Pot-addled hillbilly plans secret underground railway to flood Trump's America with Muslims

I’ve been working on the Farm Manager to ditch Falling Downs and move back to the Maritimes.

Already have a spot picked out, right on the ocean, a mere twenty minutes north of Calais, Maine. I know the neighbourhood well. Used to frequent the highways and byways of the Quoddy Bay area back when I toiled at the drydock. The bay was a thousand fishing boats, one RCMP patrol boat, and a US Coast Guard presence so slight you could go months without seeing any sign of it. The Canadian Border Patrol had a wee office on Deer Island, where it was not unusual to find a locked door and a sign advising you that they’d be back in fifteen minutes.

Life’s been good here at Falling Downs, and it’s sad to think of leaving, but the time may be nigh upon us. We’re not getting any younger. I miss the smell of salt in the air. We enjoy good health, more or less, for now at least, although the twin spectres of creeping dementia and pending manganism haunt me daily.

The Farm Manager is up and down about my plan. Her main objection seems to be what are we gonna do for money. I did some some research, and it turns out there’s lots of jobs in the general area. Mostly “seafood processing” jobs. In fact, there’s such a shortage of workers that one of the local companies had to dump tons of lobster at the landfill just because they couldn’t find workers.

Dig a little deeper into this labour shortage, and a couple of things become apparent. First of all, the seafood industry on the east coast has, over the past ten years, become heavily dependant on “temporary foreign workers.” That’s because the locals balk at standing in a refrigerated building in rubber boots, gloves, and aprons for forty-four hours a week ripping apart lobsters for minimum wage.

But world events have conspired to change these very local circumstances, and that’s where the pot-addled hillbilly sees a once in a lifetime opportunity. Now, I know the regular reader will be skeptical, (hi Bob!) because most of my once in a lifetime opportunities have ended in bankruptcy court, but I think I’m on to something here!

Consider the aforementioned world events:

• the rise of Trump
• Trump’s  promise to ban Muslims from America
• the flood of Muslim refugees out of countries that America’s foreign policy (ie bomb Muslim countries) has made uninhabitable