THE PRIMERO HOSTAGE TAKER

       Now you wonder just who that might be, but do not wonder for long. Primero hostage taker lives right there in the White House. That is, when he is not reveling in his posh quarters at his privately owned clubs that receive pay from  the government when he stays there. Emoluments, anyone? Did I just hear that word? That word, should in fact be ringing from the rafters, echoing through the airwaves of the country.
     It all began, or at least openly began, when Trump International Hotel sent through a bill of 1.5 million dollars for his Inauguration. You know, the 'biggest' one ever! And this pattern continues until this very day every time he steps foot into one of his hotels or golf clubs, the gathering place of the fatcats  who support this hostage taker.
     So now the question - and the answer. He is holding the entire population of this country hostage to his insanity. You see it is not only - only - the 800,000 federal employees who have been affected. It is the ever growing set of ripples that grow from that stone thrown into the water. They cannot pay bills, hence leaving other people short of money to pay their bills. Merchants, utilities, banks, food stores, clothing vendors, entertainment arenas and you pick out any more you can think of. All of us right here in this country are hostage to the slime of this man, to his shameful behavior.
     And it does not end there. We have affected overseas markets and countries. We have not followed the rules of our own making about the right to hear asylum requests and so we have added to the suffering of would be immigrants, you know, just like the grandfather of the greatest slime ever!
     And the hostage taking does not stop with the bodies. Nope, for he has taken control of the very souls of  members of the Trump party nee Republican Party. These people, once representatives for the people, now have lost their collective voice and most, their individual voice. Their tongues have apparently been put on hold as well as their morality. They worry about their reelection? Well, as the song goes, "Just you wait, 'enry 'iggins, just you wait." Payback's a b****, or so they say. Six polls revealed that the majority of Americans blame Trump et al for the shutdown - and the number is growing - and the majority of Americans do NOT want that damned wall.
     We are now being held hostage to people who endorse immoral and dishonest behavior, who put their wallets and egos way before the needs and the rights of their constituents. Fancy cars and furniture, bedecked security people, profit taking from their  supposed areas of responsibility, and the dregs of their past lives that come to the surface, the most recent one being that of Mulvaney and his court battle over money he has not paid back. Great financial adviser that one!
     We can know the path of the hostage taker simply by following the sludge and the slime left behind. Prejudice deemed acceptable and not, the recent denunciation of Steve King, the proponent of white supremacism, is not the answer to it all. The question remains why he was even allowed to represent the Party and why it took so long for the condemnations and ,in fact, why not condemn the white supremacist who has encouraged and allowed this filth to flourish - Trump - who finds "nice" people on that side too!!
     The rise of violence and hatred on one side only encourages intransigence on the other. I do not believe in the right of anyone to claim superiority over another. Not a white supremacist. Not a black supremacist. Not a Moslem supremacist. No one! Hey, when the climate goes haywire beyond any point of return, all are affected, even the fatcats, for there will be no running. The results from this unbelievable question that should never ever have arisen - is the President of the United States a puppet, knowingly or unwittingly (especially as the man has few remaining grey cells )  a stooge for the Russians? Circumstances and facts seem to say yes, as when we now hear of his idea to drop out of NATO!! Putin must have been dancing bare chested celebrating that idea!
     We are all held hostage to the uncertainty of life, the hazards of life that we are now exposed to, the cruelty to life, the growing hatred and the growing loss of morality in public life. And the head of the kidnappers is the Creature from the Black Lagoon and Cesspool of DC.
     What is worse than ever and over all, is the amount of trash, hateful and hate filled trash, that is going around on the Net. It is the willful blindness of people who cannot see the approaching fog, the type that kills, the type that stifles humanity. I am truly sorry, but I cannot understand how anyone can still back that man, can ignore all the evidence, all the filth, his bad company of followers and tagalongs. For how long can one resist the truth, refuse to admit a grievous error? Evidently for a long time, unfortunately, and so we remain tightly bound as captives of the hostage taker and his minions.
     Well, I, for one, and many others I know, want to go home, long for our home, wish to return to it and fix it up, repair the damages caused by this hostage taker. When will that be? When? Mueller - work faster. Uncover it all, expose it to the air and the sunlight, and let us replace this damaged country and ideals with the real one, the true principles, to our true position and role of responsibility in and for the world. May it happen soon. The sooner the better, and please, G-d, with no bloodshed or violence - an ever growing possibility.