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.
Thursday, 31 July 2025
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
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.
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.
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
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.”
Saturday, 24 May 2025
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.
Monday, 19 May 2025
WTF
So. We have the two worlds' nuclear superpowers both currently ruled by deranged megalomanic lunatics.
What could possibly go wrong?Friday, 7 March 2025
Allies?!
Some of you may have seen a recent interview where the Vice President of the USA, J D (couch shagger) Vance was somewhat disparaging about the armed forces of the UK, claiming they've not fought a war in over 40 years, as if their own record of seeking out, or even starting conflicts at the drop of a hat is something to be proud of.
Well hold my beer!
UK forces have consistently stood and fought side by side with US soldiers in all most every conflict involving the USA since World War 2. We supported the US militarily during the Korean war, both Gulf wars, the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war, in case Mr Vance hadn't noticed.
On only two notable occasions have the US or UK been in a conflict without the other. One was in the South Atlantic, when the UK fought Argentina for the liberation of the Falkland Islands. The US was conspicuous by it's absence there and left the UK to fight it out alone 8000 miles from home. Nonetheless UK forces delivered a decisive victory there in just 10 weeks, managing without the US perfectly well. The other occasion was the Vietnam war, which the UK wisely decided not to get involved. It lasted nearly twenty years and ended when the US withdrew in disarray, panic and chaos. They lost that one.
Same game, different result.
And now it looks as if the USA won't support Ukraine unless they can make a profit out of it. This time, hopefully, not just the UK, but the whole of Europe will step up to protect their neighbour. I think we can manage.
Monday, 3 February 2025
Chaos
The shitshow going on across the Atlantic is becoming so massive and multifaceted that it's becoming difficult to follow. Imagine what it's like living there.
But make no mistake, it's going to affect us in the UK too. Take just these two aspects which could be plots from a comedy show if they weren't serious.
Firstly gynaecomast Elon Musk wants to rename the English Channel the "George Washington channel"! Good luck with that. Have they not noticed that our neighbours in Europe all have different names for the channel. Nobody seems to care.
Secondly it looks as if Trump is about to impose tariffs on the EU and UK next, claiming that the hefty trade deficit that exists between us is somehow unfair. Listen fat boy, we can't help it if you don't make anything we want to buy. It might help if you didn't fill all your consumables with a mix of toxic chemicals that are banned over here. Astoundingly he feels that it's outrageous that that we pay far less for our pharmaceuticals than they do. Well that's because of entirely internal factors that allow US drug companies to massively price gouge.
DZ has hardly ever bought anything that comes from the USA, not deliberately, but simply because not much american stuff seems to make it's way over here. There is Budweiser I suppose, if you like beer that tastes like creosote. (Unlike Czech Budweier, which is simply divine.)
So buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Hopefully things will work out OK in the end.