‘This is 40’, a likeable Judd Apatow sort-of-comedy, that is funny but also a bit sad, has a telling scene at the birthday party, when Leslie Mann has a dig at her father-in-law, Albert Brooks, for being a schnorrer, a moocher, a sponger, a mumper, a scrounger…he ‘borrows’ money with no intention of paying it back.

Brooks retorts: I just figured out what your problem is – you hate Jews.

Mann counters: Don’t play the Jew card, Larry.

Brooks: I’m not playing any Jew card.

Mann: Seriously, it’s used up.

Brooks: You can’t use up a Jew card. That’s the whole point of a Jew card.

Other guest (a Jew): That’s right, You can’t use it up; it goes forever.

Do you agree? Does it go forever? Not in my book, and I’ll tell you something now. Netanyahu is fast using up Israel’s Jew card. I’ll tell you something else. Trump may blather on about Israel but that is simply an expediate way to gain support from the Jewish community and the ultra-Christian ‘rapture’ brigade. He doesn’t give a flying f### about Israel simply because he doesn’t give a flying f### about anything apart from himself and, when the doo-doo really hits the fan in the Middle East, as it will, Trump will drop Israel like a red-hot rock.

The war in the Ukraine and in the Unholy Land…well, not really a war, more of a massacre…rumble on and there are a couple of points that have been rumbling around in my head.

As we all know (you do know this, dontcha?), the USA and the UK gave the green light to launch the missiles that they have provided to the Ukrainians into Russian territory, previously being restricted to use only at Russian targets within the Ukraine. This has precipitated an escalation in the conflict, with Putin unleashing a barrage of cruise and supersonic missiles along with, what could well have been, an ICBM; an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.

Now, the mere mention of an ICBM conjures up images of Dr. Strangelove, mushroom clouds and obliterated cities. Of course, you need to attach a nuclear warhead to the ICBM but, nonetheless, it’s a slightly concerning development in the conflict.

The question springs to mind as to why the hell the USA and the UK placed this restriction on the use of their missiles in the goddamed first place? There may have been rumblings at the time about it from the Russians but, with the fleeting glimpse of a peace deal on the horizon, it really is not the appropriate moment to up the ante with Putin.

Limiting the use of the missiles was like tying one of Zelensky’s hands behind his back. The Russians have launched drones and missiles made in North Korea and Iran, so why on earth was the Ukraine hampered in fighting its war? Now, there are even North Korean boots on Russian ground, so why don’t Biden and Starmer tell Putin that he’s a complete hypocrite and to go soak his head?

Israel continues to pound the hell out of Hezbollah, Hamas, innocent civilians in Gaza and the Lebanon and even Syrians (and Iranians in Syria). We have been reliably informed that both Hamas and Hezbollah both have an enormous quantity of rockets and missiles; in the case of Hezbollah, zillions of the nasty things. But, and it’s an enormous BUT, what about anti-aircraft missiles?!

Israel enjoys complete freedom of the skies; the only possibility is for an Israeli helicopter to be shot down. Of course, to bring down a modern aircraft requires a lot of technology but instead of arming themselves with what essentially are thousands of fireworks, they should have thought about placing an order for some up-to-date ground-to-air defences…at the very least some bloody Bofors guns.

The last titbit is that the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif of Hamas, but the latter has been pronounced ‘brown bread’ by the Israelis.

Now, I hardly think that this will cause Netanyahu and Gallant any sleepless nights but it does confirm what many have thought for a while (some Jewish people included) that the wholesale slaughter of the innocents in Gaza, the West Bank and now the Lebanon is indeed a crime against humanity and, what’s more important for some, it’s a crime against God. Yet, of course, the whole basis for justifying their actions is that this same God gave the Jewish people the Holy Land for all eternity.

Biden has called the issue of the arrest warrants “outrageous” at the same time as 66 Palestinians were killed by Israeli ‘precision’ bombing in the town of Beir Lahia; this included yet more women and children, and a further 22 people killed in Gaza City (whatever is left of it). As usual, the Israelis trotted out the same old ‘we issued a warning…we tried to prevent civilian casualties…blah blah; exactly they same thing they have been saying for over a year. 44,000 people dead in Gaza and God knows how many more crippled for life and indelibly traumatised. How many of those have been Hamas fighters? 5%? 10%?

