“Go to Hell” and other warm holiday greetings.

If I were ever to meet Justin Trudeau, the future governor of the 51st United State, I think I would want to be among the throng of people to tell him how happy I am, this peaceful holiday season, to just “go to hell” much like the president-elect chose to say in his Christmas online message this year.

2024 is not focused on any war against Christmas, or red Starbucks cups. No, instead the closing of the holiday season focused more on those Chinese soldiers the Donald hopes have a great day, and the fine people of Greenland.

It wasn’t really the future governor that Trump wants to go to Hades for a warm winter getaway. Rather, it was the 37 death row inmates whose sentences have been commuted from electric chair to life in prison without parole. So now, instead of spending federal dollars on heavy electric bills for executions, maybe Melania can add a few more multicolor bulbs to the decorations at the White House next year. As we all recall, her taste in decor for the holidays was pretty stark, so maybe she can splurge on some of those window candelabras folks seem to enjoy?

President Coolidge was the first to light a national tree on the Ellipse, and the more than two thousand bulbs on that beauty can’t possibly compare to the wattage used by the 37 execution chambers needed to fuel those pardons, amirite?