Oh. My. God.

2 days has passed since I last… passed judgment on the world? Spouted a load of unwanted opinion? Had a rant? Whatever you call it. But in those 2 days the whole world has fundamentally changed. DON’T I GET A MOMENT’S PEACE??? FFS???

Donald Trump, on Thursday, basically called every English soldier who fought in Afghanistan a coward, a wimp and virtually worthless. Ok, he actually said that ‘NATO troops from Europe weren’t on the front line, but just behind it’. Same difference. Kier Starmer went mad about that. I mean, how bad does any statement have to be before Starmer is even prepared to take an impartial, non-legal view about it?? But to have him screaming (almost) accusations against Trump!! And best of all; the great President actually heeded Starmer’s point that 457 of our ‘cowards’ died on the fucking front line. Thousands were horrendously injured. Prince Harry, who was there, in his helicopter, watching, stated his disgust with Trump’s words. So Trump did what for him is ‘the right thing’. And rather than apologise, which he is functionally incapable of ever doing, he issued another statement, gushing with praise for the British military, filled with all the normal Trumpian hyperbole and unlimited praise for our gallant troops.

Then, over here, and seemingly unrelated to anyone other than the most dedicated conspiracy-theorist, Andy Burnham, the virtual GOD of the entire north of England, the man who made Manchester… even more ‘Manchester’ than it was before, decided to give it all up and stand as a lowly MP. Well, some cynics would say, ‘for the expressed purpose of deposing Kier Starmer as leader of the Labour Party and PM of all of England!!! Plus bits of those other countries nearby.’ But before he was allowed to stand for the election in… some northern place of no interest, his application had to be approved by the executive of the Labour Party because he’d have to resign as mayor of Manchester first.

And that would be a bit of a problem for Labour. Because despite our Andy thinking himself ‘the northerner’s northerner’ and ‘the most Manc person since Liam Gallagher or Gary Neville’, the present government’s massive unpopularity would probably result in some neo-nazi Reformist getting in on a ‘kill all immigrants’ ticket. So they turned him down for the by-election. Which those same cynics might say was really to protect Starmer from invasion.

And if all that wasn’t enough, those fuckers from ICE shot dead another seemingly innocent civilian in Minneapolis yesterday. I watched it. As about 9 of the ‘officers’ beat up some guy, then shot him several times. ICE answer to no higher authority. They act with the President’s blessing and enjoy complete impunity and unaccountability, other than public opinion. ICE showed a photo of a gun. Allegedly possessed by their latest victim. It may have been his gun, could’a been anyone’s. Was he holding it? Threatening with it? Ah, that’s not really clear. ICE are effectively what Hitler’s ‘brown shirts’ were in 1936. A law unto themselves with the unrestricted blessing of the highest power to beat up and/or murder whoever they see fit.

And then we nearly lost at Burnley.

I’m not saying that’s in the same league of ‘importance’ as what’s written above, but as the equalising goal for us went in at the 90th minute, it was, momentarily, the only thing happening in the entire world.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx