10 fevereiro, 2020

"The Impeachment Post"



“THE IMPEACHMENT POST”



a.k.a. “THE WASHINGTON POST”

 
Donald Trump rubbing the “Impeachment Post’s” cover on their faces.

Over the past few months, “The Washington Post” morphed into an “Impeachment Post”, a real one-topic newspaper.

Virtually every single day, the headlines were about the impeachment process. And the tone was always the same: the Democrats are clinching their goal, Trump is increasingly vulnerable and weak, Trump is doomed, etc.

Every day there was a new witness thrashing the President, every single week there popped up a new report allegedly revealing endless new evidence against Donald Trump.

And all of this was not done with as much as a thin veneer of impartiality, since the “Impeachment Post”, its editors (???), its journalists (???) and its columnists did not even bother to disguise their glee, their euphoria, for the imminent destitution of Donald Trump.

Initially, I felt outraged with the blatant one-sided reporting, but then I felt that it was almost funny. These people were enjoying Trump’s premature doom, when it was obvious to me that the impeachment sham was going nowhere but the dust bin. The Democrats and the so-called liberals never swallowed Trump’s victory, going as far as trying to distort the function of the Electoral College, thus subverting the democratic process. And their hatred never ceased.

The political motivation of the impeachment and the Republican majority in the Senate convinced me that this would end up being a wild goose chase. And so it was. Donald Trump was fully acquitted. It is time to leave the presidential decisions for the ballot box.


23 dezembro, 2019

Feliz e Santo Natal


FELIZ E SANTO NATAL



MERRY CHRISTMAS

REMBRANDT VAN RIJN (1606-1669) – The Adoration of the Magi (164)  
Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Aos meus amigos e leitores do “Tempos Interessantes”, a todos os que se interessam, votos de um Santo e Feliz Natal, na companhia dos vossos entes queridos.

Desejo-lhes também um auspicioso 2020!

Merry Christmas to all my friends and readers of “Tempos Interessantes” and to everyone who cares.

I also wish you all a Happy New Year!

                                    Rui Miguel Ribeiro


13 dezembro, 2019

Get Brexit Done


GET BREXIT DONE


 
Boris Johnson’s outstanding victory.
in BBC News at www.bbc.com/news

The Conservative Party won a crushing majority in yesterday’s election. The Labour Party went back to 1935 figures. Unlike Theresa May, Boris Johnson took a risk and was abundantly rewarded with the election of 364/65 Tory MPs, the largest Westminster majority since Margaret Thatcher’s 1987 victory.

Finally, one sees the light at the end of the Brexit tunnel. It is really incredible the dragging of this vital issue which was formally set off on 30th March 2017, over 30 months ago. Hopefully, Boris Johnson will wrap up this annoying issue asap, enabling the United Kingdom and all the rest to move forward.

A final word to the sore losers of the Brexit referendum. They got their cherished second referendum and…they lost again and they lost it big time. Hopefully they will finally get over it, too.