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On 5/31/2026 4:05 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
In article <memo.20260531151257.15192L@jgd.cix.co.uk>,
John Dallman <jgd@cix.co.uk> wrote:
In article <10vfvm9$17a86$1@dont-email.me>, davef@tsoft-inc.com (Dave
Froble) wrote:
On 5/29/2026 3:01 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
One thing I did not see you cover (but I may have missed it) is
the increasing unease here in Europe with relying on US vendors and
the increasing perception that the US is becoming very untrustworthy.
November 2026 is coming ...
2028 is coming ...
I'm looking forward to getting rid of that ego so big it forms it's
own gravitational field ...
That will be nice, but he is not necessarily a one-off. Remember, he was
elected twice. The US is capable of electing such a government again.
That limits the degree of trust that can be placed in the US.
Yes, this is the thing. Trump is a disaster, and the damage he
is doing around the world is incalculable; I would not try to
minimize that. But it is also true that the speciric Trumpism
brand of fascism is unlikely to endure without Trump himself.
He's no spring chicken, and given his age and manifestly poor
physical and mental health, he won't be around forever, or even
particularly long.
That said, he is just the odious manifestation of a much deeper
social rot that has been 50 years in the making, and many
Americans (myself included) were blissfully unaware just how bad
it had actually gotten. Due to the structure of our government
(rooted in our original sin of slavery) that awards undue and
outsized power to a political minority, and the way that we were
asleep at the wheel as so much of the media and information
landscape was quietly usurped by the fasicst Right, it's unclear
how we can correct it in the near term. For that matter, it's
unclear how we can stop an invasion of Cuba in the immediate
term.
That paragraph says a lot ...
In a few days I'll be 80 years old. That means I've been around long enough to
have seen and experienced a few things. Not claiming to be a great observer, but with enough time, one cannot help but have witnessed a few things.
I've recently found some toothpicks and propped my eyes open. I now ask, what the hell happened to my country? It is no longer the country in which I was born, grew up, and lived in. There can be issues, and many times there can be adequate solutions. But that takes people who will look for adequate solutions.
I find rather few such people.
Some examples:
Boys being girls and girls being boys. I suspect it is not any choice, but rather perhaps some mutations or such, and some people are truly confused, not in their minds, but in chromosomes and such. Not to be helped with today's capabilities. Regardless, issues such as sports competition, locker rooms, and
such. Could there not be separate classes, facilities, and such? Wow! Way too
easy of a solution. Regardless, there is valid reasons for some of the right wing push back. Very misguided, and hateful, yes, but valid.
Ten there is the issues of immigrants. A better life could be desired. But if
one is going to move into a neighborhood, country, and such, should not one adopt the values of the destination, since such people go there because they think it is "better"? To then decide the values of the neighborhood should reflect the values of what they fled is just plain wrong. Such as how women dress? Obeying the laws and values of the destination? So yeah, people have valid concerns. They just don't have valid solutions.
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