In America, As more and more stories of police brutality are reported what is the president doing, firstly he is getting his Attorney General to try and block two books that show the type of man he is in reality and also secondly getting his administration to ask the US Supreme Court to invalidate Obamacare, which has provided health insurance to millions of Americans. Government lawyers said the act became invalid when the previous Republican-led Congress axed parts of it.
In a response Democratic challenger Joe Biden attacked the move, saying Mr Trump had put millions of lives at risk during the coronavirus pandemic and that they would live their lives caught in a vice between Donald Trump's twin legacies: his failure to protect the American people from the coronavirus, and his heartless crusade to take healthcare protections away from American families which proves that health care will be a key battleground in the November presidential election as well as equality which he constantly defies. If Trump gets his way 20 million Americans could lose their health coverage if the court overturns the Affordable Care Act, which was introduced by Donald Trump's Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama. Trump's excuse is that the scheme costs too much and has promised a different plan to replace it, preserving some popular elements of the existing law but covering fewer people. In other words the insurance companies get richer while the patients die.
In a response Democratic challenger Joe Biden attacked the move, saying Mr Trump had put millions of lives at risk during the coronavirus pandemic and that they would live their lives caught in a vice between Donald Trump's twin legacies: his failure to protect the American people from the coronavirus, and his heartless crusade to take healthcare protections away from American families which proves that health care will be a key battleground in the November presidential election as well as equality which he constantly defies. If Trump gets his way 20 million Americans could lose their health coverage if the court overturns the Affordable Care Act, which was introduced by Donald Trump's Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama. Trump's excuse is that the scheme costs too much and has promised a different plan to replace it, preserving some popular elements of the existing law but covering fewer people. In other words the insurance companies get richer while the patients die.
So on the day when reports show over one hundred and seventy thousand new cases of coronavirus cases were registered with a further five thousand plus deaths in a twenty four period making the running total in America alone nearly nine and a half million cases with over quarter of a million deaths we hear that the man who could do something about it, not only wants the Affordable Care Act abolished, but in a bizarre headline has requested a statue of a confederate general be saved. Well America it looks like your president values statues over lives.
On that note let's take a look at how dear old Blighty is coping with our own inept government. Well we have two sides of a type of leadership going on at the moment. In the blue corner we have Johnson backing his buddies stating he has full confidence in both Cummings and Jenkin which says to the public " Do as I say, not as I do" meaning as a people we have to abide by the laws of the land while top Tories and aides can break the rules whether it be travelling while in lockdown, disobeying the two metre rule, going to parties or accepting back handers to allocate prime real estate for re-zoning and not been asked to resign or getting fired. While in the red corner MP's are asked to resign for re-tweeting an interview with anti Semitic connotations and resign when caught breaking the lockdown rules. You choose who is a better leader the blue Johnson or the red Starmer, I vote orange, so I am impartial. What I will say is that how can a government who doesn't police it's own members and ministers expect the general public to accept the big brother style policing we are seeing in this day and age of Camera, internet scraping, government controlled apps, social media, blogging and twenty four hour news. I for one like to think I now live a respectable life with the respect for the law, but there are so many more people who see the corrupt antics of our elected officials and say either to themselves or in groups, F*** them if they can get away with law breaking without consequences why can't I. That's me done for today.
Rant you tomorrow!
