Since writing in the Daily Post, recently, about a word that had rumbled into my consciousness — the word, ’empty’ — and mentioning that I seldom tweet, but I would be tweeting more and that I would be filling my tweets with a whole lot of empty, I’ve been tweeting. Feverishly.
Bear with me. I’ll explain. I’m trying to shape opinion. I’ve done that, some, in the past. I’m at it again. Because of the times we’re in. Chiefly.
In Daily Post articles, I’ve opined about current events and politics, leveling angst at one of the political parties, in particular, the one with the current Oval Office occupant. I’ve been casting the President, and others in the GOP, the Grand Old Party, as hidebound and stodgy. You can tell by their way of saying things.
Like just a few days ago, the President was boasting about calling the shots, and he even called The World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization — the WHO and WTO — the Bobbsey Twins.
Egad! Bobbsey Twins? His Eminence seems stuck in outdated lingo.
Okay! Back to filling tweets with a whole lot of empty.
I’ve been starting each of my recent tweets with that word, as a question, in all cap letters… ‘EMPTY?’
After EMPTY? there’s usually a brief headline or excerpt involving current events. Here’s an example, starting with ‘EMPTY?’
“The Wisconsin Supreme Court justices who stopped thousands of voters from casting absentee ballots had no problem doing so themselves…”
Here’s another one, once again, starting with ‘EMPTY?’
“Trump administration paid a bankrupt company with zero employees $55 million for N95 masks, which it never manufactured.”
And this: ‘EMPTY?
“Taking a poke at one of the longest-running news programs in the history of TV, the President inserts a ‘De’ in Face The Nation, making it ‘Deface the nation.’ Get it?”
Almost forgot this tweet: ‘EMPTY?’
“Trump supporters fear Bill Gates wants to make a COVID-19 vaccine to secretly implant them with brain chips.”
You just can’t make this stuff up. But you can always tweet something.
Harvey Radin is former senior vice president in charge of corporate communications and media relations, Bank of America Western Region. He makes his home in Redwood City, CA.