STEPFORD REDUX

Remember The Stepford Wives? (Of course you don't; you're too young.😅) It was a 1972 novel about husbands in a town called Stepford who, growing impatient with their wives' imperfections, created copies of them in the form of robots. The robots were, of course, perfect in all domestic and social respects. Let's don't get into their bedroom skills--I don't remember if they were discussed.

Don't remember what became of the imperfect, discarded bodies of the wives, either. Not important here.

Some people that I know of went so far as to accuse Nancy Reagan of being a Stepford wife. She had that glassy eyed, thin lipped, robotic stare and stiff way of moving. And the big hair that never moved. When she made the shocking faux pas of wearing a strapless gown to the inaugural ball, though, she might have been mistaken for an upside down floor mop. She had no shoulders. Her 
gown must have been glued on.

But now we have a new twist on Stepford wives: Stepford husbands. Picture Jared Kushner. Have you ever seen his face move? Have you ever seen his lips move? What does Ivanka know that we don't know? Come to think of it, maybe she is a Stepford product, too. Just a bit more animated than Jared.

He hangs around Daddy Trump like a dog on a leash. Was he programmed to do that? If Trump goes to jail, will he have to go?

If Don Jr. visits Stepford, will he insist that his robot must have a stronger chin? How about Eric? Can robots be programmed to be that dippy?

I shall continue to observe Jared for signs of life. And I shall continue to monitor his father-in-law for signs of intelligence.