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Ah yes.
All elections are rigged unless Trump-backed candidates win them. It makes sense, doesn't it - one symptom of extreme tunnel-vision, whereby one looks down an infinitely long tube and sees... infinity! Should be impossible but there it is, orange faced and incoherent. Definitely the guy you want in charge when the future average midnight temperature in Montpelier, Vermont, at Christmas is 49 deg C. Luckily it's measured in Celsius which doesn't count, meaning that Vermonters may still wear mukluks on their feet and button up jackets made of that material that looks strangely like carpet.
Just joking...oh, you already guessed! Smart folk those Democrat-voting citizens. Just thought I'd congratulate you all in a way that ensured (A verb very much misunderstood in the USA; forget insured and assured.) you knew the sentiments came from some toffee-nosed foreigner and, therefore, wasn't worth a plugged nickel.
Yes, I know you all love guns but what's with shooting holes in perfectly good coinage? Mind you, what's a nickel worth these days? Five cents! You're joking.
I drove my 4 ½ hour, one-way, from Nashville to Atlanta to vote. It’s not as horrible as we expected – we averted the red wave. I was so pleased to hear that Arizona Kari Lake, the ultra-right crazy, lost her governor bid; however she has not conceded yet. Another important win: Karen Bass, a Democrat, was just elected mayor of Los Angeles, the first woman ever elected to that post there. As for the corrupt orange cockroach, he needs to be indicted soon.
ReplyDeleteVagabonde: All happy events given that that many of the electoral failures were candidates that Trump had supported.
ReplyDeleteLet’s not forget that a good number of “election deniers” won their races. The “Red Wave” didn’t materialize, but one house of Congress flipped to Republican, and here in the boondocks of Central New York all the progressive candidates were trounced - we might as well cut NYC loose and rename upstate “North Alabama”. We (generally) are swimming in guns and really pissed off, though I have only a few guns and am more incredulous (at MAGAtism) than po’d.
ReplyDeleteWhile a House seat challenger in Colorado looks to be losing to one of the most egregious Trump clone idiots, he did campaign on the supportable notion that we need less “angertainment”.
All in all, with Biden mumbling toward another run (six more years of nearly insufferable slurring?)I think that we of kinder persuasion best not rest on our laurels.
MikeM: Yes, perhaps I was a bit over-joyful. Fact is the result was so much better than was expected that I felt I could be jokey about it. As to laurels, I'm surprised they're anything more than green shoots at the moment.
DeleteGot up at 3 am and diverted myself with YouTube to encourage Morpheus. Found two very experienced ex-BBC journalists (one of them a former White House correspondent) wrestling over the question: will the various legal charges against Trump proceed now that he's announced he's running in 2024. In fact, did he make this inordinately early announcement specifically to squash these cases? The two journos were divided; the ex-White House guy was pessimistic, said he couldn't see the cases proceeding. Outrageous, given that one charge (trying to swing the vote in Georgia) is actually about corrupting a presidential election.
I read your final sentence wryly. I can re-comment on comments, I don't slur my words, I regularly expatiate on Ulysses, my vocal F is solid enough for the tougher songs, and my finger that would be appropriate for pressing the nuclear button is hors de combat due to arthritis - thus no threat to the world. Yet I'm eight years older than old man Biden. Another op is due, however.
I’d take you over Biden any day, but you’re not eligible. As for the charges against Trump - there are no formal charges - but there damned well better be if the USA is to survive in anything but name.
DeleteMikeM: I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiments of your final words. The USA desperately needs this to happen; how could anyone legitimately run for president when the matter of that telephone call - which all of us have heard - between Trump and the whosit in Georgia remains unresolved. Surely what was said was an overt attempt at corrupting the US electoral sytem and even the meanest intelligence could understand this.
DeleteBut I'm more worried about the extra-legal possibilties. Take the tax fraud case in New York. The AG who managed the case there is both black and a woman. And Trump's response has been self-evidently racist and anti-feminist. Encouraging others who share his views to think that this situation can be solved in the simplest way possible, as in all Western movies - with a gun. Murderous threats first, then the gun unholstered. I have enormous admiration for that AG and it seemed she had plenty of backbone when she made those early announcements. What I worry about is the cumulative effects of the threats she must already have received. And will receive.
One plus. Within the last few days we seem to have seen a rather different Trump. Somewhat deflated, showing his age (And I should know!), frequently pitiful. We have a saying in the UK: a week is a long time in politics. Well, two years is a good deal longer. I am also encouraged by Glenn Kirchner's analysis to the effect that the appointment of a special counsel by the DoJ (re. the documents, etc) is a good thing and not a time waster.
Not only does the USA need progress, I do too. The recent years have revealed a USA that is light-years away from the country I lived in in the late sixties. I went to a good deal of effort to find work in the USA; and enjoyed my stay there. Not even the onset of Watergate discouraged me. More recently I couldn't see myself visiting even for a holiday. I regret that bitterly.