By MIKE STACEY
I have known Eric Booth for 60 years and have always admired his God-given talent for getting people all stirred up at the drop of a hat. I dream of the day when I too can start a fight in an empty room.
He is correct in stating that democracy was in great shape after the election down south because the people got what they voted for and much more in a narrowly won landslide victory. It’s probably a good thing that it went that way so nobody else got killed in a riot.
Now that the election is over, democracy is being fired, along with a substantial number of government employees and waits on death row. I’ll be interested to see who steps in to pick fruit and vegetables or do any of the other jobs that Americans in general don’t want to do once the Great Expulsion is under way.
Politically I have always travelled in the right lane, but not so far from the yellow line that I can’t see what’s happening on the other side. Sometimes I’ll see something I like, but more often than not I will be itching to swerve into oncoming traffic. Please don’t confuse my right-handedness with any kind of support for the American Baboon in Chief. Trump leans neither right nor left, but inwards toward himself. He is Republican in Name Only — a RINO — as he calls any Republican who disagrees with him and has the guts to say so. He once told a reporter that although he was a Democrat he would run as a Republican in a presidential race since Republicans are the dumbest voters. America First with tariffs on just about everything will leave many Americans up poop creek sans paddle. Right-Hand Rodent Elon Muskrat is seeing his own stocks getting knocked around pretty good, but a position in Washington, D.C. tastes mighty fine.
People are being killed all over the world, but Trump sees that as an opportunity to screw over those in dire need of help. He doesn’t seem to be bothered when people die, even when those deaths are a result of his own actions. In the Ukraine conflict he wants rights to billions of dollars in minerals before he will lift a hand to help. Maybe . . . .
Negotiations immediately went to hell when the Ukraine president failed to kiss Trump’s ring and/or ass. It is not clear what Russia will get as its cut in this deal. Gaza would make a wonderful resort once all those pesky Palestinians and the corpses of their friends and relatives are cleared out and disposed of. These conflicts are much more complicated than they appear in the “selective news.”
Diplomacy, and giving a rodent’s rump about the other guy, are required, but Donald has the diplomatic skills of a rattlesnake and I sincerely doubt that he could find his ass with both hands and a map. If brains were dynamite he wouldn’t have enough to blow his nose. As always, I mean this in the nicest possible way.