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NOTE what follows is an unproofread, stream-of-conscience clearing of the mind before I begin composing more trash talk against our Hemorrhoid-in-chief
Yesterday I began tinkering with what is likely to become a string of columns the first of which on Trump’s attack on public education had the subtitle “maybe to be followed by science, FEMA, climate change, Social Security, News reporting, national security retirement planning the law truth, etc.
Actually that is the subtitle for my second such post. Yesterday, I used one of the things on that first column’s subtitle list, “public health.” This second column will be titled: “How Trump is trashing public health” Like the first column on the trashing of public education it is followed by a new and lengthening list of American treasures Trump is dousing with his golden showers.
My Claudia found me stretched out in a lounge chair looking at my cellphone an hour ago. She looked at me quizzically with her new one eyed goth makeup and challenged me, “I thought you were going to write a column.” “I am, I told her. I added that public health was such a vast topic I was googling to find out more about our new heroin using Health Czar, Donald Trump’s near death from Covid, His cronies threats to prosecute Dr. Fauci and other things which may be charitably blamed on a post covid “long covid” haze and partially explain the full on Orbanization of Trump 102.
Orban is the Putin friendly dictator who financed his takeover of Democracy with vast contributions of the guileless European Union. As a Hungarian political scientist noted on a new program yesterday he’s seeing Donald Trump attempt to dismantle the free press, open government in 100 days which took Orban fifteen years to do. That haste like everything else Trump has effed up in his chaotic fire starting life will, if I have anything to do about it, help cause his demise. He is his own worst enemy. I am trying desperately to be he second worst enemy or “nightmare.”
So this morning I finally finished a fantastic book which will play a large part in the column I will send in to the Reader tomorrow. Once again its John Barry’s The Great Influenza.
Among the chapters I want to channel are 30 about all the things RFK should be doing but isn’t. and the final chapters which explain all the existing health protections that Trump found annoying and is now attempting to kill thereby opening the possibility of another covid Epidemic.
These were some of the things I was looking for more information on when Claudia twitted me.
I explained I was looking up dozens of sources for the twenty pages of info I would need to squeeze into 1000 words or less. because my head was so full after she left I laid back on a couch to clear my mind. over the next ten minutes associated thoughts came to mind and i googled sources to address things I wanted to be certain of before I waded into the column’s first draft. If I het that draft done today one day ahead of Friday Hooray.
and that period of contemplation, head clearing, and googling led me to remember my nightmarish wish to haunt the massively venal ignoramus Trump. I have paid close attention to the events of the last sixty years, read copious histories, know trustworthy sources are only magnified by Google and AI’s instantaneous capacity to pinpoint back up info to counter Trump’s Wall of disinformation.
And after a long career of not letting my timidness get squashed when I challenge just about anybody and everybody…. who is in a better position to pull Trump’s ding a ling out of his barndoor for a closer inspection?
