Business as Usual

Has the head-tribble lost its mojo? Are its radioactive defecations into the tangerine cranium blocked by constipation? Few other possibilities can explain the apparent fact that the Trumpster has commenced the new year with a very ordinary Latin American resource grab. Even the kidnapping of the Venezuelan leader and his wife is hardly unprecedented: George Bush senior, as prim and prissy an old-style Republican as anyone could wish against, did the same with Manuel Noriega in Panama almost forty years ago, and on the same gossamer pretext of a war on drugs. While there will doubtless be relief in some quarters, there will indubitably be a price to pay should any suspicion dawn that the head-tribble no longer rules and that the Trumpster has begun to act like a normal US president.