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From: Brenner, Michael via mbrenner <mbrenner@list.pitt.edu>
Date: Mon, Nov 3, 2025
From: Brenner, Michael via mbrenner <mbrenner@list.pitt.edu>
Date: Mon, Nov 3, 2025
TAPS
Who will place coins on the sightless eyes of American democracy when the river Styx carries it to the door of Hades where Charon awaits his due to ensure a serene eternal rest? It has been a shameful/ignominious ordeal and a cowardly demise. This would
be the last chance for an act of grace.
Will it be Barack Obama, the aloof, laid-back observer perched on Cloud 9?
Will it be the two boys from Brooklyn – Schumer & Jeffries – whose Houdini disappearing act erased the “opposition” from the nation’s political equation?
Will it be the Bar Associations who temporized and equivocated in admitted fear of Trump lawsuits?
Will it be the 5-star law firms who pimped themselves to pay an extortionist?
Will it be the captains of industry whose civic conscience ends at the 19th hole?
Will it be the wolves of Wall Street for whom “Our Thing” is the only thing?
Will it be media moguls who spell news “Entertainment?”
Will it be the haughty lords of IT who bow-and-scrape when their sovereign commands?
Will it be the churchmen who exhausted their social conscience in pursuit of Woke?
Will it be the AMA leadership whose 75-word “statements of concern” cut no ice where it counts?
Will it be the craven university authorities who have mocked their ancient vow to preserve the academy’s integrity and dedication to Truth-seeking?
Will it be the think-tankers whose torrent of verbiage missed the biggest story since the Civil War?
Will it be the Publisher and Editors of The New York Times so steeped in the paper’s self-image as a buttress to an enduring Republic that they normalized a fatal pathology instead of crying havoc?
Will it be the corps of stenographic faux ‘journalists?’
Will it be the American Psychiatrist Association that trumpeted its irrelevance to public matters when it was most needed?
BEST GUESS: The shade of the American Republic will be doomed to wander the bleak riverbanks for eternity for want of a pittance of remorse or shame
Perhaps John Roberts will sail in on a billionaire’s yacht to lead a choir of 6 in a chorus of Auld Lang Syne
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