Now that we’ve decided on a blog, I worry that I’ve used my best stuff on the last two cruises. Fortunately, there is only one copy of each, and few people have read them. Still, though, I feel a need for inspiration. So, I turn to one of the most prolific writers of modern times…donald j. trump. I want to benefit from the musings of a stable genius. He seems to have developed an approach he calls “The Weave.”  It captures a variety of ideas, seemingly unrelated and frequently untrue, and appeals to a large following. For example, in responding to a reporter before the election who asked him why Americans should support him, he wove the following; (Spellings are his.)

“I golfed with Lindsay Graham. When we were golfing. I said there’s no way Comrade Kamalala is qualified. We can’t have a barely educated, untested girl running our country. It would be a disaster THE LIKES OF WHICH WE’VE NEVER SEEN. It can’t happen unless the process is rigid. how would American citizens and foreign leaders take her seriously. Lindsay thinks I’ll win Florida. We have child care there, but I don’t use it. Donnie and Eric don’t either. They’re doing great. They also worry about immigrants pouring through our open borders. I’m going to get MEXICO to pay for our soldiers to go to Mexico and stop the flow from prisons and insane asylums. We do use migrants at Mar a Lago and the grounds look GREAT! We’ve got no windmills on site. I wonder if they would scare the sharks. I asked our groundskeeper (through a translator) and he said, “Sir, no one has ever asked that question.” I wonder if Hannibal Lecter eats dogs and cats? Maybe he could solve the Springfield problem. I can’t imagine that I won’t get the votes to win. Americans have the CONSTIPATIONAL RIGHT to vote freely and fairly. They should not be subject to rigid erections again!”

I doubt that I can replicate that, but he sets an example.