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Plus We Have a Motorcade [Thursday, January 30, 2014, 1st period]
"Good morning, everyone!" Josh said, shaking his head to get rid of the vision of an Asian girl dressed in a wine barrel, tube socks, and a beret in the back of his class. On her it looked good, though. Weird. She disappeared after a few minutes.
"Today we'll watch portions of President Obama's State of the Union and play State of the Union Bingo while you finish up the speeches that are due today and you have undoubtedly forgotten about until right this moment. Then we'll hear your speeches and probably stop playing State of the Union Bingo by then. But it's pretty fun--" if you were a policy nerd like Josh anyway, "--and when you're old enough to go into bars without getting me arrested for abetting a minor, I'll teach you the drinking game part."
"Today we'll watch portions of President Obama's State of the Union and play State of the Union Bingo while you finish up the speeches that are due today and you have undoubtedly forgotten about until right this moment. Then we'll hear your speeches and probably stop playing State of the Union Bingo by then. But it's pretty fun--" if you were a policy nerd like Josh anyway, "--and when you're old enough to go into bars without getting me arrested for abetting a minor, I'll teach you the drinking game part."
Re: Give your Speech!
From there, the screen began showing charts and graphs and tables of figures, as Joker went into some of the details of his plans. After a little of that, he paused. “Eh. I’ve got, like twenty minutes of material here, but most of it’s boring, and other people need a turn.” He gave Josh a shrug. “Citations and footnotes and everything. I can email it to you? I’ll just skip to the end.”
He cleared his throat, and scrolled the text he was reading from almost all the way to the bottom. “Now, you’re all going to be thinking that this is too ambitious. Impossible. Ludicrous, even. And maybe you’re right. But the alternative is stagnation, is the same old problems playing out year after year, decade after decade, and century after century. Some of you are probably offended -- horrified, even -- at the idea of taxing the rich in order to make this country better. To you, I say: this country was founded on four things. First, our righteous idealism -- our notions of basic personal rights, and liberty, and justice. Second, hard work and the sweat of our brows -- our industry and determination. Thirdly, our celebrated Yankee ingenuity -- science and technology beyond compare, and the thirst for knowledge. And finally, theft. Blatant. Outright. Theft. Theft of the land we’re standing on. Theft of the labor and the selfhood of the workers we brought from foreign lands. Theft of the basic rights and dignity of everyone who was stepped on in the name of progress. And always, always, theft of what little the have-nots had, by those who already had everything. My fellow Americans, isn’t it time they gave something back?”
Oh, yeah. Anyone who thought he got the name “Joker” from all the jokes, think again. It’s a tongue-in-cheek reference to him getting way too frikking serious about things.