That’s what Trump was feeling this week when she was nominated as Biden’s VP pick. If only he knew Malay…
This was the biggest news in the media for the whole of this week. It made everyone seat up in their armchairs. The first speech Biden and Kamala had together was only 35 minutes long, but it reminded me of LKY. The points were forceful and direct as she was introduced to the world.
The fact that her parents were new immigrants from India and Jamaica was an irony not lost for many in the current anti-immigrant sentiment of MAGA. The people in Chennai India are now celebrating the emergence of another prominent relative – her mum’s hometown.
She proceeded to tear the orange one a new asshole by pointedly stating the failures of his non-leadership, being unqualified for the most important job on the planet. She has been demonstrating her past prosecutor experience in California over the last 12 months to deadly effect. I pity Pence when they will have the VP debate. She will have him for breakfast…
She ticked so many boxes for the Democrats. A first time that a VP is a woman, coloured and of Asia background. America is made up of immigrants and this is a more realistic representation of the population of America now. She is the American dream come true for most people. It is about time women have more representation in politics as they carry 50% of the world.
Coming from a family of 4 sisters and a strong mother, I cannot agree more with the choice. Look at all the countries with successful Covid19 responses – HK, NZ, Germany. All women leaders. They bring about a level headed sensibility and pragmatism which the world sorely needs nowadays. Men just have too much testosterone and ego to be more nurturing and protective of others.
The Trump team was totally unprepared for this as the next 48 hours showed. They probably thought it would be Susan Rice and they can use the Bengahzi stuff on her. But all he could say was that Kamala is nasty. He has a thing for strong women, especially those of colour. It has been demonstrated time and again that when faced with a strong women opponent, he will denigrate her with name-calling and personal attacks like a school bully. A president that makes name-calling a norm (Sleepy Joe, Crazy Pelosi etc etc) is really not presidential at all.
With only 83 days left to the elections, the Trump “take no prisoners” strategy is to try to cripple the elections instead. GOP has been unusually quiet all this while, as the White House goes off the rails. Firstly, to try to delay the elections, then to sign useless executive orders before threatening to withhold funding for the Post Office to oppose/cripple mail-in ballots.
The craziness is getting crazier as they grapple with straws to get re-elected by all means. Putin must be wondering if he should still support a puppet that is going rogue soon. Meanwhile, China-bashing is a favourite past time to divert attention away from home ground distractions like the runaway pandemic disaster.
This is looking to be building up to the Mother of all Elections, a grand F&*k-Up of a Sh*tshow in the making where chaos will reign from Nov for weeks. And then he might not leave the White House claiming a rigged election result. This reality show is better than any Netflix thriller series. So much material, so little time left…
It was a quiet week for me. Managed to finally get back my car from the workshop. Quite pleased with the additional work done to spruce up my 10 year old car. Had 2 Zoom calls with the consultancy group I had joined. One was a townhall to showcase group strategy and new products. The other was a feedback session on the project which we had just completed, to set exam questions for a national financial certification entity. It was good to see a familiar face from uni days in this call and reconnect with her again after all these years. Just a month away from my UK trip with older son to Oxford.
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