Pandas are cute. Toddlers eating the mud delicacy they have spent hours making in the backyard – cute. Even the grub crawling along in its slimy trail has its qualities. But talk to me about parasites? It’s strange, I get two images: those burrowing deep within the skin, having to be pulled out one inch at a time or they’ll snap, and well, the two-legged variety, that makes the world feel much like that burrow through the lens of Fox, CNN and false promises: The parasite enters the world. The parasite ensures they are known, throws a few regurgitated speeches, change the channel – there they are again – the parasite exits, but you know they’re still leaching about.
I’m not actually referring to mainstream media, albeit there’s a story I could rant about for pages. I’m discussing its political guests, political sponsorship, political platforms. Propping themselves up under the studio lights, using religion, philosophy and vendetta for their excuses. Occasionally, there’s a glimmer of hope – that their reasoning is logical. Words are spoken, promises made; the bulls*it almost expelled – cured. Politicians and parasites: Is there a difference?
It seems some scientists won’t draw the distinction. In their white lab coats, tucked away in their bubble, some of our more highly educated are having a good laugh (though they say they’re not). And rightly so. President Obama now has new bragging rights – he has officially become a documented parasite.
Documented as the Baracktrema obamai, a parasitic flatworm has taken on presidential honors. Though living in turtles’ blood – let’s face it, it ain’t no White House but probably as messy as the War on Terror – Baracktrema obamai is a hair-thin ‘worm’ about 2-inches long. Thomas Platt, a retired biology professor from Indiana’s Saint Mary’s College, named the blood fluke after the current president because it’s an honor – not an insult. Apparently.
“[The Baracktrema obamai] are phenomenally incredibly resilient organisms,” says Platt of the reasoning behind naming the newly discovered parasite. It reminded him of the president. “It’s long. It’s thin. And it’s cool as hell.”
That’s one way to describe a president with a lot of military intervention and blood drawn, under his belt. Cold is one way to describe him. Resilient? Most certainly. The two-term president knows how to get under the skin, hang in there, remain in power.
In the research paper, published in The Journal of Parasitology, it acknowledges the obamai as a metamorphosis of previous parasites refusing to die off (Bushorchis and GeorgiasJunior Vasotrma – okay, I made those up) instead, evolving into the current one just discovered, insisting on further infection to prolong its cause.
As with all worms and parasites, the host rarely knows its presence is there – until its too late. Politicians and parasites, it seems, have a kinship.
I doubt we’ll find current elections hosted in the lung of a southeast Asian box turtle, but it is certainly redolent of the Nov. 8 elections, where the Grip-hobilharzia-Clintonaecum or Trumprema Donnie parasites will evolve once more.
Sources: The Journal of Parasitology, Daily Mail UK.
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the fall of the christianism and related religions in triad is or was the end of their world for them, the illuminati is the end of their world for them… why they are so worried about all other lives… they can’t live alone and an aboriginal in tropical forest can live alone… living survival skills and independence related with self and there are native people who live alone for years and in very small groups… wake up people… cut them the taps of influx… cut the money cut the profits cut the labour and the bright on their eyes to see people working for them and to not have meaning and a natural meningful life…. starts here somehow… it has its uses