Wordsmitng: Here are some good lines from a Brian Karem Salon article

 By Hal Brown

I enjoy reading excellent wordsmthing and hope that at times I come up with a clever turn of phrase that conveys an idea in a particularly succinct and snarky way. I appreciate it when others do this. For example here are my favorite lines fron the Brian Karem article shown above:

In Florida, in one of the most insidious moves ever made by any legislature since the end of the Civil War, new laws demand that school children be taught that there were benefits to slavery. You know, skills. 𝐀𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝.

Then there are Kevin McCarthy, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan and the usual gang of idiots, now including Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, who want to impeach Joe Biden without any evidence to justify it. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬.

. It's enough to make the hair dye run down his face. "𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐢𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐢, 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐲," Eisen explained on the podcast "Just Ask the Question."

from

Donald Trump unleashed a war against the U.S. government — and now he can't control it

I liked this paraphraph I wrote from yesterday's blog:

If Trump gets reelected we will see his most extreme pathological impulses powered by the rocket fuel of the presidency. He'll be a guided nuclear missile with mutilple warheads aimed at American democracy. He already has his targets selected and has a plan for turning the United Staes into a dictatorship where he can destroy his enemies on a whim.