So drawing yourself as the chad and your opponent as the soyjack, but in play form.
Shutter all art schools until we find out what the hell is going on
If you told me with no context about a story, play, whatever, called The Speaker and the Upstart, and that the presumed audience is automatically assumed to be against “The Upstart”, I would think you were talking about like a collectible lore book in a game, like some flavor text you find sneaking around a drunken magistrate’s chambers in Dishonored that paints a picture of a snobbish and decadent aristocracy blind to the lateness of the hour.
I think the actual title is N/A.
Oh yeah fair enough about the title, I definitely wasn’t about to read it lol
“You and your whole generation of navel gazers! With your wounded feelings and your precious space and your bottomless thirst for attention. Basking in the glow of all those purity tests that only you get to pass because of course you can! You’ve got no responsibilities! None! Zero! N/A!” That got a big round of applause the night I saw the play.
AOC is like 34, and a congresswoman. besides what does responsibility have to do with “purity tests”? having a job and a mortgage means you have to support genocide?
For every rich liberal white lady who’s ever caught her husband ogling their young Hispanic female domestic worker
Nancy however has plenty of responsibilities, what daytrader doesn’t
She’s gotta keep the money flowing so she can keep her refrigerator on and make sure all that delicious ice cream doesn’t melt and go to waste.
Is your college aged child getting too radical? Bring them to this special stage performance to set them right!
Democrats are cooked
Sounds like an Aaron Sorkin joint
How old do you think the word “upstart” is?
Spoiler
1550s, “one newly risen from a humble position to one of power, importance, or rank, a parvenu,” also start-up, from up (adv.) + start (v.) in the sense of “jump, spring, rise.” As an adjective from 1560s. Compare the archaic verb upstart “to spring to one’s feet,” attested from c. 1300.
Shakespeare was even called this by a contemporary theatre critic
jumpscaring me with new knowledge, appreciated
Check out deadline.
“time limit,” 1920, American English newspaper jargon, from dead (adj.) + line (n.). Perhaps influenced by earlier use (1864) to mean the “do-not-cross” line in Civil War prisons, which figured in the trial of Henry Wirz, commander of the notorious Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
And he, the said Wirz, still wickedly pursuing his evil purpose, did establish and cause to be designated within the prison enclosure containing said prisoners a “dead line,” being a line around the inner face of the stockade or wall enclosing said prison and about twenty feet distant from and within said stockade; and so established said dead line, which was in many places an imaginary line, in many other places marked by insecure and shifting strips of [boards nailed] upon the tops of small and insecure stakes or posts, he, the said Wirz, instructed the prison guard stationed around the top of said stockade to fire upon and kill any of the prisoners aforesaid who might touch, fall upon, pass over or under [or] across the said “dead line” … [“Trial of Henry Wirz,” Report of the Secretary of War, Oct. 31, 1865]
It’s always neat when a word’s etymology basically boils down to “so yeah it literally meant this other thing which it would intuitively mean, but that’s been wiped out by a flowery idiomatic use of it to mean that same thing only allegorically instead of literally, to the point that no one even thinks about what the underlying literal meaning of it is anymore.”
My guess before I checked was 100 to 150 years.
And, it’s like, even if you become all pliant and cooperative they still act like you’re an asshole for the rest of your career. Can’t fucking win with these people. I hate these institutions.
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It rings true though. If this were targeting a proper principled socialist firebrand it would fall flat.
Reminds me of those plays Bloomberg puts on for himself every year
Who are these people? I’d do this to get my start as a playwrite if I could
Holland Taylor is a pretty well-known theatre actress who is dating Sarah Paulson, 32 years her junior
The old woman from Two and a Half Men is still alive and acting? Wouldn’t she be in her mid 80’s now?
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