I wish people would have the good grace to leave God out of the bullshit that they think, say and do.

Is that it? There was an election and Trumpman won. Nothing more? No January 6th-style protest? No accusations of the Republicans rigging the election? Joe and Kamala meekly cede the presidency to the Man Who Would be Dictator. No bang, just a whimper. It was left to Vladimir ‘Our Friend in the East’ Putin to try and disrupt the voting with bomb threats – couldn’t the Democrats have done that? Perhaps the Dems are simply too…errr, democratic.

Netan@yahoo must be cock-a-hoop, so much so that he reacted with all of his usual grace and legality by getting a law passed by the Knesset that allows him to deport the immediate relatives of Israeli Arabs/Palestinians who have committed or merely supported acts of terrorism. Now, bear in mind that we are not just talking about Palestinians here, but also Israeli citizens. How the hell can you deport your own citizens? To where? THEY ARE ISRAELIS BENJI!! Given that around 20% of the population of Israel is made up of Arab Israeli citizens, it’s obvious that this is just another step in ethnically cleansing the country.

Would this law apply to Israeli Jews who commit acts of terrorism? No. Why? Because when a Jew kills a Palestinian in the West Bank, or burns his house down, or slaughters his goats, it is not considered to be terrorism; it’s merely ejecting a squatter from the land that God gave to the Jews in perpetuity. Jeez, God really does love a sinner.

So back to the Trumpman Show; we have 4 years of wonderfully chaotic entertainment to look forward to, with the added attraction of a world war at the end of it. You don’t think so? It won’t happen in your lifetime? Yeah, just like global warming and a pandemic.

Putin has something on Trump; he must do. When Trump was developing the New York skyline in the 80s, he had to come into contact with the Mob; that was unavoidable…the union dues, the no-shows…we all watched the Sopranos. Then, that led on to him being connected to the Russian Mafia. Later on, he decided to build a hotel in Moscow and that could not have happened without the Mobski being involved…and the KGB/GRU and Putin. Nothing happens in Russia without Putin putting his ore in and plucking his cut out. Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world? On stocks and shares paper maybe, but in concrete terms, that prize might well go to Vlad The Bear Wrestler.

I daresay that Zelensky is pleading with Sleepy Joe as I write this – “c’mon Mr. President, send us lots of money and weapons before that comedian gets into the White House.” If I were the lame duck president, I’d be banging out those executive orders sharpish – which, in Joe’s case means about 2 a day before he takes his 16-hour afternoon nap.

The democratic majority of the US voters might be ecstatic over Trump’s almight comeback but I really don’t imagine that the Joint Chiefs of Staff are. They know what’s coming – Donald J pulls the rug out under the feet of the long-suffering Ukrainians and forces them to accept a ‘peace’ deal that leaves their occupied territory in Putin’s hands, their adbucted kids in the clutches of the re-education police and their membership of NATO and the EU in tatters.

Emboldened by this, Putin turns his attention to neighbouring Moldova and Georgia (no, not the state in the USA!), whose elections have already been subject to Russian interference. When the Western powers sit on their Neville Chamberlain hands over this, Vlad the NATO Slayer turns his greedy gaze towards Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. He gets his Belorussian henchman, Lukashenko, to cause a border incident and he calls for Russian support against the aggressor. The European NATO members look to the Trumpman for his reaction. Putin reminds him of that incriminating video so he tells them: “You didn’t pay your dues so now you’re screwed.” War breaks out.

China sees that Putin has got his way and Xi Jinping orders an all-out assault on Taiwan.

North Korea sees that Xi has got his way and Kim Jon-un orders an all-out assault on South Korea.

Netan@yahoo orders an all-out assault on everyone.

