Shocking to wake up and find you've lost enough to buy a nice house because some Brit Brats with nose rings and face tattoos want to return to chauvinist nationalism and don't understand or like foreigners or the way the modern world economy works.
Everyone suddenly notices that Herr Drumpf might just defy reason and find himself the American Führer. Drumpf who seemed yesterday, taking time off from campaigning to do some shifty business, to think running away from the EU means Scottish independence, which it doesn't, or that the
British can now have their own currency, which they always have had, and can protect their borders which they already do. I'm betting that most fifth graders know that.
Everyone has begun to reminisce about how the disaffected Weimar Republic Germans who felt left out and cheated and robbed, turned to the scapegoats offered by the Nazis and decided to make Germany Great again. I'm starting to be very aware how possible it is that we'll have a president who wants to default on Treasury bonds to "improve" the economy and make American hate again. I see wealthy old men, with their yachts and Ferraris wearing Trump hats and I see tens of millions of less wealthy ones losing their pensions and savings because Trump has the economic expertise of a garden slug, his campaign almost bankrupt like many of his businesses. I see him sitting in the White House screwing the American people as he did with his bogus "university" I see him making America White Again, deporting millions and destroying lives and families and ruining the lives of children while peddling real estate and cheap steaks like the huckster he is.
The UK may get a chance to change their minds. The US won't if Trump is elected. Absent a revolution or a military coup we'll have to ride that train straight down to hell. This is a man, we're told by people close to him, reads Hitler's speeches and admires Goebbels' technique of repeating a lie until it becomes true.
Crooked Trump. Say it loud. Say it again.
Trump-Palin 2016.
ReplyDeleteNow there's a damned ticket sure to delight the ill informed and gullible amongst us.
I see the ticket winning and Trump resigning while claiming he is a winner. Turning the reins of power to someone less qualified than even himself.
No kidding, I dreamt that. Woke up in a cold sweat.
Brexit... Britain proving it is at least as dumb as the rightwing nuts in America. If not dumber.
And we thought a zombie apocalypse was scary.
ReplyDeleteI keep in touch with quite a few young Brits who all voted in favor of remaining and are blaming the older, ignorant masses of voting out the EU. I believe here we would call them Republicans.
ReplyDeleteI shouldn't use stereotypes, you're right, but I do hate the idea that older and ignorant are close associates. It's the bastard child of the idea that born yesterday means wise.
ReplyDeleteWell, like here in the US there is probably pplenty of young and stupid to go with the old and ignorant.
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