Glorious anticipation
I’m quite looking forward to November.
I’m not wishing my life away but it is nice to have something ahead to make the dreary days of winter bearable.
I refer of course to the American election.
Normally I am bored rigid with elections to the point where I no longer vote. In my book, nearly all politicians are self serving cunts and voting for any of them is just validating their position. My vote is a waste of time until such time as they are all replaced with decent people who would run the country properly. I don’t expect to ever vote again.
America however is turning out to be a bit of a floor show. It is looking increasingly likely that the end result will be Trump v Biden.
I wouldn’t vote for Biden because frankly I don’t think there is anyone really at home in his head. He has a look of being permanently lost and bewildered. Our Penny has dementia and she occasionally has the same look in her eyes – where the fuck am I and what am I supposed to be doing?
Trump on the other hand is the consummate politician. He has all the qualities – power hungry, self serving,devious and cunning. I wouldn’t vote for him in a fit but I do really admire him. The Establishment is throwing everything they have at him yet he is managing to duck and dive at each assault. He has played the perfect hand – putting himself up as the voice of The Common Man. As a result, every attack on Trump is an attack in the man in the street. Brilliant!
One thing that cheers me. Both candidates are older than me.
I’m only a garsún by comparison.
I travel a lot in the States. It used to be for work ( Hollywood, don’t you know … ) but now for pleasure. I meet a lot of Trump supporters and the overwhelming majority of them, like the millions of people who voted for Brexit, are not the swivel-eyed loons the media falsely portrays them as.
( Today’s Irish Times from the reliably moronic Kathy Sheridan ” Has the world forgotten what it means to elect a fascist ” )
Many are highly intelligent professionals like the couple we had dinner with on Pensacola Beach last year.He’s a retired engineer with his own luxury boat hire business and she a Costa Rican immigrant, former prison warden and now owner of a chain of successful fast-food franchises.
Both scoffed at the idea of January 6th Capitol Hill ” riot ” being a Trump-organised insurrection and both were incensed at the Democrats’ lawfare, bringing a succession of ludicrous criminal charges against Trump while ignoring corruption within the Biden and Clinton families. Remember the Russia probe that found the square root of diddly squat ?
I too have a low opinion of politicians but I love politics and especially election years having worked on a few over the years.
The two biggies this year in the UK and USA are fascinating and I’ve a feeling neither will turn out the way everyone is predicting at the moment.
I wonder what the odds are off both Sunak and Biden not being on the ballot ? I’d take them whatever they are.
Don’t bank on it being Trump v Biden in November. Once Trump’s nomination is confirmed, there may be a sudden, surprise Biden health-crisis, forcing the selection of another last-minute candidate, one with at least a snowball in Hell’s chance of beating Trump legitimately.
Keep your eye out for one M Obama being drafted in by some miraculous process, possibly the only potential winner in the Democrat fold right now.
Arguably Barack Obama was formally limited to two Presidencies and then Hilary Clinton let him down. But Biden provided an Obama third Presidency by proxy, and Michelle would make it a fourth Presidency. Not just a political dynasty but the same damn man.
Gavin Newsom.
Trust me.
Yes, The Gavin creature vs. The Haley Creature, after Trump’s forthcoming “Sudden” and/or “Unexpected”
So, it appears that, having an, allegedly, gay man who, allegedly, was not born in the United States as President, then having someone in the throes of raging dementia as President, the Americans could have an, allegedly, transvestite named Michael, but who goes by the name of Michelle, as their next President. There is not enough popcorn in the world for this continuing shitfest across the pond.
For me it boils down to who do I want running the country, a bully or an over the hill fool?
Help…………..!!!!!!! Can I come and live with you?????
John in Mickey Mouse-ville, home to Ron D, help again, but I digress!!!
I’d do a swap with you.
We had a house in St Petersburg for many years and loved Florida. Fantastic weather if you avoid the summers with low taxes, fantastic beache,food and craft breweries.
Eventually sold because I’m at an age where access to free healthcare is important but we still spend at least a month there visiting old friends. The whole Gulf coast, round the Panhandle and going up towards the Redneck Riviera is a particular favourite.
Ron deGone is a great politician but a lousy election winner, like the virtual opposite of Boris Johnson.
And he’s the reason why so many wealthy people are upping sticks from New York and the West Coast to move to the Sunshine State. Who wants to live in Democrat shiteholes like Portland and Seattle?
Last time I was in San Francisco a vagrant dropped his pants and took a dump on the sidewalk outside the restaurant we were eating in while cops sat in their car opposite and did nothing.
O’Connell Street isn’t quite as bad but I wouldn’t be hanging around there after dark.
If there were a button that could be pressed that would prevent politicians from being dropped into a bottomless pit, how many people do you think would press it?
(I’m excluding The Donald from the category “politicians” because he’s just Trump, warts ‘n all. In the words of Priss/Daryl Hannah in the classic movie Blade Runner “our last best hope”)
I don’t recall who, but a political commentator once said the only reason anyone would want to be President is so they can be a former President.
I’m finding it strange that one possibility – that of the assassination of Mr. Trump – isn’t being mentioned anywhere…
Dammit, that’s the Democrat’s Plan B exposed.
Now this would not surprise me one damned bit.