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HollyValera's avatar

Poltroon is a wonderful epithet, although unfortunately likely to be mistaken by most to be some kind of exotic serving utensil.

As for employing more imaginative, evocative ways to describe the person I prefer to call ā€œFormerlyā€, until his ouster I had a moderately positive response to referring to him as ā€œthat idiot traffic cone currently occupying the Oval Office.ā€

Good work, Mr. Sykes. Please keep it going. We need you.

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Ryan Groff's avatar

I agree with all of you. As per previous posts before these writings. MESSAGE, MESSAGE, MESSAGE. Make it about a single working poor mother with three kids, who work full-time to pay $2,000 per month in daycare. So somebody else gets to see her kids. Make it about a collapsing bridge in small-town Iowa. Make it about a father forced to return to work with zero maternity leave, needs to travel out of town for the job, sees his newborn for two days a week, and needs to take food stamps to make ends meet. Is the Bulwark microphone on Dems?

"If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story."

- Jonathan Gottschall

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