Politicians don’t like lying on the record. They love lying, do it all the time, but in the public eye they rein it in for obvious reasons. And at that point, they obfuscate. They blur things, equivocate, ‘muddy the waters’. Ask Jeremy Corbyn any question about anti-semitism and he answers ‘I’m opposed to all kinds of racism’. He will NEVER make specific mention of the question asked. Not THAT question.

So I’m not sure if it was reassuring or terrifying that yesterday, after the horrific white supremacist murder in Virginia, Donald Trump stated that he was against all forms of violence (that he was not directly causing, obviously) but refused to condemn the action as ‘white supremacist terrorism’ specifically. For which he has been attacked by absolutely everybody. Not even a tweet from the most twitter-obsessed blond on the planet.

Because Trump is (vaguely) aware that black people now are allowed to vote, in some states of America, the White Supremacists are His People. Trump was endorsed by David Duke, the grand poo-bah, ex-Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Where dyslexics dress in robes and burn crosses. Trump is heavily entwined with the ‘alt-right’ who are just the KKK with Harvard degrees. So at least they know how to spell ‘racism’.

When Trump proclaimed, again, and again, and again, that he was going to ‘take America back’, he never actually stated from whom or to whom. I personally think he meant to ‘take America back to pre-civil war values’ but you simply don’t know. So everyone can use that rather vague and obfuscate-y phrase for their own cause.

Trump further ‘shamed’ both Obama and Hillary C for not ‘naming’ the problem of fundamentalist Islamic terrorism. “IF YA DON’T NAME IT, YA CAN’T CURE IT!!!!” (Shout and repeat). Yet now the boot’s on the other wing…

Who gives a shit about Donald Trump, other than the entire world? He’s not that important anywhere else. Whereas Dele Alli is a star on Jupiter. Christian Erikssen is supersonic in space. And Jonjo Shelvey is a total nob-end anywhere in the entire universe.

Happy Monday. And it is, it really is.

A xxxx