A good day to you, on this the 15th new day of 2021. Half a month in and we are still no better off than we were fifteen days ago. It’s hard to believe it’s only been 363 days since COVID-19 breached the shores of dear old Blighty and in that time we have seen three lockdowns, an economic catastrophe, registered 3.26 million positive cases and over 86 thousand deaths. That is just in the UK, worldwide there has been over 92 million positive cases recorded with 2 million deaths. Those figures are astonishing and very, very scary. This in an era where technological and medical advancement is on the rise, but we still can’t fight a deadly virus and prevent unnecessary deaths. Anyway let me see what else has happened that needs ranting about.
So in America the house of representatives voted to impeach Trump for inciting the riot on the Capitol Building last week, but what as a non-US citizen watching the vote take place really disgusted me was seeing only 10, yes 10 Republicans cross the party divide and vote in favour of impeachment. Are the other 197 Republican members that voted ‘NAY’ really so spineless or morally corrupt that they don’t see or want to see their chosen leader as the violence hungry individual he is?
My question to all Americans, is how can you still support a President who incites a mob to storm your beacon of democracy? Also to those Republican members of congress, how can you defend the actions of a person who put your very lives at risk by inciting anger in such a way that it ended in an armed insurrection? I just can’t understand the mentality of such people who will defend such a narcissistic, vengeful person, let alone vote not to hold him accountable for his actions of late. Another astounding fact to come from this historic event that has made Trump ‘Infamous’ is that Republicans instead of attacking Trump and uniting behind a call for him to resign, are fighting amongst themselves calling for the leader of the ten members who voted ‘YAY’ to resign. Congresswoman Liz Cheney, the third ranking House Republican, is facing calls to resign her party leadership role after she voted to impeach. Personally I believe it should be the likes of Cruz, Hawley, Graham, McConnell and the other 197 House republicans who should be forced to resign for their blatant support of Trump over the last four years.
All this backstabbing and in fighting going on while the capitol is been fortified against any further attacks against the Capitol building or President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris’s inauguration in five days. But it isn’t just the capitol under possible attack, the FBI has stated they are aware of reports that armed aggressors are planning attacks on all 50 state capitols in the next five days. Not since Lincoln’s day has America housed troops in the Capitol Building, yet here we are in 2021 and American National Guard personal are sleeping on the floors of the Capitol Building a week after the flag of the confederacy was walked through the halls of democracy which had never happened before in all of American history and these armed personnel have now been granted permission to use lethal force in defence of an attack on inauguration day which means American killing American. I am not an American and I seem to have more concern about the rising factions of decent within the American people than I see in America itself. One of the only countries on earth where you wouldn’t expect to see an armed attack on the house of its lawmakers and it has actually happened under the worst president in American history, a man the rest of the world saw for whom he is, but the American voters did not. The last four years is a dark stain on America and it will continue to grow like it has under the cover of darkness for so many years if not dealt with and crushed immediately.
World War Two came to pass because a country stayed silent while a grass roots movement developed taking over Germany then Europe fuelled by one man’s hatred for people of colour, people of the Jewish faith and anybody else who didn’t follow the same ideology as himself. Hitler formed a ‘Stammtisch’ of likeminded individuals which later became the Nazi Party who invaded Europe and such militia groups are been formed all over America such as the ‘Proud Boys’ to name just one. America has always had their fair share of these far right groups, but only since Trump’s rise to power have they bothered to speak openly and appear at rallies. Now is the time that America needs to be prepared for the rise of these domestic terrorists. An RV used to bomb an area in Nashville, an armed takeover of the Michigan state office along with a foiled attempt to kidnap its state governor, pipe bombs placed at both the RNC and DNC party offices in Washington and the armed insurgence of the Capitol Building on January 6th of this year, not to mention the double standards within law enforcement agencies who treat whites better than any other race within the country. Open your eyes and see the escalation in verbal and physical attacks on the American way of life by individuals and groups claiming to be ‘American Patriots’, when in fact they are nothing but a blight on society who like to think they could defend the country just because the 2nd amendment gives them the right to bear arms.
