The Bugle, Audio Newspaper for a visual world.

Hello, buglers, I am Andy Zaltzman, and welcome to this special bugle, issue 4,319 of the world's most reliably

unreliable news source recorded just one day, that's 24 hours in human time before America

rammed its national fingers into the electrical socket of democracy once more. A tremulous

world awaits to see what the world's most powerful, citation needed,

define powerful nation will inflict on itself. We, the eight billion non-Americans who are cruelly

denied the votes in this decision that will affect our lives, mood and planets, arguably

even more than Americans, can only sit and wait, denied the rights and the opportunity to have

our say by the cruel

happenstance of geography and by the insularitous tradition that only people who are citizens

of a country can vote in its elections, even though often, and in America's case arguably

always, they are the ones who are least objective about it.

And as America stares at itself in its shattered political mirror, the mirror it has been

remorselessly headbutting for decades now whilst whimpering.

Am I beautiful? Am I?

And it's multiple reflections.

We can only once again write letters of apology to generations past and future,

a parody of itself to which we've allowed our democracy to sink.

Now that was a bit of a bleak start to the show, so let's try again.

Welcome to the bugle, it'll all be fine.

Disclaimant, it may not all be fine.

All may not have to be, turned out to be fine at all, even slightly.

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