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A few daft things, because... *hands*
Like...
Or, slightly longer:
Relieved Britain no longer biggest f**k-up of 2016
(“I mean end of the world, obviously, but every cloud.”)
Although sadly:
The Winchester now full
(This would be a Shaun of the Dead joke)
I would also like to make a recommendation:
Kim Kardashian Saves The World (After President Trump Nearly Ends It)
The Kindle Edition (which my link goes to) is free! Under the cut, a taster:
At the very least - give us a boy band called XO Mexico? And any time Kim Kardashian feels like saving the world, I'll be happy. And apparently Kanye promised to run in 2020 if Trump won.
It's possible I have not yet processed today's news. Anyway, my final item right now is this (slightly out of date, should be Theresa May for Prime Minister):
To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
In light of your immediate failure to financially manage yourselves and also in recent years your tendency to elect incompetent Presidents of the USA and therefore not able to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)
ETA: Well, damn:
How do you solve a problem like Donald Trump? ‘We could shoot him’ says Sir David Attenborough
Of course, that would just leave you with Mike Pence... Still bad, but less likely to start World War 3.
BRITAIN: Brexit is the stupidest, most self-destructive act a country could undertake.
— Brian Pedaci (@bpedaci) November 9, 2016
USA: Hold my beer.
Or, slightly longer:
Relieved Britain no longer biggest f**k-up of 2016
(“I mean end of the world, obviously, but every cloud.”)
Although sadly:
The Winchester now full
(This would be a Shaun of the Dead joke)
I would also like to make a recommendation:
Kim Kardashian Saves The World (After President Trump Nearly Ends It)
The Kindle Edition (which my link goes to) is free! Under the cut, a taster:
The rise of America’s “Muslim Militias” made it impossible to close down any mosques. Inspired by the Ammon-Bundy-led siege of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon in 2016, these heavily armed Muslims had occupied prominent mosques around the country vowing to fight to the death any government forces that tried to expel them and deny them the all-American right to practice their religion. Conservatives were divided about how to treat the “Muslim Militias,” with many Constitutional purists supporting their rights as Americans, while a majority of Tea Partiers, stirred up by former Presidential candidate Ted Cruz, were now calling for the carpet-bombing of occupied mosques until the US streets on which they had been built “glowed in the dark.”
At the same time, President Trump had to navigate the rise of the “Black Lives Open-Carry” movement—an outgrowth of Black Lives Matter — which was now terrifying white communities around the country. Again, conservatives had a hard time arguing against BLOC on its merits, seeing as it was simply doing in reverse what the predominantly white Open Carry movement had been doing in minority communities for years. Despite that, support for stricter gun control was now surging among Republican voters.
As if the Muslim Militias and Black Lives Open Carry weren’t causing Trump enough headaches, a new boy band called XO Mexico had electrified the globe—and was building support for the plight of the 12 million undocumented immigrants Trump had promised to deport. Propelled by the marketing genius of Simon Cowell, XO Mexico’s first hit song, a cover of the Everly Brothers classic “All I Have to Do Is Dream,” had been downloaded more than fifty million times. Its accompanying video, which showed families torn apart as a dictatorial President used armed force to round up illegal immigrants and put them on trains to Mexico, had been viewed more than five billion times. As a result, support for the nearly two million youth who had grown up in America to undocumented parents was now almost universal. XO Mexico’s follow-up single — an updated version of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall,” accompanied by an equally poignant video, had united liberals and Evangelical Christians in a new movement to show compassion to the plight of hardworking immigrant families.
At the very least - give us a boy band called XO Mexico? And any time Kim Kardashian feels like saving the world, I'll be happy. And apparently Kanye promised to run in 2020 if Trump won.
It's possible I have not yet processed today's news. Anyway, my final item right now is this (slightly out of date, should be Theresa May for Prime Minister):
To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
In light of your immediate failure to financially manage yourselves and also in recent years your tendency to elect incompetent Presidents of the USA and therefore not able to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)
ETA: Well, damn:
How do you solve a problem like Donald Trump? ‘We could shoot him’ says Sir David Attenborough
Of course, that would just leave you with Mike Pence... Still bad, but less likely to start World War 3.
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I . . . needed a few days of not thinking about politics.
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*forcibly stops self from saying more*
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1) What's that thing about someone's word for crisis being the same word from opportunity? This is certainly going to mean change and probably much deeper change than we now realize. And we do need some change. The political stagnation was reaching irresolvable levels, I guess it shouldn't surprise me that it just blew up instead of shifting gracefully. At the very least I think we're going to get some very deep re-alignments of what the two parties stand for. Bernie Sanders may yet get his revolution (which I was never opposed to, I just wanted Hillary Clinton to be president more.)
