23/09/2020

Yesterday was a bust, due to copy/paste errors and my idiocy, but I will try again today. Anyway the world sweeps in to yet another hell forsaken aftermath of political ineptitude with US registering 200,000 deaths and the UK heading in to another forced lockdown. Let’s see what is rantable today.

In America, Trump is still encouraging the idiotic supporters of his to mingle and spread the virus while he defended overseeing the world’s highest coronavirus death toll, saying 200,000 Americans amounted to "doing it right" because the mortality rate could potentially have been far higher. Trump then went on to slander and insult women of colour within congress at his latest campaign rally in Pennsylvania, deploying racist attacks on Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, accusing the former of “telling us how to run our country” while using his old favourite line that the mail in voting process will be tampered with as his excuse to install a right wing, pro-life, pro-gun and biased supreme justice nominee before the election who he stated he would name on Saturday citing the need to have a full roster of nine justices in place ahead of election day on 3 November because "with the unsolicited millions of ballots that they're sending, it’s a scam, it’s a hoax” referencing the fact that the Democrats are pushing to vote by mail in all states. This is a man hell bent on inciting a war, not a war where soldiers will fight an enemy and die, but a war where Mother Nature will take hold and clean house with deaths. Donald J Trump believes in one thing and one thing only, that’s Donald J Trump! He has no concern for people’s lives, he has no concern for the world economy, he has no concern for equality, and he is only concerned with how much money he can make from running the country in to a quagmire of deceit, depravity and destruction. As he circumnavigates the country state by state spreading his white supremacist, white privilege ideology amongst the moronic chanting idiots who display little respect for themselves, let alone anyone else by believing each and every lie this person spouts.

Well America we the world sit here with bated breath to see how you will vote, will it ‘BLUE IS TRUE or RED WITHOUT A CLUE’, will be ‘SANITY WITH BIDEN or INSANITY WITH TRUMP’. You see it day in, day out as the insanity brews within Trumps head. When asked a question he doesn’t like, he simply ignores it or calls the person shameless for even considering to ask it or simply stands disrespectfully shaking his head as the question is asked. This is a man on the edge, a man who is willing to lie, cheat and subvert his way out of everything he deems below him, even a free fair political election. He calls the opposition and the news networks that call him out as fakes and liars, taking every opportunity to question Biden’s health, principles and political career in to question. Trump boasts that he has done more in 47 months than Biden has done 47 years of politics which is probably true if you consider he has created the biggest death toll in modern history now standing at 200,000 dead due to ineptitude and inexperience, he has given the top 100 hundred richest people in the country, who this year alone earned 300 billion dollars, huge tax cuts and is set to give them more as he plans to give them another 30 billion in tax cuts during a deadly pandemic and an economic recession. So you ask yourself this who benefits from a Trump administration? Except for Trump and his rich business cronies. He has lied, cheated and broken numerous laws while stealing millions of tax dollars from the under-payed, under-valued middle and lower classes while laundering millions of dollars in campaign donations in to his personal offshore bank accounts disguised as payments to his many businesses. It is clear to me as a non-American living in another country that the only answer for America and the world is for a landslide victory for Biden in November turning every state in the union blue. Once again I ask will it be ‘BLUE IS TRUE or RED CREATES DEAD’, you need to choose ‘BIDEN’ over ‘TRUMP’, ‘DEMOCRAT’ over ‘REPUBLICAN’ if you wish to be ‘THE PHOENIX RISES FROM THE ASHES INSTEAD OF THE DINOSAUR FACING EXTINCTION’.

On that note I will skip the pond to dear old Blighty to see what authoritarian BS we face anew today. As of yesterday Tuesday September 22nd in England we are now being told to work from home if we can, which is a massive U-turn on what the government has spent the last month telling us to do and rules on face coverings have been expanded with the restrictions been announced in all four UK nations. Other measures introduced in England include a 10pm closing time for pubs and restaurants and the number of people allowed at weddings has been halved. The fines for breaking the rules are set to increase to £200 on the first offence. Hospitality venues will also have to close early in Scotland and Wales, but Scotland has gone further, by banning people from visiting other people's homes from Wednesday 23rd while Northern Ireland has also already banned households mixing indoors.

