En Route to St John’s
AC688, 08.59hrs EST
The morning after. The world wakes up to the fact that Trump has won another 4 years in office after being away for 4yrs. Some will tell you it’s because it’s people who hate, people who despise women and want to genocide trans people that won. But those are the same people who cut people off, who shun those with opposing, unacceptable views, who preach inclusivity and tolerance, but are the most intolerant and illiberal bunch of groupies ever.
This election is a wake up call: woke is not that special. Woke is not some privilege to surround yourself in a bubble of your peers and shun those who don’t share your worldview. And how condescending and poor of the Dems to think they can suddenly revive a cabbage and run on the fact someone is a person of colour and a woman, when over the past few years they’ve been questioning her competence and intelligence.
A lot of people will be upset, tearful, and fearful even of what is to come. But do the results come as a surprise at all, when over the past few years under an increasingly senile and lost Biden, prices have inflated, the border has become so porous that anyone can just come in, and blue cities fall into a cesspool of drug use, homelessness and looting without consequences?
To think that running a campaign based again on the old, beaten issue of women’s rights will succeed when on the other than libs cannot even define what a women is, and allow ‘men’ to invade women’s spaces and sports. To think that it’s ok to play the race card, talk about diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE) when really what matters is putting the most qualified and capable people forward. To think that it’s ok to basically push a DIE hire and revamp her image within months when for almost four years, the establishment (media) has been awful to her and her record.
Soon, we enter another Trump era. What does that mean for the world? What does that mean for Taiwan, especially as he’s been saying Taiwan needs to “pay for defence”, and accused Taiwan of “stealing” the chip industry? What does that mean when the countdown to 2027, the year that Xi has vowed to take action, begins?
What does that mean for Europe, where on the border, a war continues to rage in Ukraine? What does that mean for the Palestinians and Israel, and the Middle East, where a low boiling conflict is heating up with Iran and its proxies launching assaults through terrorist organisations like Hamas and Hezbollah?
Will autocrats and despots of the world now tremor or laugh as America takes another conservative and perhaps inward turn? Will Trump deliver and truly form a government of talented people like disaffected Dems, or will he be on a vengeful path to wreak havoc on the institutions that have made America the shining castle on the hill?
Buckle up, it’ll be an interesting, and perhaps dangerous and opportune (危機) few years to come…
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- 09.22hrs
Feeling somewhat energised as I’m finally making my wei to Newfoundland. It’s been a long trip, close to three weeks since I left Australia and have been on the road. Not to mention the hiccups during my attempt to cross the Pacific, which really tired me and added a lot of stress.
Finally, I get to see him again. Not that it’s been that long, but still it’s something that fills my heart with joy. And of course, I’ll see his family who are always so kind, so welcoming that they really make it feel like I’m going home.
I’m not sure what to expect, especially as both of us will be busy. I just hope it’ll still feel special, as special as the day I met him close to three years ago. Just being together. Cooking together. Eating, and sleeping together. It’s lovely. It’s comforting.
I still have work to do, of course, especially as I need to start preparing for the upcoming trip to Europe where I’m supposed to lead an interactive activity with some 60 something experts and attendees at the UN. Then there’s the quite discomfort of going to see my family back in the Netherlands. Then there’s the article that is due end of the year, not to mention the constant work I’m supposed to do to get the book project moving.
So it’s going to be a busy few weeks until the end of the year.