2) Donald Trump, for all his dangerous ineptitude, did manage, occasionally, to blurt out something that I think is just sense. Like threatening to abandon NATO is insane, but maybe when this is all over we can spend a few trillion less on the military and invade a few less countries than usual?
3) Related to #2, I think this probably formally ends the reign of the American Empire and, frankly, being 'in charge' of the world is stressful and I'm not interested in it.
4) The people who fueled Trump's election have already lost in a very real way. As the New York Times points out, we may have to wait until 2050 before America has no racial majority, but white Christian Americans are a minority already. The future is here.
5) I feel like this probably does good things for Anglo-American solidarity? (hold my beer)
6) It's one of the deeper truths of American politics that the Presidency goes back to the other party every eight years. It's like clockwork. So . . . this too shall pass?
7) I'd give it a 1-in-4 chance that someone decides David Attenborough is right. (I'm not advocating this, mind, and If Hillary won, I think we'd be facing an equal possibility. This election was scary, yo: it's the first one I've ever witnessed where I thought that we needed to take a serious look at the VPs because there was a real chance they would end up as Pres.) Outside possibility: after the Trump assassination, a few Republicans decide that, maybe, they've been slightly too strident in their advocacy of gun rights.
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Re: the Queen's letter to the American people: I find this basically acceptable except that you can have my American spelling over my cold, dead body and roundabouts (traffic circles) are a plague that should be inflicted on nobody, ever.
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And really, the spelling? (American spelling is just... Too simplistic. And I say that as a foreigner who had to learn it all from scratch.)
And roundabouts? I don't even drive, but intersections are insane. Roundabouts are good & simple. (Don't get your information from the Simpsons.)
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Will I sound too pessimistic if I say I think we're probably already over the point of no return and the same would have been true of almost any Republican? Not good, obviously, but I don't think this spells particularly more disaster than we were in already.
And really, the spelling? (American spelling is just... Too simplistic. And I say that as a foreigner who had to learn it all from scratch.)
*boggles* English spelling (in general, all variants) is insane. The only advantage American English has over the other kinds is in having ever so slightly fewer totally arbitrary letters. (I loathe and detest spelling. Always have. I basically refused to learn it as a kid.)
And roundabouts? I don't even drive, but intersections are insane. Roundabouts are good & simple.
AHhahahahhahHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahahahddhshfhahfhsdhsh . . . O_o No. (I have to drive through this particular specimin of a traffic 'circle' every time I want to get out of the city. Not visible on Goggle Earth: the traffic lights inside the traffic circle. I thought the point of traffic circles was that people don't have to stop?) Intersections have a basic set of comprehensible rules. Traffic circles, lord knows what anybody is going to do and what direction they're going to hit you from.
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We're at a tipping point. Trump will probably tear up the Paris agreement and just go from there. If this is the end of the world, this election result was the beginning of the end.
I loathe and detest spelling. Always have. I basically refused to learn it as a kid.
Fair nuff. Be glad you didn't have to learn Faroese. ;)
have to drive through this particular specimin of a traffic 'circle' every time I want to get out of the city.
Well that just looks horrible. Most roundabouts don't look like that. That's like judging politicians by Trump.
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Sadly a totally normal local example. There is a special circle in hell for Pierre L'Enfant (designer of the dc street layout).
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Oh! It's like the Cruz/Trump distinction The Daily Show made (Who is marginally less awful?) Pence would be the bone cancer option.
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And Pence is way smarter than Trump so more scary for me.
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And yeah, the Trump/Pence conundrum. Like Bush/Cheney. How to ensure no one shoots the president? Make the vice president worse.
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(Bad news, good publicity...)
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Stacey
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*HUGS*
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I think I might pinch the link to the royal decree later :)
With any luck we might even get rid of Nigel Farage and Katie Hopkins - but then we know not to trust their promises to do anything. Pity!
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It's not a long book, but a nice bit of escapism.
I think I might pinch the link to the royal decree later :)
Help yourself. Goodness knows that we aren't much better, but dammit. At least we have women in charge. >:)
With any luck we might even get rid of Nigel Farage and Katie Hopkins - but then we know not to trust their promises to do anything. Pity!
If only... Although considering how much Americans are going to suffer, it doesn't seem fair to inflict more pain on them.