Trump, a perspective. Snobbery?

This is not written as a Trump fan. It’s written simply as a Trump observer. 

It’s only when you have spent some time [and let’s be honest, it’s all some people have done for the last four years] listening to Trump detractors wax critical of everything this president, no, person [some still trot out the mantra: ‘he is not MY president’] represents to them without a single acknowledgement of anything he may have achieved in that time. And there has been much however that isn’t the point here. 

It’s easy to be critical. Of anything. It’s just lazy. It takes no effort at all. It also takes no objective or [ironically] critical thinking especially when the media is forming your opinions for you.

And, I have come to discover, much of Trump hatred is engendered within a blind snobbery. There is a large sector of America that simply cannot bear the idea that this boorish, uncouth bad hair day dude could be their president. It is embarrassingly beneath them. Hence the continued denial that he actually is. And, let’s be honest here, unlike Joe Biden, Trump actually is the president. Still. For now. 

Another thing the Trump bashing media takes pains to ignore while they ramp up the catch phrase “president elect” thereby planting it in the collective American psyche in hope that it will come to pass...

Based on the electoral college results, it should, of course, be a fait accompli but everyone downplays [most notably the mainstream media] the impending congressional session where the electoral college votes are ratified for a final time and where objections can be raised as to the legitimacy of these results. Any objections, if seconded [and Republicans could hold sway] then this election is far from over.

Any articles that do speculate on this dynamic, in the mainstream press, round firmly on the conclusion that this would be the last ditch act of a desperate man and would likely fail. It would represent the death throes of a loser unwilling to accept defeat. And that may be the eventual outcome but we would be disingenuous if we were to glibly proclaim this to have been a normal or seemingly ethical or logical election. 

Can we rely on that pathological hatred harboured by the anti Trumpers to have swung a seemingly landsliding [in Trump’s favour at the time] result overnight to render sleepy Joe Biden, not only a better ballot total than Barack Obama but the biggest win in US election history with apparently over 80 million votes?

Despite the flagrantly anomalous torpedoing of precedents by the most unlikely of candidates, the nation and its courts seem to have similarly dispensed with basic mathematics at the same time where 1.8 million and 2.5 million can apparently mean the same thing and nobody bats an eye.... So yes, folks, this situation IS unprecedented and I don’t discount a stormy congressional/senate undertaking in January when Mike Pence is tasked with proclaiming Trump a loser [or not....]. 

I wouldn’t want to call it. 

All I can say is that, like with COVID, there is something horribly fishy about the entire US election this time round and the US media, driven by anti Trump propaganda, are determined to ignore the big fat elephant in the voting booth who can’t tally votes yet is still believed. 

Come on, nobody [and I mean NOBODY] actually believes Biden is even remotely presidential material. Even less so than Trump ever was. The only conclusion must be that it wasn’t Biden’s fit or popularity that turned things around, it was the swing votes of all those who hate Trump that much. This even when the election was unarguably ramping up in Trump’s favour. 

One thing that must surely be questioned: during the claims of election fraud and ballot tampering and anomalous numbers....when any of these issues are scrutinised even in the most cursory way, not one single controversial ballot appears for Trump. Every single ballot after the night they purportedly stopped counting, was in favour of that scamp, Joe Biden. 

Funny that, huh?

I guess people really do hate Trump that much.

Or could it be they are just snobs?

Or maybe it was a bit dodgy after all...?

Can’t wait for January 6th when all will be settled once and for all...

Vegan Pigeon-Holing

I read a piece the other day (by an American vegan) pigeon-holing vegans as being almost exclusively right-leaning hipsters who supported the gun lobby and saw everything and anything leftist as conspiracy  and that as such these vegans also believed that plant-based living exempted them from infection as their immune systems were far superior to the rest of society and that those suffering from COVID-19 (sic) just needed to have a vegan immune system. She wrote this in a generic way which is as facile as saying that all the human omnivores on the planet are NOT tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists and believe the official narrative of COVID because they are all of the same mindset. That’s just spurious horse shit I’m sure you’d agree.

And I don’t fit into her shoehorned categorisation of what this imagined cult of proselytising vegans are supposed to stand for.

