There’s a pain in my hip – the one I lie on when asleep. At my age and with my medical background such a matter could well turn me into a worry-wart. So I got up, switched on my PC and sought distraction.
News from the USA: today is the beginning of the baseball season. Ah, fond memories. But I’ve rhapsodised about the great game quite recently and I’d risk boring my tiny circle of like-minded friends.
So what else?
Glaring headlines. Smiles on the faces of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, two of my intermediary sages. Expostulations from Mar-e-Lago.
TRUMP INDICTED. (not “indicated” as Trump himself spelled it.)
Look, who knows? Maybe his followers will set fire to the whole of Manhattan. Maybe Vladimir Putin will offer him – rent-free – a dacha overlooking the Black Sea. Kim Jong Un promote him to Foreign Secretary (In the US: Secretary of State) of North Korea.
Never mind.
Let’s just savour the moment. That a judge will have the power to say to him: “With all respect, Mr T, you surely realise that what you’ve just said is untrue.”
And truth is bliss.
Let's hope the slippery toad does not evade the full force of justice. I fear he somehow might.
ReplyDeleteThe pain in your hip could be bursitis and nothing sinister at all. Pain when lying down on one side is a classic symptom, which affects me now and then.
Jean: The possibility is that even if he's found guilty his followers won't change their minds and thus the delays, the lies, the rabble-rousing and the racist accusations will simply continue. The question the US must remind itself (as we in England must consider with regard to Brexit) is that a large percentage of the population voted for something that the other large percentage didn't think was good for the country. On that basis it's not just a difference of opinion with one's neighbour but something much larger and more insidious.
DeleteIn welcoming the indictment I must confess I wasn't looking that far ahead. Only as far as the procedures of a court of law stepping in and immediately answering Trump's more outrageous claims which have previously gone unanswered. In particular that he was the most loved US president of all time. A huge lump of gristle to swallow, that one.
he can't believe that after a lifetime of criminality and bad behavior and getting away with it, that now his chickens have come home to roost. so of course it's a hoax, a witch hunt, revenge, weaponized justice, all fake fake fake! he's Donald Trump! how dare they! hopefully the least and just the first to come. republicans going on about how what he did is not a crime. tell that to Michael Cohen who was tried, convicted, and did jail time for that very thing.
ReplyDeleteEllen Abbott: All true and all terrifying. Thus the potential nightmare of a second term wherein anything might happen. Including the removal of the two-term limit and streets full of people jailed for their January 6 participation, now free to discharge their assault rifles at anyone they dislike. Britain once had the power the US presently wields despite the fact that it depended on the enslavement of the colonies. There are still many Brits who yearn for what they regard as that Golden Era. Britain ended up being humbled and, in the end, pathetic. It's hard to imagine what the US's metamorphosis would resemble. No doubt guns - the easy solution to all the problems that arise in Western movies - will play a part.
ReplyDeleteNext scheduled court appearance: December 4. Satisfaction is fleeting.
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