Satire

Americans Love Stickers!

By Omer Bin Abdullah | January 2022


Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison and Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, who have important things to discuss, are meeting at Washington, D.C.’s oldest bar and restaurant (in business since 1856) that has been serving the city’s political elite ever since, with patrons ranging from Ulysses S. Grant to Theodore Roosevelt.

Both parties seek a change candidate – as changes go, cosmetic only. Period.

“Ronna, you are young enough to remember the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’, the rematch between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire. So, that was 1974, and 50 million watched this pay-per-view show. Promoters made big because two familiar names were fighting.

“Now, we have a contest in 2024. Our party, the Dems’ lineup doesn’t seem that sparkling…”

“Jaime, do you think that our lineup looks any better? Even our bench strength is as good as yours…”

“Ronna, you’ve seen the polls. Biden's approval sits at just 44%. Kamala is benched at 32%...”

“Jaime, Donald is facing weak support among Republicans for his calls to disavow Mitch McConnell… Mike Pence sits at 27%... any way in this seesaw, GOP will win control of Congress in 2022.”
“So, what Ronna! That loss will be the catalyst to a Hillary Clinton presidential comeback.

“Democrats are no longer campaigning on ‘We're Not Like the Republicans’ and Republicans are doing ‘We're Not Like the Democrats’. It is time for a sequel. Like last year, movie sequels outgrossed their predecessors by at least $500 million on the average! Think stuff like Avengers… Frozen… Star Wars…

“Like Dems who were looking for record books to score with a first woman president, finding the Kamala (Harris) balloon deflating, we are bringing candidate who will bring barrowsful of cash…”

“Yes, you are right Jaime. Republicans who yearn for the revolution that fizzled out on January 6, will be wheeling their barrows of cash to my place… the RNC…

“Our denominators are common: unflinching obedience to AIPAC (American Israeli Political Action Committee) and servility to our big funders.

“Yes, some people may question ages … Trump will be 78, and Hillary will be 77 then… look the stuff we are having with a 79 plus Biden. Here is the deal, you guys field a Clinton-Clinton ticket that is Hillary-Chelsea, and we will do a Trump-Trump, which is Donald and Ivanka.

“Ronna did you read what Joe Concha, the right-wing columnist wrote in The Hill last month? He said, ‘Hillary Clinton always seemed to believe the mantle of First Female President was her birthright.

“‘And given how pathetic the field is on the Democratic side with or without Joe Biden, she may just get a second chance at winning the office her husband so famously made infamous.’

“Imagine the advertising turnover and the tabloids sales with stories of Chelsea and Ivanka ages old friendship… how they shared an ice-cream cone and passed along boyfriends… and how they would chat about what to wear for the splash at Studio 54… just imagine the dollars being pumped into the American economy… and Ronna, this time, we will ship Bill [Clinton] either for a safari in like, not in Kenya but Polynesia… alas Jeffrey Epstein is no more, otherwise his Little Saint James… his a small private island [in the Virgin Islands] would’ve been the idea place to keep him out of Hillary’s hair.”

“Ronna… now that Virginia Giuffre has brought down Andrew… formerly prince… that Jeffrey Epstein made her have sex with him several times, we too needed some distant spots. Donald was forced to sell the Miss Universe beauty pageant, otherwise, we could have gotten all his vocal partners – the ones who breached their NDAs [non-disclosure agreement] – crowned Miss Universe… the whole bunch!”

“Jaime, you know Hillary keeps re-reading her undelivered 2016 speech… and Trump keeps re-loading his undelivered 2020 on the teleprompter. They sure are sequel material… Votella in the Cashatella…
“It will be a rematch of our century! Americans love stickers. They’ll lineup for hours to get that ‘I Voted’ sticker, and even exult getting them for their kids. The sticker is enough for believing that we are a democracy.”