My letter of not quite resignation

[struggle4progress]

By Alexandra Petri
August 25 at 12:06 PM

Dear Mr. President,

I can say it in no uncertain terms: Everything this administration does makes me sick.

I am absolutely disgusted with everything going on the White House right now. Several times daily, I must run out of a meeting of the National Economic Council to vomit into a wastepaper basket ... This cannot go on any longer.


Everyone has told me that I should resign. Random members of the media. My wife. People whom I did not even realize knew my name ...

But then, on the other hand, there is the theoretical possibility of passing tax reforms that might lower the base tax rate for corporations ...

We must protect the most fragile and vulnerable among us. And if there is anything I have learned from the past decade of Supreme Court decisions, it is that the most fragile and vulnerable among us are corporations ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/08/25/my-letter-of-not-quite-resignation-from-the-trump-white-house/?utm_term=.142d9da89e61

[saidsimplesimon]

1. Disgusting coward

My regrets for lacking the appropriate words to express my horror with the last bit.

We must protect the most fragile and vulnerable among us. And if there is anything I have learned from the past decade of Supreme Court decisions, it is that the most fragile and vulnerable among us are corporations ...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. This is the Post's satire columnist. nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Thanks for reminding me Mitch McConnell violated his sworn duty and the constitution

and prevented the president and the american people to have the SC justice they voted for.

That going forward very soon all SC decisions will attack minorities, working people and the environment.

ALL

BTW I cant read the article and assume the last sentence about protecting corps is sarcasm, but not sure.

[Angry Dragon]

3. If corps are people how come they can buy and sell people??

[unblock]

5. they're not "people". a corporation is a "person" in the specific, legal sense.

which is a rather different concept than being a human being.

[Angry Dragon]

8. explain.......not trying to be snarky

[unblock]

9. a "person" in the legal sense includes corporations and only means

that they can do things like enter into legal contracts and litigate in civil court.

the plural of "person" in the legal sense is "persons".

"people" only refers to actual human brings, never corporations.

[Angry Dragon]

10. thank you

[unblock]

4. "after considerable thought, i decided i'm cool with all this crap. not thrilled, but cool with it."

"so, please mr. president, please don't do anything even more disgusting, or next time i might draft and even sterner letter before throwing it in the trash can."

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. Just so people know, Alexandra Petri is the Post's satire columnist.

I see people didn't necessarily get that off the bat.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. They should keep this, and run it as part of his obituary when he dies

and maybe send it to him on every birthday before then. Few things skewer a public figure so deftly.