We only get the TV channels available with an antenna. We watched the first night of the convention on PBS. I was disappointed in how much time was spent among the talking heads rather than simply showing the convention speakers. Went to sleep. Alison woke me up in time to see Michelle Obama’s speech. Then I went to bed.
Last night we turned to NBC to see how their coverage was. They began by showing very short clips of speakers from earlier in the night then began talking among themselves. When Chuck Todd began droning on, I angrily got up and went to bed. Alison stayed up to see if any of the actual speeches were aired in full. I was still awake when she came to bed, but elected not to inflict upon her the pejorative phrase for Trump and his base my mind had concocted while I was attempting to shed my ire at the poor convention coverage and drift off to sleep.
Up until the Trump era, a pejorative I heard my father use seemed adequate to characterize the worst of the worst. I remember him referring to someone (forget who) as a tick on the asshole of humanity. If you make any effort to parse that pejorative, the first thing that comes to mind is how can a single tick be on the asshole of all humanity? Probably best not to parse it. It simply sounds like you must be characterizing a very bad person. But that pejorative phrase is inadequate to describe Trump.
As I waited for Alison to come to bed, I tried to come up with as many multipliers as I could think of to increase the vileness of the critter to compare Trump to while at the same time diminishing the size of the brain of same critter. Here’s what I came up with. Trump is a maggot on a festering boil on the dick of a tick on the asshole of humanity. Anyone who supports him is a mite on the cloaca of a maggot on a festering boil on the dick of a tick on the asshole of humanity. I was still awake when Alison came to bed, but didn’t think that would be a very good image to inflict on her at bedtime. I still had to do something with it, so I put it here. It’s still inadequate.
The hummingbirds are just a palate cleanser.
