100 suns

Oliver Dowden, a man who has abandoned whatever few principles he might have once had to support a clown fascist, says that

The prime minister has a sincere sense of remorse over what happened.

So Johnson has a 'sincere sense of remorse'? Yeah, right. The only sense of remorse Johnson has is that he's been caught: the only sense of remorse any of these halfwit fuckers have is that they've been caught.

When the cryptocurrency bubble bursts¹ there are going to be very many white crypto bros who have just lost their idiot 'investment' in a 'currency' and are now very very cross and who are they going to blame? Of course we know this: the liberals, the intellectuals, the people whose skin is not white, the gypsies & the Jews: anyone but the people really to blame: themselves.

This will not end well.

Bitcoin is tulips. Except that tulips absorb CO2 and turn it into tulips, while bitcoin absorbs ancient tulips and turns them into CO2 and bitcoin.

We often say that the Roman empire fell in 476: but almost certainly no-one who was alive in 476 thought that the empire had fallen, or probably that it ever would fall. If there are historians in 2400, what date will they give for the moment when America fell? Perhaps the 20th of January, 2017, or the 6th of January, 2021? Or perhaps the 15th of August, 2021?

Apparently David Frost has resigned. One reason seems to be that measures to save large numbers of lives and prevent the collapse of the NHS somehow offended him. Another seems to be that the cost of measures to reduce carbon emissions also annoyed him.

Yes, indeed, it is going to be the case that keeping people alive over the next few months and years is going to involve tradeoffs, and ensuring our children and their children have a world anyone might want to live in is also going to be quite expensive. Who knew? Perhaps not David Frost, a man promoted so far beyond his tiny competence that it is lost in the distance.

Didn't someone once say something about dying in a ditch?

The tories have held North Shropshire for almost two centuries. They've held it since it was a constituency. They have just lost it, heavily, due to the vast corruption and dishonesty of the johnsonite tory party, and probably also due to the awkward truths about the impact of brexit on agriculture finally sinking in.

There is hope.

Not funny, and also, you know, fascists.

Wokery and political correctness – a slur used by bigots to mean 'treating other human beings decently, whoever they are': something they don't like doing.

The Metropolitan Police have repeatedly refused to investigate the multiple well-attested breaches of lockdown by Johnson and his entitled fuckwit friends. Together with Johnson's repeated lying about them those breaches are going to weaken compliance with restrictions this time around (I mean: if the rules don't apply to Johnson then why, actually, should they apply to me?).

That's going to kill people. Probably a lot of people.

But the police don't think it's worth investigating, even though investigating crimes which result in people dying in large numbers is what they're for.

NWA had it right: fuck the police.

one hundred haiku
almost all extremely bad
well, it is done now

a virus of lies
burning hope for the future
consuming the truth

it is not over
it may never be over
so get used to it

endless facile lies
meaningless optimism
the johnsonite creed

is there any point?
we are ruled by a death cult
we'll all end in pits

let's all have parties
just ignore the scientists
make merry and die