Across the pond, Donald Trump is attempting to sell gold Trump sneakers for $399. Apart from the general incredulity from anyone with registerable brain function, it’s been pointed out that the high-tops bear a strong similarity to a pair of cheap gold sneakers that can be bought from general stores for about $18.99. But if tacky gold Trump toddler shoes don’t rock your boat in the latest Pay My Legal Bills Trump grift – he is also selling, for a mere $99, Trump Victory perfume!!!
Make no mistake – MAGA rubes will pay. Some of the
poorest in America will buy this shit in order to fund the self-styled billionaire’s legal penalties, ratcheted up in court as a result of his being found guilty of
(among other things) defamation, rape and false business practices.
Here in the UK, the Tories are simply asking voters
to believe their lies old and new, buy into the narrative that the devastation of their
multiple administrations is really nothing to do with them and they have shiny new ideas and plans to fix Britain. The Britain they broke so badly.
After decades of economically debilitating and
socially damaging privatisation, the calamity of putting people before profit –
the short-sightedness of lack of investment and the constant attack on the
things every-day people rely on – public services – which are now on their
knees – The Tories want the electorate to buy the idea that it’s all the fault of
migrants.
Nothing to do with them. Look over there…
Never mind that poverty, homelessness, foodbanks, rent stress, covid education failures – broken infrastructure – schools, roads, hospitals and on and on have all grown exponentially during the last 14 years of one disastrous Tory government after another.
A couple of posts ago (487) I
invited readers to play the ‘what if we had’ game; what we might have if
various Tory PMs – elected and unelected, hadn’t
wasted billions on failed pet projects and poor governance. But they continue
to this day to push the lie that if we could just be crueller and crueller to
the most desperate, the poorest, the most vulnerable – those elusive sunlit
uplands will magically appear...
Many people will
buy it.
At least the folk buying the Trump perfume might keep the bugs away.
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