Silent Lonesome Man

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1399499780712243201 When former Trump security advisor Michael Flynn attended a QAnon parade, where he made an infamous speech calling for a coup d'etat to occur - with the echoes from the Republicans, we have to be startled to hear this. Trump's megalomania about the rigged election, never found any evidence to support such a theory, appears to be far from over. Trump's followers insist that Trump is still the legal President, pointing out how the coup in Myanmar could serve as an inspiration for many Trumpers. This disgusting phenomenon went viral and Flynn tried to backtrack from his earlier words, but it didn't impress 2/3 Americans as well as the rest of the democratic world. Given how Flynn was pardoned by Trump and returned to become Trump's servant, having been sacked by Trump before, it showed how Trumpism actually developed. This also captured my belief about the Vietnamese Americans, and its large diaspora's ima...

Every April 30th, two worlds exist between Vietnamese people. In Vietnam, where the communists gained unified power since 1975, the communists declared the day as "Liberation of the South" and made it a national holiday to observe. The regime also spends millions of dollars each year to celebrate and to demonstrate the might of the communists and how life in Vietnam has changed under the rule of the Communist Party. Some Vietnamese diasporas, mostly in former Comecon or in East Asia, do celebrate alongside their compatriots in Vietnam. Then, there is another world. Every year, the same day since 1975, Vietnamese gather, not to welcome, but to mourn the loss of the Republic of Vietnam, or South Vietnam, to the hand of the communist North. They have observed the fall of Saigon, first in 1976 and this has become a common practice of Vietnamese diasporas living in Western Europe, North America and Australasia - where the loyalty with the yellow flag and three red stripes remains ...