[-empyre-] a week to go on the trump effect

[Lawrence Upton]

I agree with you, Alan... I think. Though....
I was talking about this on Saturday with a good friend. I think that we
have both got a little used to the situation and now were panicking a
little that if Trump is removed (not necessarily a euphemism) then we'd
have, not a new election, but President Pence -- who appears not to be
stuck in a tantrum at a mental age of maybe 7 even if he does, as my friend
reports she heard, see women as a risky temptation even across a lunch
table so that he has vowed only ever to have lunch with his wife from now
on. (Somehow she and I managed to part from our lunch meeting without
commiting carnal sins)
War is a real possibility. Yes. You may have heard that one of our ex Prime
Ministers, M Howard, assuring us that our present PM would be able to
defend Gibralter just as Margaret Thatcher defended the Falklands from
"another Spanish-speaking country". The government hasn't even discussed
its secession from EU and they're talking about shooting at foreigners.
I do see the present USA situation hides what T might be up to. That's
contained in my reference to D Adams, I think; certainly it is from the
p.o.v. of Trump voters. I don't quite know what to do about it!
There was a well-structured radio programme on BBC over the weekend on the
phrase "The American dream". I'll get a reference to that and post it.

L



On 3 April 2017 at 15:25, Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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> "T. isn't the problem, so much as the neoliberal/corporate/diplomatic
> structure that creates this kind of brutal power base in the first place."
> A line in one of Douglas Adams novels comes to mind to the effect that the
> politician we see is there to distract us from seeing where the power is
>
> L
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>
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> Agreed! But the problem is the clumsiness of Trump. I've long felt that it
> would be better to have a right-winger like Spence in power, because you
> can fight someone with a defined position; with Trump, it's one micro-
> disaster after another - the news here is full of this stuff - and first,
> it hides whatever he might be up to; and second, one of those disasters
> could end up being the stuff that real war is made of.
>
> - Alan
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