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  • Essay / Analysis of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton - 1312

    He accuses Jefferson of "getting high with the French" while "we — (being Hamilton and other real Americans, in this case associating him directly with George Washington, who was with Hamilton in the situation discussed here, the siege of Yorktown) – almost died in a trench. In a final contrast with Hamilton himself, he describes Jefferson as "hesitant" and "reluctant." Hamilton, neither of those things, ends with the mature "Damn, you're in worse shape than the national debt / Sitting there as useless as two turds / Hey, turn around, bend over you, I'll show you where my shoe fits At this point, Congress is so involved that it doesn't wait for a break to laugh and even goes along with the last lines before descending into chaos It takes George Washington. to calm everyone down, and although Jefferson mocks that Hamilton doesn't have "the votes", Hamilton clearly walks away from the battle.