Trump starts to deport illegal immigrants and orders that the border wall be erected along the middle of the Rio Grande and Rio Bravo, with trained suicide dolphins on patrol to blow up any migrants who slip through.

The Trumpman plays his banjo while the world burns…but he does manage to keep inflation down.  

In a recent article in this blog, I talked about empires and, in particular, the US Empire. What US Empire, you ask? The one that existed in a purely physical sense, beginning by grabbing a huge swathe of land that belonged to Mexico. Once the industrial powerhouse was established, the tentacles began to spread outwards and Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, the Northern Mariana and the Virgin Islands quickly became part of the US repertoire (there are 9 other islands and atolls but they are uninhabited).

But where did it all actually start? With the Birdshit Islands! Yep, the US Empire was built on guano, or bird crap. Somehow symbolic? This fertiliser helped to enrich the nutrient-depleted soil of US farms and those good ol’ boys just got bigger and stronger as a result.

Ah, but that was in the past. Hawaii was made a state (after being annexed), the Philippines gained its independence in 1946 and the others are territories, although the Puerto Ricans would appear to want their island to be the 51st state of the Union.

So, why an empire? Military bases – if you know anyone from the USA, ask him or her how many military bases there are around the world. Personally, I knew that there are many but I was imagining around 100 and not the 750 that there actually are. Yesiree Bob, SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY in 80 different countries. There are 30 bases on the Japanese island of Okinawa alone (it’s a big island). I assumed that there was just 1 big one. Ok, some of those bases around the world are merely airstrips with very few personnel but one base in Germany has 9,000 troops (not far off the number of troops in the British army).

Taking this into account, it does seem a bit churlish of the Americans to gripe about Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea and the Pacific and Putin’s designs on emulating Peter the Great in re-establishing the Russian Empire.

“I was just scrambling. I was in the shower – my hair’s wet so I’m just grabbing everything, throwing on the first clothes I have and running to the shelter. The biggest feeling is “just fear and panic”.

Marielle moved to Israel from the US three years ago. She relates here the dash to the shelter when the rockets came over from the Lebanon. These attacks, she says, are “a really insane reality I’ve had a hard time wrapping my head around. It’s unfathomable to a lot of people how a rocket barrage like that could happen, terrorist attacks, and you’re just expected to carry on.”

And this on the same day that yet another Israeli strike on Gaza killed 51 people in Khan Younis, a further strike killed 3 people in Damascus, and over 1000 people have been killed in Lebanon.

So Marielle, firstly, were you not aware of the fact that Israel had been in conflict with its neighbours for nearly 80 years before you moved there? Having to go to a shelter with wet hair must have been a deeply traumatising experience but trying to dig out the crushed bodies of your family and neighbours with your bare hands from the rubble of your apartment building is just a tad more difficult to deal with.

You carry on, don’t you, Marielle, just like the Palestinians in Gaza have had to do for a year, with their homes destroyed, their livelihoods eliminated and their families wiped out. Last week, An Israeli strike that targeted a local Hamas leader killed 22 people, of which 13 were children. Their little bodies were ripped apart, with 8 more kids needing to have limbs amputated. So Marielle, take some time to consider these people before you bitch about having wet hair.

Killing 22 people to take out one single Hamas operative is an acceptable kill ratio, Marielle? Your prime minister and his war cabinet obviously think so. As long as an Israeli spokesman (they are always men) assures us that a warning was issued about 12 seconds before these strikes happen, then their consciences are clear and they will be welcomed into Paradise when they die.

How about the pilots who fly these missions? Do they sleep well at night? Surely they must think: “Am I going to kill a bunch of kids today?” as they take off in their US-made F-16s.

Speaking of pilots, yet again Great Britain decided to get involved in the conflict by authorising the RAF to help destroy rockets and missiles launched by Iran. Given the rather piddly size the UK armed forces, it’s reasonable to assume that this involved a handful of British warplanes and that their effect was minimal. Now Iran has issued this statement:

“Should any country render assistance to the aggressor, it shall likewise be deemed an accomplice and a legitimate target.”

