Subj : Re: The US election
To : Dan Clough
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Tue Nov 05 2024 05:16 pm
Hello Dan,
DC> And yes..... I speak for the entire USA.
An interesting thought ... however I doubt that matter is on the ballot, any ballot, today.
My American friend, whomever you will vote for today (or have voted for
already) ... I have never lost a friend over an election and I don't intend
to start that today. Friendship is about something totally different...You
remain my friend if you wish.
But I want to share with you two books in my personal library "Fear, Trump in the White House" by Bob Woodward ("The Pentagon Papers") and "The Room where it all happened" by John Bolton, former national security advisor under Trump.
When reading these books, it's a chill creeping up your spine and wondering how in fact someone is capable of voting for Trump other than historical party sympathies for the Republican party ... A Republican party which no longer is the same-one which once counted among its presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush and Bush plus such honourable contestants as senator McCain who lost to Obama and whose speech conceeding defeat is a halmark of a true gentleman and a true American patriot who put the value of the office above his personal aspirations.
It is possible, and probably likely, that Bob Woodward will be dismissed for whatever reason, any reason will do.
But John Bolton? The hawkeye from the Trump administration and feeding from the President's hand at the time, turning against him? That book is an absolute eye-opener, a White House full of incompetents feeding every whim of a President who lost all reason and connection to reality. It lies in big things, but sometimes also in the small ... for example the paintings in the White House of former Presidents. Trump never put-up the painting of Obama, Biden had to. Trump discontinued the President's presence at the Kennedy Center for the honours of great artists, Trump discontinued attending the White House correspondents dinner-evenings ... He abandoned and discontinued so many things which over the 5 decades of USA travels made me love that country so much ...
You may say "you're an outsider", none of your business (and, just to be clear, it has been said to me already) but because I was an outsider returning with intervals of 6 months to a year, it put me in the best spot to actually witness the changes.
Donald Trump has been a poison to the US society, he poisoned the land, he poisoned the people, he poisoned the pioneering spirit of that great nation, he was the ultimate example of being un-American.
But even more so, the dangers to the rest of the world are incredible. The way how he stands versus the armed events in Ukraine and does not see that Ukraine is the spot where exactly "the buck stops", the end of the advance of Putin's version of Russia. He does not deal with Africa where Russia and China are taking over, he does not understand how badly he is going to weaken the US economy versus the economical behemoth which China already is...the automotive industry is becoming totally Chinese, Comac (the Chinese airplane builder) is going to compete Boeing out of the skies, North Korea will have nuclear weapons, Iran is going to spread its Islamic based proxy-wars against the west even more...Trump is not there for Americans, he only is there for himself.
It really becomes frightening when a man like Elon Musk who is said to be the richest person on Earth, is getting politically involved ... contrary to popular belief this is not going to make the USA the international economic superpower it once had a claim to. The only thing that will happen is that rich people are even going to become richer and the poor and the middleclass would need to pay for it. Think about it, because of his network of Starlink (tm) satellites Musk has already influenced the war in Ukraine and is hampering the crushing Ukrainian victory which was on its way .... after a phone call with Putin about his Russian assets and interests.
Let's not forget how the US Supreme Court has been seeded ... How is it possible that Justices can decide about the constitutionality of something one way and 50 years later decide totally different. Something is either constitutional or unconstitutional ... if the constitution does not change, the position stands ... and the only thing that changed here was the appointment of 3 new justices in the same term. Where's the honour which was once dispensed to such an esteemed body by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and others ... she must turn around in her grave.
All the planets have been aligned on one line ... Trump ... Musk ... Supreme court ... think of the danger which that presents with a SC which has already declared the President untouchable.
Trump has stated that if he wins after this election he is going to change the country so drastically that after 4 years there will be no need for further elections ... That is exactly the definition of Nazism: assuming power through elections and then take the right to vote away. This is exactly what happened in 1933 when the Nazis in Germany came to power through elections and then abolished them.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time and I cannot believe the American people will let it come to that point.
