Tornado Alley (PROG)

[DesertDrifter]

Damn, I can't take myself anywhere. Today, after the EKG and the usual Happy Horseshit, my cardiologist asked me there was any discomfort or pains. I said, only Trump. I thought I was being funny, but I had lasered a trump specialist. He said, what do you mean? he is a great leader! Now, I have known this guy for 15 years, and I think he is brilliant stent-putter-inner and stuff; driving a catheter is honest work.

But I will be goddamed if he didn't run through every trump talking point I have ever heard.

Things like, "you have to agree that the economy is gangbusters" and so I said, Doc, you can read charts... the present economy is just following the trajectory that he inherited. So I had to say that the only miracle is that he hasn't screwed it up yet despite his best efforts with tariffs and trade wars. He got so into it that we ended up talking about carbon sequestration and African birth rates. Turns out, he kind of doesn't like Africans. We ended up talking for quite awhile... I apologize to the folks that had to wait in their little cubicles while we talked about lying, Obama, etc., But it was just like listening to FOX news through an able, articulate spokesman-- who had strong beliefs and apparently thought it was okay to express them to a paying patient. It was a major wow.