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| DATE | 2016-11-09 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] you wouldn't believe it
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Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com):
> I get up at 3AM and see Trump won. Better than that, it seems like Rudy
> is gonna be very close to the Whitehouse now, which is very very good.
>
> Ok - we'll see now..
What I just wrote to my friends in Melbourne:
The results won't be actually official until, as I mentioned, the
USA Electoral College votes on December 19th and the new, incoming
Congress in joint session certifies their vote on January 6th. However,
at this point various organs of the press such as the _New York Times_
are declaring that the Trump/Pence ticket has essentially won.
The next four years are going to be a pretty horrific one for my
country, even if the short-fingered vulgarian crashes and burns as
President, being absolutely, utterly unqualified for the office, and
gets replaced by the differently-horrific Vice-President Pence. Serious
damage will be committed by one or both of those persons to the US
Supreme Court, whose near-term fate was probably the most-vital issue in
this election cycle.
The Republican Party (no party of mine) gets further confirmed by this election
outcome into a path of long-term self-destruction that its now-neutered
party leadership have long warned against and tried to avert. (See the
2013 so-called Autopsy Report for details (http://goproject.gop.com/).
The election of this emotionally volatile, short-attention-span buffoon
and Dunning-Kruger poster child is best seen as a spasm of pique by a
large segment of the electorate against 'the establishment' -- putting
in power someone with no experience and absolutely no plan, just a bad
attitude, a bunch of empty slogans, and no credibility whatsoever except
with his pal Putin and the other dictators he admires.
He pretty much stands for everything I oppose: provincialism, misogyny,
xenophobia, religious bigotry, economic protectionism, and identity
politics. And, just as in the George W. Bush years, once again I stand
to need to keep apologising for my country every time I go abroad.
I think I need a really tall drink. And a shower.
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