They’ve found the ‘pipe-bomber’ who sent 14 bombs in the mail to top Democrats and Trump critics. He lives in Florida. In a white van totally covered in ‘support Trump’ stickers, ‘make America great’ banners and photos of democrats all superimposed with ‘crossed hairs’ over them. Nothing particularly incriminating there then. His name is Cesar Sayoc. And when I heard that on the news my first thought was ‘Keyser Soze’. Must be his cousin. He’s guilty as fuck. But will probably get away with it and limp away. Or not limp away…

The crisis in America is divisiveness. Same as it is here about Brexit, over there its about Trump. Americans have always split along bi-partisan lines. You’re a Democrat (if you’re a decent, moderate, compassionate human being) or you’re a Republican (if you’re a semi-educated Southern Baptist with a confederate flag on your Chevy pick-up, 14 guns in the cupboard and sympathy for the KKK if not actual membership). You vote as your father voted and as your kids will vote. Both kids if you’re a Democrat, all 9 kids if you’re a Republican. I make no judgments. Fine with me.

Because under previous administrations, whoever wins, about half of America doesn’t have its chosen representation. But heh, it is what it is; you cope, you manage, you survive. The Republicans may have disliked Obama or Clinton but they accepted him. The Democrats would never have chosen Bush or other Bush but that’s what it was. Fine.

Until Trump. Because he has caused the great divide. So much as now, post-mail-bombs, he stands up and calls for unity and an end to ‘divisions’, and says how threats and violence have no place in politics, prior to this week he’s always been the main culprit. Endless tweets of threats, derision and attacks on the press, the inevitable ‘tough guy’ stance on everything, verbally attacking Democrats.

The divisions are indeed great in the States. They never had been thus before. The politics is the same, the people are the same, only the President is different. You do the maffs.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx