Hi. My name’s Andy and I haven’t spoken about politics for 3 days now!!!
(All together:) “HI ANDY!!!”

Yes, I’m a recovering political observer. Though I’m not sure I can ever recover from the fact that in America you can not only be president with a criminal past, but can actually do so with a criminal present. The White House can be the White Room in Sing Sing. Which is shared with a drug dealer from Memphis and has a piss-pot in the corner. I mean: President from Jail? WTF????

Donald Trump has now, officially, legally, been convicted of 34 crimes and is a criminal. Obviously he’ll appeal, on the grounds that this is blatant discrimination against orange people, who are now designated as an official minority grouping. But meanwhile, the Republican candidate for the presidency remains unchanged. His official title is now changed from ‘The Fat Fuck’ to ‘The Fat Fucking Crim’. But he’ll still stand, still probably win, even if jailed. Thus rendering the position of arguably ‘most powerful person in the entire planet’ open to any skank around. Which is unbelievable. Yet can Biden stop him? The man who has ‘single-handedly’ (because his hands only work one at a time, bit like his brain cells) created the newest, greatest path to peace for the Middle East, destined to go the way of all previous 762 ‘paths to Middle East peace’. Can he remember where he is, and whose side he’s on, for long enough to repeat an election victory? And if he does, will Trump call for a revolution and a coup? Even from his jail cell?

Trump is not merely ‘the worst loser the world has ever known’. No. The reality is that he is such a total, complete, 100% pure narcissist that his mind simply cannot accept any kind of reality in which what he thinks or wants is not what everyone in the world agrees with. He loses an election? It was rigged. They cheated. (Even though he cheated, bribed, coerced). He loses a court case? It’s a witch-hunt. The press did it. The judge is ‘evil’. Conspiracy of the Democrat press.

Yet before we judge this man too harshly for becoming (possibly) the world’s first criminal president (except in certain east European countries a where criminal record is mandatory for high office), we really really need to take a long hard look at those people who are willing, eager and happy to put him there. That’s the real tragedy of modern America.

Over here we’re more flexitarian in our politics. In that we are divisive in many different ways. The most occurring now within the Labour Party itself. As Crown Prince Kier seems to be pushed around by ‘Fat Slag Ange’ (as her friends call her) who is now calling the shots, making the decisions, choosing the direction. Kier will take a stance, Ange will differ, three hours later Kier is towing her line with total conviction, seemingly oblivious that his increasing list of U-turns is a running joke. And the scary bit about that is that Ange was given the normally fairly useless but honourable-sounding position of ‘Deputy Party Leader!!!’, just to appease the left wing of the party after the assassination of Corbyn (sadly only in the figurative sense). And now she’s taking over. Which is great news for Diane Abbot. For the trade unions. And for the Palestinians who ‘she’ has promised to ‘officially recognise as a state’. Even though they have no leadership who aren’t convicted terrorists (so it’s not just America), no official land or even an accepted definition of what ‘Palestine’ might be.

Ok, back to rehab.

Happy Monday

A xxxx