The New World Order

[izmeina]

It is a sick and twisted addiction. The serpent's journal has turned into one giant Trumpfest. Sad. Very sad.

China’s view of the world over the past two decades has been fundamentally benign, having grown to wealth and power in that period. Putin, by contrast, believes that the end of Soviet communism in 1989 was the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century” and that Russia has been humiliated ever since. His goal appears to be to overturn the U.S.-created international order, even if this means chaos.

It wasn't that long ago that some sad and pathetic little soldier got injured in the trenches of World War 1, returned home with his war injuries and spent years brooding about the humiliation of the Armistice, the reparations and the stab in the back by a bunch of treacherous communists (revolution was breaking out all over the country) and vowed revenge for this humiliation. We all know how that ended.


Dying Superpower pity parties are scary beasts indeed and when they are organized by a smart bastard like Putin with a giant chip on his shoulder then you can be sure that a whole bunch of minions are going to get drunk and very disorderly and it will all end in tears.

Now he's got himself a wannabee smart arse who also has delusions of grandeur and an inflated sense of his own importance but without the brains, the steady hand and big picture view or self discipline that would provide a possible future threat to his own place at the top of the pecking order.

Here's hoping that the Electors are paying very close attention. But maybe on second thoughts it would be a shame to get such good seats to watch the train wreck only to have the show cancelled at the very last minute.

Comments

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

There are so many political leaders I wish would spontaneously drop dead I think the most efficient thing at this point would be if we could somehow actually curse gold a la fantasy novel.

[izmeina.livejournal.com]

Well the Beast 66 has a bit of talent for turning gold into lead. After all, it takes a certain sort of erm unpresidented talent to lose money running a casino.

After lurking over in La La Land - (also known as Trumplethinskin's Twitter feed - there really is a strange sense that the shit is about to hit the fan. Maybe it is a particularly contested territory but there seems to be no neutral ground anymore. No possibility of civil and respectful conversations and recognition of differences in experiences and values just a pile of nit picking, name calling and gloating.

To an outsider it looks like the glue holding the USA together has less strength than a post it note.

So what is it like on the ground where you are? As a teacher you must be on the front line more than most.

Here's hoping that the small print in the contract of the Pennsylvania Avenue post office hotel will be the first of many nails in the Trump's political coffin.

He would look very fetching in an orange jumpsuit in a cage in Guantanamo Bay.

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

Drumpf has zero tact and diplomacy and his Twitter's going to get a lot of people killed. Probably has already gotten people killed.

The vast majority of my students are those fit to suffer most under a Trump presidency (immigrants or children of immigrants, urban black children, children whose families rely on social services for survival, etc) and my colleagues all tend towards the progressive side of things, so luckily I've been pretty sheltered from direct encounters with hate speech or having to mediate political conversations among children (they all hate Trump, though I think like many of us months before the election he's still just a laughable clown and it has not yet registered just WHAT a danger he is), but there's definitely this intangible stress weighing down on everyone right now. The woman he chose as Secretary of Education is a complete disaster with zero qualifications that would promote confidence in her purview over public education, much like himself. Less among the kids but lots of people in my immediate community are already organizing events and posting resistance tactics on social media and whatnot, but in the meantime there's plenty of Trump/Pence stickers on cars around town . . . urban centers in the Midwest can be very strange places.

He would look very fetching in an orange jumpsuit in a cage in Guantanamo Bay.
It would go so well with his hair. Ahh.