I Just Want It To Be Over

My Dear Princess, Loulou and Fellows,

Is he gone?

I remember posting this in 2016. Back then I was quite pleased he got the Republican nomination. I thought he was such a fool that Hillary would kick his arse and the alt-right boil in America would be lanced.

Ah, I was so young and foolish. At the age of 47.

After the 2016 election, I listened to Slate magazine's "Trumpcast" only infrequently. For a long time I was too depressed. That Americans would never see through him and he'd be re-elected in 2020. And 2024 and... and... and...

Of course, I was reckoning without his signature combination of absolute malice and SPECTACULAR incompetence. 

But it was still a close-run thing. I don't understand that at all.

For the past 4 years, Caro has done very well out of Trump. She has recruited several American doctors, escaping him. She was in touch with one of them just today in fact. An African-American doctor who still managed to be traumatised by the Trump Putsch even though she's here now. 

"It was just a naked demonstration of how white people can get away with stuff that would get people like me killed," she said. 

But now the shoe is on the other foot! Haha! Those Trump devotees who've spent the last year being told that Joe Biden is an evil socialist fascist satanist, are now the ones trying to get away. 

Caro got her first one the other day. He told her that he wanted to come to New Zealand to escape communism. 

"Everybody knows the Chinese are stationing troops in Canada and Mexico," he told her. "Joe Biden is a communist and he's going to let them march in and take over."

And - just to remind you - this is an extremely senior DOCTOR, Caro is talking to here.

He espoused a few more QAnon theories at Caro.

"I think he was expecting me to agree?" she told me later.

Caro politely explained to him that New Zealand currently has a socialist government. And that people here really don't LIKE Trump. He seemed surprised. But he was apparently very reasonable.

"He sent me a really nice email. It's sort of sad he's a loon," she told me.

Fortunately, his medical specialty is really hard to place in NZ, so she won't have to deal with him. She passed him on to their Irish desk (Ireland was his back-up choice if NZ didn't work out).

"He's my first Trumper QAnon bonkers person," she told the Irish agent. "Good luck with that."

I hope things go well in the US today, and that the inauguration passes off without incident. And that the Chinese-Canadian troops don't invade Sheboygan. Or whatever. 

Meanwhile, the presenter of Trumpcast mused whether the downfall of Trump meant the end of Trumpism. "I hope so," she said. "I don't want to do this podcast forever. I just want it to be over."

You and me both, podcast lady.

S.