America is up in arms. Some bastards voted in a moronic, egotistical, racist, misogynist orange thing to be their next president. Who’d’a thought? So they’re protesting, rioting, last night in Portland, Oregon, there was even a shooting.

3,000 miles away from Trump in New York. Because if you think about it logically, these people are not protesting against Trump. They’re protesting against the minority (because Clinton actually polled 53% of the vote; but ‘college systems’, like our own constituency based one, does that) who voted for the Tosser.

So they’re angry with their neighbours, their bus-drivers, their teachers, students, bosses, workers, with everyone who voted for Trump. He was the man who was ‘up there’, because democracy does that. But the hate is directed at those who give him victory.

And this is very very divisive. Like Scotland was horribly divided after their referendum. Like Britain still is over Brexit. Trump realised this, which is why he’s suddenly being really nice about Hillary and Obama and all the others he’s been trying to imprison for the last 18 months.

There is a theory that Trump only wanted ‘the victory’, not the actual job. He doesn’t want to be CEO of the USA in anything other than as a figurehead. He said that the VP would do most of the domestic and foreign ‘shit’, leaving Don to ‘make America great again’ (please ask for no details on that). So maybe Don either realises his own limitations (unlikely) or he can’t be bothered with the boring stuff. Either way, Mike Pence is gonna be a busy guy.

And there’s another good person. He must be. He’s an evangelical Christian. Oh joy. I love an evangelical anything. But that does come with a few assurances. Not altogether good ones. He’ll hate gay stuff. All of it. Burn in hell forever, kind of hate. He’ll be so anti-abortion that you have to worry about any ‘choice’ that may remain after a few years. He’ll love guns. I don’t know why, he’ll quote ‘an eye for an eye’ and the right to defend, where really he should be ‘turning the other cheek’ (though getting shot in the bum is apparently very painful) and adhering to ‘thou shalt not kill’. And would be if Colt weren’t paying all the Republican party wages.

But he’ll be good on Israel. Evangelicals luuuuuurrrrve Israel. But they, like their leader, hate Muslims. I’m not sure what the Bible says about Mexicans but we’ll find out, for sure. The bible is nothing if not very accommodating to interpretation. As has been proved by Apartheit, by ISIS, by Hitler.

So I’m not panicking. I don’t even live in America (thank Trump) and in the words of the prophets, ‘it is what it is’. Let’s see what happens.

Yours (naively?) optimistically

A xxxx