By Harsimran Kaur

Donald Trump finally has the last laugh, though not the usual ‘guffaw’ by Harris. Nevertheless, US election 2024 has been full of banter and belabour; the deep bellow at rallies and the ballyhoo on ‘immigration’ and ‘abortion rights’. We saw the bellicose ‘Trump’ coming alive again after the assassination attempt and ‘Harris’ fitting perfectly in the old boots of the President Joe Biden. It was not an easy election; we all agree but had its own run of adventures and serious political debate.

Let’s consider the following two situations.

• Now as Mr. Trump has won the presidential election, are we looking at a civil war, not the usual belligerence on the road, but through the impropriety of labeling who is a ‘true American’? Undeniably, ‘YES” as he is a hell bent maverick scourging on the ‘poisoned blood bath’ and presses the barrel of sexist punditry of ‘gun shots’ on the Republican critic Liz Cheney, and slighting the grande dame Harris of having an unfair cognitive ability.

• Hypothetically, if Kamala Harris would have taken over the reign, so would we have been looking at an uninterrupted cat-friendly ‘women mash-ups’ keeping behind the strait laced soporific? We all know Harris is fastidious on ‘abortion rights’ and the restoration of woman’s body as a carte blanche. Her occasional demagoguery has also been caught in the windstorm. Her win would have left a feminine President in a panjandrum of masculinity who would like to own a gun, and remember, she had no compunction in drilling down a can of beer at ‘The Late Show’ with Stephen Colbert.

US elections; the rhetoric was messy, and the grand finale, in retrospect, was full of mud-slinging and exchange of badinages. It looked as if American politics is brewing incessant rhetoric to be taken seriously. The agendas were not new but the ratiocination turned out to be less impressive, and lashed a soft cudgel blow to exactly what needs to be achieved.

Harris did ‘pledge’ often whether it is to work on the Gaza war or taking care of the elderly; her pledges were an occiput fancy during the mega debate with Trump. The leitmotif of ‘let’s understand how we got here’ ricochet a raillery from Trump, and one is rendered to think, ‘if American chips had anything to do with China?’  Trump does not eat one and China takes it from Taiwan!! Her economy blather was wired with impassioned tales of childhood; she did not laugh during the story-session and that was the only grace. Ms. Harris—politics is not a rejuvenating spa where you remove the dead cells of emotional consanguinity.

The enfant terrible Trump, often in a flagrant mood gritted his teeth hard on the immigration issue; a scrofula in the lymphatic fluid of America. He disintegrated the Haitian immigrants of stealing & eating pets, and himself is so fond of his favourite ‘beef’; where does it come from… cows? Don’t strangle in the idee fixee of animal hunt, Mr. Trump. Immigration is not an issue of impugned civilization or a detritus of vengeful culpability, or in fact not desperados on run. Find a solution!! Was it a good idea to stick your head out of the Bipartisan Immigration Bill? Maybe there are better plans up his sleeve to avoid making United States a ‘Venezuela on steroids’.   

Did all this become a battle of prescriptive vs. proscriptive? How can a country run on personal feelings and influences? The rhetoric is confounded and conceited as if it is a clash of temperamental semblance in contrivance.

America looks dissuaded; the issue of immigration and abortion rights has become a tough mucous stuck in the throat, hard to spit out. But the interesting part is even after all the brouhaha; Trump calls himself as the ‘father of IVF when in the past 4 months, the republicans have blocked bills to protect it. It’s a discursive simulacrum, a never ending soliloquy that’s transports the former President into a gateway of aggrandized upmanship. And then ‘Harris meets Hitler’; she is disillusioned if Trump wins which he has, America would be under a coup of mass deportation and the Capitol Hill full of pantomime quirks.

Through the election rallies, he seemed cold as a Mackerel and had no compunction in calling the immigrants as criminals invoking a ‘migrant crime’. At 78, he is not tired and is in full gusto to take the economy further. Though, Ms. Harris is clear, “Trump has no plan for you, only tax breaks for the richest people.” Such a fibrillated twitch is an ‘eye for an eye’ for the vainglorious Trump who is forever baffled by Harris’s mediocrity to salvage the American economy. Don’t we know that he is a ‘tough tariff tumbleweed’ ready to pinch the nose of all the countries; “pay us back for what we have done for the world”? Maybe, it’s time to jump from entente to rivalry! The defense equipments provided to Ukraine is also a bit murky and overcast; Trump is not happy. Now with him holding the saddle tightly, one could see him questioning the US aid to Ukraine, and make Russia and the latter whip by the side to get the legs straight.

What led the democrats loose? They were a bit disillusioned clutching to the political ideology of ‘self-pity’ and ‘self-righteousness’ calling for impunity.

How the win would transcend for the Republicans? They would be the Machiavellian beast lifting the immigrant dust off the country, and as condescending Trump is, his anomaly to get the war finished before he even enters the office is like rustling the pancake straight into the pan. Does he want to end the schadenfreude at the expense of United States? The election crusade has been full of pantomime by the ‘Trump thaumaturgic’ and the ‘harrumphed Harris’ at the hypocrisy against women rights.

Both debated; Harris hurriedly looking at a ban on fracking and then her usual hyperbole

“Will not ban fracking but have to invest in diverse sources of energy to reduce dependency on foreign oil.”  The push & pull energy storms a wind of incoherence and in all contingency, Trump will not want to work on windmills. Maybe he is lookingbeyond the extraordinary.

“Maybe it’s the life we don’t know about!”