- Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:22 pm
#82545
"That's some rather strange and picayune hair-splitting, Clown."-Grog
Grog, we can look at this two ways; one literally and one more poetically.
RealTool said "Dude, it's about the election, he did it HIS WAY,..."
Elections are done the way of state laws. They take place on a single day (plus absentee voting) and no Presidential candidate has any say over them. So Trump can't be said to have 'done the election his way' when it is done the way of state governments. Tool is literally wrong in his comment.
So okay, what Tool is really trying to say is that Trump's successful CAMPAIGN (not the election) was done his way.
Yes, the campaign was done his way. But that isn't enough to sing the song.
You must put that achievement into the context of the song "My Way".
No election is "the final curtain" for the winner. It's a curtain going up.
"And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain."
RealTool is saying Trump will sing the song at his inauguration, where Trump will have taken on the responsibilities already. The inauguration is not "the final curtain" for any President. "the end is near" only if the President is assassinated shortly after he is sworn in. Is that what Tool is saying will happen?
Let's say someone wins an election and then goes home and refuses to take office. Such a person cannot sing "My Way" when he has abdicated his responsibility to the people who elected him. They are quitters, and that's not what the song is about.
He hasn't "traveled each and every highway" if he simply sat down and refused to travel the particular highway placed before him by the election.
So let's say the person takes office and quits half way through his term.
Again, that person cannot sing that song because he has quit and failed in the challenges put before him.
"I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all and I stood tall; "
If the winner refuses to take office, or if he quits office half way through his term, he cannot say he "faced it all" so he cannot sing the song.
The only person who can sing that song is the one who saw it through to the end, and in this case "the end" is the completion of one's term in office, not the election.
Grog, if you have an argument for rationalizing Tool's silly statement, let's hear it.