An Interesting Idea to Consider, Especially In Light of the Talk Since Trump's Re-Election of His Seeking to Remake America 'In His Own Image', Much As Said False Prophet of the Apocalypse Itself 'Makes an Image' 'of' and 'to' 'the First (i.e. Sea-)Beast'...

For Bibliophiles Such as Myself, There's Every Chance that Donald J Trump is In a Very Real Sense a TYPE of Said Antichrist, Inasmuch as the ('Earth-Based') False Prophet 'Which (Eventually/Ultimately) Speaks Like a Dragon' Is Itself a Mini-/Miniature Version As it Were of the (Infinitely More Significant) Sea-Beast (Antichrist Power) That Precedes 'Him'

To the Point - in the Not Terribly Distant - that 'all the world marvelled and followed the beast [i.e. biblical Antichrist]'

Beware, Folks: It's Coming to a Place Right Beside You Before all That Long, Believe Me (or Otherwise)!

'And I Saw One of His (the Biblical Antichrist's) Heads As If It Had Been Mortally Wounded, And His Deadly Wound Was Healed...'

Admittedly the case for Donald J Trump to be the long-foretold biblical Antichrist might happen to - majorly - be at dissonance with the long-held, carefully-determined eschatology/end-time theology of Yours Truly...

but I'll give it/the (American) author thereof (of such a theory) this much credit at least...

He's/his theory/hypothesis is looking more and more credible by the day...

Eerily A Minor Note Vis-a-Vis the Democratic Presidential Convention Now Underway (Fatefully?) Again (in Chicago, Illinois) Brings My Much-Ignored/Neglected Blog Post Upon US Presidential Election 2016 Upon This Selfsame Day (August 22nd, 2016) to Remembrance...

Postscript:

I find it exceedingly interesting and curious the remarks credited to Donald Trump upon the appearance and speeches of former President Bill Clinton as well as Trump's former presidential adversary Hillary Clinton at said Democratic (Presidential Nominating) Convention:

"I respect him and his wife."

What can I possibly say in commentary thereupon, except: please look up my own 42-page opinion piece upon this blogsite precisely eight years ago *today (northern hemisphere time); *yesterday (southern hemisphere time) on August the 22nd, 2016...

And see whether (or not) Yours Truly somehow stumbled upon something - call it a mind-blowing conspiracy to beat, I mean Trump, all conspiracies (if you will) - that if indeed true would blow modern-day American politics not only out of the water but theoretically out through the very stratosphere and into the deep blue (or rather black) yonder well beyond... 

*NB: Since it's been so long since I've last posted, I got myself tangled up a bit, and in order to write the aforementioned comments (everything post- my subject title/byline) Blogger reverted my post (of August 22nd, 2024) to a draft (with today's date thereupon)...fastidious dude that I admittedly am, it was important to me yesterday to post this upon the exact anniversary of the earlier 'manuscript', hence this footnoted correction...

P.S. No, apparently I'm wrong, though the initial preview suggested I wasn't (hopeless pedant that I am)!

The Doomsday Clock Is Fast Nearing Its Zenith (or Nadir)...As One Author Has Well Stated, 'The Last Events Will Be Rapid Ones'...

'But soon the Lord will descend, for whom we have waited so long' (as the 'ole hymn puts it),

at the last trump (sic) - the trump (sic) of God

The World Now Stands at Another Pivotal Cross-roads...And As 'the Lady Galadriel' Informed Her Fellow Middle-Earth Dwellers Back in That Approaching Age of Men (As the Elves' Age Rapidly Came to its Conclusion), One Step Either Side Could Well Mean Death & Destruction to Earthians Everywhere...

Time, I Suggest, For Aotearoa-New Zealand's Once Respected Labour Party to 'Go Back to the Drawing Board' and Spend Some Real Time & Deliberation Considering and Coming to Grips with Why They Were So Roundly & Decisively Rejected by NZ Inc At the Recent Elections...

Vis-a-vis which I was spot-on in my belief it'd be an absolute rout (on a scale not seen since the 4th Labour Government in the 80s was thrown out on its ear in 1990), but quite wrong (like various other thoughtful commentators, pundits and pollsters) that the turnout would be well down on the usual...

