On 9/11/2020 07:21,
[email protected] wrote:
In article <[email protected]>,
pete dashwood <[email protected]> wrote:
I watched with great interest the World's greatest Democracy processing
a needed change.
I saw the addresses from both camps and hoped that reason would prevail.
I believe it has, and my friends and I lifted a glass to the new regime.
As one citizen and voter of the United States of America I thank you for taking interest in my backwards, backwater, benighted land... did you know that in the national capital sales of champagne exceeded those of the preceding two New Year celebrations, combined?
My country lived through President Nixon, it will survive President
Trump... but there are still three months to make mischief and pilfer the public silver.
(there were tales of an Administrative turnover a few years back where the departing team was so malicious they destroyed individual keys on
typewriters so the new President's name could not be rendered... but I've never seen a photograph of a device so mangled)
DD
I watched most of it across 4 days (not entirely continuously) on Al
Jazeera. (I like this channel because they give balanced and fair cover
on most things around the world and, although they are State sponsored
(by the state of Quatar) I have never seen an item that appeared to be propaganda or pushed by the State.The absence of Big Business sponsors
and no advertising, also makes watching it much more pleasant.) The
Saudis are trying to get it closed down because of critical things that
they published regarding MBS and Saudi, in particular, the Khashoggi
horror show... I hope they don't succeed.
Anyway, Al Jazeera, while covering the people partying near the White
House, noted in passing that "There is no more champagne available in Washington DC; they have run out." I'm sure it was momentary, but it did
make me smile. :-)
I remember Nixon, of course, and still see his final speech where he
tried to make himself the victim: "They won't have Richard Nixon to kick
around any more."
I'm hopeful that more senior Republicans will be more pragmatic, stop undermining the system and wasting their supporter's funds on pointless, frivolous lawsuits, and pressure Mr. Trump to concede gracefully, but I
think that his support base would be very disappointed if he did.
I hope the typewriter story is an urban myth, but it is true that people
can be spiteful even if they lost in fair fight.
Never mind. Reason has prevailed and the American people have spoken as
their sacred documents say they must.
It is a big relief, not just for America, but for all of us.
Pete.
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