‘It’s coming from inside the house…’ (521)

A famous line from many a trite teen horror movie.

IN this case this sentiment relates to the catastrophe with the Democrats approach to the US election and the reason that even seasoned and healthily sceptical commentators got it wrong.

All the fund-raising and door knocking and hugely positive, massive rallies not only was not enough but, with hindsight, was never going to be enough. Any door that may have opened in 2024 to a Dem canvasser was concealing the fact that MAGA was ‘already in the house’.

A con stick is very like a magic trick. It has actually been executed long before the mark realises its even going to happen. All the rest is smoke and mirrors, time-filling while the con sinks in.

For the next four years (at least) the US will be in the grip of a feudal kleptocracy so cultlike and so openly corrupt that those dreading it are taking refuge in the notion that the sheer level of very obvious incompetence and chaos will save what is left of America by constipating government.

But this is not a short-term problem. The world is now in the hands of the tech billionaires and Trump may turn out just to be a useful rich idiot. Certainly, Russia’s cyber reach (see post 519) must now be taken seriously.

Those not taking the placement of Tulsi Gabard (Putin and Assad pal) as a big red flag should remember that the Cold War was sparked because the then equivalent of the KGB had a ‘man in the room’ when the US was developing its atomic bomb which is how they came to have a world destroying weapon themselves for a tiny percentage of the cost.

It’s what they do and most certainly what ex-KGB operative Putin does.

THE US no longer belongs to Americans. Americans did what the UK did when they voted for Brexit. They have voted for massive self-harm and the norms that have been relied on for decades are not disappearing – they disappeared while no one was paying attention.

Norms have been eaten away in the bedrooms and basements of America (and Britain) on the internet.

This is borne out by testament from ex-MAGAs and family members of those who have been consumed.

Like this MAGA Mother 

Worryingly the big draw especially to young men seems to be full on – no excuse misogyny.

Turns out misogyny is as popular as racism…

The monster is not just in the house – its running through the cables in the walls.

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The dead had something to say if the living did not… (520)

 On March 5th this year I posted that The Ghosts of Gaza will be waiting... in the coming elections. At the time Biden had still not accepted his frailty and stepped down.

Turns out, the British public really weren't that bothered about what the ICC view as potential genocide and the party of the illegal invasion of Iraq got in on a landslide. Starmer is still happily selling weapons to kill Palestinian children (2% of the entire population to date). 

Though we’re not without our gurning fascist in the UK with Farage and his cohorts staining Parliament with their presence.

However, there seems to have been a more cataclysmic effect in America.

As the sickness lingers for decent folk, many are now contemplating, among other things, the influence of those just too disgusted at Biden's horrible mishandling of Gaza, 'Bibi' and his "most moral army in the world".

Gaza, the suffering civilians and hostages, got barely a mention during Harris’s otherwise apparently well-run campaign. 

And, as documentary film maker Michael Moore pointed out - many US Muslim voters live in swing states.

So, here we go, with four years of chaos and cruelty for the US which, if you look at the proposed line up of the Trump team of nut jobs, sex offenders and racists, seems set to make the last Trump stint in the WH seem almost benign.

You have to wonder if there is some very harsh poetic justice buried under the political rubble…

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When Putin pays Western leaders play… dead. (519)

WE may have had our suspicions prior to the Musk/MAGA win in the US but if the mists have not lifted, the penny well and truly dropped - now is the time.

WE know Trump, apart from being a Farting, lying, racist, racist, orange, cretinous, faithless, weak, unstable, conman, is a Putin stooge who invited Putin’s henchmen into the Oval office when he was president the first time around and he has been recipient of Russian money via over-payments for properties dating back years. That’s before you consider the efficacy or not of the pee tapes.

Here in the UK Putin’s first poisoning of a Russian dissident – Alexander Litvinenko went unchallenged and largely unremarked because the UK Tory Party was so awash with Oligarch money. It was only after the second botched event against Sergei Skripal and his daughter near Salisbury that the UK took notice.

It was Boris Johnson who – despite being warned that Russian tanks would soon cross the Ukraine border laughed at his military advisors – though he subsequently took every chance he could get for a photo op with President Zelenskyy – but that would be the same Johnson who appointed a Russian Oligarch to The house of Lords against firm political and security advice.

Kim Jong Un had his brother killed in THE RUSSSIAN STYLE and is now of course contributing thousands of troops to the invasion and destruction of Ukraine.

Even here in Scotland I’d note that Alex Salmond got his RTE licence in 2017. During the Pandemic I was relieved that Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson wore makeup because apart from the physical similarities between her and Salmond – they both spent the entire pandemic attacking the Frist minister of Scotland. How either of them thought that helpful to a country in crisis is anyone’s business but they each had their pay masters. For Davidson it was – oh yes – again – Boris Johnson who also rewarded her with a seat in the lords. Salmond was finally prised away from RTE after the invasion of Ukraine.

Even the side men are out. Is anyone surprised that Peter Mandelson – he of Russian oligarch Deripasca Yacht scandal – is out soft pedalling for Trump and Putin?

Remember, Putin is KGB through and through. As well as the Le Carre type, there is soft espionage that involves using – for example – those weakened by unstable egos. It’s not that they are Russian operatives but they sure know who buttered their bread.

My point is that anyone surprised at the US result should not be. Both Trump and Musk are the exact types of egos Putin colonises and makes use of to destabilise and undermine his enemies. HE rots them from within.

The current backbiting in the US is pointless. Putin has a 24 year head start on them and they need to get real.

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And – you know I used to doodle. Here’s an old one from 2016 about choices…

Democracy, Decency, Dedication V Degradation, Depravity, Disaster… (518)

…the ONLY question hereafter re the 2024 US election - Harris v Trump - is how did the very obvious choice between a potentially decent future and one of disaster and degradation end up on a knife edge?