They say it ain’t over till it’s over. But even though there may be some last gasps against frontrunners Trump and Biden, the race to decide who’ll run in the US elections this November is over!! Trump’s challenger Nikki Haley has officially dropped out, after being beaten conclusively in the Super Tuesday primaries. Biden wasn’t even challenged by any big-name face. After Haley lost to Trump in her native North Carolina, her withdrawal was just about signed, sealed and delivered!!
So, we have got two geriatrics – Biden is the oldest president EVER! – vying to run America as, externally, it faces its greatest challenge to its world hegemony, and internally, it’s population inexorably changes from its majority white folks to coloured folks. From where your Eyewitness sits, it looks like the orange-haired wonder might just win it all! To the first challenge, he’s willing to call out China and increase the 25% tariffs he’d slapped on them to at least SIXTY PERCENT!! That’s a declaration of war, baby!!
But, funny enough, China’s rooting for Trump to win!! Why?? They figure that a Trump presidency would be so divisive domestically that the Yanks won’t have time to check their manoeuvres for world domination, from Latin America and the Caribbean to Taiwan and the Pacific!! To the second challenge, Trump will certainly continue making immigrants the scapegoats for everything that ails his blue-collar and evangelical base, who long for a return of their good ole Jim Crow days!!
But the possibility that these doddering old men might inadvertently press some doomsday button and wipe out humanity isn’t your Eyewitness’s only concern; he’s worried about the REALITY of a man who refused to accept his defeat in the last elections, and encouraged an insurrection that went as far as invading Capitol Hill, now being allowed to run again for the Presidency of the country that protects democracy across the world!!
What do we say to our Opposition elements, who announced that when they pour into the streets once again to bring down the legally elected PPP – like Trump’s insurrectionists – our Disciplined Forces must “turn away their weapons”!?! Their response is gonna be, “If it’s good enough for America, then it’s good enough for us!!” Now that Green’s apologised for suggesting the PNC follow Burnham’s rigging ways, he might now INSIST they take power by brukking up our Parliament!!
Anyhow, there’s not much we can do about the American elections, so we might as well take comfort that Trump will be much more aggressive against Mad Maduro – and ensure the PNC’s checkmated by sending down Pompeo for a repeat performance!
Trump now knows that only direct action, rather than elections, would take these wankers out!!
…keeping profits
Now, everybody and their uncle thought that when Chevron made its bid to take over Hess, and the latter accepted, Exxon and CNOOC now had a new 30% partner!! Didn’t matter who they shared their profits with, right? Wrong!! Exxon just resorted to arbitration to accept its claim that, after all it did in developing our frontier Guyana offshore Stabroek Block, it deserves to have the right to first refusal on Hess’s shares!!
This goes to show you gotta create a LEGAL rationale when you wanna change commercial agreements that you don’t like!! So, will all those fellas and felines – who rightfully hold that Trotman gave away the store to Exxon – now do the same to get us more moolah?? Back in the day, your Eyewitness had suggested Trotman’s mental capacity to form a contract coulda been challenged, since he was an “idiot” – meaning he had an IQ of less than 25.
And how do we prove that?? Well, in law, “res ipsa loquitur” means “the thing speaks for itself”!!
…a labour brawl
Just when your Eyewitness thought we were gonna have an amicable ending to the teachers’ strike, the Judge allows the TUC and FITUG to join the talks. This now becomes a prequel to elections 2025!!
