Lila laughed at the idea that she was ‘a white girl’. She’s not white. She’s pink. If only the whole world saw such issues through the prism of 3 (and a half) year old literalism and without the baggage of nuance and context and (mainly bad) experience. But then Prince Harry would have nothing to write about. And Donald Trump would have to not condemn the ‘orange supremacists’.

Having read about, and seen part of, the Presidential debate on Wednesday, I can see why leaders here are always reluctant to enter into such media circuses. They achieve very little, other than the humiliation and shaming of all involved. Deeply personal slagging-off-fests which reduce the entire political world to basically ‘my dad could beat up your dad!!!’ Particularly, but by no means exclusively, in America.

Trump was typically aggressive and repetitive, its what he is. Biden managed to keep hold of the plot for good whiles and then… errr… sorry, where was I again? And then it came, inevitably, to ‘law and order’. Which is what Donald Trump thinks is his specialist subject, which is why half the cities in his country burn every night. And he thinks Biden would be ‘weak’ in this regard, which could mean that half the cities in America would burn every night.

But Biden asked the Prez what he felt about the ‘Proud Boys’ storming into Portland Oregon. That is a white supremacist group who’ve gone, armed to the teeth, to America’s most riotous, most protesty, most BLM of cities, to ‘help’ the ‘poor residents’. Meaning, roughly, that they’ve gone to shoot black people. Loosely translating from KKK speak into English. And Trump refused to condemn them, he later stated that he, like me, had never heard of them before. That was the next day, when he was on a tv interview and was reading from a script written by people much more clever than he is. Maybe written by road-sweepers, tattoo artists, five year-old dyslexics. They all qualify.

But the fact is that Trump NEVER condemns white supremacists. Not properly. Not in any meaningful way. He prefers to consider just their immediate actions, ie violence, or its intention, protesting, causing riots, and equates it to same behaviour in others. He creates an equality of action between people protesting for a fairer, better world and those wanting a return to slavery and the Wild West values. And because BLM has been hijacked by hard lefties and rioters, it gives a slight credibility to this most unequal of equalities. One tyre-burning looter is the same as another. So Donald won’t condemn white supremacists. Feels he doesn’t need to differentiate them from a few duffle-coated equality campaigners.

Because he’s a tosser. An idiot. And now he’s all that, but with Covid 19.

Americans may not get irony, but God does.

Happy rainy, wet Saturday

A xxxx