America ~ When the Faintest Glimmer of Hope Became The Nightmare ~ Part II
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America ~ When the Faintest Glimmer of Hope
Became The Nightmare ~ Part II
I
There are courageous people in America.
Ken, why do you keep referring to us as America? We’re the United States of America, the USA, the leader of the free world.
Even though you’re definitely older than me, and I’m seventy, there was a time when you would not have needed to ask that question or give me your country’s curriculum vitae. Remember that series The West Wing?
It ran for seven seasons straddling departure from the 20th Century and entry into this Century.
The scripts were good, sometimes condescending. But it gave me a rough idea of how the United States functions. It also gave me an idea about the importance of the office of the President.
And that view generally held me through the Bush administration and the Obama administration.
What it did not prepare me for was the crass stupidity of the American general public.
I mock when I say, oh wow, he’s gotta be SO good. He walks out of the clouds onto the stage in that big black suit, he’s like a god, and he fires those stupid apprentices every week! And you know what? That’s who we need as our komandur-in-chuf.
As I say, I mock.
So in answer to your question, let me run these by you.
They are written by the former chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Mr Miles Taylor during the 45th Presidency. My source is his hardback book Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy From the Next Trump published in July 2023 and preordered by me back in the early summer. Take a seat, listen, don’t interrupt. Or as we Brits put it when we what we say, Stay Silent!
What? You ask why I should even dare to quote a former chief of staff of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security? Mr Taylor is a highly respected international commentator known to the British People. We like to watch BBC World News. We have many Americans on there, and we like to hear their views and opinions. If you can’t cope with that, then let’s apply a little bit of Trumpism i.e. short sentences, big words, that sort of thing. You get the gist. Britain is the Old World. You are the New World. We’ve been around for thousands of years on these islands and we have an unwritten constitution that lives and breathes. You’ve been around for 247 years. You have a written constitution for which we have the greatest respect. But as a mom and dad might say to Blossom Bonce when he’s in the middle of trying independent life for himself…
Oh, Elmer! Did you really mean to do that?
II
Trump as president had an attention span problem.
Okey dokey. That’s enough for now.
Odd isn’t it? A man is indicted for the fourth time. Polls are by no means as accurate as they are made out to be although they do detect trends. This leaves me asking this question and being very thankful I am not an American.
How on earth can the GOP’s poll support rating for Trump last month at 63 per cent, suddenly shoot up to 69 per cent on the day of his court appearance?
When Trump was president-elect, he showed his inability to hold any public office when he finally deigned to call upon the White House to discuss matters of state with President Obama. Trump - also known as “The Coat I can’t do up as my little fingers are too fat to get da buttons into da little tiny holes” - entered the White House.
The footage is interesting. The Quiffe is nervous. He scowls. Looks for cameras, points and smiles at people who’ve got hats on. But his body language is that of Satan entering into the Most Holy of Holies, not a place Satan wants to be in a billion years.
Later, sitting with the President and looking like a shrivelled-up prune, he turns back and looks over his shoulder at the lens.
That was the moment I placed my coffee gently on the table.
My God!
There is nothing of substance.
Those eyes are bottomless,
vacuous,
and America has just taken its first step
to dismemberment and destruction.
One noun came out of that face.
National Implosion.
III
Well, America, you have until next year 2024 to prevent implosion. Amongst you are millions of very courageous people.
To you MAGA latter-day Nazi disciples I say this. Don’t you dare lay a finger on one of them.
6 November 2023
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Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.