And while all this is going on The President-Elect has laid out his plans for a $1.9tn US economic relief package to be placed in front of congress as soon as he is inaugurated on January 20th, which will mean in one day he will have done more than Trump has done in twelve months and what is Trump doing? Apart from cowering in the oval office Trump has been taking a final swing at Chinese companies by placing eight more on a Pentagon blacklist which just the baby throwing his toys out of the pram if you ask me, all because he can’t get what he wants!
On that note I will have a look at dear old Blighty which is pretty normal compared to America at the moment, even though we are also under the control of a narcissistic white privileged moron who struggles to make any sense when he opens his mouth unless it is a blatant lie or words meant to misdirect us. So what can we say about the UK except we are in a shit load of trouble! The deaths and positive cases from COVID-19 are fluctuating but not dramatically reducing as Johnson’s scapegoats try to keep telling us and as the first issues of Brexit start to rise the Conservatives are coming under rising anger from UK businesses whose export trade is been affected by the new rules. Johnson flag flying and Brexit mentality has cost the UK both financially and medically with the UK now cut off from much needed supplies from our old European partners, not to mention no solid trade deals been accomplished outside the EU.
Johnson and other Brexiteer’s contempt for Europe has led to us falling flat when it came to getting adequate supplies of much needed equipment and PPE while the new export rules on British businesses is causing more hassle than creating much needed income. Many firms are finding a locked door policy when it comes to exporting their goods across Europe with UK fisherman seeing their catches going bad piled up dockside due to new health checks, IT systems and customs documents. So the big fight over who can fish where, is pretty much null and void if those doing the fishing can’t get their produce to European markets before it goes bad. As for locally run businesses on the high street or hospitality firms who are suffering without the help from the government during lockdown, they are facing bankruptcy from being forced to close their doors for most of the past year. So all in all the Conservative cabinets both past and present over the last ten years have well and truly F***** the UK economy through their incompetence, ineptitude and looking after their own self-interest before the populous who stupidly elected them (Not me, I wouldn’t vote Blue if my life depended on it), sending the country back to pre-war times where poverty is rife among the inhabitants of this fair isle.
The basics of life at the moment is that as a nation we are still been forced to lockdown, isolate, socially distance and do lots of other things no one ever considered we would need to do to survive. We are living a reality only ever envisioned on the movie screen or in literature and it is all been controlled by a government who don’t understand the needs of the normal person who lives from pay check to pay check. Each member of the cabinet has moved in to politics from a privileged position in life and has never had to struggle or feel the pangs of poverty gripping at their throats. Even the man in charge of Britain’s finances Rishi Sunak is a millionaire and doesn’t have to worry about money, yet deems that the rest of us can cope on the ridiculous Universal Credit payments the government sets. Now comes Brexit where those unknowledgeable persons sitting high on the top of society have been given back the right to pass laws and enact policies without any oversight from other member countries meaning they have carte blanche to pass any law which they feel will cut down on the civil and human liberties we as individuals deserve. Johnson can push any authoritarian agenda he likes and as long as he has the majority vote in parliament it will pass. This country through both Brexit and the necessary curfew style restrictions to fight COVID has been brought to its knees which means any fascist leader of our present or future can bring forth George Orwell’s dystopian imaginary fantasy world of ‘1984’ to reality. I just hope it doesn’t happen in my lifetime.
Trump is trying to overthrow an established democracy in America by inciting a revolution never seen since the American civil war and Johnson is passing Britain in to the hands of the elitist money hungry vultures called Conservative donors. Both men are hell bent on creating a reality where they have ultimate control to enact whatever they wish on a downtrodden populous who they deem unworthy of scraps from their slobbering mouths. This is only two countries of the world, in Russia you have Putin, and across Europe you have other fringe parties gaining support for a fascist style future to succeed while in North Korea and China they are ruled by dictators. I could go on to outline all the other countries, but you get my meaning. We are seeing a global turn away from democracy and an insurgence of dictator style leaderships who have all they can want in life while the peoples of their countries grow hungry living in poverty. On that note I will call it a day,
Rant you tomorrow!
Back Monday.
