Giving the world a cold shoulder.*
Well, it would seem that Fogy's life has become so much easier.
Having predicted that the United States of America would most certainly become the United States of Trump, it is with the utmost sadness to read that once again the Duck has forced a valuable and traditional institution to add his name. The Kennedy Center has now become a deformed version of what it used to be, with an ever-greater number of supporters refusing to accept this recent reformation.
Shades of Animal Farm, methinks — and rightly so. If you haven't read the book, I would highly recommend that you do. This highly fictional story parallels the author’s understanding of the communist system in the USSR at the time, and it is interesting to see how the current American system also seems to be mimicking aspects of the same.
But it is the chilling events of recent days that have drawn more attention.
Oh, and it is, of course, another way of distracting people's attention away from the Epstein debacle.
The alleged ‘kidnapping’ of the Venezuelan president under the pretence of drug-trafficking violations — more accurately framed as an assertion of control over Venezuela's vast oil and mineral reserves — was always going to be a point of contention across the world.
The underlying attack against China, Venezuela's chief oil-trading partner, and the crackdown on Russian-Venezuelan relations is an interesting consequence on the world’s chessboard.
Then the Duck declared that there was no limit to his empire-building — except for his own moral limits — and we then see declarations against Central American nations also being threatened with a US takeover.
But for those whose winters were already particularly icy, there is now the over-reach of Minnesota ICE, resulting in the death of an apparently innocent woman. What makes this particularly egregious is the spin the White House has put on this event and the lies that have since permeated through parts of the media.
As if that were not cold enough, the Duck's ego has landed him in the colder waters of the North Atlantic, where he has stated that he might even put ‘boots on the ground’ in Greenland if he is unsuccessful in buying this strategically desirable landmass from the Danes.
And meanwhile, ‘deep in the heart of Texas’ — and across much of the suffering interior of a forgotten American empire — affordability is just another discarded necessity, along with the rights of the ever-poorer and mistreated poor.
As you read this, January 12th, the Duck is only eight days away from completing his first year back in office. Yes, he has had the greatest impact of any president, past or present, on both his own country and the world at large. Only the future will tell if this has ever been positive.
For those wishing to debate the merits of such a claim, consider the immediate shock of his initial ‘blitzkrieg’ against the world’s economies, and the domestic reforms that have fed a world already in conflict and now drowning under ‘fake’ global-warming claims.
