Now begins the task that I should have been smart enough to avoid in the first place. The task? As the title states, I am in the process of re-editing a good portion of the articles about President Trump where I unambiguously (my fingers keep wanting to type inslut and not insult. Freudian slip?) where I unambiguously insult him by referring to him as the OHM or Orange Hate-Monkey. I explain why this isn’t an insult in the first article, the one where I hung the moniker on him:
His supporters, of course, don’t accept my logic on the subject, and I’d like to not have my writing be rejected outright by people I offer it to simply because it refers to their cult leader as the Orange Hate-Monkey or OHM. Stonekettle said four years ago (not to me specifically) don’t use funny names to describe the legitimate president of the United States. He will still be the president whether you like him or not. I should have followed that paraphrased advice. If I had done that back in 2017 when the asshole was handed the presidency by a complacent America, I wouldn’t now be saddled with the task of making my blog entries readable by others. Readable by people who can’t be bothered to decode the gibberish I type because they really don’t give a shit about what I think unless I hook ’em first.
The de-orange-ification of the blog commences with the alteration of the category tag for Trump’s politics from OHM to Trumpismo. Like it or not, that is the name of Trump’s politics on this blog, and it identifies itself as such with his name. Like the cultish followers of Hugo Chavez, Trump deserves a special name for his politics as it is observed by his cult followers.
De-Orange-ifying does not mean that I will remove all references to Trump as the Orange Hate-Monkey. It just means that if I feel like the article will be referenced later, read by someone other than myself or someone who is interested in my work to start with, I’m going to make the text less offensive on the surface while maintaining the high standards that marks most of my writing.
It is fitting that the de-orange-ification here is accompanied by the de-orange-ification currently going on in Washington D.C. I wish our leaders the best of luck at de-orange-ifying our government. May they have better luck than I will have at de-orange-ifying this blog.