Perhaps 'the Voice' (Referendum on Recognition of Australia's Indigenous People) Failed (Over in the Land of 'Oz) Not So Much Because Aussies Rejected the Very Idea of Paying Due Acknowledgement to Their Original Settlers, But Because It So Quickly Fell Prey to Virtue-Signalling Wokesters, Elitists & Moreover Poncy-ing Politicoes Who Never Fail to Mess Up a Good Thing and Indeed Whatever They Place Their Anti-Midas' Touch of Death to?

The Complete & *Utter Trashing of the Once Beautiful & Glorious, Picturesque-In-Every-Way Idyll(ic City) of Portland Oregon is a Real Tragedy to Behold (from However Afar)...& a Sad & Undying 'Testament' to the Ultimate Bankruptcy of the MODERN Political Left (in the U S A)

*'Nutter('s) trashing (as I completely inadvertently, freudian-slip-like wrote initially) rather! 

Once a city extolled (along with Eugene, Seattle, Green Bay, Wisconsin and the Twin Cities - of my mother's childhood) to the rafters as 'one of the 10 most livable cities' in the United States in my beloved Book of Lists my oldest sister gave me 'back in the day' 40 or so years ago...

And incidentally Yours Truly did sojourn there for three months or so in late 1992 and found the reports thereof were not unfounded...

It's Sad to Have to Say, But Joe Biden Is Beginning to Look a Rank Amateur In Matters International, In 'Foreign Affairs': Some Might Even - God Forbid - Say: Bring Back Donald J Trump...

For whatever I've said - aplenty and little positive - in times past about the latter fellow, he can hardly have been accused of escalating tensions with Russia (or any other nation) to the extent/degree that Biden & Co have of recent times, to the point where some might suggest our world is rapidly being precipitated towards WW111...

And though I'm the last person in the room to serve as any kind of apologist for Vladimir Putin and his ilk, the onus is always upon the better person to show self-control and self-restraint, rather than up the ante to the nth degree so that in the final analysis, when push come to shove, Putin feels so humiliated with his back quite literally up against the proverbial that he feels he has no option but to initiate and unleash the end of all things...

Hey, Hands Off My All-Time Favourite Film - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: IT'S PERFECTLY FINE/GOOD/ACCEPTABLE IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM (As In *Cinematic Version with Gene Wilder As Charlie)

Most things of a creative nature are best left as is - which of course isn't to say that folk aren't free to chip in later on down the track with their own idiosyncratic takes upon the selfsame...

*Having admittedly yet to get around to reading the book by Roald Dahl. 

Postscript:

There's 'infinitely' more I could add, but for now I simply wanted to get my own view upon the record.

I'm NOT Sorry to See the Back of Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon: Though Undoubtedly 'Charismatic' To a Degree & Rather Adept at Tapping into the Popular Mood Upon Matters Devolutionary and Anti-Boris (Johnson) & Brexiting-Conservatives, Her *'Wokeness' Has Evidently Been Her Ultimate Undoing...

*As discussed twice this week upon the Mike Hosking Show with British correspondent Rod Liddell. 

But far as this particular punter is concerned, her willingness to 'get down and dirty' regarding her predecessor Alex Salmond revealed a spirit of vindictiveness and maliciousness ill-befitting a leader of a once admirably noble people, the Scots...

If there'd been any semblance of substance to the sexual harassment allegations it'd have been another thing entirely...

But oh so typically these days, simply by being aired they gained traction and credibility...

Dirt sticks, as they say - however absolutely baseless in reality.

Not altogether dissimilar to the Peter Ellis witch-hunt in Aotearoa-New Zealand back in the day.

Postscript:

So all power to Sir Cliff Richard's proposal for an Innocents' Law (or suchlike) in the 'United' Kingdom.

With the Go-To Shutdown Cry of "Racism" Willy-Nilly These Days - as Newstalk ZB Drivetime Host Heather Du Plessis Allan Aptly Expresses the Matter - Hey, We Needn't Bother Any More With Serious Discussions and Debates Upon Anything Important: Bravo to the Cancel Culture Woke Brigade, Lately Ignorantly Led In These Antipodean Regions by the Green Party's Marama Davidson and Te Parti Maori's Raweri Waititi

So, According to BBC World, the Otherwise Ineffectual, Even Fairly Incompetent, & Certainly Unimpressive, U S Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, Is to Head to the Middle East (Israel and Egypt Etc) Next Week 'to Seek to Help De-Escalate Tensions Between Israel and the Palestinians'

Yeah, right: while he and his hapless Administration do all in their power - I mean, ineffectual weakness - to meanwhile hasten/precipitate WW111 with Russia! 

