Plan? There is no plan. It’s a simple smash and grab

Stock markets around the world are crashing. As east Asian markets came online late last night trading on the Taiwan and China markets had to be temporarily halted as investors scrambled to protect their assets from the insanity of Donald J. Trump.

Over the weekend, all the social media experts, with their PhDs and Nobel Prizes in economics, finance and business, were saying, “Don’t worry. This is all part of a plan. This is the temporary pain we must go through until we come out on the other side.”

What a load of horseshit. There is NO plan that requires the destruction of an asset in order to protect it. That would be like unaliving a cancer patient and then saying, “See there? Problem solved!”

Meanwhile the real economists, the folks with the PhDs and Nobel Prizes in economics, finance and business, the people who went to real colleges for decades to earn their degrees, have to a man and woman said that Trump’s economic “plan” is nothing more than voodoo economics and will end in disaster. They’re all bailing for the bomb shelters.

I don’t know what Trump’s intentions are and thank God I don’t. My brain doesn’t work that way and I’m not evil. But I do know this: He’s either out of his mind or he’s evil, take your pick. He should be in prison – or a mental institution.

He’s destroying people’s lives, and destroying lives is wrong.

He needs to be stopped.

About the author:

Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone’s stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra’s Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year’s Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone’s comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled “December” for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman’s Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone’s novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild’s award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”

Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida’s best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.

As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn’t look a day over 94.

Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .