A COLD WIND'S A-BLOWING

It is a cold time in America right now, not only figuratively but metaphorically. A cold wind's a-blowin' throughout the country and the rest of the world. The wannabe dictator Donald Trump has assumed control of the government. Satan has returned to earth in the reincarnated form of a rapist. Evil reigns. The president has always cheated in his personal life, his professional life and his political life. And he plans to cheat the American people for the next four years although he won't be getting any pussy from Melania as she disparagingly displayed wearing her bolero hat to keep her unfaithful husband from kissing her.

There are many angry citizens who have threatened to leave the United States with the despotic demagogue in power. I don't feel the need. As a resident of Brownsville, I really live in Matamoros. As a resident of the Rio Grande Valley, I really live in the state of Tamaulipas. As a resident of deep South Texas, I really live in Mexico. Which is good. I feel much safer among the murderous bandidos from across the river than I feel with Trump who wanted the military to shoot protestors in the knees, who claims he can kill individuals on Fifth Avenue without punishment and who asserts that he may eliminate anyone he chooses with impunity because the Supreme Court awarded him that right. And let's not forget he can grab women by their genitals if he so desires.

Trump, the conqueror because you can't be a real tyrant like his hero Putin if you aren't subjugating other nations, has informed Canada to the latter's astonishment that he is going to make it the 51st state. To prove his point he calls the premier governor. 

Citing strategic reasons, his belligerent position immediately echoed by his propaganda machine Fox, he insists that we need Greenland as a buffer zone between the USA and Europe, particularly if England or France or Spain decide to attack us. And being that Greenland is a part of the kingdom of Denmark, Trump insinuates that he would take care of Denmark faster than the Nazis did in WWII. So much for allies.

The United States has a long history of attacking Mexico and stealing large chunks of land from our southern neighbor. Trump intends to maintain that tradition by declaring the cartels a terrorists organization, thus giving him the right to send special forces across the border in pursuit of these militants. Even though he prefers watching cartoons to reading, he should study the historical failure regarding President Woodrow Wilson sending General John Pershing and the army after Pancho Villa. The mission was an utter failure.

Last but hardly least, the bully Trump has decided that he intends to display his playground power by picking a fight with Panama. He claims that China is running the canal. It is a total lie, but he will pound the heads of his rabid rats with misinformation who would follow their pernicious Pied Piper into the pits of hell if he so commanded them. Is Trump exhibiting all this chest-pounding to provide cover for Putin who can continue his imperialist war against Ukraine? Putin, besides approving nude photos of Melania on Russia's national television, insists that Trump owes him. For someone who has a history of never paying his debts, Trump's willingness to succumb to Putin's threats remains one of those unsolved mysteries.

When he has finished defeating our enemies from without, there are the more dangerous enemies from within that must be destroyed. His first assault will be on the millions of immigrants who are allegedly here illegally. He wants them imprisoned in camps along the border. Nobody would be surprised if he baptizes them Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and other romantic German names, but cooler minds will probably prevail and they will  convince him that this will be his opportunity to honor the Confederate generals, traitors like himself whom he vigorously defends, and cement his relationship with the Proud Boys.

Reducing the number of brown and black people so Americans can reclaim their Aryan roots, Trump will then turn his attention on his critics. There is no place in Trump's future American that will never achieve greatness if white liberals are allowed to criticize and mock him. With his six Supreme Court judges in his back pocket, he will count on them to rule that comedy and satire are unconstitutional. We don't know if he will take another page from Putin's playbook, but we have no doubts that this demonic monster would have no second thoughts eliminating detractors. This suggestion may sound far-fetched because it couldn't possibly happen America, but we must remember that the America that we have known and loved no longer exists.

I suppose, as a fierce wind blows outside my door, that I could pontificate on the economy, on tariffs, on the environment, on racial equality, on China, the Gulf of Trump and a myriad of other subjects, but I grow tired of writing about this fiend. There will be plentiful opportunities to drag Trump through the mud along with Muskrat and the rest of the oligarchs. Ultimately, Trump and his cronies may be smartasses, but they aren't smart. They are going to commit one error after another and the liberal press, the Democrats and the approximately 75 million citizens who voted against this petty nitwit will demand that he be relegated to the bench after a succession of dropped passes.

When all this division and distraction is filed in its proper archives, the bottom line will be the economy. Adolf Hitler took a battered and bitter Germany and won the affections of his people by improving their day-to-day lives. This success ultimately gave him a carte blanche to embark on his crusade to terminate the lives of millions of innocent people in pursuit of his own glory. He looked at the gore he left in his wake as nothing more than the price he had to pay in order to rule the universe.

James Carville, the political activist, gained fame for this insight when he said, "It's the economy, stupid." Besides the millions of Americans who agreed with Mississippi good ol' boy Billy Bob Bonkers that the Republicans and Independents weren't going to support "a black bitch" among other flattering phrases, it was the economy, more precisely the high prices of basic groceries that cost the Democrats the most important seat at the table.

Trump's fate at the mid-terms, where the Republicans representatives are barely clinging to a minute majority, will be determined by every individual's weekly bill at the supermarket. He is capable of any number of ludicrous actions that could cost him control of the House, but the cost of living will either make or break Trump. 

For those who despise Trump because they recognize him for the dastardly son of a bitch that he is, we can only sit in the stands for the time being and lament, "There is no joy in Mudville for Mighty Casey has struck out."