I was reminded of this by the UC Berkley demonstration surrounding Milo Yiannopoulos who fits quite nicely with three out of the four with the exception of believer. As someone wrote a while ago "Milo Yiannopoulos is the ideological analogue of Kim Kardashian’s rear end " [Laurie Penny in the Guardian from memory]
I really do hope Trump backs off like Presidents before him from relocating the US Embassy to Jerusalem. We have done some blindingly awful things in the Middle-East over the decades, notably refusing to settle the Israel/Palestine conflict. Our support has been strictly unilateral i.e. Israel and is the root cause of mistrust throughout the region of the US as a independent arbitrator. Moving the Embassy would be seen as the cherry on the cake of our war crimes in the region.
François Hollande's disastrous Presidency is nearing an end with his popularity running at around 4%, yes 4 %. Thankfully the voters in the PS [Parti Socialiste] rejected more of the same and thereby a complete election wipe out.
I supported and did some work for the campaign of Benoît Hamon, so why did I do so?
One over-riding subject:
I believe in direct action for every injustice there is a protest. There are very few ways to be heard above the din but getting out on the streets is one that still works.
The election of Trump seems to have reawakened the willingness of Americans to get out there and be heard.
“You can keep your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
the wretched refuse on your teeming shore.
Keep these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to yourselves,
I douse my lamp beside the bolted door.”
I admit that I screamed in rage the day President Obama decided to move on and not look back, that was me done with hope and change.
Our Government had systematically removed peoples basic human rights by:
By refusing to
Trump is determined to return the US to its number one spot as the worlds biggest polluter.
Donald Trump has signed executive orders to allow construction of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines, a move certain to anger environmentalists and Native Americans.
Democrats should not be fist pumping about the events of yesterday the marches were about something more fundamental than political parties, it was about rights hard won over a century or more. Democrats have helped feed the current system where income inequality has damaged our very democracy and as always women are on the front line to be kicked first and hardest.
They had their chance and royally blew it.
Watching the Pussy Grabber's inauguration show with its American Exceptionalism on steroids, I expect the mushy centre [on both sides] to fold as per usual.
As the smell of burning hair wafts off the Atlantic on the westerly breeze.
Why so much panic?
Why has fake news suddenly become important now when it has been so prevalent for decades?
Well the Trump Precedent:-
Anyone with a big enough ego coupled with a similarly sized wallet [even though he didn't use it] can become president of the good old US of A, the duopoly be damned.
