13 February 2025
Imagine a group of regulars meet in a local bar and appoint the maddest of the group to be their spokesman, and that the local town hall agrees to give this spokesman total and complete power over the town for the next four years.
It seems to me that it's not as far fetched as we might imagine.
From the trivial to the serious, we seem to have another madman in charge of America.
He wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico. He wants to make Canada the fifty first state. He wants to buy greenland even if Denmark doesn't want to sell. He wants ukraine to give america half a trillion dollars in return for continued support. He wants to walk away from Ukraine. He invites Netanyahu to renege on the ceasefire agreement. He wants to cleanse Gaza of Palestinians and turn it into a holiday resort. He wants to impose secondary sanctions on Russia.
Those are truly out-of-the-bar ideas - by what authority can he announce this agenda to the world? It seems often like spur of the moment stuff dreamt-up at an interview on Air Force One.
He's the guy who thought North Korea would become his next best friend. He walked away from the JCPOA. He wants to take the ICC to court. He has quit the WHO and Paris accord. He has slapped 25% tariffs on steel and alu imports.
His MAGA agenda looks like a mad arsonist, a narcissist whose only interest is to keep attention focused on himself.
How is any of Trump's agenda better than that of that senile old f**l who preceded him?
I don't know what proceeding centuries on planet Earth were like, but definitely the 21st century looks to me utterly insane!
What happened to public accountability or debate? Where are our representatives in all this decision-making process? Isn't what we are living through totalitarianism rather than democracy? Where is the voice of the people, even "his" people?
