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Joshua Leto's avatar

I hate reading the news, so I read this newsletter. Thank you for doing it. Rather than screaming this idea (that my friend Laura came up with) into the void, I thought I would type it out here...Some enterprising Senator should sponsor a bill to rename the ACA as The Tr*mp Care Act. Then once that passes start making improvement to the Tr*mp Care Act that a huge percentage of Americans (blue, red, and otherwise) would be happy to have. You could even say the tariffs are paying for it. Who cares if you name it after that nimrod, just help people.

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Sunset & Fire's avatar

I think your own unwillingness to type his full name is the reason not to do that. He is, and will be even more universally loathed by the time he dies or this country fully collapses that no one would want it. I do hope he lives long enough to see his name erased from absolutely everything and his legacy be utter ignominy, scorn, and contempt such that his spawn can't set foot in this country again, unto 1000 generations. They have lived their lives and worked their will such that I would rather name a child Satan than Trump.

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Joshua Leto's avatar

Respectfully, I think you make my point. I don't believe I have posted his full name anywhere online since 2015, and I think I've scrubbed those. I would, however, vote for a resolution that provided reasonable cost-effective health care for Americans that need it even with that name on it, even if I was legally obliged to refer to it by name when I talked about it. I know which is more important to achieve, more health care for more people vs. saying a dickhead's name. And, once he's not president, you could easily get Congress to vote on a resolution to change the name. Shit, change it to Gulf of Health Care if you want.

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W. Michael Johnson's avatar

Naked man in the locker room needs to get himself out to a nude beach or something. Is Baker Beach still nudist, up at the Golden Gate end? I was once an enthusiastic nudie butt—we actually used to throw parties at Sauna and hot tub places—and I have actually said without irony, "Oh, hi! I didn't recognize you with clothes on." But the one place where prolonged nudity seemed a little creepy was the locker room.

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Aileen Cheetham's avatar

What a terrible time we are in and tRump piles it all on!

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