For me it is very simple - I am a) not saying there isn’t a virus - I am saying that it hasn’t been isolated - but without that scientific standard on which to base the whole COVID narrative, it cannot be supported empirically in any way b) not advocating that all vegans are by default healthier than their meat-eating compatriots - not at all. Vegans eat all manner of shit and a whole heap of processed crap that is as unhealthy as anything anyone else eats (the meme here case in point but so what) - the premise of veganism is simple - it’s a lifestyle that involves no animal products. That’s it. It doesn’t thus by default propel vegans to an immediately higher realm of consciousness - that is a mistake that many who are in judgement of vegans for just being vegans, make and, it must be said, many vegans assume superiority as a result too. It isn’t good for the cause but I believe that needs to be taken up with each vegan as you meet them. Plant-based diets are, unarguably healthier than meat-rich and dairy-based lifestyles. Again, it doesn’t follow that farming only plants is going to save the planet (if one thinks it needs saving, of course) - what gets missed here is that the healthy and sustainable component comes in when a diet is largely organic as that is, without any doubt, the healthiest and most sustainable way for humans to exist. 

I have huge moral issues against people who wantonly and consciously don’t give a fuck about the knock-on effects of the meat and dairy industry and think that organically farmed meat and dairy products somehow benefit the animals - they don’t. They do however benefit the land and the human species. If one can avoid chemicalised, processed food - that is a no brainer but it doesn’t necessarily just pertain to plants. 

That’s where the simplistic viewpoint offered up by the author of the article I’m referencing, falls away as well - vegans, by default don’t just think their immune systems are healthier and in better shape because of veganism - it’s about the purity of the food that is being consumed but hey - if you’re a vegan pisshead who downs a litre of brandy every evening and are partial to some chemical recreation then it really doesn’t matter that you’re not partaking of flesh - your lifestyle will still take its toll on your immune system. 

The basis of good health management is avoiding that type of toxicity and plants alone don’t provide that - they have to be organic, non-contaminated plants that aren’t laced with glyphosate and other heavy metal toxins during the chemicalised factory farming process. 

Similarly, organically produced meat is far healthier than the GMO-fed, chemicalised mass produced product that most humans carnivores eat and probably synthesised, plant-based “meats”. 

So to just create this narrow band of vegan denialists, while it may apply to some vegans, it certainly isn’t a meaningful brush with which to tar all of us.

The other unarguable factor is what is delivered via vaccines by way of attrition as side-effects and using a very simple analogy - if vaccines were this optimal health-benefit then the most vaccinated population on the planet (Americans) would by default be the healthiest among us but in reality, they are among the unhealthiest of all the developed nations bar none and have the highest infant mortality rates and SIDS rates and allergy rates and and developmental disorders and autism rates and on and on - don’t believe me - check out the CDC website itself. 

By the same token, to lump the politics of veganism into this discussion is similarly just ridiculous. I, in the author’s opinion, am a right wing anti-liberal gun-loving conspiracy theorist who believes that by eating plants I have a claim to a superior immunity somehow....

How is there any relationship between my politics and my organic vegan lifestyle?

I believe in not harming animals and, for that matter humans - ergo: I never have and never will own a gun - I don’t believe in them. You get rid of every firearm on the planet and we’d be a long way toward pacifying the population. 

And the only reason one would be seen to be so-called “right wing” is simply by dint of the fact that these are the narrow parameters that our political landscape has been restricted to - you’re either a Republican or a Democrat - Labour or Tory and so it goes on - each so-called democracy deliberately perverted into a two-party system - not for our convenience but for ease of separation. Exactly what’s happening on the planet. 

So simply because I see through the hateful leftist (not my word) so-called liberal (it isn’t) media and its ownership by the Deep State machine, this automatically makes me anti this (correct) but it neither automatically makes me right wing, a Republican or Socialist nor by default, a Trump lover. But if the choice is boiled down to having only one choice to oppose the maniacs that have hijacked our health and media, then that’s the side on which one has to fall, warts and all.

I have sympathy for the writer and her husband who got sick, that sucks but it has nothing to do with vegan denialism or militancy - just everything to do with people simply getting sick in the same way two people from the same genetic background may each smoke 70 cigarettes a day for 20 years and one may develop cancer and die and the other not - but who knows what other factors are at play here that compromise health, not least of which may just be simply ongoing environmental toxicity - consumed over time. Exposure to 5G radiation, workplace toxic exposure and, of course - stress. 

It was, in short, a stupid article making quantum and paradigm leaps attempting, unsuccessfully to categorise a lifestyle choice into a socio-political one-size-fits-all analysis. That doesn’t work - not at all.

And many of the processed “plant” based alternatives don’t automatically presuppose healthier eating but by the same token, it’s not just about that - it’s about not harming other sentient beings - if we choose to eat shit and harm ourselves, that is still our prerogative - a choice - something that we deny the animals that we breed and abuse, traumatise and eventually murder. To me - that’s the point and it is a fundamentally flawed, selfish and immoral one.