... so much exposed, shrivelled inadequacy!
Has my big 2022 ‘comeuppance’ wish come true?
In blog 418 I pleaded with Fate to let 2022 be THE
YEAR OF COMEUPPANCE.
I know it may not seem it as the world sinks and
conflicts and human suffering remain somewhere below reality TV in people's reckoning. It may not seem it with the cost of living
crisis in the UK while the rich get richer and the wealth divide continues to widen
exponentially.
However, many astonishing things have happened even in the last couple of weeks that suggest the year was
just waiting for us all to be lulled more deeply into a false sense of cold, grey
ennui.
Who knew that the US Democrats would overturn all
political precedent and maintain vital Senate control in the US midterms?
Who knew Trump would be the architect of the implosion
of the rabid right (well I did but hey…)
Who thought we’d see the rot of what remains of the
UK Conservative party so nakedly on view to anyone with more than x3 brain
cells.
And despite his occasional presence in Parliament, (presumably in-between the holidays paid for by willing richer mates)
Johnson has become his own worst nightmare – a bit player in the catastrophic drama he constructed.
But, for what he has perpetrated on the UK public, this is way too light a
reckoning for Boris de-Brexit Johnson so – as the end of the year looms – watch
this space.
Who knew Brexit would finally be acknowledged – even
by a limp media – as the terrible self-harm sensible folk (incl this blog)
always predicted.
Who knew that a country the world had previously
paid little attention to – Ukraine – would begin to bring Putin to heel.
Could we have predicted that creepy crawly Elon Musk, the world’s richest man would be properly exposed as an unstable racist, misogynist ego and
even thinner skinned than Donald Trump? Well – yes – again – many of us have been
rolling our eyes at those proclaiming his genius for many years. However, to
have so totally miscalculated that in an entity like Twitter the employees ARE the company – oh boy. Seriously WTF did he think was going to happen when he sacked
all those geeks?
The druggy delinquents who were scamming folks for
years in the whole crypto crap craze are also recently exposed thanks to super
brat Sam Bankman-Fried (nominative determinism if ever there was…) who headed
up the FTX crypto currency exchange.
Bonkers Bolsonaro is gone.
Qatar’s clearly corrupt acquisition of the football world cup – how’s that panning out? I’m sure they must be concluding that the bags of cash handed to then prince now king tampon-Charlie in supermarket bags, was money much better spent than the eye-watering amounts they used to bribe super-corrupt FIFA to get the World Cup - check out my letter in today’s The Guardian
The list goes on but I’d simply remind everyone –
there are still one and a half months to go of 2022.
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