Bundle Up!

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

Yesterday evening after a grueling day of golf at his exclusive Florida country club, Donald Trump took to Twitter and told the rest of us to "bundle up."   Trump, stealing a march from comedian Rush Limbaugh who used to offer "proof" that global warming was a hoax because it had snowed somewhere that day,  posted an end-of-day tweet in which he essentially parroted Limbaugh's malevolence with this gem:

"In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!"

Not surprisingly, prominent Democrats almost knocked each other over racing for their keyboards to reply to  Trump's ignorance and insufferable arrogance.  One of the best was Rep. Kathleen Rice of New York who compared him to a "child who hates science class," and then blistered the golfer-in-chief with these gems of her own:

"Instead of tweeting like a child who hates science class, if you're so worried about the cold you could always send your 45M+ followers info about how to find shelter, prevent hypothermia & frost bite, prevent pipes from freezing, protect their pets, etc."

Which was followed by:

"Not even to mention the fact that you are in Florida. At your country club. Where you played golf today. Again. There are people all over America who will sleep outside tonight because they have no warm place to go."

Can you imagine how awful it would be to live in a country that divides its wealth between the military and those who are already wealthy - while thousands huddle in the bitter cold without bare necessities like proper clothing, adequate food, medicine or basic medical care, or adequate shelter?  Sadly, that is today's real America, a blighted landscape that extends along our urbanized coasts and out into the Midwest.  Someday soon our disenfranchised brothers and sisters will be be encamped at the very gates of Trumpworld, and then The Donald will finally act - and have them arrested - or deported.

Climate change is real, and the whole world knows it with the exception being the angry dullards who view Donald Trump as some sort of plain-spoken oracle.  It's cold today in the Midwest and along the eastern seaboard, but overall temperatures are climbing each year, and ice sheets are breaking loose from places like Greenland and Antarctica, and sea levels are rising.  Today sea water routinely washes into the streets of Miami, and soon, very soon, it will be washing over the greens and fairways of Mar-a-Lago.

Maybe then Donald Trump will give a shit.

Until then the forecast is for uninterrupted ignorance followed by seasons of disease, pestilence, and natural disasters that will dwarf those of Biblical times.

Bundle up.