Just one other quick, final note for today. While returning from the packed after-Sunday-church grocery store and hour ago — speaking of all things ecclesiastical, dear God, please tell me why my $60 super-duper spell checker failed to catch the preceding "and hour ago," which of course should be "an hour ago" — I had the radio on in the car, which was a mistake, for it was tuned to the news and, sure enough, something was said about You-Know-Who ...
... which spoiled my little Sunday afternoon jaunt. On the radio was an elections-analyst gentleman and some talk about the aforementioned Who-Know-You, repeating his unwillingness to accept the election results, unless he wins. That reminded me of the kind of pronunciamento that comes from the foul mouths of leaders such as Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro.
Of all the nations on this earth, there is none cited more often nor more deeply hated by Trump than Venezuela, because of that country's armed gangs which he says have traveled in virtual armies to the U.S. to murder, rape, and forcibly occupy apartment buildings in the Rocky Mountains. Furthermore, Venezuela itself is a shithole country because its leader, Señor Maduro, is a tyrannical dictatorial radical leftist socialist, which is also Trump's term for moderate American Democrats.
While briefly reflecting on all this as the elections analyst spoke on the radio, it struck me. Trump's true initials are not DJT. They're HIP. I am loathe to write, uncapped, that he is therefore hip. Yet hip is precisely what Trump is when its letters stand for hypocrisy, irony, and projection.
Which, to put hip even more laconically, translates "Trump" to a t. He is hip as an uncapitalized acronym in which each letter's meaning is inextricably related to, and some ways synonymous with, the others.
Trump is walking hypocrisy, for he denounces a national leader who rules as he would; he is irony itself for he's oblivious to the human fact that he himself is a Maduro; and projection positively oozes from his intensely Madurolike, dictatorial personality in every public appearance.
And that — "Trump is hip" — is my thought for the day.