The Native Iowan

I had discussed being ill with Malaria, getting way behind work and my lack of time to pat too much attention to the US scene.

My dear old compadre, DB, sent me a big of a victory lap email this morn. he fucking hates Trump.

My reply to DB:

DB,

Interesting times indeed. 

You and I differ in many ways, but when it comes to Trump/USPolotics, I have no dog in the fight. My centrist nature serves me very well, and has been an asset over the past 4years. 

Grace and were talking about it recently. She fucking hates TheDonald. Thinks him mean and nasty and unfriendly. She’s probably right. 
She was thinking about a one term presidency, we discuss,  and I tell her of Jimmy Carter. 

Probably he nicest man to reside in the Oval Office since Truman. 
Jimmy was everything a president could be… gentle, strong, well spoken, polite. Just an all around church going nice guy.

But his policies sucked. By 1980 the US was in the worse state it’d been in since the 40s/50s.

So he got voted out. 

Trump is the opposite. A fucking arse hole by nature. He prises in himself the qualities most mothers breed out of their sons…. Meanness, vindictiveness, nastiness…

But his policies brought us unheard of progress in many fields. Peace Treaties in the Middle East where Arabs and Persians alike support and now protect Isreal. He brought a common sense to the boarder/ immigration issues which had been festering and corrupting the land for years. He reversed the trend of trading US productivity for cheap goods. In 4years the US has seen an economic resurrection no one could have predicted. But because he was an arsehole…

He got voted out.

Thats my take on it.

By the by… in the last month or so, after almost 10years of “playing the game”, Grace and I were granted Permenant Residency here in Aus. In 12 more months we qualify (its time in residence based ) for citizenship. 
So, hoenstly, in all reality, I have no dog in the US political fight. Of course I am interested and pay close attention, but I don’t own anything in the USA. May well never return under the current state of affairs. Have never voted there. So, consider my views that of an Australian looking in from the outside. 

Here in Aus voting is mandatory. So within a  year or so I too shall be going to the polling both, as a 65 yr old virgin.

I kinda look forward to it.

Big smiles. I wish all well in the USofA. I hope your looney left friends don’t loose the plot. I believe the rush to “undo” so much so fast may well cause the children in charge to “drop the china” so to speak.

As well… considering it boiled down to ballot counting in Philly… the most prone place to have ballot fraud ever in the US, I doubt its as clean and dried as supposed. The blue (or red) waves that were predicted did not happen. DNC lost seats in the House. Did not pick much up in the Senate. So it could well be a long slow eventless 4year term.

Time will tell.

Big smiles.

More later