Is it over?
Can we come out yet? Have the monsters gone?
Nope, best I can tell they still seem to be fighting. Two giant dinosaurs, dripping with blood and treasure. One is older, the other will use any political tool to maintain power, no matter how divisive. They roar and swipe, like Kaiju. We are their Tokyo.
I've no idea if anyone's even won, but I can point to several hundred million people that have lost. Even if Trump loses, he's not out until January. That gives him a good couple of months to set fire to the furniture and further fuck up the Covid response. If he wins, the Covid response is also fucked up because the mask averse will be shooting it up in town squares like it was 1779 (that's a Simpsons joke).
What if it's all been a dream? From 2016 onward to Covid today? What if, should Trump be electorally, evicted, we wake tomorrow morning with Bobby Ewing in the shower? Hi Pam!
Just a thought.
There's a clip doing the rounds from Parliament today. In it Theresa May tries to make a point to the PM who, in a heroic example of social distancing, just walks out. Can't be bothered. Spaffer J obviously would rather go and do anything else but field questions - and why should he, he's only the PM after all.
We have the worst leader at the worst possible time, and he's screwed this whole thing up so spectacularly that it blows my mind. I can't encompass the totality of where we are as a result. Not only that but there is no way out for him. Once he let Cummings off the hook for his goings, he was in trouble. But this second lockdown? After repeatedly rebuffing Labour, accusing them of wanting to savage the economy at every turn, Johnson has no credibility at all. There is no coming back from this. He has nothing left. He cannot possibly get away with criticising Labour anymore. At best he can rely on the 'lockdown sceptics' who will happily and thoughtlessly run interference for him, but politically? He's done.
So, too, hopefully, is the other idiot.
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