The British MAGA

Are we really falling for this fascist/racist bullshit?

Reform – the British MAGA??

Farage – the British Trump?

Don’t people remember the Brexit lies?

Are we basking in those sunlit uplands??

Simple populist knee-jerk bullshit!

He’ll be building walls next!

We’ll all be wearing red caps next!

Are we going to let this glorified Merchant Banker wave the racist stick and scapegoat immigrants!

We have a problem with immigration – we’d have a bigger problem with fascism!

This opportunist Trump-loving twerp wants to sell off the NHS! Is nobody paying any attention?

Is this the new idea of diplomacy from the Oval office?

Ambush.

False accusations.

Rudeness.

Hostile confrontation.

Simplistic views.

Trump did it with Zelenskyy who he accused of starting the war by allowing Putin to invade his country while hillbilly puppet Vance pilloried him for not wearing a suit.

Now he’s doing it with Rhamaphosa and false claims of white genocide. Once again, without being in full possession of the facts (probably instigated by a distorted view produced by Musk), Trump has gone full tilt at something complex that he clearly doesn’t understand.

South Africa, with it’s inequality and poverty, has a great amount of crime. White farmers have suffered but that only makes up 0.2% of the crime. They are usually targeted because of their wealth and living in isolated farms rather than being white (they own 60% of the wealth). Obviously they need protection and if they are being targeted by certain violent groups then something needs to happen. What is clear is that it isn’t the simplistic picture put forward by Trump.

Fact check: Trump’s false suggestion of a ‘genocide’ against White farmers in South Africa

Even if it was exactly how Trump portrayed it, is this the way to deal with it?

Aren’t these talks that need to take place behind closed doors?

Should world leaders be ambushed so rudely in front of the world’s press in such an uncouth humiliating manner?

I find it unbecoming of a world leader to behave in such a crass manner. It’s not so much statesman-like as mafia-like.

Is this rudeness going to bear results or will world leaders become incensed and antagonistic?

Is this crass simplistic ambush tactic going to become the new norm?

Stupid!! STUPID!! So STUPID!!!

The New World we live in!

It’s not just black and white; it’s not just simplistic; it’s not just wrong; it’s not even made up; it’s what this paranoid lunatic really believes!

Once we had at least semi-competent people in charge; people who could actually read.

Once we had experts and people who had at least been schooled.

But that was once…

Now the nuclear button is in the toy box.

Brexit and Trump – Empowering the forces of Hatred, Selfishness and Callousness.

We used to be an open, friendly caring nation. Not anymore. The populist mantra has unleashed a tide of fear. They tapped into the age-old fear of foreigners with all its insecurity. Xenophobia and racism have always been fertile ground for right-wingers. The terror of 9/11 and the subsequent wave of terrorism from ISIS precipitated two unjust wars and the wave of immigration following the economic fallout, political instability and climate change. The world is in a mess and Trump and the other populists are busy stirring the pot.

Populists thrive on division.

They focus on genuine problems and worries, provide ridiculous causes, escalate the fears and season with simplistic black and white solutions – draining swamps and building walls.

We’ve been led down the garden path.

I think it’s going to take a long while to recover!