So, you Brits, expect more terrorist attacks in the future, whether they be bombs planted in concert halls, random knife attacks in the street, or vehicles ploughing into pedestrians, they’ll be coming your way real soon. Be stoic, be British.

Why does Britain need to get involved; just so it can prove to Israel and the US what a jolly great friend it is? In all of their wars, the US has the Brits by is lapdog side, gazing rather disparigingly at all the marvellous American hardware. Kuwait, the invasión of Iraq, Afghanistan, the attacks on Syria…it appears that the UK still needs to flex is imperial muscles and show to the world that it’s still got some of that old, Churchillian, bulldog spirit, by jove. Bloody stupid if you ask me.

“Today, President Donald J. Trump brought Presidents Putin and Zelensky together to sign the peace accord that Trump negotiated with both leaders, a momentous achievement given the length and nature of the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine. President Zelensky looked downhearted as he signed the agreement that leaves all of the Ukrainian territory presently occupied by Russian armed forces in Putin’s hands and forces Zelensky to order the withdrawal of his forces in the Kursk area. Furthermore, all of the thousands of Ukrainain children who have been abducted and taken to Russia will remain there. Russia will not pay any reparations for the reconstruction of Ukrainian towns, cities and infrastructure.”

Further conditions of the deal mean that Ukraine will never join NATO and that President Zelensky will have to step down. He was quoted as saying: “After three years of struggle and deprivation and in spite of the devastation caused in my country and the thousands of my countryfolk killed and wounded, we have no choice but to accede to Putin’s demands. The withdrawal of support from the USA and its threat to withdraw from NATO has meant that the member states of that organisation have been forced to end their support as well. As a nation, we have endured so much…”

This won’t happen, will it? Surely, after supporting the Ukraine for so long, the USA will not desert its ally? Well, this is the only way that Trump will achieve his “peace deal in 24 hours that he has claimed he will bring about.

In 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain came back from Munich waving a piece of paper that he announced would mean “peace in our time”. He has gone down in history as a gullible buffoon, who essentially gave the green light to Hitler to annex the Sudetenland and, subsequently, launch the invasion of Poland. Can we compare Putin with Hitler? Both systematically eroded any sense of democracy and free speech in their countries. Both eliminated political opponents. Indeed, gravity must be a lot stronger in Russia than in other countries as it literally sucks Putin’s opponents out of hotel and hospital windows on a regular basis.

Surely Trump cannot be dumb enough to think that Putin will stop there? Trump said that Russia could “do whatever the hell they want” to NATO countries that don’t pay up in full. Sure, other border countries are members of NATO, so invading them would bring the UK, Germany, France et al into the conflict, but if Trump is serious in his lack of commitment to NATO or even to leave it, what resolve would the other countries have to, essentially, trigger World War 3? “Latvia, Lithuania? Who cares! I don’t even know where they are.” This is what you will hear.

Trump also said: “There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán.” Hungary’s leader has constantly sided with Putin and has been sanctioned by the EU for his attacks on press freedom, judicial independence and the LGBTQ+ community. He has show skant regard for the rule of law and democratic values; small wonder that Trump likes him.

Before a lot of American start shouting “Why should we carry on paying for the war?” or “Why should our boys die in Europe to defend some Europeans?” maybe they should consider this simple fact. The Americans did not win the War of Independence against Great Britain alone. They had help. A hereditary monarchy helped a fledgling republic win the struggle to free it from the clutches of another hereditary monarchy. For 4 years, France provided much-needed supplies, arms and ammunition and, crucially, naval support. The French navy blockaded ports, preventing British ships from supplying their forces with equally much-needed supplies. Ironically, the French monarchy was overthrown around 15 years later, in a revolution inspired by the American one.

Now, what if France had decided that supporting the war was too expensive and had withdrawn that support after a couple of years? The phrase “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” came from the Simpsons and caught on in the US. T-shirts had the slogan “Iraq first, France next!” and the phrase “freedom fries” appeared after France’s opposition to the ill-fated invasion of Iraq, so can you imagine what Americans would feel about the French if they had done a runner in 1780?

