Trump Tarriffs

As the world falls apart you cannot but help laugh at some of the situations that arise.  The latest is the incompetent manner of Trump and his Tariffs.  Such tariffs are not unknown, but it needs to be said that the normal practice is to make use of them in a manner helpful to your own economy, not in a scattergun approach making use of little intelligence or understanding of the costs to your self.  Trump has done this in a rather silly manner.  

The two I like best are the penguins on Heard Island & Macdonald Islands.  Here the penguins comprise the totality of the population yet Trump has demanded tariffs be placed on them.  The Emperors will not be pleased.  

However, he has gone further, a US base in the India ocean has also been targeted for tariffs, quite what exports come from an unoccupied island that possesses only US military men is not clear.  Maybe Trump knows better than everyone else?  

The tariffs could lead to economic meltdown around the world, 1929 and all that once again.  Our prized bank accounts bulging at the seams, no they really are, will easily be emptied and soup kitchens may well be our lot some day soon.  

This could be the end of the world.

It could be just another warning.

It certainly starts with Putin making use of gullible greedy people, hello Mr Farage, and the neoliberals continuing their quest to make the peasants pay while they enrich themselves.  

Christians must ready themselves for all situations.  Whatever happens trusting in Jesus will see us through this.  Following the worlds way will drag us down.  Our God cares, we must also.

 

Guy

April One and Cooking

A blue ski and bright sunshine greet us on the first day of April, 'April Fools Day,' as some call it.  Few however, have bothered to play jokes this morning as it is difficult to tell such humour from the daily outpourings of Trump and Keir.  One did get me on Facebook however, UK Police Humour got me, a description of a scrote who burst a window on a police car was given, and when you clicked on the button it took you to your own page.  Very clever I thought.  One or two others have appeared claiming Farage wanted to buy Canvey Island and turn it into 'Nar-a-Fargo, and others claimed to have been recruited to work for Trump, in spite of what they have called him beforehand.  

Keir Starmer gave a good one, until I realised it was true, he spoke about 'illegal immigrants,' and hating how they took money from workers, and other blatant Reform UK type policy words.  Clearly he fears Reform UK will tale votes from him but instead of changing policy he merely copies Farage.  I doubt this will work.

So far, Trump has not appeared, maybe he will remain indoors today as few can believe anything he says anyway?  

I'm all at sea today.  Everything is failing badly.  I began this post yesterday and forgot all about it.  I sat here staring into space wondering what it was I was meant to be doing and here it was, not doing anything.  

Anyway, I did work yesterday, I finished ironing the summer shirts from last year, cooked and later dismembered a chicken, now made into some sort of soup today.  And spent time wondering how my idea of saving money was costing me money.    

You see, I buy a bag of mince, made something with this which leaves me 4 or 5 bowls of whatever it is in the freezer.  This meets with the previous curry that lies there awaiting me gathering the courage and yoghurt sufficient to try it again.  So now I have days of chicken before me, with some alternatives, and I think this good.

Then I consider the cost.  

Buying the stuff from one of the two greedy supermarkets is straight forward but expensive, then at home it has to be cooked, the chicken in the electric oven for 2 hours, the others in the big pot on the hob, which takes another couple of hours.  Saving money when shopping but increasing the use of the oven with greedy EON stealing my pension I reckon leaves me not any better off, as indeed I had hoped.  

EON have had a good week so far, the laptop, the hoover, the cooker, lights in the evening as the sun goes down, and then there is the water used via the gas boiler which has been used much, simply to clean the mess after cooking.     

Electric, gas and water costs always rising, and all offer help to cut costs you will notice, any help bar lowering the prices the greedy capitalists.  I think it is British Gas that made £65 billion profit, though it may be another greedy CEO and company.  One of my private pensions, the big one, has increased by £1:41 per year!  Hooray!  However, I am not one to complain, I can survive and I am a long way from visiting a food bank, there are many others who are really struggling and this Red Tory crowd are not going to aid them.  We live under the control of the greedy rich ensuring the peasants pay the taxes they do not wish to pay, and die to keep them of benefits or making use of the NHS.  YOU voted for this I tell people, but they do not wish to notice this, and many appear willing to vote for more of this once again.