Open for Business
01/05/2020 11:30 pmSo apparently a whole bunch of states in the USA will be open for business today. That should be rather.... interesting.
Meanwhile the Governor of Colorado has to get his minions to go sneaking about in the dead of night merely to guarantee the arrival of supplies from South Korea. Because the trumpish pirates are everywhere.
I am so so glad to live in the ever so boring not so wild west of Oz where the death toll from the virus is not yet in double digits. Total cases for all of Australia is 6,767 confirmed with 93 who have died
The state government recently relaxed the numbers of people in public gatherings from 2 up to 10. Unlike over east, I never got the impression that they were strictly enforcing the rules but rather relying on public good will. No one here is getting slammed by the cops for sitting on park benches or eating out on the streets.
The state and international borders are still closed. The odd flight is still coming in but all the passengers are being put in quarantine.
At this rate, it is looking increasingly likely that more restrictions could be removed within weeks rather than months. Schools officially reopened on Wednesday. I did 2 Raine Square bottle shop bus runs on Tuesday and Thursday and noticed the big difference it made. Tuesday was still ghost town territory while on Thursday the public transport had returned to an almost normal weekday schedule and there were a lot more people out and about on the streets
In the meantime, in honour of a certain anniversary, I started reading a book that I picked up at the Salvos a few months ago. A 1938 English translation of Mein Kampf. The last time I attempted to read this tedious tome was some 40 years ago but I figured it's finally time to give it another try.
This time is very different because there is the minor matter of November 2016. This changes everything
I skimmed through the usual whining but then I kept encountering talk of The Movement and the power of speakers over writers in leading such a movement. Also his efforts to counteract the nasty LIES that the evil JEWISH press have been spreading about him. But it was the reference to Imperial Austria as a Shadow State that got the snaky senses all abuzz
Come to think of it, I am sure there was mention of the melting pot of races in the Austrian empire as a pit of snakes.
I have been stalking trump since March 2016 and trolling him on Twitter since December 2016 and on countless occasions he has used those very same references. Along with the dead give away "Total Victory" which sounds rather more sinister in the German original "Sieg Heil"
One of his previous wives claimed that he had a copy of Hitler's speeches "My New World Order" on his bedside table. I am now inclined to believe that it was not the only one.
I had always thought that trump's demagoguery was due to his predatory instincts but now I suspect that that at some stage he decided to imitate not the original but the most evil of the species
What's old is new again