If Trump does pull the rug out from under the feet of the Ukrainians, the USA will lose any credibility that it still has in the world. ‘Make American great again’? You’ve gotta be kidding.

Laura Loomer – yet another Trumpette who inflates the ex prez’ already dangerously inflated ego and tells him what he wants to hear instead of what he NEEDS to hear.

When a host of Republicans and even none other than arch-deep state hater Marjorie Taylor Greene takes a swipe at the rather masculine-looking LL, Donald might like to take notice of the criticism. Laura quipped that the White House “will smell like curry” if Kamala is elected. Ooh, Laura, naughty ‘girl’. Really though, a couple of decades ago in the UK, that comment would have been maybe mildly criticised but, in these woke/enlightened times, Mad Marje gave Laura both barrels, calling the comment “appalling and extremely racist”. Hang on, did MTG really say that? After all, this is the lady that refused to even call Dr. Fauci ‘doctor’ and slagged off UK PM David Cameron for “rude name-calling” and then, almost in the same breath, said that “he can kiss my ass.”

Marjorie might like to take some lessons in Irony. She also said, and I had to chortle at this one, that Loopy Loomer’s comments did “not represent who we are as Republicans or MAGA”. Oh come on Marje, really? That’s EXACTLY what MAGA is all about. Surely you cannot think that it was worse than Trump sharing a post on Truth Social which implied that Kamala Harris advanced in her career by…well, the post showed photos of Harris and Hillary Clinton with the comment: “Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently…” For heaven’s sake, how low is Trump going to stoop? Is there nothing that is off-limits in US politics these days? Yes, free speech is important but should someone really be free to spout nasty lies about someone else and have it plastered all over the media? What constitutes defamation in the US? Let’s have a look:

A defamatory statement is one “with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.”

Returning to Loopy Laura, she was even banned by Lyft and Uber for making disparaging remarks about Muslim drivers. Way to go Trump – have a person in your entourage who goes out of her way to alienate 4 and a half million in the country. Not that many all told, but Trump was desperately seeking 11,000 votes in Georgia.

The latest rumour is that Trump is going to have a set of golf clubs made that look like AK-47s…but, as with mascot-eating Haitian zombies in Springfield, Ohio, that is merely a rumour.

All empires fall eventually. The US Empire will be no different. They general start to crumble from within; a mixture of arrogance, decadence, complacency with the failure to update is the cause of the rot. They see others as inferior and incapable of being able to compete or, God forbid, outdo. Internal strife and division ensue and the encircling wolves pick up the sweet whiff of polemic blood.  

Donald J. Trump is the embodiment of that decadence and division. He will bring about the Fall of the US Empire. He has set the stage for the possibility of losing the election and this is where the real danger lies. His MAGAMEN (and women) are already prepared for this There will be a repeat of the 6th January, but on a national scale. Are the powers-that-be thinking that it would be better to have a maleable Trump in the White House for another four years than civil conflict. You can influence people before an election and you can, according to Trump, rig the voting. It was done for Kennedy and for GW, so why not for Donald? Maybe the members of Project 2025 and their friends are already working precisely on that. Donald, however, knows nothing about Project 2025, nor who is behind it. We all believe him, don’t we? Nothing but the truth from Donald J.

Trump will have people to guide/manipulate him again but this time they are locked and loaded. Project 2025 will turn the USA into one huge, bigoted, corporate, cross-burning Dodge City. God protected Trump from the assassin’s bullet and that has given him a messianic status amongst his loyal followers. He is God’s Holy Earlobe…or maybe the Devil’s.

Kevin Roberts of Project 2025 said: “Conservatives have just two years and one shot to get this right. With enemies at home and abroad, there is no margin for error. Time is running short. If we fail, the fight for the very idea of America may be lost.” Trump is their puppet Messiah but is he our Anti-Christ?

