Dr. Sinclair everything you have said is exactly what I believe. I have thought that eventually JD Vance will take over as president. That’s one of the reasons he was picked. I am so scared for our country & for everyone living here. We cannot let this happen. We have to vote Harris/Walz.
There is, and has been, absolutely no question in my mind that the plan is to install jd into the presidency. The orange-sadistic-traitor is so stupid and addled that he doesn't see the plan. They'll use the 25th to implement 2025. And I'll be outta here. Not willing to live in a fascist dictatorship.
I've been thinking 6 months in Quebec and then 6 months in France. However, people are telling me that Portugal is beautiful, much less expensive, and most citizens speak English. I know that 6 months is the max you can stay in Canada and France/calendar year. Don't know about Portugal yet. How about you? Thoughts?
Just FYI, you can only be in the Schengen area of Europe for 90 days at a time, then you have to leave for 180 days and then you can come back for another 90 days. Europe is also becoming anti-immigrant as well as more right-wing governments are elected, so just take those into consideration. Moving away isn't easy, but I left in 2006 to South America and then Europe in 2018. Both were hard, but also super eye-opening.
Thanks for the update, Beatrice. The times are shorter than they were in the past. I know about the changes in some of the European countries wrt anti-immigration and nationalism, although not (yet) like the fascism that looms over our nation. Did you live in S. America from 2006 - 2018, and then move to Europe? Where in Europe do you/have you lived?
Yes - I lived in Argentina from 2006-2018 and then moved to the Netherlands with our family as hubby was recruited by a tech company. Our son is now growing up Dutch. :)
I LOVE your article!! There are so many things which resonated with me. One of your statements: "Dutch people don’t see directness as confrontation", brought my entire childhood back to me. I grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan where that is the way people communicated. My parents decided to move to Chapel Hill, NC in 1963 when I was 10. My mother was from Virginia, and a Southerner in every sense of the word and therefore never at ease in the North. In the South, directness IS confrontation. The difference between the two worlds was stark, and, for a child, incomprehensible. Ironically, as life would have it, I've ended up in Charleston, SC for the past 42 years -- a city which has been voted "The Most Polite City" in the U.S. for almost all of the last 10? 20? years. It is now I who find the directness of Northerners to feel rude! So strange... (Vermeer is my favorite painter, so I like that part of what you wrote, too!) I spent some time in Saba -- and if you haven't been there, you haven't ever truly lived! I'm referring to the runway at their teeny airport. The people were all red-headed! My husband is a sherpa, from Nepal. I have had some adventures with him, but no desire to live in Nepal. You are a fascinating person, living a fascinating life!
I worry about Central and South America. (A friend moved with his Thai wife to Thailand, and is in love with the country and people. He says that the cost of living is much lower than here. As for me, I LOVE Thai food! :-) )
Dr. Sinclair I have felt this way since day one of picking that opportunistic, smooth talking drug drenched fetal brain. It is sicking. And all of your observations and timelines are 100% correct.
It going to be rough even if the Democrats win🤞🏽🤞🏽. We are so far gone, the fight doesn’t end with just 1 election BUT IT IS A START.
JD Vance's elevation to the VP candidacy is primarily the effort of Trump's two sons; also Vance is a member of the Teneo Network of which Leonard Leo is the Chairman.
I'm sorely tempted to say, 'great minds think alike', but I won't because Helen would instantly retort. Helen has been muttering darkly about Trump needing to avoid windows in high buildings. I, on the other hand, have been contemplating the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt, who, for more than 200 years spent their time plotting to kill one another, and frequently succeeding. Herod the Great was also a Hellenistic monarch, and his close friend, Augustus, said of him that he would rather be Herod's pig than his son, while Shakespeare was moved to remark, 'why, it out-Herods Herod'. I would only add that if Trump wins, and he or his (very) immediate successors actually implement the tariffs and the mass deportations, I think that within six months there won't BE a United States. California, Oregon, and Washington on the West, New York and New England on the East will have no choice but to break away in self defense. The United States began as a loose alliance of independent countries, thirteen of them. It didn't really become a single country until the men who had led it to independence created an operating system for it, in 1789. This was the first new country which had been created for thousands of years, and the Constitution was only the beta version of the operating system (the Articles of Confederation, which failed completely, was the alpha version). What Trump and the miasma of loose conspirators and would be presidents-for-life who fly along with him (the reference is to the famous Avro Shackleton aircraft, affectionately known as '10,000 loose rivets flying in close formation') want to do is not to upgrade that operating system, but to destroy it. And just as when you destroy the operating system you no longer have a computer, only a box full of junk electronics, so without the Constitution, amended and upgraded as it should be in light of the last ten years, you no longer have a country, only the wreckage of what once was one. Not even a failed state. So, I hope everyone who reads this will get out there and vote, because the fate of the country, and of most of the wider world, depends on our votes now, as it rarely has in the last 250 years.
