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The other day, Donald Trump said he was going to sue the BBC for over one billion dollars* because the Panorama programme edited a speech he gave. The way they spliced it together made it sound like he was urging the January 6 rioters to storm the Capital building. This action was, of course, deplorable. All three actions, I mean. The speech, the storming and the bad editing.
Then, a few days later, after his declaration that he would sue the BBC, which, incidentally, he hates, Donald Trump declared that France should not be celebrating the end of the Second World War because America won all the wars. As far as I’m concerned, this demeans the deaths of so many young men who fought for freedom.
Ignoring the fact that Victory Day in France is hardly what a normal, ethical human being would call a ‘celebration’, I do wonder why France doesn’t sue Donald Trump for over one billion dollars for ignoring the sacrifice France made. And other European military personnel.
In face, given the lies he keeps telling, how come lots of other countries don’t sue him? Or, better yet, why don’t news organisations sue him for calling them fake news? Oh, silly me, I forgot they are all scared of him, aren’t they.
Then, this morning, I read that:
Two of them — Debra Houry, the CDC’s chief science and medical officer, and Demetre Daskalakis, who led the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases — stepped down on Aug. 27, hours after the White House announced the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez.
KFF Health News: https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/senior-cdc-officials-resign-susan-monarez-ouster-concerns-over-scientific-independence/
I can just hear Donald Trump, reading their names out and asking reporters, “Who are they? They don’t sound American. Send them to El Salvador. We need Americans doing American jobs.“
While, here in the real world, today’s temperature ranges were staggering highs of 11° – 13° and lows of 4° – -2°. That is a big range. It also rained.
My day was spent mostly in the kitchen, while Mirinda and Nicoline went for a walk and visited the local recycling centre. They took exciting photos of fibre glass, which they then sent to me.
* I’ve said this before but it bears repeating. When Americans say one billion dollars, they actually mean one thousand million dollars. It made me laugh the other day when Elon Musk was given a pay rise which would make him the world’s first trillionaire. This is bullshit. He will actually be a billionaire (one million million). One trillion is one billion billion. Just like one billion is one million million. But, of course, mega rich people are so in love with money that they inflate numbers to make them sound more than they are. Either that or they’ve forgotten how to count.
This has been going on for a while. I found this on Huffpost: “The US value had, however, become increasingly used in Britain and the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson confirmed in a written reply in 1974 that the meaning of “billion” would be thousand-million, in conformity with international usage.”
Speaking of American money, and looking at the other end of the scale, today saw the final penny being made.
