Donny and Nige
Marina Hyde on The Great Intrusion:
FBI raids on former presidents; filing stuff in the U-bend – another hugely uplifting 24 hours in politics. Not for the first time, much of the most unwittingly revealing commentary on it all comes from Trump himself, who says of the raid, “nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before”. Well quite.
Well quite, indeed. Why would that be? Oooh it’s a tough one…let me think hard for a second…oh I know, couldn’t it be because no president of the US has been such a determined criminal before? Not even Nixon?
The whole business has appalled freedom-loving anti-elitist Nigel Farage, who this morning announced himself to be “shocked” by the FBI’s presence at Trump’s property, before concluding that “the deep state truly does exist”. Carry yourself with the moral and intellectual consistency of Nigel, who believes that rich and powerful men who are the subject of multiple active criminal investigations should be above the law, while he himself has previously endorsed a US political candidate who – among other things – believes that all homosexuality should be made illegal.
Maybe Nigel and Donald could become a comedy duo type of thing. Not quite Pete and Dud, not quite Laurie and Fry, but maybe up there with Abbott and Costello?
Yes of course, simple criminal investigations according to our laws in the US are “shocking” “unprecedented” “deep state” “corrupt” “assault” “dark times” “broken” etc. etc. unless they are pointed at Hillary, then it’s time to get a rope. Trump and his cronies are the ones who long to make the US a third world “shithole” country, then complain when it’s not. A shining palace on the hill for the wealthy elite, and a shithole for the rest of us. The US government was specifically set up to keep the country from becoming a monarchy or a dictatorship. When these weasels claim that they are above the law, it’s about as unAmerican as it gets.
I stand by my tweet from earlier today:
https://twitter.com/malegauze/status/1556959794908610560
Make it a trio. Donny, Nigel and Pierre.
Pierre Poilievre, leading candidate for leader of the Canadian federal Conservative Party, endorsed by former PM Stephen Harper, wants to give people back control and make Canada the freest country on earth, wants to fire the Governor of the Bank of Canada, marched with supporters of the truckers’ convoy that paralyzed downtown Ottawa, used the 4chan Great Reset conspiracy to discredit Trudeau’s government, giving rise to a national movement, …
Let’s make it a quartet! Here’s something from Boris Johnson’s ‘retirement’ speech:
“Oh yes, and the leader of the opposition and the deep state will prevail in their plot to haul us back into alignment with the EU as a prelude to our eventual return.”