Trump may be an idiot (according to JD Vance in 2016) but he is no fool. His now adoring running mate also called Trump “reprehensible”, “noxious” and “a total fraud.” JD, what happened? Why do you cosy up to Trump now? He must have had a little chat with Ted Cruz, who labelled Trump “a sniveling coward”, “a small and petty man”, “utterly ammoral”, “a pathological liar” and “a serial philanderer”. Ted of the Cross, who lost the battle for Republican candidate to Trump, did a 360° flip-flop and enthusiastically clapped Donald, continuing to do so, oh-so-embarrassingly, even after the Great Leader had left the room, as if he were a North Korean general clapping Kim Jong-un (who should now be called Kim Jong-deux, given that he’s the size of two people.)

Enter the arena another flipper-flopper: Elon Musk. Previously a Democrat voter, he has now hitched his Space X Mars probe to Trump’s soaring star – why? Well, after the Great Biden Debate Debacle, Donald was a dead cert to occupy the White House again and Elon saw his chance. Even Trump’s aversion to electric cars was swatted away like an annoying fly. Now, he likes them, he has to after Elon’s endorsement. But Elon, get some coaching lessons in sounding sincere because you came across as fake, fake and triple fake, merely tolerating Trump’s equally fake and hollow platitudes – ‘expediency’ is the word that echoed around their bromantic chat.

Trump has called upon Musk to head a “government efficiency commission”. Elon has already shown how he achieves efficiency – by sacking Twitter staff and requiring the ones that remained to work a 300-hour week, with no salary and no holidays.  Turn the clock back 100 years and Musk would have ordered his heavies to fire on the Twitter strikers.

Getting back to JD Vance, isn’t it rather sinisterly coincidental that the PayPal founder, Peter Thiel, hired ‘Hillbilly’ Vance at his venture capital firm, Mithril Capital Management, then went on to cough up $10m to finance his Ohio Senate campaign? Elon pledged $45m a month to bankroll Trump’s election campaign. I hope that’s from his personal fortune.

So, what does Elon want for all that lovely loot; what does he stand to gain?

‘Starlink’: it sounds lovely, does it not? You picture gleaming beams criss-crossing the heavens. ‘Starlink; to boldly go where no internet service has gone before.’ 6,000 satellites, with another 12,000 planned to further clutter up Outer Space. SpaceX, of course, launches, customised military satellites as well. Musk is ringing the planet with his satellites. Why so many? What is his ultimate aim? Remember that he allowed the Ukrainian forces to use Starlink free. Now, if his good buddy wants to end the war in a day…

“Civil war is inevitable,” was his comment after a bunch of ugly, right-wing racists were paid to riot in the UK. No, civil war in the UK is not inevitable, Mr. Musk, if you don’t allow hatred and lies to be shared on your twittering platform. How long before X incorporates Truth (sic) Social? How long before Musk buys up media companies and imposes his free speeches into our Fox News/News Corp-induced brains?

I can’t help but picture Elon Musk in a grey suit, with a scar running across his eye, stroking a Persian cat as he checks the positions of his lovely, little satellites. We are sputnicks in his hands.

The essential danger with Trump is that he’s not nearly as smart as he thinks he is and Musk is acutely aware of this. Trump could not even understand the ironic stupidity in making disparaging remarks about Nikki Haley, the very person that he chose for the important position of US Ambassador to the UN.

“I aced it!” Trump exclaimed to his adoring, red baseball-capped crowd. He aced a cognitive test. Now, boasting about acing such a test is like an adult bragging about being able to walk and chew gum at the same time. Here is an example of a question in this type of test: there is a picture with a lion, a rhino and a giraffe and the subject is asked to identify the animals – “I aced it!!” You correctly identified 3 very well-known animals, Donald.

But Trump makes up for all of this by his love for his country, a love so deep and devoted that he could not bear to leave it to serve in Vietnam, even though he had attended a military academy where, according to him, he excelled at everything. Oh, those damned bone spurs that just flare up so quickly and unexpectedly. Must have been caused by all that football he played. He also loves his country so much that he has given a lot of money to accountants in order for them to work out ways to not pay tax. That annual $750 billion for the military doesn’t drop out of the sky, Donald.

