I think I've been about 12 times when I lived in London. Several to work for a few short weeks but I lived in NYC for 18 months at age 19 before I took a Greyhound bus to LA.. the most amazing trip..getting off the bus for a day or two
Such an extraordinary country with so many various styles of countryside (my favourite was New Mexico with those table top mountains you used to see in Westerns)
Met so many different and extremely friendly types of people on the way.
Only hick-up was getting off the bus in Texas at a pit stop.. like a scene out of
Easy Rider. Me with shoulder length hair and my then girlfriend in her tye-dye kaftan (only bought for traveling). The looks we got were scary and like a movie, a cop in the cafe walked outside as we left staring at us and basically intimidated us to get back on the bus.
Yet..I've met the most wonderful people from Texas and the South. Warm and friendly with that wonderful accent.
## As I thought (did I predict it?) new vision is coming out every day of the Capitol siege and it's far from a friendly bunch of hicks & Trump supporters attending a friendly hoe down.
Groups of thuggish goons chanting
"lynch Pence" (with a noose and scaffold) and screaming they wanted to drag out Pence along with other Republic Senators & Congressmen who they thought were "traitors" to Trump, and lynch them in the nearby trees.
Masked men with bundles of police zip ties used as handcuffs, a truck with live ammunition and guns (banned in DC) and Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs left behind, police screaming for help and running in fear of their lives.
If anyone doesn't think the retribution will be swift, wide and fierce some they are dreaming.
I'm sure the Capitol is riddled with CCTV and I bet we haven't seen anything yet as they won't release the really bad stuff just now. So far it's been rioters mobile phone footage where total nutcases have uploaded footage of themselves committing serious crimes.
As many have pointed out: foreign terrorists could have been among the throng as the event was publicized on the internet and well organized. With laptops being stolen..
Nancy Pelosi's was one- who knows what
State Secrets are now in the hands of those who intend harm?
As for
Donald Trump- vision of him, first inciting the mob to march on the Capital and declare him president & stating he would lead them, and then laughing and partying as he watched the mob attack..a mob intent on executing Senators and Congressmen..well that's the end of Trump.
He cannot survive this and there are about 100 Republic Congressmen and Senators who will also pay a dear political price for encouraging the riot. Really the only person who comes out positively is Mike Pence..surely a candidate for the '24 election.
And ignored in all this was the election of 2 Georgia Democratic Senators which hands full victory to Joe Biden and future president Kamala Harris.
The election of those 2 Senators is directly down to Donald Trump and I'd hate to think of what the recriminations will be.
Donald Trump has blown it big time yet he could have handled his loss so differently.
Reliable Reports from White House personnel say Trump is terrified of what is to come and ranting like King George.
I think I pity him. A little bit.