Trump lives in my house and my mind like a giant disease carrying housefly. By Hal M. Brown
I just ordered a fly zapper. If only it was that easy to rid the country of this troublesome pest.
When it comes to airborne evasive maneuvers Trump reminds me of the common housefly. When one gets in the house my partner won't let me use Raid which she insists is toxic to people (and she hates the smell) and I can't find the fly swatter which I swear used to be in the kitchen cabinet. By chance yesterday I managed to smash one with a tissue box when it lingered too long on a window. Now I am visualizing a giant fly with Trump's face flying around taunting me.
Above is the comment I posted on Dana Milbank’s Washington Post (subscription) column, Trump needs that Qatari 747 — for all his evasive maneuvers, this morning.
Milbank writes:
“There’s a new word that I came up with, which I think is probably the best word,” he announced from the Roosevelt Room. “We’re going to ‘equalize,’ where we’re all going to pay the same.”
He has the best words.
A stickler might point out that, according to the Online Etymology Library, the word “equalize” has been part of the English language since the 1580s. But let us not be sticklers. Let us give Trump credit for the greatest linguistic innovation since the Gulf of America. In fact, let us call him the Great Equalizer.
He included this odd description of the person he says led him to address the high cost of prescrption drugs:
Trump described coming to his prescription-drug epiphany in typically whimsical fashion — because of a rich friend’s complaint. He told reporters on Monday about “a highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes the fat — the fat shot drug.” The friend, in Trump’s telling, called from London and told the president “I just paid for this damn fat drug I take.”
One has to wonder whether this person considers it a complement to have Trump refer to him as a fat neurotic.
Milbank doesn’t bring up the plane until he concludes his column as follows:
The latest evidence of this incorruptibility: Trump will accept the gift of a $400 million Boeing 747-8 “flying palace” from the royal family of Qatar — which will go to his library when his presidency ends rather than remain government property.
Trump explained on Monday that it would be “stupid” not to accept this emolument, which he likened to being offered a “gimme” in golf: “When they give you a putt, you say, ‘thank you very much,’ you pick up your ball and you walk to the next hole.”
A $400 million bribe or a two-foot gimme putt? To the Great Equalizer, they are the same.
Every morning Trump is in my house and mind. He’s like a giant housefly. I consider him to be like a giant dung eating disease carrying housefly (see reference). I just took the photo below of him no doubt feeling like royalty, for example.
If I knew I was going to write this when a managed to send that fly to insect Heaven I probably would have taken a picture. Instead I had to make a photoshop.
I just ordered one of those fly killing gadgets because you can only buy six packs of the manual ones on Amazon and they are the same price. I had one many years ago and they work very well because when you manage to trap a fly in a corner or against a wall they electrocute themselves by flying into the grid.
If only it was as easy as using a gadget like this to zap Trump and his MAGA minions out of our lives. I don’t want them to die. I just don’t want them destroying American democracy.
I'm doing my level best to keep that fly from living rent free in my head. some days/hours are better than others.
I'm a retired psychiatrist and fan of psychohistory. I spent 42 yrs. assisting 25k+ suffering souls in their/our discovery of the source of their agony and an escape route. I must admit, however, that it has taken my alcoholism recovery and extensive self-analysis in the 26 yrs. of 12-step meetings that has allowed the revelation of how my father's hatred of me, his son and only child, was just a reconstruction of how he was treated by his father. Such patterns of multigenerational abuse are not uncommon in the addiction treatment field/12-step mtg's. Trump is, also, such a wounded manchild, and deserves the resentment melting compassionate regard that all such children do. I was not able to forgive/stop hating my father until I realized that he was only repeating the hateful behavior of HIS father. I have written extensively about Trump's psychology and how it drives his self-other hatred that drives so many to distraction and hatred of the hater. Compassionate regard for the abused child that lurks in the compensatory behaviors of the abuse victim has allowed me to forgive my father and Trump. I have been attacked by hate addicted parties on both political extremes for my analysis, which has led me to hypothesize that we may be a nation of traumatized and abandoned souls. You'll find the details on "Greeley's Newsletter" on substack. Good luck and have a blessed day.