It was so warm this morning (relatively speaking) here in London that for tennis I decided to wear shorts. Yesterday was definitely a ‘long trouser’ day but today I feared overheating. Again, relatively speaking. What I hadn’t accounted for was the ‘rain’. Not Rain. Or RAIN. Or FUCKING RAIN!!!! Just ‘rain’. In that there was water in the air, but not necessarily coming down, more just sitting there and waiting for me to run into it. Typical bloody Euro-rain, I thought. You have to do the hard work yourself if you want to get really wet. If you stood still you’d stay dry. Problem on the tennis court. Bit boring if you don’t move. Bit wet if you do. And I cleverly removed my outer, waterproof garment and zipped it away so it wouldn’t get wet. Even though its waterproof. Never be too careful. And wore instead as my new outer garment a sweatshirt. Which, as I learned quite quickly, lacked some of the waterproofiness that may have been beneficial.

But heh; playing tennis in November is a privilege, not a right, so you take what you can. I take my responsibilities… responsibly.

Unlike Donald Trump. Because despite constantly seeing terms like ‘unfit for office’ (unless he’s cleaning it) and ‘possibly mental issues’ and ‘totally lacking in anything resembling judgment’ and even, ‘major league fucking asshole’, the man is still the acting president of the United States of America. And to make it worse it actually looks, a year after taking office, that he might actually finally get to pass a bill. The new tax bill. Because Trump knows that the way to anyone’s heart is through their wallet. And if you increase the bulk of that wallet, you can be ‘loved’ in that peculiarly American way that love can manifest.

The simple equation is known to all people. If you relieve voters of, collectively, a trillion dollars of taxation (I have no idea how many zeroes that has, but I reckon its quite a few), then you’re going to increase the national debt by approximately, to the nearest 50 cents… about 1 trillion dollars. Big numbers, easy maffs. But its a vote-catcher, number one, and more importantly (because the voting, sadly, is already done which is why the world has the Trump problem to start with) it’ll help to secure an all-republican government in the senate and the house of representatives.

To ‘impeach’ a president in America it has to be done by the government, not by lawyers. And if the entire government is Republican, even though many will think Trump a total nob like any sensible person does, they’re unlikely to initiate such proceedings. So he gets to walk away from the fact that he is the first president ever to be elected to power by the Russians. Putin don’t count.

Lila’s back. I call this pic ‘the one that got away’

Happy Sunday

A xxxx