Is that it? There was an election and Trumpman won. Nothing more? No January 6th-style protest? No accusations of the Republicans rigging the election? Joe and Kamala meekly cede the presidency to the Man Who Would be Dictator. No bang, just a whimper. It was left to Vladimir ‘Our Friend in the East’ Putin to try and disrupt the voting with bomb threats – couldn’t the Democrats have done that? Perhaps the Dems are simply too…errr, democratic.
Netan@yahoo must be cock-a-hoop, so much so that he reacted with all of his usual grace and legality by getting a law passed by the Knesset that allows him to deport the immediate relatives of Israeli Arabs/Palestinians who have committed or merely supported acts of terrorism. Now, bear in mind that we are not just talking about Palestinians here, but also Israeli citizens. How the hell can you deport your own citizens? To where? THEY ARE ISRAELIS BENJI!! Given that around 20% of the population of Israel is made up of Arab Israeli citizens, it’s obvious that this is just another step in ethnically cleansing the country.
Would this law apply to Israeli Jews who commit acts of terrorism? No. Why? Because when a Jew kills a Palestinian in the West Bank, or burns his house down, or slaughters his goats, it is not considered to be terrorism; it’s merely ejecting a squatter from the land that God gave to the Jews in perpetuity. Jeez, God really does love a sinner.
So back to the Trumpman Show; we have 4 years of wonderfully chaotic entertainment to look forward to, with the added attraction of a world war at the end of it. You don’t think so? It won’t happen in your lifetime? Yeah, just like global warming and a pandemic.
Putin has something on Trump; he must do. When Trump was developing the New York skyline in the 80s, he had to come into contact with the Mob; that was unavoidable…the union dues, the no-shows…we all watched the Sopranos. Then, that led on to him being connected to the Russian Mafia. Later on, he decided to build a hotel in Moscow and that could not have happened without the Mobski being involved…and the KGB/GRU and Putin. Nothing happens in Russia without Putin putting his ore in and plucking his cut out. Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world? On stocks and shares paper maybe, but in concrete terms, that prize might well go to Vlad The Bear Wrestler.
I daresay that Zelensky is pleading with Sleepy Joe as I write this – “c’mon Mr. President, send us lots of money and weapons before that comedian gets into the White House.” If I were the lame duck president, I’d be banging out those executive orders sharpish – which, in Joe’s case means about 2 a day before he takes his 16-hour afternoon nap.
The democratic majority of the US voters might be ecstatic over Trump’s almight comeback but I really don’t imagine that the Joint Chiefs of Staff are. They know what’s coming – Donald J pulls the rug out under the feet of the long-suffering Ukrainians and forces them to accept a ‘peace’ deal that leaves their occupied territory in Putin’s hands, their adbucted kids in the clutches of the re-education police and their membership of NATO and the EU in tatters.
Emboldened by this, Putin turns his attention to neighbouring Moldova and Georgia (no, not the state in the USA!), whose elections have already been subject to Russian interference. When the Western powers sit on their Neville Chamberlain hands over this, Vlad the NATO Slayer turns his greedy gaze towards Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. He gets his Belorussian henchman, Lukashenko, to cause a border incident and he calls for Russian support against the aggressor. The European NATO members look to the Trumpman for his reaction. Putin reminds him of that incriminating video so he tells them: “You didn’t pay your dues so now you’re screwed.” War breaks out.
China sees that Putin has got his way and Xi Jinping orders an all-out assault on Taiwan.
North Korea sees that Xi has got his way and Kim Jon-un orders an all-out assault on South Korea.
Netan@yahoo orders an all-out assault on everyone.
Trump starts to deport illegal immigrants and orders that the border wall be erected along the middle of the Rio Grande and Rio Bravo, with trained suicide dolphins on patrol to blow up any migrants who slip through.
The Trumpman plays his banjo while the world burns…but he does manage to keep inflation down.