General Discussion

A few years back, when my dad's dementia began to accelerate and become more debilitating, we had to take away his car keys and stop him from driving any longer. He had become dangerous to himself and others and simply could not be allowed to drive but it fell to me to take the keys away and tell him he would not be getting them back.

That was the angriest I ever saw my dad at me since I was arrested as a 11-year old for criminal mischief for breaking out the windows of an empty house down the street. I got bullied into it by the neighborhood goon/bully but went along with it and had to pay the price (fined, no record, probation for 12 months unsupervised...but took a few swats from the fraternity pledge paddle for my troubles). When I took the keys and told him he would not be getting them back he exploded. Red faced, shaking, just awful memory. It took more than a week for him to talk to me again after that. We never spoke of it again - it was my dad's way of apologizing, accepting the verdict and not fighting or ever raising it again after that, but I remember it all too vividly.

Under almost all conditions, I do not wish the ravages of dementia on any family, but in the case of Trump and Uday and Qusay and the rest of that fucking criminal cabal (lining their pockets with ill-gotten graft around the planet) I hope that they face it in spades and I hope behind closed doors his erratic behavior and hygiene deficiencies are overwhelming and leave permanent bad memories for them all.