Some time ago (3 or so months?) I wrote that Trump was done. Toast. Over. I opined that he might even go to jail (altho I suspected that it would only be house arrest). There was something in the air, some tone in the media, some dramatic DOJ actions together with some quiet conversions of a few GOP members that made that prediction seem correct.
And I am sticking with it………..but kinda holding my breath.
There was a recent poll in the Wall Street Journal, no less, reporting that Biden and Trump were tied. TIED!!!???? Yes, even the WSJ is saying the poll was flawed but that does not erase the fact that many preferred Trump to Biden. There shouldn’t be any!
That is not only insane and beyond belief, it is also scary and suggests that half the 340M people in the USA are as mad as meth heads (the other half are likely meth heads). The scary part, of course, is having Trump in the White House again but equally as frightening is the empowerment that will give the MAGA nut-bars. The US will descend into chaos. Well, even MORE chaos than it is already. Should that all happen, then getting out will mean leaving the continent and relocating to Antarctica. If you can find someplace to rent down there.
Trump is now calling Gen Mark Milley a traitor. Gen Milley kept Donald from doing something stupid as best he could and had a group of sane people watching the nuclear football and keeping other leaders properly informed. Milley was yet another ‘adult in the room’ keeping the Giant Orange baby in line. Now that the General has come out and said as much, Trump is calling for his execution. And some doofus GOP rep from some loony state echoed it. US government top-positioned elected and governing people in congress calling for the head of the Joint Chiefs.
And every GOP slimer from Mike Pence to Nikki Haley, from Kevin McCarthy to Ted Cruz remain silent. Not one (as of this writing) has condemned Paul Gosar (R-Ar) for threatening the General and one GOP hopeful, Noah Malegeri (R-Nev) has also called for Milley’s head.
Of course, the ever-optimistic simply write this kind of madness off to ‘crazy town’ (the latest new phrase) and, of course, they are called to expand crazy town’s limits with Loren Bobert vaping in a theatre, getting it on with her date-after-recent divorce in full public view and generally showing the world that she is an idiot. They have to make such allowances for Ron DeSantis and George Santos as well. Marjorie Taylor Green. Tommy Tuberville. Matt Gaetz. And on and on the list grows and on and on the Crazy-town city limits expand.
So, I am still pretty sure that Trump is done but, damn, Crazy-town city limits is expanding like a virus.
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The US Electoral College voting system is flawed too. What an absolute shambles.
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And we thought the circus that permitted Site C and TMX was unassailable! Makes you wonder. 🤷🏻♂️
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Its a shame Biden doesnt step down after this term.
He’s too old to re-elect.
And Trump is insane.
What a choice.
Senility vs insanity.
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As I said before, what is the alternative? I prefer Biden, but the guy is really too old to run for another term.
So basically, at this moment there is no real choice in US
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Or Canada.
But.
If my choice in Canada is a simpering apologist and a populist.
I’ll take the populist.
At least I won’t have to listen to the Apologist’s endless harangue of my racist, sexist, colonialist past ….ad nauseum …..
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Well, you could try Jagmeet?
But, face it, the modern voter has NO choice because the contenders are chosen and then you are limited to a choice of one from a selection of two. That is not choice.
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It would be interesting to see “Prime Minister” Jagmeet Singh accusing the Indian Prime Minister of ordering political assassinations of Sikh separatists on Canadian soil.
Come to think of it.
Our minority govt NDP opposition leader has been conspicuously silent over the entire escapade.
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Probably part of their deal. You support us and we’ll do some ndp stuff but you remain silent.
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There is no real choice for president but there is still some choice for Congress. Mind you, gerrymandrring has skewed voting districts to favour Republicans. The US is corrupt but salvageable if every Democrat and neutral votes.
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OK, so let’s assume that every Democrat and neutral votes for Biden. Does US and the world want a president who can barely walk and talk or remember his speech. Do we want him to run one of the most powerfull countries in the world?
Not that the world needs Trump for a second time…
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The president has a lot of power and laws with which to wok but mostly in emergency and foreign situations. He is less-than-influential domestically. So, in peacetime, he can be – and some were – doddering, seniles like Regan. The BIG knock on JImmy Carter was that he was great domestically but inept overseas – the actual opposite of what he was supposed to emphasize. Secondly, the media makes Biden out to be more demented than he is. They feature it. Thirdly, much like the Queen of England, the president(s) has/have delegated all the real work to heads of departments. The head of the CIA knows and does 1000 times more than Biden even hears about. HeThe POTUS is NOT a figurehead but he does NOT exercise all the power he has- ’cause his peeps have the ball. Trump was a bad president for many, many reasons but one was his insistence that he was the all-powerful poobah and knew so much more than all his staff. Then he played golf and watched TV. He reined in the power but didn’t do anything constructive with it. What he DID do was destructive.
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OK, so Trump had a very good, decent and smart head oj Joint chiefs. But what if the next POTUS does not have good, strong people keeping him in line? He could do a lot of harm then. Look at what mess Trump made of foreign policy. He alienated the whole NATO alliance (he was right on some points, but still)
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The US likes to think they have enough checks and balances. One last check was Mark Milley. So, it worked. Admittedly, a lot of the government swamp is corrupt so there is still a lot to worry about. But the point is that the actual US president is not like Xi or Putin or Kim Jong Un. POTUS would have a harder time running amok…..even tho Trump seemed to do a lot of petty crap rather well….it was, in the end, eventually thwarted. Whew!
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