Political Logorrhea

 

It was a judge who pulled it all together for me. I can't remember now if she is currently a judge, or is a former judge, but it was, ironically, her words that made all of the difference.

 

There are three things I need to mention here. They may or may not seem to be related at first look, but I'll draw the connecting lines for you, I promise.

 

1) When I was young, I heard the term "diarrhea of the mouth." Although it certainly pertains to many people, sometimes even me, I don't use it often because the optics . . . well, let's just say they are nauseating.

 

2) When trump first started running, one very funny/not funny comment about trump was made by a mental health professional on a cable news show. So many people, including mental health workers, had been saying that trump is mentally ill. This person's pointwas that this comparison is an insult . . . to the mentally ill. 

 

3) At about the same time, trump was using the phrase "make America great again." As we all know, it was later shortened to MAGA, and marketed. I was taken aback by the insult to our country. We may have our faults, but to me America was always great (especially given many of the alternatives).

Now, thanks to trump's words, most of which have no basis in fact, often don't go together to make a cohesive sentence, and almost all of which are targeted hate filled rants, America is in need of being made great again.

Well, thanks to trump and his flock of mimicking mynahs.

Back to the judge. She was being interviewed about trump's public rants after having been indicted in Washington, and later hit with an evidentiary protection order. What she said is that in her estimation, his continued incendiary posts and remarks are due to trump having logorrhea.

Wait? What? I've never heard of it. I need to Google that. How do you even spell it?

Logorrhea: constant and often unintelligible, excessive verbosity. It is the pathological inability to stop talking.

The skitters, the runs, the trots, the squirts. Yes, diarrhea of the mouth. It's an actual thing. 

And although it can be classified as a disorder, it is most commonly seen as a symptom of mental illness.

And just like that, the light bulb goes on.

I mean, insulting judges and DOJ officials, lying to taint the potential jury pool, and threatening . . . well . . . everyone. That fits. Publicly, in a town hall, defaming a woman who just days before had won a case against him for defamation. That fits too.

And interestingly enough, although mental illness can run in families, and trump's daughter clearly got the narcissist gene, she seems to have missed out on the family logorrhea gene. Or perhaps it's squashed by self-preservation, or maybe by the lack of style choices in prison clothing.

Now I would never recommend trump take hydroxychloroquine for his condition. Unlike him, I don't pretend to know more than doctors. And I wouldn't tell him to inject himself with bleach either because . . . you know . . . that is just insane. Well, and dangerous.

But I can end with some sound advice.

 

 Apple Pecan Sweet Potatoes

 

Eat a healthy diet, do a little (nonverbal) exercise, listen to your lawyers.

 

And try to understand that perhaps the best way to make America great again, is to make words have meaning again.

Apple Pecan Sweet Potatoes         

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Printable Recipe

Ingredients:
3 medium sweet potatoes

salt and pepper to taste

1 large apple

1 TBSP butter

1 TBSP brown sugar

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/4 cup chopped pecans

Directions:
*Rinse, dry, and pierce sweet potatoes with a fork. Cook in the microwave or oven until soft. Remove the skin and, in a serving bowl, mash with salt and pepper to tast. Keep warm.

*While the sweet potatoes are cooking, core, peel, and chop the apple. Heat the butter in a small skillet. Add the apple, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Cook, stirring now and then, until the apples soften, about 10 minutes.

*Drain the liquid from the apples into the bowl with the sweet potatoes. Mix well. Top with the apples and chopped pecans.