[OT] What is happening in/to the US ?

On 2024-07-12, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com> wrote:

On 7/12/2024 8:07 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:

On 2024-07-11, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

 

And I really don't see any reason to expect riots in Boston that week or
two weeks later.
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Recent history on both sides of the political spectrum in the US does not
exactly fill me with confidence in this area.

I really, really, wish I had been wrong about that. :-( :-( :-(

 
Given that Massachusetts (and Boston, specifically) are solidly in the Biden camp,
I suspect there won't be a lot of ads airing near the election.
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Both sides will be spending their advertising money in the six states where the election
is actually up for grabs.
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I can only imagine what that US would look like right now if the shooter
had not missed. :-(

You have the US mainstream media not informing the population about
Mr Biden's decline and acting more like the political wing of the
Democratic party.

You have the media saying the shooter was registered as Republican (which
I understand doesn't really mean much when tactical voting is involved)
while not mentioning that he apparently contributed to far-left causes,
so it is _very_ unclear what his politics really are.

You have a part of the population which is becoming more extreme on the
right, egged on by certain narrow-minded interests.

And while the right-wing is correctly called out for certain things, you
have an underlying current of hate flowing through the so-called "nice"
Democrats:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-assassination-bennie-thompson-aide-b2579916.html

Her employer also wanted to cut off all Secret Service protection for
Mr Trump. Charming. :-(

Mind you, you now have a Secret Service which appears to have gone from
being highly disciplined and effective to being absolutely bloody useless.

What on earth is happening to the US ?

The above is spoken by someone who is an old-school liberal BTW (although
my old-school values seem to be seriously out of fashion these days...)
and is disturbed by what very nearly just happened.

Simon.

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