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Ah, Mister Secretary
Mister Burr, sir
Didja hear the news about good old General Mercer?
No
You know Clermont Street?
Yeah
They renamed it after him.
The Mercer legacy is secure
Sure
And all he had to do was die
That’s a lot less work
We oughta give it a try
Ha
Now how’re you gonna get your debt plan through?
I guess I’m gonna fin’ly have to listen to you
Really?
“Talk less. Smile more.”
Ha
Do whatever it takes to get my plan on the Congress floor
Now, Madison and Jefferson are merciless.
Well, hate the sin, love the sinner
Hamilton!
I’m sorry Burr, I’ve gotta go
But—
Decisions are happening over dinner
Two Virginians and an immigrant walk into a room
Diametric’ly opposed, foes
They emerge with a compromise,
Having opened doors that were
Previously closed
Bros
The immigrant emerges with unprecedented financial power
A system he can shape however he wants
The Virginians emerge with the nation’s capital
And here’s the pièce de résistance:
No one else was in
The room where it happened
The room where it happened
The room where it happened
No one else was in
The room where it happened
The room where it happened
The room where it happened
No one really knows how the game is played
The art of the trade
How the sausage gets made
We just assume that it happens
But no one else is in
The room where it happens.
Thomas claims
Alexander was on Washington’s doorstep one day
In distress ‘n disarray
Thomas claims
Alexander said
I’ve nowhere else to turn!
And basic’ly begged me to join the fray
Thomas claims
I approached Madison and said
“I know you hate ‘im, but let’s hear what he has to say.”
Thomas claims
Well, I arranged the meeting
I arranged the menu, the venue, the seating
But!
No one else was in the room
where it happened,
The room where it happened
The room where it happened
No one else was in
The room where it happened
The room where it happened
The room where it happened
No one really knows how the
Parties get to yesssss
The pieces that are sacrificed in
Ev’ry game of chesssss
We just assume that it happens
But no one else is in
The room where it happens.
Meanwhile
Madison is grappling with the fact
that not ev’ry issue can be settled by committee
Meanwhile
Congress is fighting over where to put the capital—
It isn’t pretty
Then Jefferson approaches with a dinner and invite
And Madison responds with Virginian insight:
Maybe we can solve one problem with another
and win a victory for the Southerners, in other words
Oh-ho!
A quid pro quo
I suppose
Wouldn’t you like to work a little closer to home?
Actually, I would
Well, I propose the Potomac
And you’ll provide him his votes?
Well, we’ll see how it goes
Let’s go
No!
one else was in
The room where it happened
The room where it happened
The room where it happened
No one else was in
The room where it happened
The room where it happened
The room where it happened
My God!
In God we trust
But we’ll never really know what got discussed
Click-boom then it happened
And no one else was in the room where it happened
Alexander Hamilton!
What did they say to you to get you
to sell New York City down the river?
Alexander Hamilton!
Did Washington know about the dinner?
Was there Presidential pressure to deliver?
Alexander Hamilton!
Or did you know, even then, it doesn’t matter
Where you put the U.S. Capital?
Cuz we’ll have the banks
We’re in the same spot
You got more than you gave
And I wanted what I got
When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game
But you don’t get a win unless you play in the game
Oh, you get love for it. You get hate for it
You get nothing if you…
Wait for it, wait for it, wait!
God help and forgive me
I wanna build
Something that’s gonna
Outlive me
What do you want, Burr?
What do you want, Burr?
If you stand for nothing
Burr, then what do you fall for?
I wanna be in
The room where it happens
The room where it happens
I wanna be in
The room where it happens
The room where it happens
I...
I wanna be in
The room where it happens
The room where it happens
The room where it happens
...Wanna be in the room where it happens
I...
I wanna be in the room where it happens
I wanna be in the room… Oh, oh
The room where it happens
The room where it happens
I wanna be in
I wanna be
I wanna be
The room where it happens
The room where it happens
The room where it happens
I’ve got to be
I’ve got to be
In that room
In that big ol’ room
I wanna be in
The room where it happens
The room where it happens
The room where it happens
The art of the compromise—
Hold your nose and close your eyes
We want our leaders to save the day—
But we don’t get a say in what they trade away
We dream of a brand new start—
But we dream in the dark for the most part
Dark as a tomb where it happens
I’ve got to be in
The room…
The room where it happens
I’ve got to be...
The room where it happens
I’ve got to be...
The room where it happens
Oh, I’ve got to be in
The room where it happens…
The room where it happens
The room where it happens
I’ve got to be, I’ve gotta be,
I’ve gotta be…
In the room!
I wanna be in the room
Where it happens!
Click-boom!
(Oki! Femboy Fishboi.)
(Yes but not all femboys are gay and I know it's just you've brought it up in posts before and I sort of always get scared talking to you about anything LGBTQ related. I have no problem with being wrong or being educated, but I also feel like sometimes when you make these posts or say things it's a matter of your personal preference and not an everyone gets offended by this type of thing. And yes of course I respect personal preferences and of course I don't want to offend, but seeing long, angry posts directed at specific people makes me very, very scared to talk to you because I am incredibly anxious and I feel like if I talk to you about anything remotely queer you're going to lose your shit on me.
(No I'm not talking about any of that. I agree with you on the gender identity thing I'm on the same page there and yes you are correct it IS a problem. The smol beans thing, yeah I really don't mind it made you uncomfortable I stopped that's it. There have been some times where you've said things that, while not directed specifically at anyone, are still very clearly in response to other things and that just like-makes me feel a bit uncomfortable when it's a public post. Yes I think we should educate people but when not everyone's done something wrong and the person who did something wrong did so out of ignorance rather than prejudice, it feels a bit wrong to make a post calling them out in front of everyone rather than just talking to them and explaining why the thing they did was wrong. We should be correcting people, not shaming them. Actually the thing that I was thinking of was your post about people fetishizing gay men and MLM relationships. I ain't doing that. There's a pretty big difference between me thinking 'Hey these people are awesome I love their fashion' and me being like 'Hey these people are very attractive to me' and just boiling people down to their looks. And yeah, I do love gay men and mlm relationships. I love seeing them in media, and I love having that representation for them and for my community, and I generally think ANY lgbtq+ relationship is adorable and awesome and I will squee aggressively, real or fictional. But just because I think a part of my community is amazing doesn't mean I'm fetishizing it.)