It's breathtaking. If, even five years ago, anybody had said we'd be going through this, I would have been hard to convince. But the truth is that Leonard Leo has been in the business of turning the Supreme Court Catholic for forty years. He played a long game, and he pulled it off.
We need to see more clearly and take more seriously the real evil that is out there. But we should never become meaner. Just makes us like them, and I can't handle the thought of that!
Trump never wanted to be president in the first place, so this makes perfect sense. He gets his "get out of jail free" card and doesn't have to do any of the work of actually governing.
This is a great read. The Church has had a centuries old hard on for the world ever since Galileo proved we weren’t the center of the universe. Or, as Neil Young wrote, “The aimless blade of science slashed the Pearly Gates” 😩🤬😵💫🤦♂️ They used to run the world, now they are just a dying institution.
Dr. Sinclair everything you have said is exactly what I believe. I have thought that eventually JD Vance will take over as president. That’s one of the reasons he was picked. I am so scared for our country & for everyone living here. We cannot let this happen. We have to vote Harris/Walz.
There is, and has been, absolutely no question in my mind that the plan is to install jd into the presidency. The orange-sadistic-traitor is so stupid and addled that he doesn't see the plan. They'll use the 25th to implement 2025. And I'll be outta here. Not willing to live in a fascist dictatorship.
Me too!! Where shall we go?
I've been thinking 6 months in Quebec and then 6 months in France. However, people are telling me that Portugal is beautiful, much less expensive, and most citizens speak English. I know that 6 months is the max you can stay in Canada and France/calendar year. Don't know about Portugal yet. How about you? Thoughts?
Just FYI, you can only be in the Schengen area of Europe for 90 days at a time, then you have to leave for 180 days and then you can come back for another 90 days. Europe is also becoming anti-immigrant as well as more right-wing governments are elected, so just take those into consideration. Moving away isn't easy, but I left in 2006 to South America and then Europe in 2018. Both were hard, but also super eye-opening.
Thanks for the update, Beatrice. The times are shorter than they were in the past. I know about the changes in some of the European countries wrt anti-immigration and nationalism, although not (yet) like the fascism that looms over our nation. Did you live in S. America from 2006 - 2018, and then move to Europe? Where in Europe do you/have you lived?
Yes - I lived in Argentina from 2006-2018 and then moved to the Netherlands with our family as hubby was recruited by a tech company. Our son is now growing up Dutch. :)
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2022/12/our-son-is-growing-up-dutch-he-has-all-the-dutch-traditions/
I LOVE your article!! There are so many things which resonated with me. One of your statements: "Dutch people don’t see directness as confrontation", brought my entire childhood back to me. I grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan where that is the way people communicated. My parents decided to move to Chapel Hill, NC in 1963 when I was 10. My mother was from Virginia, and a Southerner in every sense of the word and therefore never at ease in the North. In the South, directness IS confrontation. The difference between the two worlds was stark, and, for a child, incomprehensible. Ironically, as life would have it, I've ended up in Charleston, SC for the past 42 years -- a city which has been voted "The Most Polite City" in the U.S. for almost all of the last 10? 20? years. It is now I who find the directness of Northerners to feel rude! So strange... (Vermeer is my favorite painter, so I like that part of what you wrote, too!) I spent some time in Saba -- and if you haven't been there, you haven't ever truly lived! I'm referring to the runway at their teeny airport. The people were all red-headed! My husband is a sherpa, from Nepal. I have had some adventures with him, but no desire to live in Nepal. You are a fascinating person, living a fascinating life!
