On The Perfidious

-by Nigel Best

“You that never done nothin' 

But build to destroy 

You play with my world 

Like it's your little toy”

-Bob Dylan, Masters of War

The headline read, “With Risky Strike, Trump Puts Presidency On Line.” No, Trump  has put people’s lives on the line. Lots of lives. Civilians, and not just those in the crosshairs of the conflict in the Middle East, but everywhere.

Trump, this nihilistic narcissist who believes he deserves a Nobel Peace prize, this shrivelled old man who avoided military service via a dubious claim of bone spurs, this weak excuse for a president who lied about keeping the USA out of war, this cruel and vindictive excuse of a political leader who will send young women and men to fight for his useless fantasy of being perceived as a war president, this pathetic criminal needs to be removed from office by those who still remain sane enough to see the truth.

Those in Congress or the courts who continue to say they support him are really just afraid of upsetting the apple cart that keeps them on their corrupt gravy train, or in the pockets of their rich benefactors. 

Then there are Trump’s psychopathic followers who have been given justification to violence by the president. They lean into this violence with a gleeful lip-smacking evangelical ideation that this is the beginning of the end times.

To the sickness inflicted by Trump on the minds of his MAGA mob this much is guaranteed, not even the most naive god would accept your pathetic hate-filled souls into an afterlife.

For the recent uptick of tyrannical political leaders like Trump that have emerged like roaches from some hellish darkness, or the duped masses that follow them, truly the depths of their depravation is inflicting on the world  the fear of war - world war, or the conflicts of civil wars or vigilante wars brought down on their own citizens.

The leaders such as Trump, Modi, Duterte, and countless others, all should be hauled before an international court and charged with inciting wars, foreign and domestic. They all should be convicted and locked up… for life.