…it’s closer than you think [DOT 31/1/20]

…not that anyone really cares any more (not even fucking nige now he’s done his big flouncing petulant child act) but today is apparently officially Brexit day…which really deserves its own post which I will happily write if I get a moment later on &/or become so entirely enraged by the whole thing that I jack in the constructive elements of my day in favor of screaming into the digital void more so than usual

…but the cliff notes are approximately this…today’s the day the UK passes the point of being able to postpone knowing what the fuck a brexit looks like indefinitely while stringing its electorate along like a bunch of mugs to vote for the same assholes that have been the principle architects of most of the misery they’ve spent the last four decades blaming on a europe they never really tried to explain the point of, much less the advantages of being in a union with…but then they never have been exactly fans of the union thing except for that one union of those kingdoms…at least one of which would rather be united with Europe than little England anyway

…a year hence boris (or whoever inevitably succeeds him if it goes that way) needs to have figured out how to have both a land & a sea border operating around Northern Ireland…um…without there being a border between either Northern Ireland & the rest of Ireland or between it & the rest of the UK…& to have successfully diverged from alignment with the customs & tariff structures of the EU to the point of being somehow more attractive to investors than the various nations within the EU when it comes to conveying products & services to the enormous market that is…umm…the EU…& to have successfully negotiated a plethora of trade deals with everyone from the US to…ummm…the EU…& to have a functional set of systems for processing the necessary information to ensure that the brave new customs & excise requirements for all that trade can be seamlessly integrated by a brand new suite of software that…ummmm…almost certainly won’t be ready in time…so obviously all the brexiteers are just delirious with joy…or possibly just delirious…honestly it’s hard to tell with those assholes at the best of times…which today isn’t

…but that shit don’t happen until after November 2020 so let’s get back to our ABCs, children

A is for Awe, or more properly Aw…as in awful, or aw, shucks that’s too bad

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/after-soleimani-killing-u-s-braced-iranian-drone-missile-strikes-n1126556

B is for bullshit, bullies & bitches

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-recording-shows-access-lev-parnas-and-igor-fruman-had-to-trump-at-mar-a-lago-donor-event/2020/01/30/story.html

C is for cut that shit out

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/house-to-vote-on-measures-seeking-to-restrain-trump-on-iran/2020/01/30/story.html

D is for disgraceful

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/schiff-slams-gop-senators-whistleblower-questions-disgraceful-n1126991

E is for economic slowdown

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/30/us-economy-grew-23-percent-2019-slowest-trumps-presidency-held-back-by-trade-fears-global-slowdown/

F is for fuck this alphabet business…life’s too damn short & I’m too damn angry…

later, y’all…