And, more than a little surprised at the outcome of last night's election. The big-orange Idiot did-it, he talked the blacks and latinos into voting for "Make America White Again", he talked women into giving up their reproductive rights, their right to vote (see here), why, he promised all Americans they'd never have to vote again, and I more than half believe him. He talked the Muslims, Palestinians, into voting for Israel and the Ukrainians into voting for Putin, why, well, he's done it. And once they figure it out...
While a part of me wants to believe that there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, and that in the two months before he sips from the cup of victory much can happen, the election of his party only cements into place glaring incompetence, self-serving idiocy and the most reprehensible of personal characteristics and characters. The USA just went to number 2 in the world, next to China, Russia even, and probably a lot lower than that. Certainly if you compare it to countries in the European Union they're all about to take a major plummet in everything, from lifestyle through - well, all of it.
Wait and see. The Orange Menace did nothing for the pandemic, the economy, any of it, he only enriched his family and cronies, and used the position of office to shield him from consequences. This will continue now unabated. Kennedy, the tapeworm-brain-parasite anti-vax conspirator in charge of the Federal Health Agencies, Musk in charge of the "Government Efficiency Commission", I could go on.
Anyways, time to turn off the news, for a much-deserved rest from insanity, news of wars will trickle through, there will be refugees, time now for other things, we'll be paying the price for this, and it would be a great thing if we had a leader strong enough to shut the borders and start looking for other trading partners, better neighbours, but, hell, we're only one election from voting in "No Security Checks Please" Pierre Poilievre, and Alberta's already been there a while. Did you know they just made it legal to trap wolverines? The only endangered species now in Alberta is intelligence...
The world as once we knew it is ending fast, and that is just the symptom.