Final Wish

 

Justice Served by Nancy Ohanian

-by Dorothy Reik
California state Democratic Executive Committee

RBG had a simple final wish-- let the newly INSTALLED president nominate her successor. But while her body was still warm Trump announced that HE would name her successor and have that nomination confirmed even before the election could take place. As her earthly body lay in repose at the Court and in state at the Capital, her heavenly spirit had other ideas.

As the COVID-spreading Trump gathered his worshipers in the Rose Garden to announce his nomination of the anti-RBG to the court, upstairs other plans were being made. RBG was angry. The gods were angry. A dying wish was not to be defied-- let alone defiled! The heavenly court was in session and justice would be served.

And so it came to be that they fell, one after another. Trump's closest friends and advisors, who had gathered to celebrate the appointment of a justice who would strike down health care, were themselves struck down by the very virus Trump had labeled a hoax. Poetic justice! The first to fall was third daughter, Hope Hicks, best known for steaming the wrinkles out of Trump's pants while he was wearing them! Trump himself was next along with Melania as they returned from spreading the virus to the most important people in their lives-- their donors!

But by Thursday no members of the Senate Judiciary Committee had been infected. Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Tom Tillis (R-NC), both members and attendees at the would-be coronation, had to fall next. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) fell victim too-- collateral damage.

Just for good measure Trump's debate coaches, Chris Christie and Kelly Anne Conway were hit along with Bill Stepien, the latest campaign manager and Ronna MacDaniel Romney, head of the Republican National Committee. There goes the campaign mused RBG. Brad Parscale was gone already having succumbed to madness after Tulsa and locked away.

Amy Coney Barrett, the source of all the suffering, had already been infected so her Notre Dame mentor, Reverend John Jenkins took her place among the sickened.

Yesterday, Press Secretary Kaleigh McInerney tested positive after attempting to infect the press corps by not wearing a mask-- but the press corps fooled her-- they did wear masks. It was if Trumpsters were all under the same evil spell as always-- not caring whom they infect or kill. But now they were infecting each other! RBG smiled. McConnell, under the same spell, called for Senate hearing although many of the Senators needed to be in quarantine, so desperate was he to see this already damned appointment confirmed. As RBG looked down from her heavenly perch to survey the damage she noted that more work needed to be done. Republican members of the Judiciary Committee were still standing as was Mitch McConnell, who would carry out the wishes of a president laid low-- or was he already infected? He refused to say. RBG reached for the lightening.