The Trump Headache
How to make it go away?
Donald Trump is a headache— more than a headache.
I really want him to go away.
The above is a drawing that appeared in The New Yorker in 1997, so of course it wasn’t created with the orange man in mind. But I ran across it this morning and made the connection in my mind. Taking headace medicine won’t make him go away, but voting might. Although I really don’t understand my fellow Americans who say they’ll vote for him. I don’t suggest that they go away—but maybe they won’t vote. Or maybe they secretly will vot blue.
For me, after you look at all the policiy discussion and candidate’s past, watch the debates and listen to their ideas and decorum, it ultimately comes down to gut instinct. Who is the better person? And for me “better” has two meanings: who is better for our country, and who is a more thoughtful, kind, stable candidate.
VOTE.
Happy Sunday. I’m still on the road visiting friends. See you tomorrow!
Got a headache? Take two aspirins. Harris and Walz.
Headaches and cartoons: in the distant past (late '50s? Early '60s?) there was a TV commercial showing a human head in silhouette - profile, I think - and three square frames inside of the person's head, each showing a simplified animated image, also in silhouette: in one square was a hammer pounding; in another, two machine-like things pressing a spring between them; and in the third, a lightning bolt zapping intermittently. (My memory may not be photographically accurate, but that's pretty close.) The ad was for some medication which was meant to relieve these figurative depictions of headache pain. Not hard to imagine a fourth window with a familiar silhouette in it.
I'm sure everyone in this thread is getting sick of hearing me say it, but I think it's important: this election is no longer about "policies", if it ever was. It's about a pathological narcissist and his cult following versus a psychologically normal, healthy person. You choose.