Monday morning, November 4th, 2024
D-Day Minus One
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Friends + Interlocutors,

Don’t mean to bombard you with the obvious, but here goes. Re the American Prez election tomorrow. 

The voters for Harris and her goofy running-mate will not actually be voting for them. They will be voting for the Democrat establishment, for the status quo, and against Donald Trump. It will be a continuation of the maladministrations of Joe Biden and Barack Obama. 

In domestic affairs, a Harris win will mean more “woke” propaganda and open borders, obsession with abortion and “democracy” etcetera. Bromides and platitudes. Harris will be a figurehead, only there because she was the Trump alternative. She has no business running for President and everyone knows it. 

In foreign affairs under Harris, a free hand for Israel, “our ally”, will continue. This will translate into more mass slaughter and atrocities in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. These are free-fire zones from the air, since the opposition has no anti-aircraft or missile defense. 

The Israel Lobby has for decades had a hammer-lock on the establishment Democrats, so expect more platitudes and outright lies from Washington, while Tel Aviv remains in the driver’s seat, armed with American bombs and endless cash and diplomatic support. The scandal and charade will continue. In Ukraine, it will be more carnage until it is clear that Ukraine has lost and Washington is exhausted. In the Far East, more confrontation with China over the bogus issue of Taiwan. 

The voters for Trump, will actually be voting for Trump and his bearded running-mate. But Trump remains a question mark, a mystery. Nobody knows what he might actually do, including Trump himself. He is unpredictable, even erratic. A loose cannon. He has made a lot of promises that will be impossible to keep. Pure campaign rhetoric. Like Harris, Trump has no magic wand, although he pretends he does. 

In foreign affairs a Trump win will mean that the border with Mexico will be effectively closed to new illegals, but he will find it logistically impossible to deport the millions of illegals already here. In the Middle East, expect an even freer hand for Israel, if that were possible. 

Trump and the Republicans are not bashful about their irrational hatred of Iran and their stupefying support for Israeli genocide. It is embarrassing and shameful. Like the Democrats, the Israel Lobby owns them. It owns Trump outright, lock, stock and barrel. In other words, the Republicans are not quite the hypocrites the Democrats are, but perhaps just as ignorant.

As for Ukraine, Trump says he will end that war, and he will try, but judging from his first term, he has largely been ineffectual in foreign affairs. All talk and no results. As for the Far East, there will be a trade war against China utilizing tariffs, but not nearly as extravagant as Trump pretends. It would blowup the American economy. Wall Street will veto it.

Patrick
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