Gimme!!

 This lady has hit the nail on the head.

Doom

Interesting fact. The Russian name for Alaska is "Alyaska"

Pervert

 The denial from Trump about his involvement with Epstein is becoming frantic. But every excuse, every denial, every lie, can be countered by this one picture.

Discrimination

 Yet more news from the asylum across the water with a lunatic in charge.

Trump has issued an order that medical staff in the veteran's administration, the government organisation that looks after ex servicemen, can deny treatment to any patient who supports the democratic party.

That would be like a British doctor being allowed to refuse treatment to a patient because they voted labour.

Where do I start? Trump obviously has no idea how the medical profession works. Most doctors would be bemused by the suggestion that we should even know a patient's political affiliation. In his entire career DZ never once asked a patient their political or religious views, and I don't suppose the vast majority of my colleagues would either.

I think Trump should be told "Hippocrates would like a word"

For all it's faults I can't imagine for a moment the GMC tolerating such a practice. Any doctor who did this would, rightly, find himself in hot water very quickly.

The USA doesn't have an equivalent of the GMC, a nationwide regulatory body. Such regulation is devolved to individual states as "State Medical Boards." In normal times I'm sure that these boards would oppose this idea rigorously. 

But, in case you hadn't noticed, the times we are living in are far from normal, and full of surprises.

Dumb, dumber and dumbest.

 As long ago as 1980 Isaac Asimov wrote, 

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

I don't think even he could have foreseen just how severe this was going to get. Or just how high in the political structure it would pervade.  Six years ago I wrote about this case, where an Ohio state lawmaker proposed a law mandating that ectopic pregnancies be transplanted into the uterus, displaying a level of ignorance and stupidity that should, but sadly doesn't, preclude him from office.

But then the supporters of this type of politics, the MAGAs, as they have come to be known, are no better. They, and those they have brought into government represent arguably the least qualified, least experienced, most ignorant, most incompetent and stupidest people imaginable.

Their leader has recently aired the view that Joe Biden was executed in 2020, and replaced by a clone, or a robot, depending on which version of this conspiracy theory you embrace. And his followers assert that climate change is not happening because only god can control climate, and in the same breath will tell you that hurricanes in the USA are man made, with the objective of acquiring the land formerly occupied by houses so that they can mine the Lithium beneath. It's only cervical spondylosis that stops my head from spinning.

And yet, in the USA these people represent 40% of the electorate! You could spend all day on Youtube descending into this hellish world where up is down and black is white. all presided over a man who claims to be the healthiest the man alive. Not only does he wear a diaper to cope with his faecal incontinence, but more recently he has been found to wear a catheter to prevent him pissing himself, and calipers to stop him falling over. They're not working!

 And it goes on and on. Most recently is a proposed law to ban chemtrails. What next? Unicorns?

But we shouldn't get too complacent in the UK, sitting here chortling with our popcorn at the bizarre and absurd antics of our transatlantic cousins. We have our own village idiots here. Anti vaxers, flat earthers, conspiracy theorists of every kind. People who, in preinternet days would have lived out their village idiot existences isolated and humored by the community. Now they all get together on line, sharing their idiocy and conspiracy theories amongst each other like a huge international village idiots convention. 

And they have their political wing here in the UK too. A disparate bunch of ultra right wing, fundamentalist religious xenophobes, misogynists, racists, homophobes and the like, just as in the USA. And we have our own little wannabee Donny working his way through the political system. A man with a worrying amount of support among the electorate. We like to think the shit show in the USA could not be replicated here. That would be our first mistake.

Nigel Farage

Another man with his head up his arse.

 

This is Mike Johnson, Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America. He's also an utter and deluded loon. This is the man who states that Donald Trump is "The most respected President of the modern era" 

He's also a fundamentalist christian, who wants the USA to become a christian nationalist state, ruled in accordance with biblical law. A sort of christian taliban if you like. 

It gets worse.

He also believes that god talks to him, and wants him to become a modern day Moses. Fuck me!

Actually, that last bit about being Moses is something I could get behind. If he wants to take all of his followers and fuck off into the desert for forty years then that's just fine by me.

WTF

 So. We have the two worlds' nuclear superpowers both currently ruled by deranged megalomanic lunatics.

What could possibly go wrong?