffrey Baratheon: “ I am the KING! I will punish you!”
In celebration of the show’s seven seasons, seven hells, seven blessings, seven new gods, and seven kingdoms, here are seven more Game of Thrones quotes connected to modern politics. I’m following Monday’s “ Presidential Politics Meets Game of Thrones” post with a sequel.
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