Why this radical has trumpist tantrums

Have you ever had to suffer the sluggish, slovenly, surly scum who work for the city of New York

Prefatory statement: I am in the hospital. I don't have my pc. I am writing on my phone. My hands are big, and I find writing on a phone as much of an abomination as being compelled to wear a svelte sari that would be stunning on a 5 foot 2, 95 pound woman from Asia but would look laughably grotesque on me. Also, I am technologically backward (owing to my poetic character) and don't know how to save stuff on my phone let alone avail myself of spell checks etc.)

I hate Trump just as any decent person should detest that loathsome orange ogre. However, much of the government is detestable too.

The tasks of the government can be noble: fighting malaria, Aids (No, Mr. Pseudo Robert Kennedy, infections are not delightful things to make allegedly noble savages like yourself feel gutsy when you get a dead worm lodged in your deluded and devious brain), poverty, discrimination etc. are laudable endeavors.

Unfortunately, govt often seems to attend to its vital duties in an aloof, disinterested and patently negligent fashion. And when I think of my city, the big apple, I remember mick jagger snidely singing, in “Shatterred,” “rats on the west side, bed bugs uptown, what a mess this town’s in tatters.”

And the lyrics of satiric songs don't exaggerate the ugliness. For starters: a) the nyc dept. Of health lost 20,000 pap smears , b) elevators on subways are routinely broken, making the lame and the elderly endure real torture, c) nyc buses speed down the street carrying no passengers ( I suppose that's a form of joy riding reserved for privileged, pensioned, nyc-union employees, and d) welfare is a shame-inducing and ego-destructive cabal which castrates the confidence of millions.

This outburst was prompted by my admission in the hospital. I wanted to reread “Nemesis,” Philip Roth's tender portrayal of Newark Jews dealing with polio and Germany in the summer of 44. I had taken out the e book ftom the new york public library, but an inscrutable error message told me that the book could not be read. I went to their website. I dialed the number for customer support. They didn't even bother to give me a lengthly and beguiling list of numbered options to choose from. Instead they simply gave me a one word recorded, “ good bye.”

When I was well enough to travel to the ny public library, it always seemed that they were devoted to one occupation: putting up large and sometimes noisy displays meant to pay homage to blacks, gays and women. Being fair and kind to diverse groups of people is a fine goal, but there was something about the repetitive and utterly boring way in which they preached, like bloated, bellicose baptists from ³huckshuck. Huckleberry, north Carolina, that turned moderates and many liberals off and put the fascist bastards in the white house. Although the library staff seemed ready to recite the gospel according to Frantz Fanon and jimi hendrix, it never was any good at finding library books.

I don't want my disdain for certain drippy Democrats to confuse matters. Trump and musk are grave threats to America and the greatest theat to the world since Hitler's panzer divisions sliced like knives through Europe and Africa and killed 50 million people. Fighting the trump-musk axis must be our paramount objective.