Fallen Angels, S2 E7,

02/12/2022 by Pat Shiplett Leave a Comment

THEY were dreading the knock at the door.

Everybody who has helped the defeated president try to hold onto power has paid dearly.

Steve Bannon is spending a fortune to defy a subpoena. Of course he feeds on the kind of toxic notoriety that would destroy Jane and Dick.

Until the Supreme Court ordered the release of their boss’ documents, the young couple had hopes of executive privilege saving them. And they constantly worry about how taking the Fifth would look on their Linkedin profiles.

“Shove your subpoenas up my ass? Where’d I hear that before?” the summons server laughed.

“Seriously guys,” he warned, “if you don’t show up they‘ll dip you in a vat of acid. And if you do,” he paused expertly, “they’ll disembowel you.”

Gallows humor is big in Bob Krank’s line of work. He wished the couple a nice day.

Fallen Angels, S3 E3 QAnon Offer

07/06/2022 by Pat Shiplett Leave a Comment

“Ever bite the head off a live chicken, Mr. Doe?”

The impeccably dressed man who initiated the meeting at the Korean fusion place on 5th NE did not introduce himself by name.

“If you accept QAnon’s offer,” he said, “they’ll turn you into a carnival geek conning small-town rubes on the midway.

“You’re a force of nature, Mr. Doe.

“You’ve convinced millions of Americans that the most secure election in our history was stolen.

”We’re prepared to pay you handsomely to promote the idea that concentrating power in the hands of voters is not what the Founders had originally intended.

He paid in cash and left a gratuity meant for Dick to notice.

“Does Mrs. Doe like nice things?” He asked.

Fallen Angels, S3 E1, Want to be lied to

07/04/2022 by Pat Shiplett Leave a Comment

“Two thirds of them still say the election was stolen,” Jane said as she dug into her crab-cake Po’ boy.

“The ones in power know better but pretend they believe anyway,” Dick noted.

“It’s about avoiding primary challenges.”

“And ‘owning’ the libs.”

“Nobody does fear better than you do, Dicky.

“Pedophiles! Pedophiles! Pedophiles!”

”And nobody does inferiority like you do.”

“It‘s easy to get folks to look down on unwed mothers and immigrants who aren’t from Nordic countries.”

“I think you’ve found your calling,” Dick told Jane as he reached for a packet of horseradish.

“Move over George Orwell,” she laughed.

Fallen Angels, S3 E1 (Premiere), Sworn in

06/17/2022 by Pat Shiplett Leave a Comment

DICK and Jane had worked through their fears about testifying in front of the Jan. 6 hearings.

In fact, the “fallen angels” began to regard it as an audition, a chance to show Rupert Murdoch they’d be a perfect fit for his Fox News Network. Younger, hotter versions of Laura and Tucker.

They stopped sweating those intercepted texts and voicemails. Contradicting their own statements about Jan. 6 would earn them speaker’s fees at GOP events. By claiming “I don’t remember” to every question, they won’t have to rat out the co-conspirators who threatened them.

Jane, ever the natural beauty, would take on the casino-hostess look – eyelashes and all – if the Rupert’s lieutenants insisted.

And Dick would abandon that never-quite-convincing ivy-league accent he adopted after he came to DC. For the record, Jane hated it.

Fallen Angels, S2 E13, BMW

03/18/2022 by Pat Shiplett Leave a Comment

Jane and Dick knew how to manage appearances.

It was the work they did at the White House.

They had searched for a car that would communicate that they had already arrived at a very early age in life. It would project power and agility.

It needed to scream six figures even though they could barely afford leasing let alone buying.

There was no doubt that they would turn heads and that most everyone would be envious.

Dick took to planting his BMW 3 Series Sports Sedan key fob on the conference table at the White House. Jane carried her signature BMW gym duffel bag to the West Wing after every workout.

Yesterday at 3 a.m., precisely, Dick and Jane received texts telling them to look out the window.

The Ultimate Driving Machine they had chosen to send a message to the world was being used to send a message to them.