Let’s go back to the Anti-Christ. Trump has courted the Christian fundamentalists in the USA and, astonishingly, they have largely backed him, in spite of his well-documented lying and philandering. Seems that they will vote for anyone who supports Israel unequivocably He moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, the energy centre of the world according to some; a hugely symbolic act that told Netanyahu and his hardliners “he’s our guy”.

C’mon Christians, let’s capture the Rapture.  

Yesterday, yet another bombing supposedly to target a “Hamas command post” resulted in the deaths of people who were sheltering from the mayhem in a UN centre, including children and six UN workers. Was there any condemnation from the USA? Nah, Haitian immigrants eating people’s pets was a far more novel and juicy titbit. It seems that there is an acceptable kill ratio; Israel is allowed to kill 10, 20, whatever Palestinians for every Jew. Nearly a year after, it still goes on. Blinken goes to Israel for the 68th time…restraint, respect for human life, obey international law….blah blah, yadda yadda. Israel trots out the same, precision strike nonsense and more innocent people die.  

What has Trump said about all this?

“I’m not sure that I’m loving the way they’re doing it, because you’ve got to have victory. You have to have a victory, and it’s taking a long time.”

“They’re releasing the most heinous, most horrible tapes of buildings falling down. And people are imagining there’s a lot of people in those buildings, or people in those buildings, and they don’t like it. They’re losing the PR war. They’re losing it big. But they’ve got to finish what they started, and they’ve got to finish it fast, and we have to get on with life.”

There it is – buildings falling down…the PR war…get it over. No mention of people.

US presidents appear to be likely candidates for the dubious honour of being labelled the Anti-Christ by the conservative religious right: John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama for instance. The first and third I can understand, but Ronnie ‘True Blue’ Reagan?

“The Antichrist will be a world leader, he’ll have supernatural powers,” said Jerry Falwell, the evangelist. That could be describing Donald J. Trump, After all, he can dodge bullets, accusations of sexual assault by 26 women, being found guilty in the civil case of sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, tax evasion, inciting insurrection, election interference, hiding thousands of classified documents (and showing them to his friends), cheating relatives out of the family inheritance…it goes on. He bears a charmed life. He has a guardian angel, but is it robed in white or black?

Now just think, if these multiple offences are the ones we know about, imagine all the others that have been buried over the course of his decadent, Epstein-fuelled life.

Ted Cruz was right in saying that Teflon Trump is ammoral, making it all the more shameful that the Texan is using his support of Trump for his bid for the White House in 2028.

Could Trump’s win-at-all-costs maxim precipitate WW3? On the face of it, no country could best the USA. It could whip any nation or group of nations with its aircraft carriers alone and its colossal military budget dwarfs those of other countries. But, imagine a huge natural disaster happening – the San Andreas Fault finally flips and Los Angeles crumbles into the Pacific Ocean or that mega-volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park decides to let rip and blankets the country in a dust cloud. The USA comes to a standstill. Supermarket shelves are empty as the highways are clogged. People start to panic and the guns come out The bitter enmity between far left and far right erupts into violence.

The wolves smell blood. North Korea tests a new ballistic missile. As it soars over Japan, something goes wrong and it drops on Yokohama. A Chinese warplane accidentally launches its missiles at a South Korean naval vessel. Putin orders an all-out assault on the Ukraine. A chemical weapon is released in Jerusalem.  Who does President Trump turn to?

https://www.facebook.com/dan.ferree/videos/854398026021863

Trump’s speech writer (himself).

Say anything; add he or she; make up some ficticious figure/number/percentage/claim; end sentence with “…in the history of our country” (with voice dropping down in tone).

Ramble on about unintelligibly for another half an hour.

Dance a little jig.

Pump fist.

That’s it.

A. So, let’s get this straight; you say that abortions should be banned completely; no abortions, whatever the reason for the pregnancy?

B. Yes, that’s right. I’m pro-life.

A. Ok, but if the woman is raped or worse, gang-raped?

B. She can give the baby up for adoption.

A. So nine months of discomfort, a possible extremely long and painful labor and then the psychological guilt of giving up a baby that she didn’t want. Also, nine months of psychological torture by being constantly reminded of the horrific and degrading act perpetrated on her.