The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has defended what is being called "balanced, targeted and proportionate" new coronavirus measures amid criticism from some scientists as the new measures have exposed a split among scientists with Prof John Edmunds, who advises the government, saying they did not go "anywhere near far enough" while other scientists say they hope they are a shift towards a coherent policy. With this dissent between scientists just the usual problems within a deeply passionate profession the worry should be what the cabinet and Johnson aren’t telling us and what other measures they may inflict on an already mentally exhausted nation. Johnson had already stated that he was deeply, spiritually reluctant to infringe on anyone's freedom, but also said "Unless we take action the risk is that we will have to go for tougher measures later, if people don't follow the rules we have set out, then we must reserve the right to go further” which in other words he has plans already in place to put more police back on the streets and for the Army to be used as back-up if need be. He has stated if everyone follows the simple rules together, the nation will get through this winter together. Johnson acknowledged that there were going to be unquestionably difficult months to come asking the public to summon the discipline, and the resolve, and the spirit of togetherness to carry us through the bad times will eventually give to good.

The issue I have with Johnson and the present cabinet is the fact that they are too indecisive, plucking ideas out of thin air, implementing them and then making the inevitable U-turns that they do without acknowledging their failures or giving a single apology for the extortionate death toll this nation has endured. Also while the populous suffer with the likelihood of bankruptcy, eviction, dwindling savings and possible unemployment each and every Member of Parliament still receives their over paid monthly salary whether they are doing their job or not. Not one Member of Parliament has had to worry about how they are going to feed their family or pay the forthcoming bills, rent and mortgage or if they may lose their job. Do we see the MP’s of this nation offering to take a pay cut in solidarity to those in their constituents, the simple answer is ‘NO’!

Johnson has expressed that he feels the current situation will linger on for another six months taking us squarely in to 2021 as the new decade trundles in to a ‘Life imitating Art’ scenario as storytelling from literature, movies and television all becomes blatantly factual and the world faces its first stylised apocalypse coming from a deadly pathogen which is set to cross the 1,000,000 dead mark worldwide very soon if things don’t change drastically. When you consider back in January this virus was still thought of as Chinese problem and none of the other world powers could have given a shit about it, fast forward nine months and the world is finding lockdown restriction a normal way of life.

When you look at the numbers of positive recorded cases of the virus in certain countries along with corresponding related deaths it makes you wonder about protection from the virus or pollution through masks. In Japan it has been quite common sight to see people going about their daily lives wearing masks for years which could explain why out of 80,000 positive recorded cases, the virus has resulted in only 1500 people dead. Also the country of origin for this virus which is China who are also seen to wear masks daily, out of 86,000 positive recorded cases, the virus has resulted in only 4600 people dead. Yet jump to the UK where wearing masks in public is laughed at, there are over 400,000 positive recorded cases of the virus which has resulted in just under 42,000 people dead and in the US whose president has continually called the virus a hoax, the recorded positive cases of the virus stands at nearly 7,000,000 which has resulted in a staggering 201,000 people dead. You need to start questioning the likelihood that certain countries where PPE has been considered part of the dress code for everyday life for years have been insightful in their endeavours considering that in a world population of 7,800,000,000 the current recorded instances of the virus now stands at 31,600,000, with deaths at 971,000. What I see is the Asian continents have fared remarkably better than the rest of the world. Yes the disease did start there, but they took it serious and have reaped the benefit of wearing masks daily, so think about this if everyone wore a mask to protect themselves, they are also protecting someone else at the same time, cutting down on the likelihood of the virus spreading which will in turn create a vacuum within which the virus cannot thrive, so eradicating the threat of infection and death. Think about it! On that note I will call it a day,

Rant you tomorrow!