Welcome to a new week with the same old shitstorm of political lies, subterfuge and Britain in lockdown. We are eighteen days in to 2021 with nothing looking like it will be normal again except the fact that politicians will be lying to cover their own asses in whichever country you live in. Let me see what ‘BS’ occurred over the weekend.
In America over the weekend armed protesters took up positions at many state capitol building, some carrying assault rifles. To a British citizen who lives in a country where carrying weapons is illegal even for 95% of police officers seeing images of civilians openly walking around with weapons of war without been arrested or shot not only dumbfounds me, but actually makes me feel worried and I am sitting thousands miles away in another country. I have to ask, what kind of mentality firstly allows such behaviour to go on and secondly, why is there still an actual constitutional amendment that allows this to happen. Until it is against the law for civilians to hold a permit to carry a gun whether visible or hidden, gun violence will never be eradicated within the borders of America. There is no living sense to allowing a person the right to walk the streets of any city carrying a fully or semi-automatic rifle or any kind of gun. Come on America, right to bear arms equals an increase in gun violence.
Moving on, after the incidents where Capitol Hill Police were seen to simply step back and allow the mob to breach the capitol building on January 6th questions are been asked about police officers and military personnel’s allegiances to Trump or to the flag. With all this uncertainty of whom is a pro-Trump or not, within the organisations who swear an oath to defend the country against foreign and domestic attackers, along with such a high presence of armed national guard personnel on the ground around capitol hill it is a scary thought that armed insurrectionists could be present within the forces deployed to defend the inauguration of President-elect Biden in two days’ time. There have been so many movies and TV programs made that show how easy it could be for one individual to infiltrate any given department hell bent on assassination or worse a mass casualty event. The way America is perching on the abyss of civil war is incomprehensible because if America can fall then what’s to stop other democratic nations of the world falling also. To try and prevent such an event it is said that every member of the national guard is been strongly vetted by the FBI, but if someone wants to commit their lives to such an act of destruction a background check will not suffice, for they will find a way to hide their true intensions especially if they are backed by an organisation who wants a civil war within America.
Another factor in America that is still puzzling to me is this transition period between incoming and outgoing administrations. To me it is a pointless and stupid waste of time especially if the outgoing president is a vengeful and corrupt individual like Trump. Since he lost the election on November 3rd, Trump has proven how the transition period can be abused. The actions this narcissist has taken proves how vulnerable the transition period is and can be used to the detriment of the country. He has signed executive orders and signed off on pardons which benefit the people close to himself. There is even stories been floated about how he plans to pardon 100 hundred more individuals before he leaves office in two days including his children and more of his lackey’s who helped secure his win four years ago through treasonous links to Russia. It is also been reported that cash incentive payments are been made to secure a pardon which if true is a total and illegal abuse of power. The way Trump has conducted himself in the last sixty plus days shows how a corrupt president can subvert the laws of the land for his own good. The biggest test of how this period of time allowed to an outgoing President is corrupted will be if Trump actually does do what he says he will do. He is looking for loopholes which will allow him to pardon himself! If you are going to have a transition period, you have to write in to law that the outgoing President cannot sign executive orders, pardons or anything else that can be abused unless the six people at the top of the congressional food chain agrees. The senate majority and minority leaders, the house majority and minority leaders and both parties’ house chairs should have control to veto any decision made by the defeated President. America may call itself democratic, but beneath the surface it is still a country run by one person who has the tools to make unilateral decisions when they want. Again I bring you back to the very public executive orders signed by Trump in the past four years as well as his unilateral belief that he has ultimate power to yield as he pleases. Having someone with that kind of mentality as the leader of a superpower is just asking for world war three to commence.
On that note I will swap continents and check out what’s been happening in dear old Blighty over the weekend. So as vaccinations of the over seventies start nationwide, the question to be asked is, are we been governed adequately? In my eyes the simple answer is no. As more seniors are set to receive their first jab of the vaccine the number of beds available for those already infected are growing less and less as hospitals reach a saturation of their current resources. The nightingale hospitals set up last year have since closed costing the country millions and now when they are needed, we don’t have them. We have a government of privileged individuals who have no concept of the struggles the normal British person faces and we have a National Health Service at breaking point due to the private sector hierarchy who hold the purse strings. We are yet to see anything Johnson does actually help the unemployed, furloughed or lower paid people within this nation, not to mention the vulnerable. The talk of removing the extra £20 a week from the unemployed is just inhumane and will create more poverty within an already impoverished sector of the population. While our unbeloved government sit pretty in their mansions and ornately decorated townhouses the rest of us go cold and hungry because we can’t afford to buy food or heat the homes we are faced with losing.
I know I keep coming back to the unemployed bandwagon, but that is what I understand. Twenty pounds a week doesn’t go very far and that is me speaking as a single bloke, a family will be struggling even more. Labour leader Kier Starmer has rightly called Johnson ‘Pathetic’ when it comes to his decision making and downright incompetent leadership skills. Starmer’s attack on Johnson comes as Conservative MP’s have been told to abstain from the proposed vote to stop the increase which will send hundreds of thousands back in to poverty. I have said it before and I will say it again, the current government of privileged under achievers should be made to spend at least one quarter of the coming year living on Universal Credit without the assistance of their wealth and parliamentary incomes. I would like to see how far into debt they fall on the inadequate government handout they say ordinary people can live on.
It doesn’t matter where you live, if you are unemployed or paid the minimum wage poverty is always nipping at your ankles like a hungry puppy. In an economic climate where less and less firms are hiring and are doing the exact opposite. The numbers laid off because the company they work for cannot afford to pay them is on the rise made worse by the pandemic. Under the Conservative government we have endured for the last ten years there has been a slow decline in employed individuals as more and more people find themselves obsolete to requirement. Also with the uncertainty of Brexit employers have been slow to employ not knowing what the future would bring for them. But in the past year and a half since Boris Johnson took the reins of the Conservative party and the country we have gone from bad to worse to cataclysmic due to his ineptitude and single minded pursuit of breaking us away from Europe. Brexit was and will always be the worst decision in the history of this great nation, cutting us off from free trade with our allies in Europe, along with the possibility of losing a long term ally in America, due to Brexit and Johnson’s style of politics.
Whatever your politics, surely the main issue that we as humans need to resolve is survival from this pandemic and a future of equality. For now all I see is nations at war with themselves over what is right or wrong when it comes to how we combat this deadly virus and the fascist rhetoric been openly preached worldwide does not help with a global recovery from the death and economic sinkhole we are descending into without a lifeline to hold on to. The issues run deeper than just the pandemic, each and every country has its skeletons hidden away of how they have committed acts of inequality, but in the past few years there has been another greater global shift towards injustice for the poor and impunity for the rich. We have always had some form of abuse committed by those in power, but it has never been blatantly portrayed for the world to witness. Is it not time we took a global stand and fight those privileged individuals who believe the world is theirs to own. On that I will call it a day,
Rant you tomorrow!
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