I meant the 2:10 a.m. (Pacific time) piece below to be my parting piece for the day, since nearly all of it will be consumed by two jet planes, and soon the dawn is breaking it's early morn / So smile for me / Tell me that you'll wait for me / Bookmark me like you'll never let me go / 'cause I'm leaving on a Jet Plane / and I do know when I'll be back again — Wednesday a.m.
No point in hitting the hay since I must be at "security" early so they can rifle through my bag, assess my toothpaste volume, test my clearly labeled Rx morphine to see what it really is, explore a chest implant and an external device glued inhospitably to the selfsame torso for 30 days. The joy of air travel.
Still, I've more than enough time before packing and departure at 4 a.m. to share merely my latest, deepest disgust with America's vilest plague: a clinical sociopath, chronic liar, sexual assaulter, convicted felon, multiple indictee, all-round hunk-'o-horseshit and the Republican Party's presidential nominee.
From Monday night's "PBS News Hour," transcript, host Geoff Bennett: "The spread of rumors and misinformation has always been a problem during major disasters.... But what's the real-world harm inflicted by lies and conspiracy theories about the hurricane relief effort?... Here's a sampling of some of the false things that [Trump] said in recent days."
Kamala spent all her FEMA money, billions of dollars, on housing for illegal migrants, many of whom should not be in our country.
(Booing)
They're offering them $750 to people whose homes have been washed away
(Booing)
Guest Juliette Kayyem, former assistant secretary, Department of Homeland Security: "There's been a lie that Trump has been pushing that resources aren't going to red states. One very harmful lie that is being spread is that ... this is the opportunity for the government to take your house. FEMA cannot take your house. They can pay you and urge you to be bought out, so that you don't build your home in the same place....
"But you can imagine people worrying about, well, my home is going to be taken away. They believe these lies. And then what do they do? They don't evacuate, as we have a new hurricane, a deadly hurricane coming to Florida right now. The idea that people are going to stay put because of a lie that the government is going to take their home if they leave. It is going to cost lives."
Added Kayyem, "It's obscene at this stage, but we're just going to see more of it."
Sometimes, language is wanting, impotent, incapable of meeting the enormous challenge of describing with exigent precision such a small man as Trump. Obscene is true but inadequate. There's also pornographic, abhorrent, scandalous and shocking, all perfectly okay yet just okay. I'd opt for satanic with a capital S or demonic at the very least, but even those seem deficient in their fantasized Christian ways — when Trump is all too real.
Perhaps the name itself will someday metamorphose into the one word that describes the greatest evil imaginable embodied in one human frame.
To be labeled a trump, if believable, will be so linguistically powerful as to end a political career. To hold trumpian beliefs will be tantamount to the sentimentalization of Mein Kampf. To be trumped will no longer mean to be outdone, but to be victimized by the foulest sort of the very lowest earthly scum. In the near future, the most obscene, pornographic, abhorrent, scandalous and shocking of political doctrines will be the putrefaction of Trumpism.
With the advents of Hitler and Stalin came additions to the English language, such as Hitlerite and Stalinism, used to describe persons and developments that transcended their original owners. This sort of linguistic synopsis, or shorthand, if you will, takes on the strength of an even mightier blow to the concept of human decency when it loses its capitalization: fascism, communism.
If humans manage to retain their decency over the next thousand years or so, I suspect today's capitalization of the purest political villainy will lose itself in frequency of usage, becoming, merely, trumpism — a doctrine akin to, and on a par with, fascism and communism; a doctrine altogether disowned by persons of honor; a doctrine to die for, and nothing more.