Two weeks from today voting for the election of the president of the United States will end.
Hopefully, our great national nightmare will come to an end and Donald J. Trump will be soundly defeated.
Hopefully, Trump's Republican enablers in the Senate and the House will be voted out of power, never to hold power again for at least a generation. Those Republicans, by their cowardice and silence in the face of Trump's many crimes against the United States do not deserve to be in power ever again.
Four years ago on my birthday (November 9th), I was in Philadelphia during my annual visit with my good friend Pat and Don. I had expected to celebrate the election of the first woman president of the United States. Instead I was shocked to learn that Trump (and the Russians) had succeeded in stealing the election. I along with many other millions were in shock that Trump had actually won. Probably even more in shock was Trump that he actually won. He only ran for president as a branding opportunity but there it was, he and the Russians and his poorly informed base succeeded in putting this con man game show host failed businessman in office as the president of the United States.
In the past four years Trump has worked relentlessly to divide us as a country and to trash our alliances. He has made us less safe. His greatest crime is his catastrophic failure of leadership in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands have needlessly died because of Trump's vanity in not wearing a mask.
This time two weeks from now we may know who the next president of the United States is. As Bette Davis's character Margo Channing famously said in "All About Eve", "fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night."
13 comments:
With him every event is a bumpy night!
your right, hang on to your socks.....
I well recall your elation of four years ago at your then certainty that T.... was going to be trounced - a view that was shared by many millions of Americans and, indeed, people all around the world. It's a cautionary tale which, surely, after four years of horror where all semblance of fairness and decency has been binned is far less likely to be repeated - though one cannot even think of rejoicing before knowing that it's truly in the bag, which may mean waiting for perhaps up to a full week after the 3rd, and even then God only knows what that spoilt brat will get up to in revenge and spite between then and end of Jan as he trashes everything within sight. My greatest hope is that your country can at last start to regain some of the respect which has been so abandoned and squandered, but even that is going be a tough call with such an enormous repair job necessary while there's sure to be still so much hard-core resistance to accepting that T.... has even been defeated at all. But I do from the heart now wish the U.S.A. well, more than ever before in my own lifetime.
Amen. You said it perfectly.
You go grrrrrrllll!
Ron, you are absolutely right...It will be a bumpy night and after for a few days until all is settled...We know why the push for a new justice takes president over Heros Act 2.0....BUT if America votes in droves and the result is no way they can fix the results then we are golden...Sleep well because it is going to be a bumpy ride...
Yes let us hope it ends
Practical Parsimony,
Less than a week to go to end this nightmare!
Ron
VRC-Do You!,
Scary time right now. Can't Trump and his enablers steal this election? We shall see in less than a week.
Ron
jan,
Hang on, we're coming to the deep dip (rollercoaster) now.
Ron
Ray,
I think this election will be a blowout. Texas will go for Biden and then the game is all over. Finally, this nightmare will end. However, our (Americans) shame will last forever that we ever elected such an evil, cruel and incompetent man as president.
Ron
Anonymous,
Holding on tight.
Ron
Ur-Spo,
Soon this nightmare will be over. I can't imagine any other scenario.
Ron
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