Its midweek again and we have seen the first COVID vaccinations being given here in the UK amidst calls for Christmas to be cancelled, while in America Biden is finally confirmed as president 46. That is all well, but what are we the commoners supposed to do? Let’s take a look at what else has been going on, shall we?
So as I said Biden is officially president-elect and Trump is done for even though he still insists he won. One of Trump’s biggest allies has finally stepped up and congratulated Biden on his election win. Speaking on the Senate floor, McConnell stated he had hoped for a “different result” from the November 3rd election but the Electoral College had spoken, “So today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden”, also congratulating Biden's running-mate, Kamala Harris, adding “All Americans can take pride that our nation has a female vice president-elect for the very first time”. This all came amidst Trump’s continued rhetoric that there had been widespread fraud during the election and when asked if Trump recognised Biden as president-elect, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany merely stated the president was still involved in ongoing litigation related to the election.
In the wake of the Electoral College vote this week Biden has opened up and hit out at Trump’s continuing refusal to concede the presidential election results calling Trump’s attacks on the election and election officials “simply unconscionable” and attempts to overturn the result an “abuse of power”. Biden went on to state that American’s had the right to be heard, to have their vote counted, to choose the leaders of their nation and to govern ourselves. He also stated politicians in the US “don't take power, the people grant it to them”, and “Nothing, not even a pandemic or an abuse of power can extinguish that flame”.
How can any democratic country as big as the United States have such a dysfunctional system of an election process where the loser has an ability to try and win a lost election by bringing lawsuit after lawsuit that claim unsubstantiated facts as reason for their defeat. The whole Electoral College scenario needs to be removed from existence and allow the public vote to stand nationwide because it is the people’s vote that should count not the puffed up politicians. Under the public vote scenario a clear winner should be chosen by number of votes not by seats won per state as this is clearly a biased style of count for the larger states over smaller ones. Nearly all modern democracies worldwide are chosen by the public vote and if the sitting leader is defeated they are removed from office immediately which as a resident of the UK, I believe that is the best scheme as it stops any of the ‘BS’ currently been seen in the US at the moment. It also prevents any corruption or illegality the sitting leader can perform. The current situation in America is a prime example of how a corrupt leader can create problems for an incoming opposition leader if given the time to implement policies and laws that go against the new administrations manifesto.
The biggest problem in America other than the sitting president inciting violence amongst underground militia’s, is how such people like Donald Trump Jnr. can go on live television and social media preaching a defamation of character about Hunter Biden’s business practises when he is involved in the world’s biggest family fraud ever committed this century which has brought the office of the President of the United States of America in to disrepute. There is a clear issue when one man is listened to by millions and believed without ever providing proof for his allegations, but that is how the world is evolving in to a scandal ridden trash bin of lies and unproven speculation. American politics and business is the epicentre of such practices which just throws mud at a topic or person and hopes the shit will stick enough to bring down that person or business allowing their enemies to profiteer of the fallout. This needs to change and needs to be prosecuted rather than acceptance as the norm and that it is how things are.
On that note I will skip the pond back to dear old Blighty and see what fallout we are facing at the present moment. So while Johnson resists open calls to cancel Christmas due to the pandemic the roll out of the vaccine has proceeded with nearly 140,000 people receiving a vaccination within the first week, but we are also been told that possibly only half of the UK population could receive a vaccination in 2021 due to the cost to the economy and the factor that a booster may also be needed later in the year for those already vaccinated. We have faced such a hellish outcome to 2020 and it looks like 2021 could be no better because of the way this government has handled the issues the pandemic brought with it. We as a country have faced many national problems throughout the centuries, but in this day and age of twenty four hour news for the first time the populous of our nation hear and see immediately what those in charge do or don’t do for us. During the two world wars, the Spanish flu of 1918 and many other issues handled by respective governments over the years took days and weeks to filter out to the public or in many cases would never be known. If such immediate news had, been available back in the past, I suppose there would have been widespread unrest seen over decisions made by elected officials, but that been said what we see these days is politicians ill-equipped to perform the roles they are elected in to, with none of the qualifications required to excel as a politician in a modern day world.
The scary facts that we are seeing are that even with so many vaccinations been given, just yesterday the number of positive COVID cases rose by nearly 19,000. This a clear picture that the governments restrictions are not working and people would rather chance catching the virus than listen to the government who have failed at their duty of care to the nation. For the first time ever UNICEF has started to provide food aid to families in the UK to feed children which is totally unacceptable in a modern age.
We as a nation are been told how to live our lives by a cabinet of incompetent morons who wouldn’t know how to live on the meagre universal credit payments paid to so many people living on or below the poverty line due to the divide between employed and unemployed incomes. The national minimum wage should be used to stabilise the drastic differences found in unemployment which the government states is there to incentivise the unemployed to find jobs, but in a society where jobs are limited how can that incentive be a reality, even in America where they are known for a poor benefits system they pay their unemployed a realistic benefit, so why do we in Britain still penalise those unlucky to be out of work with the stigma of having to survive on an average of less than £80 per week which around 80% goes towards paying extortionate utility and food costs. This year I have made the decision to manage my own bills during this time by wearing more clothes in doors to keep warm as temperatures falls rather than put the heating on, so I don’t receive an unmanageable bill come spring. I don’t know how more people don’t perish from the cold in this country due to not been able to afford the basics. All while the people deciding that the unemployed deserve less sit in the luxury apartments or homes with the heating blaring out 24/7.
Something needs to be done to bring households in this country back above the poverty line rather than them living like they were living back in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries doing without the basics just because their lords and masters didn’t care other than filling their own pockets. I know I sound embittered, but for a very long time I lived as a carer been told because I was caring for family I was only worth X amount of pounds and since the death of my father I am struggling to find suitable employment, all while now been told I am only worth Y amount of pounds. This doesn’t give a person much of a self-esteem to take forward in to finding a new life or even want that life to continue. The hours spent in the endless pursuit of employment starts to have a negative effect on one’s soul and makes you wonder if life is really worth it anyway.
As 2020 heads to a close we as humanity need to start questioning how we allow certain people to commit inhuman acts and never face the circumstances of their actions. We should be calling out the corruption and lies of our elected officials while protesting for better equality for all. Also those money grabbing billionaires who are profiting of the lowly masses should be taxed higher on their incomes rather than be allowed to continue extorting humanity for their own gains. If the recent insight is anything to go on, in to the lack of taxes paid by such corporations as the Trump Organization, Amazon, Facebook, etc. while they profit off modern day slave labour means a change is truly needed ASAP. We are living in the twenty first century, so let’s start acting like the evolved human beings we are supposed to be rather than some Neanderthals running around with clubs bashing each other’s heads in and strive to better the quality of life for all, not just the one percenters. On that I will call it a day and apologise if this rant was illegible.
Rant you tomorrow!
Back Friday.
