Welcome to December 2020 and the day lockdown is eased in England. So we wake up today with a world of political and homicidal ‘BS’. On one shore there are death threats against officials counting legal votes for an election that was a long four years in the making with a leader who incites said violence and on another shore there is a leader who because he is facing a rebellion wants to implement a fascist rule. Well let’s see what has been going on shall we?
In America the last state still to certify the election result of November 3rd is facing unprecedented abuse and threats against the people performing the counting and verifying role. Georgia where Biden has been projected to be the overall winner of the state turning it ‘Blue’, there has been significant verbal abuse and threats against voting officials which prompted a fiery statement from Gabriel Sterling, a Republican, stating: "It's all gone too far! All of it! It has to stop!" voicing his anger at the death threats and abuse within Georgia laying the blame for the abuse squarely at the Trump administration and election campaign. During the statement Sterling called for the president and senators to step up and show some leadership stating you who have chosen to run for office, so you need to stop inciting the violence and allow for a civilised democratic process to be run.
Trumps response to the televised statement was to double down and instead of condemning the actions reiterated his baseless allegations of voter fraud. This is a man who will deny the world revolves around the sun if it is against his thinking, this is a man who will rather incite civil war than accept the people have spoken out calling for his removal come January and this is an individual who believes his own lies and rhetoric even when it is proven fact less. Come on America you have to see that the person with his finger on weapons of mass destruction is so very impaired in his thinking and judgement, and should be removed sooner rather than later for the sake of the whole planet. Even his own bought and paid for Attorney General says there is no evidence of ‘voter fraud that could overturn election’.
The Trump White House heads in to its final days with an eerie quiet descending on the premises as attempts to challenge the election result flounder in the courts. As each state left to certify puts waste to Trump’s legal efforts to overturn the election results, history will show the man chosen as president between 2017 and 2021 as a self-obsessed narcissist who refused to accept the will of the people and tried to corrupt the constitution which the forefathers fought and died for. Donald J. Trump continues to claim victory, yet backstage at the White House, people see things the way they are. They know their days in the West Wing are numbered. They also know that when their boss is losing, it is best to steer clear of him so as not to feel the wrath of a dictator on the verge of a meltdown. Those staffers wander around on eggshells, while the big man himself continues believe he has not lost, but that the election has been stolen from him. Point of fact was his attitude to the rise in the stock markets last week claiming it as a Trump victory, when in fact it was purely down to official news that the Biden transition had begun. Basically America you’re spiralling out of control down a massive swirling chute of oblivion where politicians just incite the populous then blame the radical groups they despise for the generated hatred and violence. What is needed is a whole new style of government where politicians are charged for any act of incitement they verbalise or write stripping them of their duly elected position. Until this rhetoric is altered, condemned and ceased the country will always be on the brink of civil unrest and possible anarchy.
On that note I will skip to the shores of dear old Blighty and check out the latest inflammatory rhetoric our own dictatorial leadership is preaching today. So the headlines as we head out of lockdown in England is that a Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is been approved for use next week in UK which to me is a worrying push by the government to implement yet another flawed plan. As someone who is sceptical of any drug, I am worried that the process of acceptance for this drug that is supposed to fight against the COVID-19 virus has been walked through far too quickly by a government who has fallen at every hurdle since the coronavirus breeched our shores back in January of this year. They are far too quick to say they have a solution to the virus’s veracity and label themselves as finding a win. To roll out this vaccine on a widespread scale could be detrimental to the populous of the nation and should be used in sample batches within hospitals and designated groups first, then fully rolled out in the worst affected areas next and so on.
But while all this is going on the Health Secretary Mr Hancock stated that, with the first load next week and then “several millions” throughout December, but the bulk of the rollout will be next year, he added. “2020 has been just awful and 2021 is going to be better”. So in one breath Hancock is telling us everything is going to fine, while in the next that it will still be well in to next year before a mass roll out is seen. I wish they would make up their minds!
While Hancock sings pretty about the vaccine, his boss Johnson suffered his biggest Commons revolt to date as MP’s back tougher COVID tiers and only won through due to Labour’s abstention from the vote to avoid defeat on a tightened system of measures. 55 backbenches showed Johnson their feelings over his handling of the pandemic which if Labour had joined in would have seen our latest gestapo style restrictions been thrown out as policy. On the back of this narrow win Johnson has also decided to publish plans to regain power from courts and MP’s. Johnson’s plan will implement legislation taking away control of the election process from the courts and make it so the sitting primeminister can call a general election when they feel like it. This really sounds like a plan to instil a dictatorship style government where the sitting leader has carte blanche to do as they like without interference from parliament or the courts making Johnson a fascist dictator rather than a governing primeminister. This cannot be allowed to happen as Jonson’s proposed legislation would scrap the Fixed-term Parliaments Act passed by the Conservatives as part of a deal with the Liberal Democrats in 2010 to ensure a stable coalition government. It means parliaments should serve a fixed five-year term but it has been overruled twice by the 2017 and 2019 elections. The most controversial change is an attempt to bar the courts from ruling on the powers of the government to dissolve parliament. The move been seen as a direct retaliation against the Supreme Court, which humiliated Johnson last year after it ruled that his prorogation of parliament at a key point in the Brexit talks was unlawful. This document is clearly Johnson trying to flex political muscles he does not have and as a way to push forth his radicalised ideology of what government should look like. I believe if he had been in power back in 1939, Johnson would have opened up the borders and welcomed Hitler and his Nazi party in with open arms.
It is very clear that there are quite a few nations been pushed towards a fascist ideology lately and two of them been America and Briton. America has stopped there goose-stepping towards fascism for now with the election in favour of Biden and the democrats, but it is needed sooner rather than later within Britain as we need to remove Johnson from power legally and instil a government that does not want to segregate us from the rest of Europe and implement a more equal form of government. In the US this year and the UK last year elections have proven very controversial with how those in power go about the process and find ways to ‘Lie without Lying’ which I know is how politics works, but in a day and age of twenty four hour news surely just been truthful and transparent would win out in the end. To me I have lived through both a Labour and a Conservative government who have openly lied to the general public about how much better they will be, only to fall flat on their faces once in power. Politics is a game of who can spread the ‘BS’ better and who makes the bigger promises, but those promises never see it through to fruition as once in office the promises are simply discarded and forgot about, once the salaries start rolling in to the elected officials bank accounts, something needs to change. On that note I will call it a day,
Rant you tomorrow!
Back on Friday.
