Leslie Knope , our ambitious ally from Pawnee , Indiana , resurfaced today with much - needed insight on the estimable ways to process the surprising presidentialelection . And just how did a fabricated fiber played byAmy Poehleron the late , greatParks and Recreationemerge from the ethoxyethane of show retirement , you ask ? In the form of an overt letterpublished on Vox , good manners of an unnamedParks and Recwriter .
Topicsthe Joe Biden passing fantackled in her optimistic essay included the impulsive insanity of republic , the futurity , and farting dinos . Below , some highlights :
On voting and T. rexes"Winston Churchill once enounce , ' Democracy is the worst form of government , except all those other forms that have been try out . ' … People make their own decisions is , on balance , good than an autocrat get to decisions for them . It ’s just that sometimes those decisions are bad , or self - defeat , or maddening , and a day where you get dress up in your best victory pants suit and drop an ungodly amount of money decorating your sign of the zodiac with American flag and custom - made composition board cutout of suffragettes in anticipation of a glass - ceiling - shatter historical milestone cease with you getting ( metaphorically ) eaten by a whale farting T. rex . "
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On the country ’s newfangled narrative"I know that Donald Trump is the president . I sympathise , intellectually , that he get ahead the election . But I do not live with that our land has descend into the hatred - swirled slop cumulation that he inhabit in . I eliminate out of hand the notion that we have thrown up our hands and succumbed to racism , xenophobia , misogyny , and crypto - fascism . I do not accept that . I spurn that . I fight that . Today , and tomorrow , and every day until the next election , I reject and struggle that tale . "
On the girls and women affected by this election"On behalf of the grown - ups of America who handle about you and your futures , I am awfully sorry about how miserably we screw this up . We elect a colossus farting T. rex who does not care you , or handle about you , or conceive about you , unless he is scan your consistence with his creepy T. rex eyes or trying to physically take hold of you like a toy his pop get him . … Our United States President - elect is everything you should abominate and reverence in a male role model . He has spent his life telling you , and girl and women like you , that your lives are valueless except as sexual aim . He has demeaned you , and belittled you , and put you in a little box to be take care at and not heard . It is your job , and the job of girls and women like you , to snap out .
" You are going to run this country , and this world , very soon . So you will not hear to this human being , or the 75 - twelvemonth - old , doughy - faced , grayish - haired nightmare men like him , when they seek to recite you where to resist or how to behave or what you’re able to and can not do with your own trunk , or what you should or should not think with your own mind . You will not be cowed or discouraged by his stream of retrogressive babble . You wo n’t have time to be cow , because you will be too busy working and learning and communing with other girls and women like you . And when the time comes , you will effortlessly flick off his suffering , petty , misogynistic worldview like a fly on your picnic potato salad . "
The Knope remarks came less than a sidereal day after electionreactions from later - night hostsand other comedic forces , likeParks and Recco - creator Michael Schur , began piling up . " Not everyone who voted for Trump is a racialist , or a misogynist , " twitch Schur yesterday . " But they did votefora racist and a misogynist . " record therest of Schur ’s 28 - tweet post - mortemandKnope ’s letter in full , and , if you ’re feeling especially despondent today , be sure to heed the latter ’s close note : " We will notice this result , but we will not accept it . … Find your squad , and get to work . "
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