I heard that a woman had sent Ricin to the President
To sprinkle on his Big Mac, perhaps.
Just for a moment the world stopped,
And I thought how wonderful it would be…
But NO – take that thought away
I will not wish deadness even on an enemy of humanity
What I do wish, though, that at a rally,
His maskless, defiant, racist, nonsense rallies
That at one of his rallies without masks or care
Where he brings together those who will not think
That the wave of infection he has spurned
Sweeps right over, in and through him.
I want Mr Trump to get the virus
To feel his breath depleted, as have so many others
To be quite sick, perhaps in hospital,
Perhaps for weeks, and then recover.
And then lose the election
And save that little spark of humanity
Of compassion, that Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Offered to a country, possibly now forever lost.
Dr Liz Gordon is a researcher and a barrister, with interests in destroying neo-liberalism in all its forms and moving towards a socially just society. She usually blogs on justice, social welfare and education topics.
Entitled white woman overseeing an abomination of a judicial system and a failed country is elevated to God status as the single reason women and young girls have the rights they experience today
Ruth Vader Big Bird
A hero noone knew
Part of bully world police
Perch fall overdue
Ethan Woke: hahaha… lovely!
Yours is an apt response to a piece of doggerel which neatly illustrates the author’s credulous acceptance of all the propaganda at best, complete bollocks at worst, emanating from the US via the liberal media.
As for wishing the coronavirus on the POTUS: setting aside the sheer callousness of it, I can think of many more deserving candidates, just in the US.
Just remember that Trump hasn’t started a new war. Yet. Not for want of trying on the part of members of the Washington Establishment.
D’Esterre. Seriously, just when you thought it couldn’t get more ridiculous. The bar is subterranean.
Off white: “The bar is subterranean.”
Yup. I doubt that it could get much worse. But hey! no doubt I’ll be proved wrong.
I guess this is what is meant when reasonable people refer to the disease of liberalism (in its current state).
This coming U.S election will be right down to the wire just as the Bush Gore race in 2000 proved to be with states like Florida awarding the result to the Republican challenger after a lengthy court battle on the inaccuracies of the ballot papers. Like then Trump will win another four years imho. And once again a lot of African American votes will not count as in some states , you might as well still have segregation on the statue books with their right to have their vote counted is not upheld. Trump could have been defeated if the Democratic party was not so compromised and denied Bernie Sanders the nomination. The worst of Donald Trump has yet to come.
Mosa, perhaps you could explain the worst of Donald Trump. How he’s so much worse than the democrats. Your saviour Bernie endorses Biden btw.
” perhaps you could explain the worst of Donald Trump ”
Do i really have to !!!! where have you been since 2016 and even before that ?
Of course Bernie endorsed Biden because someone has to be in the race to take the incumbent on and that thanks to the Democratic bosses that is Joe.
The establishment and corporate money will be flowing into Biden’s campaign to ensure their interests remain in place with Biden doing the usual magic act of appearing to promise action and then do very little.
Dem or G.O.P there is little to distinguish them which is why Bernie campaigned on the promise of a political revolution.
Mosa, no you don’t have to. I was only asking. But yours is a pretty typical response.
Bernie is a complete sell out, completely let down the ‘movement’.
Where have I been? Balancing left and right viewpoints for about 13 years. Hey, I’m still young (under 40) but follow this stuff fairly closely.
Mosa: “Trump could have been defeated if the Democratic party was not so compromised….”
Now here’s a puzzle. In virtue of what would you think that the US would be any different with a Dem – as opposed to a Repub – president? Have you not been paying attention to US politics over the last 30 or so years?
I go back a lot further, of course. But I assure you that, with the possible exception of Jack Kennedy, all US presidents in my lifetime have been variously awful, going all the way back to Eisenhower. And in all that time, US policy – certainly foreign and probably domestic – has been run by the Washington Establishment. The presidents are the Establishment’s tools. If they attempt to stand against it, they don’t last. Kennedy was assassinated, remember?
“The worst of Donald Trump has yet to come.”
I’m not sure why you would think this. The second term for any president is for good reasons known as the “lame duck” term. Trump will be the same as all the rest, I’m guessing.
I’d add that a family member earnestly hopes that Biden will be elected: because (in said family member’s view) Americans deserve him. Heh!
” I’m not sure why you would think this. The second term for any president is for good reasons known as the “lame duck” term. Trump will be the same as all the rest, I’m guessing ”
Trump will be no lame duck given in my opinion that he will be appointed by the court after the election because he will contest every possible result where he believes he has been unfairly treated or there have been irregularities with the voting system that favour Biden in what will be a very close race.
His very corrosive leadership style will not change in the second term as the U.S will be facing some huge unrest that has been building for some time.
