Saturday, October 14, 2017

What's Trump's next move. Eat the turkey he's pardoned?


Nine or ten months ago I began visiting Congressman Dent's office in an attempt to prevent the loss of my (and a lot of other folks') health care. As the year progressed (if that's the right word) I became increasingly concerned about the broader consequences of a Trump presidency and the implications of Russian action against the democratic West.

Now that Trump has gone and - rather than letting Obamacare die on it's own (which it wasn't :-) ) - he decided to destroy the individual market.

Talked it over with my internist yesterday and she said that in the worse case (which may not happen, at least, not immediately) I'd have to forgo routine check-ups (from three times a year due to my various conditions to just one annual visit) and that she'd continue writing my prescriptions - which she believed I'd still be able to afford with the exception of my medication for Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

She said I'd have to re-adjust to living with the physical symptoms of anxiety WITHOUT resorting to self-medicating with alcohol again.

I've come to the conclusion that if effing Trump and my fellow Republicans in congress manage to bring about my death from lack of access to medical care THE YEAR BEFORE I'm eligible for Medicare, I can live with that. (So to speak. :-) )

And I'll consider it a moral victory over the madness of King Trump, if not a more substantive one, if I die sober.

But, at least while I'm on meds, I'm no longer worried about dying (from irony, among other things, the year before I'm eligible for Medicare) as a victim of Trump's and the Republicans' determined efforts to "reform" my healthcare. :-) 

But the meds aren't doing a DAMN thing regarding my anxiety about Trump and his enablers provoking, initiating, or blundering into a nuclear extinction event because Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are willing to live with a nuclear-armed nutcase in the White House so long as that nutcase will sign their massive redistribution of wealth to the rich (which they ALSO, ironically, call tax "reform." :-) ).

Why should I worry about that if I'm not around?

Because I have family and friends and children and grandchildren of friends who will have to live in Trump's dystopian world until regime change occurs. And it will.

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RESPONSE TO CHARLIE SYKES

With respect, this is just wrong. You keep saying "we can't treat any of this as normal" but that seems to be exactly what you...