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It was a spectacular slap in the face that the semi-woke that I am received during the election of Mr. Trump on November 5. To place myself on the ideological rainbow, I sit exactly between Manon Massé and Éric Duhaime, a good old naive and happy left-wing centrist.
And this is now the reality, since January 20, we are officially in the second term of the old man in the red tie.
Just like in his first election, my echo chamber did not allow me to believe that it was even possible for him to be elected. Each time he triumphed, I went to bed thinking I would open my eyes to a Hillary or Kamala victory, but no, each time I woke up to the news that the dancing septuagenarian had triumphed!
Let’s talk about it, his famous dance, he wiggles vigorously while waving his arms awkwardly on Y.M.C.A.which is probably the most cheerful song in the history of music. Would Donald hide anything in his closet other than confidential documents? No more conspiracies.
Four years is 1460 days, so it’s even more than a thousand and one nights… For a person who blinks left, it’s a very long purgatory.
He is the president of the neighboring country, but we see and hear him more than any of our leaders. So omnipresent that he even ranked among the main characters in my dreamscape. It haunts my days, my nights and sometimes even my soups.
Obviously, as we are in a democracy, we must comply with the results, 77,303,573 people wanted him to represent them, 49.9% of Americans want him as president. The more the media rejects him, the more the people who reject the media worship him. The less the media eats it up, the more people demand it. According to my observations, the phenomenon could even have consequences on people’s daily behavior. If the man at the head of the most powerful country in the world has himself lost his own and can afford to drag through the mud everything that doesn’t move the way he wants, why can’t I? We are in the era of gratuitous insults, explosive impatience and every man for himself. If the king of the world does it, then do it!
-Obviously, multiple concerns assail me, in addition to the economic repercussions, there is also the decline in certain human rights. These rights for which entire generations have courageously fought. The rights of LGBTQ+ people and minorities in general could find themselves in the great grinding mill of this navel-gazing philosophy. Even abortion, the cornerstone of women’s freedom, is in Trump’s crosshairs.
Here we are catapulted into the era of “if you are different, take your hole”, an involuntary teleportation into The Scarlet Maid ?
Obviously, I find myself dreaming that a flash of “common sense” will strike him in the middle of his gray matter and that overnight, the old straight white toad will suddenly transform into a mixed race, lesbian and woke princess, but it It’s my naive side that’s crazy. The mega-MAGA mascot in the blue costume literally has all the levers of power and he takes advantage of it to have fun terrorizing leaders around the world. At 78, the billionaire finally offers himself power trip latest.
It’s not all negative. On a humorous level, the man is manna. Donald is a real plasticine for artificial intelligence. I’ve really seen it cooked in all kinds of sauces. From a cooked ham face adorned with orange-yellow cheese hair to an AI sequence that makes him regurgitate streams of fried potatoes. The different variations of the character seem endless.
His residence at Mar-a-Lago has become the ruler’s castle, where he invites leaders from around the world to come and eat from his hand. Mar-a-Lago is a name of Spanish origin meaning “from the sea to the lake”. Just a metaphor to illustrate what more than 50% of the population experienced when we went from Obama to Trump, from the ocean to the swamp. The people who elected him sincerely believe that he will be able to offer them better living conditions and that is entirely legitimate. Let me doubt it. Someone who has a thousand million dollars and says he’s concerned about the price of hamburger steak, that lacks credibility, even though he seems to like meatloaf…
The trickle-down theory which claims that billionaires will have so much money that the pennies will end up falling at the feet of people on the lower floors seems rather vague to me, going rummaging in the trash at Mar-a-Lago seems like a lot to me more promising. I find myself dreaming that the mandate that is beginning will be the most productive in all of American political history. But in the meantime, I’m preparing for the hurricane to pass Donald category 5 seriously. My patio furniture is brought in, my house is boarded up. I’m in the fetal position under my bed, eyes closed, hands over my ears…and I’m waiting for it to pass.
Who is Dany Turcotte?
- Originally from Saguenay, Dany Turcotte first became known as a comedian, within Blood Group, in the mid-1980s.
- After the dissolution of the group, he continued his humorous career alongside his accomplice Dominique Lévesque.
- From 2004 to 2021, he is Guy A. Lepage’s “jester” in Everyone is talking about it.
- He is the host of The little seduction from 2005 to 2017.
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