And onward we march through the hell we lovingly call 2020 with new shit happening daily worldwide, so let's take a look at what's been happening, shall we?
In America as more deaths occur from protesters been shot in Kenosha, Wisconsin by an armed seventeen year old teenager, Milwaukee Bucks Basketball players go on strike over police brutality happening nationwide and the southern states of Texas and Louisiana batten down the hatches awaiting hurricane Laura while the RNC rolls on in North Carolina with more lies and BS about the state of America's COVID-19 crisis, police brutality and how Trump is 'GOD' while dishonouring the American public by having speakers who are promoting violence and segregation as their platform like the couple seen threatening peaceful protesters with an assault rifle and handgun who were marching past their home to confront the mayor. Also Kelly Anne Conway tried to convince America that Trump isn't a misogynist and sexual abuser by stating Trump had elevated women both in business and government for decades, yet the same woman has decided at the end of the month to resign from her position which she claims is to spend more mama time with her kids [total BS], if she believed in her words she would stay till the end of the election process, but she knows she needs to escape the sinking ship of Trumpism. On the other side of the coin VP Pence decided to do his speech from Baltimore's Fort McHenry, where the city was defended against the British in the War of 1812, inspiring Francis Scott Key to write the US national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, trying to show he is a patriot [again I call BS]. His speech was directed at Trump's opposition and warned that violence would spread in American cities if Joe Biden wins the Whitehouse in November stating that the hard truth is you won't be safe in Joe Biden's America, and that a vote for Biden was a vote for lawlessness.
Basically Pence was condoning the rise of the white supremacist movement of bigots and racists which since 2017 has crawled out from the shadows to be seen marching in favour of Trump's immigration, Gun ownership and racist policies while Conway condoned the sexual abuse and trafficking of women and girls by Trump and his cronies like Weinstein, Epstein and Maxwell as well as Trump's own personal views of how women should be treated by just 'Grabbing their P*****'. The Republican party that once stood tall is now a laughing stock within the world for allowing the country to plummet in to such destruction and fascism under the current president who sees protesters as looters and anarchists, dying Americans as cattle fonder to be discarded, world politics as unnecessary and runs the country as his very own profiteering business laundering millions of dollars [$6.9million at the last count and that is only from his own campaign fund not counting the money from government] in to offshore bank accounts instead of fighting the growing coronavirus threat, authoritarian brutality and murder, white teenagers killing peaceful black protesters unscrupulously with unregistered firearms, a growing unemployment problem and a crashing economy. America you have sixty nine days to make a change for the better and then watch as Trump spirals in to lawlessness by passing numerous ineffective bills and pardoning his convicted lackey's before he is escorted out of the Whitehouse in handcuffs [I hope] because we all know should he lose he will cause chaos for the new president elect in whatever way he can and may even barricade himself inside the Whitehouse refusing to accept the American peoples decision. All this is relevant due to Trump's latest sporadic outbursts and sensational claims like calling for himself and Democratic challenger Joe Biden to submit to drug tests before their first debate next month voicing his opinion, but not quite accusing Biden of taking performance enhancing drugs like he did with Hilary Clinton during the 2016 election debates. In an interview Trump questioned a sudden improvement in Biden's performance in the Democratic TV debates alluding to drugs, but not furnishing the claim with any evidence only saying he was 'pretty good at this stuff' leaving his comments open for others to fill in the blanks. Please, please America do the right thing come November!
On that note I will jump across the pond to dear old Blighty to see what the other inept leader of our fair country is doing. So as schools and businesses ready themselves to accept students and workers back through their doors to restart their lives, what do we see in the government doing in the headlines? we see stories about Johnson's health kick and his recent employment of a personal trainer which is all well and good for him, but what about the rest of us who can't afford personal trainers to help us lose weight, so in my opinion this is useless and shouldn't even be classed as newsworthy. Other headlines covered are about Matt Hancock's wonderful new income boost for self isolating people in badly affected areas. What this means is workers on low incomes in parts of England where there are high rates of coronavirus will be able to claim up to £182 if they have to self-isolate as from Tuesday, those who claim Universal Credit or Working Tax Credit and cannot work from home will be able to get the money, equal to £13 a day [whoopee F****** do]. Critics of the new payment have stated that the payment "goes nowhere near far enough", adding people need "full pay" because anyone told to self isolate for ten days and qualify for the fund will only receive £130 in compensation which is just the height of hypocrisy on the governments part. I think as soon as someone is elected in to parliament they lose the mental capacity to think like a normal person. They lose the power to understand that what the unemployed are expected to live on is barbaric for this day and age. How can £13 a day help anyone when a nine inch pizza and chips costs about that depending on where you live in the country, also if you are one of those people whose frugal and try to save a little bithere and there, what you will find is that the government will then deduct money from your claim making the F****** £13 obsolete anyway. This is what those morons who voted Blue back in December has gifted the rest of us.
Speaking of our governments leader another headline has surfaced taking potshots at Johnson who on the back of his plans to get schools reopened addressed the nation’s children giving them a speech as they prepare to return to classrooms trying to bring order to chaos which has been upstaged by Twitter tongues wagging over a school librarian with a sense of humour. As Johnson told children at Castle Rock school in Coalville, Leicestershire [who looked bored and disillusioned with the experience], that exam results had almost been derailed by “A Mutant Algorithm”, eyes turned to the bookshelves behind him, lined with titles like The Twits, Betrayed and The Subtle Knife. All this on the very day it was announced that the scapegoats for the governmental exam debacle wouldn't be Education Secretary Wilkinson, but would in fact be a top civil servant at the Department of Education (DfE), Jonathan Slater, who was to leave his job, hot on the heels of Ofqual chief Sally Collier, the titles had a resonance which did not go unnoticed. It seemed like a savvy school librarian or English teacher snatched a golden opportunity to have a pop at the PM in front of the nation. The question been asked is how such a person managed to hoodwink the PM and his entourage by placing not just just the “The Twits” but also “Betrayed”; “Resistance” and “Fahrenheit 451” in the shot behind Johnson is truly amazing as Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury about a society where books are banned, not to mention the fact that other titles visible like the Subtle Knife; Glass Houses; The Toll (about a monstrous dictator); and Guards Guards (about a shady villain installing a puppet king) are all there too. What a marvel the person behind the display is as the scene just looks like it’s been carefully curated to embarrass Johnson who is the living embodiment of those books, my only criticism of the display is the fact they couldn't somehow get 1984, the George Orwell classic in the shot also. Apart from that comedic interlude the cameras panning around the children [during Johnson's mumbling's of a madman about nuclear fusion or Harry Potter being sexist which seemed out of place in such a setting] was comedic in itself as the cameraperson zoomed in on one poor schoolboy whose face told the story of what he was thinking which was probably 'how did I get roped in to this crap'. Is this what is thought of as an effective use of the PM's time when he should be at Downing Street combating COVID-19 deaths rising again, the economy tanking and the so called future of his government. Come on I know we have just over three years left under this inept PM, but surely there is some way we can remove such a incompetent leadership and cabinet before we descend deeper in to nine circles of Dante's Inferno depicted in his 'Divine Comedy'. Please tell me there is a way we can escape the current rulers of our future who seem hell bent on dragging us further in to an unstoppable mire of servitude to the rich and powerful within a new fascist dystopia. On that I will call it a day,
Rant you tomorrow!
