I have been pondering all weekend about how to respond to Uncle Ken's last post about the recent gubernatorial election in Virginia. If you think about it, every time Trump's name appears anywhere, it gives him free publicity. It doesn't matter if the reference is supportive or critical because, as a famous person once said, "There is no such thing as bad publicity". Perhaps the way to take the wind out of Trump's sails would be to stop talking about him. We could even pretend that he never existed, like in Orwell's "1984" when they made somebody an "unperson". My recent research suggests that a mechanism for doing just that already exists, it's called "Cancel Culture".
What I don't know is exactly how one would go about putting somebody's name on the cancellation list. I suppose there is a form that needs to be filled out, but I don't know where to get it or to whom it needs to be submitted. I'll keep searching and let y'all know what I find out.
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