It's midweek again on 'Planet Pandemic' and nothing has changed in over six month's, we're still dying, we're still living in an authoritarian world, we're still being governed by idiots and we're still lying down and taking it up the proverbial. Let's see what the latest enema induced instalment is, shall we?
In America the forests still burns, the hurricane still whip's up a storm and Trump still spouts BS. In his latest attempt to appease the American voters he endured a televised Q&A in Pennsylvania where he was seen to be quizzed by what appeared to be a selected dozen people all wearing masks while he still refused to wear one. During that Q&A he was asked questions on COVID-19, Black lives matter and many other questions. The main rebuttal he used was always to deny and lie, as he claimed to have up-played the deadly virus rather than downplay it like his recorded interview with Bob Woodward proved. He also claimed their would be a vaccine within weeks which contradicts the science community and even had the balls to say he wasn't racist claiming he likes all races contradicting the proven facts in his own words as he incited 'White Supremacy'. What really gets to me about Trump is that every answer he gives is an attack at the previous administration, specifically the first black American president which in my humble opinion he is racially attacking a man that proved himself to be a great president.
Trump has a narcissistic mentality, not to mention the health problem he is most definitely suffering from and the whole administration is covering up, 'Trump is suffering from dementia!'. His inability to control his hands, always needing to pretend he is holding an imaginary bowl or ball. Then there's the slurred speech, the repetition of sentences and words, the use of the wrong words which was proven factually during his Q&A, when he said the COVID-19 virus would disappear on its own because people would "develop a herd mentality", likely referring to and meaning a "herd immunity", these things are signs of dementia. Another problem with Trump is in the fact he lives in the past, he compares himself to an honest man, he lies through his teeth making claims that the country is in the best economical state than it has been under any previous president, he has done more for 'Blacks' than any other president since Lincoln. My personal opinion is that he has a 'GOD' complex when he keeps claiming we were this, we were that, while blaming the current state of affairs on a disease he knew was coming, a disease he did nothing to prevent, a disease that has indiscriminately killed nearly two hundred thousand people in America alone, a disease he called a hoax and still refuses to do anything about.
Come on America see this man for what he is, a blood sucking leech that is dishonest and inept. It is time to stop accepting the BS he, his family and his administration have peddled from the moment he played to the crowds outside Trump tower proclaiming his intention to run for president back in 2015. Listen to the people that have worked for him, with him and against him. Listen to the man who was his fixer for years and knows where the skeletons are buried. Listen to the science community he has ignored especially the magazine 'Scientific American' who has stated that despite warnings in January and February, Trump did not develop a national strategy to provide protective equipment, coronavirus testing or clear health guidelines, openly rejecting the evidence and science he was presented with and have now for the first time in it's 175-year history, is endorsing a presidential candidate by backing Democrat Joe Biden for the White House. The magazine also described Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic as "dishonest and inept". Make your vote count, remove the would be 'KING' from his democratic throne before he subverts the law, the constitution and over 250 years of history to claim America his sovereignty to rule over for life passing the illegitimate crown on to his first born son reinstalling a monarchy.
On that note I will skip the pond to dear old Blighty and see if there's anything there to rant about. As the main interest still remains on the rising amount of COVID-19 tests been found to have positive results, there is still the worry about how long said test results are taking to process as the backlog grows exponentially. There is also the issue of people going to busy A&E departments instead of test centres to get tested which creates an even bigger problem on top of the numbers of staff now self isolating putting a strain on hospital resources. Yet Johnson's government appears to be doing nothing to combat these problems, instead putting more time in to the failing Brexit agreement and trying to reassure foreign politicians that Johnson's efforts to scupper the agreement made last year will not effect US-UK trade agreements. What makes me laugh is the fact that America is fighting its own internal war and it still wants to have its say on Brexit.
I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but Brexit is not good for the country. Along with mass unemployment due to companies moving their manufacturing to other countries with more favourable export deals, a diving economy, a level of unemployment benefit that is below the poverty line and the way the Tory government sees the country as a place needing tougher controls such as more far reaching surveillance protocols. A bigger issue is the way the present government whose idea's on law and order are archaic want to remove a convicted persons human rights imposed on the country by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Johnson's government wants to remove certain rights of criminals turning to a more Americanised view of law and order by implementing the 'Three rules and your out' concept for habitual criminals, meaning three offences and you get life imprisonment. Also they want to remove the ECHR's minimum time served rule by upping the present sentencing law that states a prisoner will serve half the sentence in prison with the other half on licence and change it to serving two thirds of the sentence before release which returns the criminal justice system back in time.
Overall leaving Europe only benefits one section of the nation and that is the rich people because eighty percent of poverty and law breaking is found in the downtrodden section of society who have to fight for everything they have, while the other twenty percent live luxurious lives and tend to buy their way out of a prison sentence. If Johnson's government is given the chance to repeal either the whole or any part of the Human Rights Act (HRA), it would signal a pernicious intent to break European human rights law in practice. It would ultimately transform the UK into a pariah state. The HRA has brought so many vital benefits to people across Scotland and the UK. It has stopped elderly couples from being separated and placed in different residential care homes, secured homes for survivors of domestic violence, challenged the discrimination of people who are homeless, disabled or LGBTQ, prevented degrading practices in psychiatric hospitals and prisons, and so much more. Yet our present government wishes to take away the simplest of human rights and turn us in to a iron fist nation which will lead us down a very dark path in the future.
Basically Johnson wants to emulate America and create a structure of government similar to theirs where the corrupt politicians pilfer and lie their way through life. The sooner we get a government that is for the people not against the people we may be able to start treating all citizens of the union equally rather than condemning them to poverty, hardship and a path to perpetual criminality. We do not need a Donald John Trump clone running the UK disguised as Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. We need our more honest Members of Parliament to bring a stop to the rising authoritarian and fascist rule we face over the next three years under a Johnson leadership where Cabinet Ministers and politicians run rough shot over the nations citizens while quietly profiteering off their position. On that I will call it a day,
Rant you tomorrow!
