How do you manage screen time for yourself?
I’m managing my scream time
Trying not to choke.
How could civilised people
Vote for Donald Chump?
I just don’t get Americans
He’s a liar and a cheat!
An irresponsible narcissist
You wouldn’t want to meet.
He comes across an idiot
A man you can’t respect
All his shady business deals
So easy to forget?
At least there will be tax breaks
For Musk and billionaires.
As for all the ordinary folk
At least he’ll say he cares.
But don’t go wanting health care
Unless you’re well insured.
Too sick to work and lose your job?
Then you’ll go to the wall.
There’ll be curbs on abortion
So kids safe in the womb.
But they’ll grow up and go to school
and can be shot at there.
I guess there must be something
We foreigners don’t see?
Except perhaps the Russians?
They’ll love to see him there.
The world feels more unstable
You can’t know what he’ll do
And as for climate action
There’ll be no progress there.
The result is a catastrophe for the world. It saw Kamala Harris’s competence and expertise, her decency and grace, her potential to be the first female president in America’s 248-year history. It also saw Trump’s venality and vulgarity, his crass insults and crude populism, his dehumanisation of immigrants that echoed Adolf Hitler. And the world asked: how is this race even close?
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