We love Portugal, Spain, love France but more exclusive of Americans. Ecuador was once our first choice… wonder about politics there too.
Mexico has the ex-pat artist colony in the mts. We are not competing with Mexico for first place in number of con -artists. We win that!
I worry about Central and South America. (A friend moved with his Thai wife to Thailand, and is in love with the country and people. He says that the cost of living is much lower than here. As for me, I LOVE Thai food! :-) )
Dr. Sinclair I have felt this way since day one of picking that opportunistic, smooth talking drug drenched fetal brain. It is sicking. And all of your observations and timelines are 100% correct.
It going to be rough even if the Democrats win🤞🏽🤞🏽. We are so far gone, the fight doesn’t end with just 1 election BUT IT IS A START.
Yup. If you can read the tea leaves they spell Opus Dei and Leonard Leo.
JD Vance's elevation to the VP candidacy is primarily the effort of Trump's two sons; also Vance is a member of the Teneo Network of which Leonard Leo is the Chairman.
I'm sorely tempted to say, 'great minds think alike', but I won't because Helen would instantly retort. Helen has been muttering darkly about Trump needing to avoid windows in high buildings. I, on the other hand, have been contemplating the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt, who, for more than 200 years spent their time plotting to kill one another, and frequently succeeding. Herod the Great was also a Hellenistic monarch, and his close friend, Augustus, said of him that he would rather be Herod's pig than his son, while Shakespeare was moved to remark, 'why, it out-Herods Herod'. I would only add that if Trump wins, and he or his (very) immediate successors actually implement the tariffs and the mass deportations, I think that within six months there won't BE a United States. California, Oregon, and Washington on the West, New York and New England on the East will have no choice but to break away in self defense. The United States began as a loose alliance of independent countries, thirteen of them. It didn't really become a single country until the men who had led it to independence created an operating system for it, in 1789. This was the first new country which had been created for thousands of years, and the Constitution was only the beta version of the operating system (the Articles of Confederation, which failed completely, was the alpha version). What Trump and the miasma of loose conspirators and would be presidents-for-life who fly along with him (the reference is to the famous Avro Shackleton aircraft, affectionately known as '10,000 loose rivets flying in close formation') want to do is not to upgrade that operating system, but to destroy it. And just as when you destroy the operating system you no longer have a computer, only a box full of junk electronics, so without the Constitution, amended and upgraded as it should be in light of the last ten years, you no longer have a country, only the wreckage of what once was one. Not even a failed state. So, I hope everyone who reads this will get out there and vote, because the fate of the country, and of most of the wider world, depends on our votes now, as it rarely has in the last 250 years.
Hiw the fuck did this country, get to this time and place?
I know the answer, but HATE the reality!
It's breathtaking. If, even five years ago, anybody had said we'd be going through this, I would have been hard to convince. But the truth is that Leonard Leo has been in the business of turning the Supreme Court Catholic for forty years. He played a long game, and he pulled it off.
I agree. The repugs are great at the long game. I hate it.
We dems need to get meaner and play our own long game.
We need to see more clearly and take more seriously the real evil that is out there. But we should never become meaner. Just makes us like them, and I can't handle the thought of that!
"We need to ... take more seriously the real evil that is out there." This is critical to our survival as a democracy!
Trump never wanted to be president in the first place, so this makes perfect sense. He gets his "get out of jail free" card and doesn't have to do any of the work of actually governing.
Truly alarming! The scenario is too probable, and terrifying.
Vote blue! Vote blue all down the ballot. Vote!
…finally people started to catch up
The Democratic and Republican media “never” stopped talking about it .
This is a great read. The Church has had a centuries old hard on for the world ever since Galileo proved we weren’t the center of the universe. Or, as Neil Young wrote, “The aimless blade of science slashed the Pearly Gates” 😩🤬😵💫🤦♂️ They used to run the world, now they are just a dying institution.
I completely agree.
And Musk called Harris "a great big C-word." And Vance said there's nothing wrong with the Puerto Rican comment as it's just humor. TURN THE PAGE.
That is why Harris Campaign should be putting it out there. Something has to snap them out of their Brainwashed state of mind