Off the top of my head: Gaza, Sudan, Yemen, Haiti, Ukraine and Syria - these are the 'countries' that are currently crashing and burning. Wars have ravaged these places and every day the news has some story spinning out from them. Remember, Hamas are classed as a terrorist organisation by the UK government; the Houthi rebels are the enemy according to the friends of Saudi Arabia; Russia is a nasty aggressive country according to the Western World. Israel are either enemies or heroes depending on which side of the coin you prefer. There are conflicts all over the place, as many as I can recall in my nearly 62 years...
This morning the phone-in discussions of Channel 5 and BBC2 were both heated - and I mean really heated - debates on Nike's new look England flag on the collar of the extravagantly priced new England football team replica shirt. I mean, we have nearly half a million more children than we had in 2016 in extreme poverty and yet two women can argue with each other to the point where one of them openly insulted Nicky Campbell because he was trying to calm them both down. Over a flag, for fuck's sake. There are wars everywhere, poverty is rife, the world is burning and two middle class women are arguing over the English flag. This is where we are now. Climate change doesn't exist but Nike fucking with the red and white flag of Ing-er-land is high fucking treason.
Meanwhile, when the press isn't speculating about Kate Middleton, then the keyboard warriors are coming up with more theories than the JFK assassination - everything from humorous ones - she's had a Brazilian Butt Lift - to horrid ones - she's ravaged with cancer. Princess Kate has probably had a hysterectomy, it's probably something she nor the royal press department really wanted to talk about. She might have three children, but you know, heaven forbid, what if all three died in some freak accident and allowed Harry to become king by default? That would be the worst thing ever because he has a brown wife and his children might be a bit... you know... brown too.
The Tories continue to crash and burn the country and what does Labour offer as an alternative? "We're not as bad as them! We still don't give a fuck about you, but we're not blue, even if we think Margaret Thatcher was a visionary." It makes me want an independent Scotland so much more than ever before. When the Libdems offer that they're not as bad as the other two and the Green Party has suddenly got a lot of questions to answer about whether they really are ethical or not, you have to really worry about the state of politics; not just in the UK but all over the world.
Donald Trump is likely to get re-elected and while some people think this is a good thing, very few of them have more than half a dozen brain cells. this is a man who admires Vlad Putin - who, to be fair, isn't probably as bad as we like to make him out to be, but let's not go down that particular rabbit hole. Trump also wants to spend his first few weeks in power sorting out all the people who done him wrong, pardoning all the people who almost caused an insurrection and probably having the army round up all the Muslims in the USA and offer them a choice: Afghanistan or death. Trump is the madder of the two aged wankers vying for control of the 'most important country in the world' and I expect once he's served this 'second term' he'll argue that he deserves more or that one of his offspring should automatically replace him. This will happen and his rabid supporters will be furiously waving their erections around in one hand and their automatic weapons in the other. The USA is on the verge of becoming the new Russia and China rolled into one; everyone should be afraid.
We've discovered over the last few months that some religions are like third class citizens of the world; if you're Muslim then you can die with little or no consequence because, you know, Islam. It doesn't seem to bother people (if they want to believe it) that right wing Christian terrorists cause twice as much terrorism than Muslims in the world last year, because when Muslims defend themselves it's an act of war, but when Christians do it they're just protecting what is theirs. Oh and let's not mention the Jews because while about 80% of all Jewish people on this planet deserve our love and respect, there's about 20% of them who demand our love and respect even if they act like Nazis. You know the kind, they think killing women and children is an allowable punishment for some nasty Hamas people who did a bad thing once - in retaliation for years of bullying and being treated like 4th class citizens. The irony here is you could shove a photo of Hitler up their arses and they still wouldn't get it.
Did you know that China is a real threat to the world? Did you also know that China is the only major country on the planet that is taking decisive action against climate change? For every new coal mine or oil drilling platform the UK is opening, the Chinese are building hydro-electric facilities, constructing millions of acres of solar farm and putting wind farms up in some of their most remote places. but we need to remember they're a bunch of bad people because their culture is different to ours, so whatever they're doing to help the planet is nasty and evil and has an agenda... For fuck's sake...
We live in a world that is becoming more xenophobic; that cares little for the future generations, because, you know, they can solve all of shit when they inherit the planet. Science is always going forward, maybe some whizz kid young scientist can come up with a way of saving the planet because we don't want a fucking wind turbine 30 miles away ruining the view we see once or twice a year. We'd rather argue about a football shirt than argue about the future of the planet. Thousands of species became extinct last year, but we didn't recognise any of them so it doesn't matter, eh? Why should we worry about climate change when it's just a bit of extreme weather? Why should we be more 'socialist' when all that means is giving someone we don't know or won't want to like something we might be able to have, but probably won't. Why teach our children to respect things when they need to prepare for the survival fight that's probably just round the corner? They need to be able to wrestle toilet paper off of incontinent pensioners - this is a skill set that is far more important than recycling. I mean, why recycle when you can burn it, especially when your neighbours have their washing out. Fuck them, they have more than me anyhow.
The world has slipped down a causeway of death and destruction over the last eight years - the end of the world is indeed nigh and anyone seen hanging around Hyde Park Corner with a placard saying as much should be taken into an alley and beaten to death because we don't want that sort spreading the truth around, it'll spoil the day of someone who thinks the St George's flag needs to be red and white, because that's more important than AnYthINg ElsE!!!!!
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