Queens
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Queens is named in Bartlet's parking tirade as the hypothetical destination for towed diplomats; the borough stands for punitive exile away from D.C. privilege and amplifies the comic cruelty of his imagined retribution.
Comic, vengeful in miniature; a local, earthy counterpoint to high-brow diplomatic privilege.
Rhetorical device to punish elite impunity and make the complaint visceral.
Represents public inconvenience as a corrective to elite exemption.
Queens is invoked in Bartlet's rant as the punitive destination for towed diplomats — a comic exaggeration that turns a minor protocol complaint into imagined public humiliation.
Evoked as an image of exasperation and urban exile in Bartlet's tirade.
Rhetorical locale used to dramatize consequences and mock privilege.
Represents democratic leveling — taking diplomats out of elite exemptions and placing them in normal civic inconvenience.
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