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Just today the creep told his supporters that he never should have left the White House. He said it in a way that made it sound like he had a choice.

I wonder whether he really believes he had a choice. Maybe he’s thinking “I should not have been so nice when they politely invited me to leave.” Which begs the question — if he really believes, as he keeps saying, that he won four years ago, why didn’t he just stay? Was he forced to leave even though he had won?

That sequence of events only makes sense if you believe that the entire apparatus of our democratic voting system is a sham and a fraud. That there has been a vast conspiracy to deny that man his rightful victory. An enormous conspiracy with everyone in on it — our elected officials, the Press, the many thousands of volunteers at election venues who have never met each other — all coordinating to create a make-believe election result.

If people are willing to believe something like that, then they are willing to believe anything. So I suspect that if the creep loses in a few days, he might manage to convince a lot of people that the fix was in the whole time, and that the only remaining choice may be violent insurrection.

I don’t know about you, but that worries me.

There are so many weird things about those Republican candidates. But what really impresses me is the Veepacreep — that guy who is following in his master’s footsteps.

It seems that his particular focus is taking away the rights of women. Maybe there is something about women — about the whole concept that they are human beings with equal rights — which drives him crazy.

It seems to me that there should be an apt nickname for such a person. Someone who follows along blindly as his master enumerates one hateful statement after another.

What do you call someone who was created by the creep, and then trained to follow behind him blindly? Maybe we should call him the “Handmade tail”.

When it comes to the creep, every day is a new astonishment. Just today he gave a speech where he fantasized about violence against one of his political critics. His exact words: “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

Imagine any other public figure saying such a thing in public. It would not only be the end of their political career. It would also cause people to seriously question their sanity.

And yet the creep has gradually trained millions of people to accept not just falsehoods, but even violently insane statements as simply business as usual. The trick is to repeat them over and over again.

I think that’s a technique he learned from one of his heroes. In the original German it is called “große Lüge”.

I realized today that I had totally underestimated the creep. Despite all of my doubts, this morning he managed to capture the true spirit of Halloween.

The goal of this delightfully ghoulish holiday is to embody the scary monster, the dark visitor, the specter of evil, the stuff of your worst nightmares. Some people go as Freddy Krueger, others as Michael Myers.

But today the creep managed to embody the scariest monster of them all — the abusive partner in an intimate relationship. That figure of horror haunts the nightmares of many of the 130 million women eligible to vote in this country.

Today the creep said he “will protect women, whether they like it or not.” That, of course, perfectly mirrors what a controlling and insecure man will say about his spouse, the day before she shows up in public with a black eye.

So hats off, credit where credit is due. In honor of this fun and spooky day, the creep managed to put on the scariest costume of them all.

Assuming, that is, it was a costume.

I like the economic proposals of Vice President Harris. I also like her compassion, and her determination to help our middle class.

But I don’t think those are her greatest assets in this election. Her greatest asset is turning out to be her opponent.

In case you missed it, the creep seems to be doing everything he can to throw this election, by alienating one large bloc of voters after another. And creeping people out with rambling hate speech turns out to be something that he’s really good at.

Until now, I thought the only thing he was really good at was managing to kill millions of older Americans by botching the pandemic response. Which is already not a great look.

Yes, I understand that it’s offensive to throw paper towels at people in Puerto Rico while they are suffering from the devastating effects of a hurricane. But arguably it’s even worse, through sheer incompetence and indifference, to kill off Grandma and Grandpa.

I am curious about the end game strategy of the creep. It seems to consist of trying to lose entire blocs of votes.

The insults to latinos and Puerto Ricans are the most obvious, but there are others as well. For example, the creep has made it clear that Jews are also on his list of “people who are not really Americans”.

Just in the last week, he attacked The Atlantic magazine by going after its editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. His exact words describing the publication were “a failing magazine run by a guy named Goldberg.” You can practically hear the “Nudge, nudge, wink wink”.

As dog whistles go, that one was pretty darned loud. From where I sit, it seems that any Jewish person would need to be crazy to vote for a guy who promotes that kind of hatred toward Jews.

I find myself wondering whether that hat he wears actually stands for Make America Goy Again.

When I watch that man speak, all I can think is “that creep”. And I mean “creep” in precisely the sense of that feeling you get when you notice a poisonous centipede, or some other such verminous creature, crawling up your leg.

The odd thing is that anybody reading this will know, simply from the above description, exactly whom I am speaking about. And yet the people standing behind him in those videos are, for some odd reason, not visibly shuddering with horror.

And I can’t help thinking — What is wrong with those people?

Every day is its own universe, unique into itself. No two days will ever be alike.

Cherish each day as it comes. Do not let a universe go to waste.

What is it, exactly, about live theater? Movies are great, but they are just not the same.

When you see a live human being inhabiting a character right before your eyes, with no special effects, it brings you to a magical place. I am not sure what strange alchemy transports us to that place with such power.

But I am grateful that it does.

One of the best things to me about a great movie or play or novel is the way it creates its own world. Every truly great fiction is its own universe.

If the author or playwright is doing their job properly, within a scene or two, you have entered this universe. And you have been expertly prepped for everything that follows.

And that’s half the fun right there.