And yes i have been watching paying attention so i reject that criticism for start and have studied many of the past presidencies going back to Truman and i don’t underestimate for a moment the power of the collective U.S establishment.
And if Hillary had won last time there would be none of the changes that Bernie campaigned so hard on because she had already been bought by the powerful interests that had funded Obama and the Democratic party. It was heading to another status quo result.
All Sanders was trying to do was highlight the power of corruption in the entire system and he was prepared to ( with help and donations ) take on and unite many Americans in the belief that they could force change.
Mosa: “Trump will be no lame duck given in my opinion that he will be appointed by the court after the election because he will contest every possible result where he believes he has been unfairly treated or there have been irregularities with the voting system that favour Biden in what will be a very close race.”
If Trump is re-elected, term limits mean it’ll be his last term. Although the term “lame duck” usually refers to a president whose successor has already been elected, it’s also applied to any president’s second term, because as that term progresses, the incumbent’s political power and influence wanes. We’ve seen this many times over the years that I’ve been a politics-watcher.
As to being appointed by the court: I remind you that George W Bush had his win confirmed by the Supreme Court. Nobody then paying attention could forget the “hanging chads” in Florida. It took the courts to decide the issue. Note that Bush also won the election, despite losing the popular vote.
It’s scarcely surprising that Trump would be sceptical about voting results. Ever since he was elected, the Dems have been trying to unseat him: it isn’t too strong a term to call it an attempted coup, because that’s what it has been. They’ve never accepted that la Clinton lost the 2016 election. For which fact we in the rest of the world should all be deeply grateful, of course.
And in their attempts, the Dems have been enthusiastically assisted by the Washington Establishment and the US msm. You can see this playing out in that book “Fear”, written early in Trump’s presidency. It was an eye-opener, and not always in ways intended by the author.
Trump came to power with a more isolationist agenda, promising (inter alia) that the US would stop the endless wars. He also wanted to reach detente with North Korea and Russia, in which latter endeavour he has been comprehensively white-anted by the Establishment. And the msm.
Bernie Sanders was cheated out of the candidacy by the DNC in 2016. But then he threw his support behind Clinton and now Biden. That speaks volumes about his commitment to social change in the US. He’s proved to be weak; in any event, he’s now too old to be a serious contender. So, of course, is Biden, who clearly has the added handicap of being a few cards short of a full deck in the top storey. But the Dems are desperate…
“His very corrosive leadership style….”
He is neither a pollie nor a diplomat, so he hasn’t the smooth tongue of the former, nor the diplomatic skills of the latter. He says what he thinks, without modification. And the msm gleefully reports it, putting the worst possible spin on what he says.
If you have been paying attention to US politics over many years, you cannot have failed to notice that the msm, being irredeemably liberal, hates Repub presidents and loves Dems. Just look at the roasting they gave Dubya – right up until he declared war in Iraq, that is. And who can forget the drubbing meted out to Bush senior and his unfortunate VP, Dan Quayle! On the other hand, they were grovellingly obsequious to that odious little snake Obama. The more so because he’s black, of course. Go look into the history of his presidency. This’ll do for starters:
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2019/04/04/the-top-5-investigations-obstructed-by-the-obama-administration-n64918
And something that everyone in NZ needs to remember: we aren’t US citizens, so the US president isn’t our president. US domestic politics is none of our damned business, even though we’re observers of events there.
With regard to US foreign policy, we certainly have a dog in the race, so to speak. But again, we get no say in any of it. The best we here can hope to do is to persuade our governments to take a more independent line with regard to the US. NZ should be a non-aligned polity.
D’Esterre, really nicely summed up. Unfortunately the Obama/Biden/Clinton sycophants completely glitch out during the first sentence.
The only nit pick is your penultimate paragraph. The reason I follow the US so closely is because we are affected by them. They are like a cultural looking glass. Example LGBTQIA+, critical theory, antifa etc. where they go we go 2-5 years later.
Off White: “The only nit pick is your penultimate paragraph. The reason I follow the US so closely is because we are affected by them. They are like a cultural looking glass. Example LGBTQIA+, critical theory, antifa etc. where they go we go 2-5 years later.”
My point stands, though: we aren’t US citizens, the president isn’t our president. We cannot influence events there in any way at all. Some commenters here write as if they have a dog in the race. They don’t. US domestic politics is none of our business.
As to what reaches us here from there: one thing that we could usefully adopt is the US commitment to free speech. It’s enshrined in the Constitution.
I think that the alphabet stuff has already reached us, hasn’t it? I harbour hopes that Antifa won’t make it here; with luck, it’ll drown in the Pacific on the way.
Forgot the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr1PMTJ3E-g&ab_channel=TheHill
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