Greed and the dollar

Last weekend, someone tried to kill the former President of the United States of America.

To be clear, a young, white, male Republican, took a shot at Trump, at a Republican rally, using a gun that most Republicans believe is the right of all Americans to own.  That young man was “neutralised” and is now dead.

24 hours after the young man tried to shoot Trump, the conspiracy theorists lost their shit: who did it?  Was it Melania, the ghost of Ivanka, Biden or Hilary?  Was it CIA and the FBI and where was Stormy on that fateful day?

4 days after the attempt, at the Republican Convention in Milwaukee, the Republicans officially nominated Trump as their candidate for the elections in November, and JD Lance was chosen as Trump’s running mate.  JD Lance then made a speech about the importance of gun ownership, because Americans need guns for protection.

Who do you need protection from JD?  Other white, male, gun owning Republicans?

JD Lance is an interesting choice:  he’s young and ambitious and he might one day make Donnie look like an innocent little bunny rabbit.  JD wants to stop all abortions everywhere, he wants to oversee mass deportations, and he thinks unemployed people are lazy.  He used to call Donnie “America’s Hitler” but has now obviously decided that Donnie isn’t quite as “Hitler-ish” as he might have first imagined. 

Maybe not Hitler-ish enough for JD.

Republicans at the Convention were adamant they needed to keep their guns.  One nurse from Idaho said she owned 20!  20 guns in one household.  19 guns weren’t enough for this woman to feel safe.  She needed 20 of them.

Donnie is on record for saying that school shootings are not a gun problem but rather the fault of the Democrats, mental health issues, marijuana and the transgender community.  We live in a world where Donnie might be elected President again.  The last time he had the job he started a coup.  The only way he can top that is to go nuclear. 

There was a time when the assassination of even a former American President would hold our interest.  But all week, there was an energy and enthusiasm missing from the attempt.  No one was really that bothered.  We’d all lost interest by Friday.

Not to be upstaged by our American cousins, this madness is being echoed in Ireland.

This week in Dublin, some Irish people rioted and tried to burn down buildings that were going to be used to home non-Irish people seeking refuge in Ireland from war, genocide, poverty, famine, drought and floods.  Some of the people burning down buildings, (that could be used to house people), are doing it because there are not enough buildings to house people.  Some are setting fire to buildings because “they don’t know any better” or “they got into a bad crowd” or “they are very easily led”.  And some are doing it because they are hateful little racists and xenophobes.

They, like JD and Donnie, want migrants to go back to where they came from, and they are willing to use violence to support their demands.  Ironically though, these protesters are not indigenous to this island, and how could this Republic house all the Irish diaspora, if they too had to come back to where they came from? 

Too many concerns and questions for the racists, and so little time.

There’s no point debating an issue like this will people who don’t believe in news, science, facts or rational argument.  It’s like trying to tell a jelly fish about astrophysics, or a talk to a fruit fly about the opera.  The jelly fish and the fruit fly won’t understand a word that you say, and you’re simply wasting your time.  You’re wasting even more of your time if you try wade through this discourse on X, which is owned by Musk, who is financially supporting the Donnie and JD campaign.

Is anyone else finding this season finale very dull and grim?  All very bland because it’s being done for the money:  not for political idealism or an academic principle, but all for the greed and the dollar, and nothing more.

Was it always this awful, or am I just feeling more tired, sadder, older and melancholic?  How can we feel less of the pain?

Press one if you want to step away from X.

Press two if you want to do the fandango once a day, enjoy the clouds more, and the garden birds.

Press three if you want to enjoy the delicacy of a rose, and marvel at their light and velvety textures to see how honest, and true they are.  They bloom and offer their perfume to the pollinators, and then they fade.  Their simple beauty, so short lasting, but with such kindness and the love they bring.  That’s all that matters, the love and kindness, as this summer moves on.

Press four if you’d like to complain.