verbicide
MEANING:
noun:
1. The deliberate distortion or destruction of the meaning of a word.
2. A person who deliberately distorts the meaning of a word.
Verbicide occurs in every Trump stump speech.
I would never voluntarily listen to his speeches, tirades, or blather. Still, because he’s the prez, his sound bites and bits are reported, dissected, and/or lamented ad nauseam, especially because he followed Netanyahoo (deliberately misspelled) off the plank and blundered into another ill-considered war. Billions of dollars, ordinance misused, and bodies of Americans sacrificed to his ego-driven blame-shifting and responsibility avoidance.
My anxiety has burgeoned as the war creeps beyond the Middle East, with rumors of attacks in California. Even the gentle, repetitive surf we visited to watch the sunset fall over the Pacific didn’t calm me as the ’70s song, as our country’s ill-considered war in Vietnam took American soldiers’ lives.
I am a positive person… and I’m positive he’s a blight.
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztZI2aLQ9Sw&list=RDztZI2aLQ9Sw&start_radio=1
Trump’s shenanigans wore out their welcome in my heart and mind before his term began.
Thus, I’m symbolically turning in my citizenship in his world and have adopted a new daily survival strategy. Here’s its sign:
Escape – that’s what reading and writing foster for me… Good God, y’all.
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