Where are we now? It's hard to keep up. This is only a brief summary. Trump has been president for less than a month and in true Steve Bannon style has 'flooded the zone with shit' using an avalanche of executive orders, most of which appear to be illegal and have been challenged.
His benefactor and right-hand man billionaire Musk, working through DOGE, seems to have access to all government departs with his team of kids and is 'stealing' data and making crazy cuts. It seems they want to scrap the department of education, defund USAID, libraries, forests, healthcare (National Institutes of Health), ban books, attack POC and trans people whilst ensuring that hundreds of millions of dollars go into the pockets of Musk and Trumps billionaire pals.
Then we've got RFK, the vaccine conspiracy theory lunatic who appears to want to damage and destroy the lives of millions of Americans, and Hesgeth, the whisky quaffing defence secretary whose main priority, apart from booze is renaming US bases and removing any traces of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) from the US military - something which is being implemented in all US government departments.
The of course, we have the tariffs threat. First Canada and Mexico, and now, he appears to be going after the UK, China and the EU. He may have backed down on the first two 'victims' but he's already damaged the US economy as Canadians are boycotting US products.
Trump's fake ceasefire in Gaza may have brought some relief to the Palestinians trapped there, but it will be temporary. Trump and Netanyahu want the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, expelling the Palestinians and turning it into some kind of luxury resort. This won't happen, and the horror of the Gaza genocide will continue.
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| This is a photo posted by Trump recently on social media |
This week we have witnessed the black farce of the Munich Security Conference. JD Vance chumming up with the AFD and criticising free speech in the UK. Hesgeth talking BS while drinking whisky. Now, we have Trump selling out Ukraine to Putin and demanding all of their mineral resources.
It's not that much better in the UK. Starmer and Reeves think they are going to get growth by bowing down to oligarchs and corporations, selling off UK assets, and funding oil companies that are destroying the planet. They're boosting defence spending whilst cutting overseas aid, and allowing Ofgem to rip off energy customers with another hike in energy bills in April.
May people are depressed by the rank state of affairs we find ourselves in. The only thing we can do is get ourselves organised and fight back. It's going to be a long, uphill struggle, but we have no other choice.
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