You aren't sure what to make of the headline, "Opposition Will Be Punished - Says Poundstone." That could be an ordinary rant pulled from social media any week of the last two years. They all make a blip on the news then fizzle out into the static, but something in your gut suggests the dreadful seriousness of the threat this time. With the power of the matter transposer backing her up, she could punish her political foes in a big way.
You breeze through the article and confirm your fear. The article itself was a breeze, giving an analysis of the president's latest statements. The raw statements themselves however were painful to process both for their words and the frightening potential behind them.
President Poundstone is quoted as declaring, "Effective immediately, every member of the opposition party in Congress will be shrunk. And not only them, but any member of the opposing party will be shrunk. Anyone, anyone at all, who voted against me in the election, I have some words for you. I know there aren't that many of you, but you are all clearly, so clearly, losers, and you were so very, very wrong. I don't think I have to say this, but it is evident that if you voted against me, you might be a little touched in the head. And you will be shrunk too. We have the voter records. We know who you are."
Somehow you knew those voting machines were never anonymous.
Her raving continued in more detail, "You and all your little loser buddies are going to be one foot tall. One foot. I'm being generous. From now on, you will all be one foot tall, and we will see how you like being so small. If you don't think you can handle that - listen here, Sugar Pie. You made your bad decisions, your very bad decisions, and you will be punished for them. How else will you learn if we won't be tough on you. We have to be tough. There is law in this country. I make the law."
One foot tall, she says. Generous, she says. Sugar Pie, she says.
And to prove her true generosity, she amended her order, "And anyone who didn't vote one way or the other, you will be shrunk too. I'm sorry, but you have to learn your lesson. You will be shrunk, but maybe not as much. We'll put you on a short list, but not as short as the one-footers. I'll give you a chance to make it up to me in two years. Good behavior. Good decisions."
Never say President Poundstone doesn't give second chances.
Except when she spitefully declared, "But the one-footers, the one foot tall people, if you can really call them people, you're gonna have to work extra hard to earn back inches, inches a year. Maybe just one inch a year for you. But we will take it away if you keep saying all those awful, rotten lies about me. You'll be even smaller than one foot in no time flat. We won't even see you anymore, and maybe that's better for everybody. Effective immediately!"
Normally, you'd lump this in as another deranged diatribe by the fire-breathing redhead against her critical opponents in Washington and at the news desks. The media may even portray it that way for the moment, but this is real. It's going to happen. Reports will come in shortly about congressmen and women being shorted to one foot tall. It could happen to other prominent personalities, then the door-to-door shrinking process could follow the voter trail.
You recall the previous election day.
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