What planet are these people on?!?!?!? 

I mean, really?!?!?!?

Call Putin a Madman - & He IS - As Much as You Like...But Please Don't Turn Around the Next Moment & Pretend That Such a Madman, When Pushed Up Against the Proverbial Wall & When Push Comes to Literal Shove, Won't Be Equally Irrational When It Comes to Launching Nuclear Weaponry Upon Ukraine and Ukrainians...

Whether so-called limited, tactical - or strategic - weapons, in the long-range, long-term consequences/ repercussions thereof it's all essentially the same. In such a scenario it's hard to not foresee WW111 as then being not all that far  - God forbid - away.

Do I - Should ANY - 'Rational Actor'/Sensible Person Regard It As 'Just Another (Mere) Coincidence' That the Worst Winter Storm, Apparently, in 50-Odd Years Has Of Late Been Wreaking Havoc Across Canada & (Especially) the (North/North-Eastern) United States? Yeah, Right (As the 'Ole Kiwi Billboard Sign So Rhetorically Puts Matters (Admittedly, in a Wholly Different Context)!

The fact that Insurrectionist-in-Chief Donald J Trump has just been - at long-overdue last - (effectively) shafted by his own side in the Congressional Committee reviewing/'prosecuting' the consequences of January 6th, 2021, making things *extremely difficult/problematic if not ultimately impossible for him to make a comeback in 2024...

...alongside the (likely to prove extremely significant and **fraught) concurrent fly-in visit of Ukrainian President Zelensky...

I'd respectfully like to suggest 'just might happen to be' 'events' which the Almighty in His omniscience well knows will yet prove to be important milestones in the countdown to midnight upon the in/famous doomsday clock...

*However Yours Truly feels obligated to add, as he has on numerous preceding occasions, that he has a vague (and highly uneasy) suspicion that 'the Donald' will yet - like the proverbial Phoenix arising from the ashes - manage to pull yet another rabbit out of the hat (to shamelessly mix my metaphors), and run for/win back the American presidency come late 2024...

...even in the highly unlikely circumstance that ***'his own' Republican Party ultimately disowns him and he is forced to stand as an independent...

**See my various blogposts thereabouts upon this and my other main blogsite, i.e.

http://davidedwinisms.blogspot.co.nz/ (or .com/)

...or upon my newest blogsite:

'News in a Nutshell: Summing Stuff up Succinctly'.

***In name only, as any even highly superficial observer, political pundit or otherwise, well realizes that Trump has never ever been a true dinkum 'Republican' except in name only.

Though One Can Hardly Fault (Ukrainian President) Volodimir Zelensky From Making the Most of a Unique Opportunity to (However Briefly) Exit Ukraine & In the Process Secure Some More Much-Needed Moral Support/Military Help in the Ongoing Battle for His Cherished Homeland, U S President Joe Biden "Ought to Know Better" as Tolkien's &/Or Peter Jackson's Cinematic Take Upon 'The Lord of the Rings' Has Treebeard Woefully, Ruefully Intoning (As, in a Not Wholly Dissimilar Context, a Much Larger War for Middle Earth was About to Break Forth): Thus Publicly, Globally Sticking the Proverbial Borax in the Very Face of Russian President Vladimir Putin AIN'T LIKELY TO END WELL - & THAT'S PUTTING THINGS RATHER MILDLY!

Leaving Putin thus shamefully humiliated just ain't the way 'to win (any more) friends and influence people'!

So, as My Sister Opined Half a Dozen Years Ago (In What I Then Took to be a Present Reality) the Japanese Government is Planning to Dump Nuclear Waste into the Pacific for 30-Some Years in the Very Near Future? God Help Us All - For He'll Most Surely Need to!

As the 'Star' (i.e. Shooting Star/Fleeting Meteor) of Donald J Trump's Fortunes (Temporarily, Anyhow) Seems to Wane, Look Out For Possible Last-Minute, Gridlock-Breaking Entries into Presidential Race at Republican Convention of Two Rather Dark & Handsome Horses to Enter to Assume Republican Presidential Leadership Mantle: Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton and Virginia Governor 'Youngkin' (Whose Proper Name Presently Escapes Me!)...