Trump?

I no longer know what to say. Given what we know of Trump, that anyone actually voted for him is a total mystery. But that millions voted for him goes beyond the notion of a mystery. I wish I could blame this event on Kamala or maybe on Joe. But really, Kamala ran a pretty good campaign. She is intelligent, ethical, experienced and altogether a good candidate for the first woman president. I had really high hopes. But instead, we now have one of the worst individuals I could imagine as our next, 47^th President. His campaign was also one of the worst. At the end, he was actually threatening the life of one of his opposition folks—Liz Cheney.

Now that the American people have spoken, I wonder who he will select as his cabinet. So many people, military officials especially, spoke out against him that he may have difficulty finding intelligent people to serve under him.  On the other hand, he has promised to appoint Kennedy, Jr. as his head of the health sector. Imagine that, RFK, jr. who seems to believe in or understand almost nothing about the health sector will now run that sector.

I don’t really understand what to say. I feel like maybe moving to New Zealand is the only sensible course of action, but I’m pushing 90, and have almost no spare money.

But, seriously, how could any thinking creature actually vote for him? He lies every time he opens his mouth and words come tumbling out. He is incompetent as six bankruptcies and three failed marriages will attest.  We even know what he will be like as President, since we experienced four years of a Trump presidency.  He succeeded in overseeing the deaths of some 400,000 Americans as a result of a mismanaged COVID response.

And we now face at least two foreign crises—in Ukraine and Palestine.  Now, since Trump is favored by Vlad Putin, we can only guess what will happen in Ukraine. Putin is largely now free to do whatever he wants.  And the Middle East is a mess. HAMAS began the killing, but Bibi will oversee the final stages of killing.  He seems disinclined to cease, and there is no serious effort being made by anyone to force an ending there. HAMAS is disinclined to act ethically, and so Bibi sees his only alternative as more killing.

Trump says he will end the mess in those two places, but he has no intelligent positions to play. So the killing messes may well simply continue.

And then there is our own in-migration situation. Trump has been railing about the folks who have been arriving on our shores from afar, especially from Latin and African places.  He speaks of them all as gangsters, murderers, rapists, etc.  And he promises to deport them all.  Once again, he will build his wall, which he failed to do during his first term, But he has never really succeeded in doing anything worthwhile.

But I find myself, cringing in terror at the thought of him returning to our presidency, but no longer having any serious idea of what he may elect to actually do. I am guessing that he may well do things such as impose his tariffs, which could be awful economically, or introduce the ideas in that Project 2025 proposal, which could result in destroying the fabric of our government.

And unlike almost every other political administration I have been here to observe, I can find no room for positive thinking.  Whatever I thought of Reagan, or Nixon, or Shrub, they were not uniformly awful. Trump may well be uniformly awful. He is that incompetent. I assume his Administration will result from the ideas and proposals of the people who he allows to spin his web,  people like Elon. So we should now be looking to who he begins to include in his inner circle for ideas on how he will set about destroying America.

Ah, and folks?? Should you find yourself hoping his age and dementia state may relieve us at some early stage? Remember, JD Vance is, if anything, potentially worse than Trump. So, be careful what you wish for.