Trump is the pestilence that matters between now and November 3rd… for the UK as much as the US.
IF Papa Joe takes the US into political rehab after
November 3rd Britain will be alone on the streets without a supplier
and no one to ‘chum’ them – as they say in Scotland. Alone and newly vulnerable on Rogue Western Democracies St…
IF you think Johnson and his mob of morons have
finished wrecking Britain – take note that Parliament just voted NOT to protect
food standards after Brexit.
We have learnt a lot since March 2020.
One of the main things the UK learnt the very hard
way was that – while a significant percentage of the population adhered to what
felt like extremely draconian lockdown rules towards the end of March – a late
lockdown followed by flipping and flopping and U-turns and the undermining of
even the belated rules – have turned out to be both a health and economic disaster. However, if you believed in conspiracy theories - I don't - you might conclude that the political carnage was deliberate as Johnson and Cummings cook up something far worse and long term for post-Brexit Britain.
In summary – the UK falls into the club of countries
that have been mismanaged to the extent that it has suffered both high
mortality AND extreme economic hardship. Unlike others that fall into that
unpopular global club (the US and Brazil) we also still have the economic
wrecking ball of Brexit to hit us.
It is worth a reminder that the catastrophe of
Brexit happened in the same half year period as the election of Donald Trump –
and for broadly similar reasons. The populist lunatics took over the asylum and
they are completing their smashing game also in a similar timescale. Brexit is about to finish razing the UK to
the ground – November will show us whether the US has come to its senses in
time. The difference is that Brexit will only wreck the UK. Trump – unstopped –
could yet wreck the world. Only the UK is in the unique position that it will
be further weakened by the failure of Trump whose shitty coat tails Tory administrations have clung to.
The sense of gloom you feel is almost palpable (if
you live in the UK – I can’t answer for other countries). You can almost reach
out and grab its grey clammy, flaccid tentacles.
But if you were checking the global as well as the national
body politic – you would sense a febrile unit, fragile emotions, general aching
and disorientation but you will also detect something else we associate with
viruses – lethargy.
I believe the lethargy is not just due to the
realisation that we are being led by buffoons, that things are bungled daily,
hourly by those paid and trusted to run the country but there is another much
bigger question hanging in the air – like a miasma. The US elections.
Yes – Donald Trump – the man who has flouted every
rule – political, moral, legal and who has just used up and estimated $100k of
medical attention at the Walter Reed military medical facility – having paid
approximately $700+ in taxes over the last two years and is currently hell bent
on infecting as many other humans who don’t have access to such platinum edged
healthcare, is about to face an election. Such is the position of the US in the
world – even after four years of mismanagement that the shock waves of the
result on November 3rd (or the morning of nov 4th) will
wash across the Atlantic like a political tsunami.
For us here in the UK the results may be more
extreme than anywhere else. Boris
Johnson has aped the political style and approach of the White House and the
blond blob himself – from the multiple wives and uncounted children – the
faithlessness and the daughter-partners, the racism and lack of care of other
human beings, has become what we might have called Trump-lite – except ‘lite’
is never something you’d associate with Boris Johnson. His political footprint
could have been left by a prehistoric Giant Sloth.
These two men are not only cut from the same cloth,
they have had the same divisive effect on the countries stupid enough to elect
them and they have been supported by those who thought they could ride their
poisonous popularity to victory.
Now the reckoning.
If Trump is re-elected I’d say only this - we
(everyone) is screwed. I mean look at what he has done to his own country in
just 4 years
If Trump a. loses b. they are able to remove highly
contagious and deadly disease which is both metaphorically and literally Trump,
from a White House he clearly feels is now his personal property - Brexit Britain is screwed. I mean even more
than we are right now.
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