B. God tests us in His own way.

A. And what if tests show abnormalities with the foetus; that the baby will be born blind, severely deformed and mentally retarded? Who would adopt such a baby; you?

B. Well, I have kids already

A. What if that raped mother already has kids? And she’s a single mom, working two jobs to make ends meet. No-one will adopt it; she can’t afford the specialist care it needs, Who pays; the state?

B. No…look, aborting a child is wrong. It’s murder. You’re killing the baby. How can you support that?

A. I don’t support it but I support the woman’s right to choose.

B. But that is supporting the death of a baby.

A. Define ‘death’.

B. ‘Death’? It’s when life ends.

A. You believe in the soul, don’t you?

B. Yes, of course. I’m a Christian.

A. Well, death is when the soul leaves the body…it gives up the ghost, as Shakespeare put it. It can be for any number of reasons or causes, but the result is the same; the soul leaves the body.

B. Agreed.

A. So life, or birth is when the soul enters the body, right?

B. Yes, ok.

A. And when exactly does the soul enter the body?

B. Errm, at…at conception.

A. Hmm, so when that little sperm has rumpy-pumpy with that little egg, that’s when the soul enters the body?

B. Well, I don’t know for sure.

A. That’s the point though; just when does the soul enter the body? If it does so at the time of birth, then an abortion is not killing the baby as there is no baby to kill, just an empty foetus.

B. Ah, but the foetus moves; it kicks.

A. True, but a plant reacts to external stimuli; does a plant have a soul?

B. I don’t…no…but what if it does enter at the time of conception? That means an abortion is killing that baby…or foetus.

A. Yes, that’s true but why would a soul choose to enter the body at the time of conception?

B. To experience what it’s like, I guess.

A. Being a baby must be pretty boring so being a foetus must be like watching endless re-runs of Mexican soap operas.

B. So when does the soul enter the body, cleverclogs?

A. I think that the soul chooses when, so it could be during the pregnancy or at the time of birth.

B.Ah, but if you don’t know for sure, then an abortion is wrong?

A. Look, when a foetus is aborted, then the physical body dies, ok? But what happens to the soul?

B. The soul lives on forever.

A. Define ‘forever’.

B. With no end.

A. Ah, now that’s where most people get it wrong; there’s no ‘rest of eternity’ because that’s only half the meaning. ‘Forever’ or ‘eternity’ means no end AND no beginning. It says in the Bible that life is eternal, so the soul always has lived and always will live. You can’t kill a soul. Therefore, if a foetus is aborted, why can’t the soul that was going to inhabit that body simply wait until another one becomes available?

B. Errrm…you are talking about reincarnation…

A. I’m talking about the eternity of the soul, which you agrees is indeed eternal, yes or no?

B. Yes.

A. So your version of events is that a soul always has existed, doing whatever it does on the Other Side and then ping! One day it pops into a body where it spends anything from a few minutes to a hundred-odd years – and even 10 billion years is a mere blip compared to eternity – then it pops out of that body and spends the forever doing what? Surely something as important as an everlasting soul must have a purpose; a reason for existing.

B. We will learn that purpose when we die.

A. If you believe in Heaven then you must believe in Hell, right?

B. Yes, and you’ll be going there if you don’t repent of your sins.

A. So, a soul that does not repent its sins before leaving the body is condemned to everlasting torment by an all.loving, forgiving and merciful God? Doesn’t seem very loving, forgiving and merciful.

B. God moves in mysterious ways.

A. You mean, like a mime artist or John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever? Aren’t you just saying that God does some pretty dumb and incomprehensible things?

B. Who are you to question His Works?

A. Supposedly He created me so why shouldn’t I question the works of my creator? Let’s get back to the point here; if a foetus is aborted, does the soul that inhabits it or was going to inhabit it not have another opportunity of life in a physical body?

B. (Sigh) I…I don’t know.

A. Then you are condeming abortions out of ignorance.