But, as I laid out in my recent podcasts, it's not so easy to just call him in a room and tell him, "You're Fired." There's the whole impeachment thing and the 25th amendment to the U.S. constitution to go through. As I said in my podcast, no one in Trump's cabinet ministry will sign on on the 25th amendment, nor would the majority of the republican congress, yet. He has to do a lot more obvious damage to the fabric of the country in order to even bring the subject up with any seriousness.

Setting aside Trump's obvious senility for now, there have been a lot of other things that are causing an uproar across the country. By now, nearly everyone in the world knows about the murder of the Veterans Administration ICU nurse who was shot in the back multiple times and killed last Saturday. Just because of a bunch of clowns professing to be ICE and CBP agents thought it would be a good idea to shove a couple of women protesters to the ground and pepper spray them. Mr. Alex Pretty came to their rescue and was killed for his chivalrous efforts.

Now the whole country is in a uproar about it and rightly so. The ICE/CBP commander was transferred, and the two agents put on desk duty pending an investigation. Along with all of that, politicians on both sides of the spectrum had their say for the media, which only made things worse when everybody from the senile president on down through his executive branch rank and file were quick to smear Mr. Pretty, while the videos spoke volumes refuting their claims of domestic terrorism.

Which leads me to this morning's news cycles. The rather infamous, thuggish looking Tom Holman, the so called, "Border Czar," gave a speech in Minneapolis, Minnesota this morning and the lies he told would make a prostitute blush. I was disgusted after listening to him try to convince the world that he was in charge of the good guys and that the people of Minneapolis were wrong for protesting the Gestapo tactics of the U.S. brown shirts of Nazi fame.

Then there was the FBI raid of the election offices in Fulton County, Georgia yesterday, with a warrant to investigate the presidential election of 2020. Which Trump has had a hard on for ever since. He can't get over the fact that he lost that election over five years ago now. He is constantly ranting about it, even in front of the international audience at Davos.

Most of the analysts in the news media today are all talking about how this is a distracting lead up to Trump and his people cheating in the next two national elections, the first one later this year in November. A lot of analysts and knowledgeable independent news podcasters are becoming very worried that Trump and company will find a way to prevent millions of registered voters from voting by November. This could be a real problem if he gets away with it.

If that's not enough to keep you up at night, there's been the weather since last weekend. Here in central Virginia, we had a couple of inches of snow, then the frozen rain came down on top of that mess. Everything here where I live is covered in several inches of ice now. The worst part, is that Virginia being a southern state, sort of, they don't have much in the way of municipal snow plows. There are a few and they did a good job of taking care of the main roads and streets but all of the side streets in the residential neighbourhoods, we're left to our own. My wife and I chopped and shovelled the ice out of our driveway but the streets will be covered with ice for several more days it looks like. And iced it is. In some spots on the streets, where the ice has melted some and refroze at night, making some parts of the streets look like an ice rink. To add to the mix, no one has snow tires here. I doubt you could even buy them this far south in the U.S.

Nearly everyone in my small senior citizens subdivision has stayed in. A couple of my neighbours hired some kids to clean out their driveways, while we, and one of my other neighbours, cleaned our own out. None of which does a thing for the streets we have to drive on just to get out to a main street to get necessities. We noticed when I took my wife to an appointment today, that some neighbourhoods had hired private snow removal companies to clean their streets. I asked myself why didn't our local senior citizens HOA pay to have our streets cleared. I would think that senior citizens would need this more than the younger folks for safety reasons. But what do I know, I just live here.

Across the country, the power has been out for days and it's been bitterly cold at night since last week. Some of the poorer southern states have been suffering pretty badly with these failing infrastructures and now we're seeing the results of high utility prices and a lack of upkeep to keep the electricity going to businesses and homes in a lot of these states.

And where is the federal government that we all give money to? AWOL as Trump is focused on starting another war with Iran, dealing with the Canadians and Europe. One good thing about all of this, is that the Greenland fiasco has gone back in the box for now. Although I think it is still jumping around in that box a little bit as I heard in the news that the U.S. embassy in Denmark took down some flags commemorating Denmark's soldiers who gave their lives in the middle east wars to support the Americans. Needless to say, that didn't go over well.

Then there is Canada. In the latest news, Trump and company apparently are fomenting a secession of a bunch of aggrieved Albertan's who want to become a separate country within the interior of North America. They think they have the support of the U.S. government as there have been Trump officials seen up there doing some cloak and dagger things. Has Trump decided to try and divide Canada up by using its own people against one another? Maybe he thinks that by starting a mini civil war between the Albertan separatists and the rest of Canada, he can use that as leverage in the upcoming CUSMA negotiations later this year. As If PM Carney doesn't have enough on his plate running around the world trying to gin up lucrative trade deals for Canada that exclude the U.S, he has Trump loyalists stirring up trouble out in his back field.

These poor back woods Canadian MAGA people have no idea what they're doing. Especially if they think Trump will come to their rescue of they hold this referendum and it passes. He will not. He will drop them like a hot potato and leave them high and dry with nothing, or he will make them an offer they can't refuse. He makes them a part of the U.S., like Guam and the Marshall Islands, protectorates that he can exploit for its resources and leave the citizens to fend for themselves with little to no money.

I hope their sake, that Ottawa and the provincial governors can talk them out of it and they all come to an equatable agreement. I also hope they can find a way to politely give Trump's government the middle finger and tell them to bugger off. The drama with Trump seems to never end.

Here at my house, we're discussing dental procedures that our dental insurance probably doesn't cover, to the tune of a couple thousand dollars later this year, fears of ICE breaking down my door to arrest my foreign born wife and step-daughter, and other kitchen table discussions I would have never thought I'd be having before a year ago.

I'm sure that a lot of other Americans are having similar after supper discussions at their tables as well. The price of medical care is skyrocketing in the U.S. now, not that it was ever cheap. Groceries continue to go up in price, along with more shortages on the shelves and in the coolers. I'm waiting for the middle east to blow up again soon and gas prices to rise once more. More misery to add to the already harder to afford economy in the U.S.

If anyone reads this and wants to commiserate with me about what's on their minds, feel free to reach out. I will enclose a news article from The Guardian I found about the idiots in Alberta, Canada in case you haven't heard about this yet. Sláinte