Winter in New Hampshire sends Mad Dog to his basement gym cave, as the streets are too icy and snow covered for bicycle embarkations.
An hour on the stationary bicycle, in front of the TV means shifting among choices on youtube.
This is one of the 21st century's major blessings.
Youtube, Amazon, streaming TV series, Wikipedia, public TV and radio.
What a marvelous world we live in.
Another thing: ear buds which carry podcasts into your head as you walk around town, popping in and out of coffee shop, library, hardware store, pharmacy, dry cleaners.
Dave Remnick interviews Adam Schiff on a podcast. Schiff is a United States Senator and Remnick the editor of The New Yorker, so it's not clear exactly where they are sitting, but Remnick begins by playing clip of Donald J. Trump saying that Schiff is a "Horrible person. Real scum. He should be in jail."
This triggered something in Mad Dog's brain, synapsing flashing--a scene he had seen on youtube while peddling in his basement, a clip from "Game of Thrones."
It was a "Eureka" moment. Mad Dog suddenly realized what the "J" in Donald J. Trump really means: Joffrey.
The series ran for eight amazing years 2011-2019, and Mad Dog watched it all, but over the ensuing six years the memory moldered, revived only in snatches on youtube.
Of course, Trump IS Joffrey, the boy made king at age 15, and who is tolerated because his mother is Queen Cersei and he is thought to hold the Baratheon blood line.
He develops into the very image of vile over the seasons, sadistic, cowardly, impulsive, vain, completely devoid of any capacity for sympathy or admiration. He is the fictive avatar of Donald Joffrey Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqsMx8rTSPg
And it was all so clear, simply hearing Trump's voice, his invective against Adam Schiff, having just heard Joffrey.
What a wondrous age we live in.
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