So, here we are, then.
Mr. Duck is in; his "Cabinet" shows he won't be draining any swamp, as was to be expected; and no one knows exactly what's going to happen (I predict his debts will "magically" disappear and his businesses will, finally, prosper). There's even a possibility that his own Party (so to speak) may actually become his fiercest opposition.
On the Left, a few sane voices briefly called for an introspection for the "Disaster", but were quickly drowned by the usual mob shouts of "Racism! Sexism! Nazi! Not my pussy!" So, the Left won't be addressing inequality anytime soon, because they're only concerned about certain types of inequality; you know, some inequalities are more unequal than others. This was driven home just now, as I was reading an article on the Guardian that managed to hammer "misogyny" and "white privilege" into an argument about fad diets.
In fact, if we still needed any proof (hint: we didn't) that the Left has become the Right, just with different slogans, we only need to read on how the Women's March, this weekend, was funded.
The Gathering of the Useless at Davos produced the same old "business-as-usual", its levels of ridiculous shooting off the charts with talks like "How to fix the Middle Class". The same luminaries that gave us last year's "Trump will never win" are presenting us their equally-brilliant predictions and solutions for the years to come.
Meanwhile, Oxfam has finally found out it had "over-valued the assets" of the poorest 50% on Earth, and that their wealth is actually matched by the richest eight people on Earth (not the richest 50, or 60, or whatever figure they had previously pulled out of their colons). I'm looking forward to the day when they reach the logical conclusion that drawing a so-called poverty line at an arbitrary value (say, $5/month) doesn't mean people earning above that line (e.g., $15/month) are no longer poor. Maybe then we can lay to rest that lovely theory that "capitalism" and "globalization" lifted 99.999999999999% of people off "poverty" in Asia.
And here in Europe, the talk is suddenly about "standing together" against the greatest attack Europe has faced since WWII. Standing together... it should be a piece of cake, given how Europe has "stood together" in the recent past:
1. A group of countries (e.g., Ireland, Holland, Luxembourg) and pseudo-countries (e.g., Lichtenstein) rob other countries of their tax income and enable tax-evading schemes, not to mention actual money laundering. The only thing on which they "stand together" is their "principle" of getting as much money as possible, regardless of its origin.
2. Germany keeps a superavit, against the EU rules, and gets no sanction for it.
3. France breaks the deficit rule, and there's not even talks about sanctions because "it's France".
I won't go again into the details of how countries like Greece and Portugal were treated, all to save mostly German banks. Greece was a particular egregious case, because all their "sins" (e.g., the 14th month-salary) were committed out in the open, and a significant part of the money was spent in business with Germany (e.g., the submarines).
I'll finish with my highlight of the past few months, what I consider to be the most ironic moment of all:
Virtue-signalling, "hard-working" countries (like Germany, Holland, Sweden, et al), that have spent these past few years telling us "lazy southerner bastards" that we have to pull our weight in the EU, getting all indignant when the US says they have to pull their weight in NATO. For the record, so do we, but we don't pretend to be more virtuous than anyone else.
Yes, I know, I'm repeating myself. But that's what you get when you write about people whose tiny little brains do not allow them to learn from their mistakes.
Actually, that's why I've written less here. I start writing, and I find myself repeating the same things I've already written, because these "best-of-the-best" elites keep repeating the same mistakes.
