Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Orange = Black


Since this supposed travel blog appears to have morphed into a trail of disaster reports, I feel obliged to note the major one that happened early this morning (NZ time). It is, of course - deep sigh - the inauguration of that ghastly, ghastly man whose stupidity, selfishness and ego will have wide-reaching and long-lasting ill effects on not just societies and economies around the world, but the actual planet, and all the life that, so far at least, exists on it. 

While nobody here, so far away yet still so vulnerable to the Orange One’s whims, is downplaying the threat he poses, it’s kind of comforting how our media have united, in a classic Kiwi response, against his claim, in a long and boastful list, that the USA first split the atom.

To be (teeth currently gritted) fair, he’s not alone in this misconception. Regular 😀 readers will recall my pointing out several times - here and here - that, despite the official-looking claim in the Willis Tower in Chicago, it was Lord Ernest Rutherford, a NEW ZEALANDER and Nobel prize winner, who first discovered how to split the atom. We’ll gloss over some of the less positive results of that process and just concentrate on how Trump’s false claims to achieving that split are actually uniting our nation. Such a shame that the U bit of the USA is now officially suspended for the next 4 years.




 

6 comments:

the queen said...

I am just thankful he hasn’t pardoned those January 6 idiots yet today (but it is only 7:47 his time).

As for the atom, I think we;re just too lazy to add the qualifiers. The US was the first to [kill horrific numof people afterbecause we] split an atom. The US was the first to land [a livung human being inside of ] a spacecraft in the moon.

TravelSkite said...

Read your comment, then clicked over to the news site. Latest update - “Trump pardons January 6 convicts”. Sigh.

the queen said...

Yes, but the idiot;s mistake about the arom is one of the top news stories on Associate Press. https://apnews.com/article/trump-split-atom-ernest-rutherford-zealand-inauguration-ffca9ef3aeeb77475b8db85a0d14c94e

the queen said...

This is a horrifying number of typos, even for me.

TravelSkite said...

Good to see. But I dispute that X comment. NZ has been first with a WHOLE HEAP of stuff the world now takes for granted. Here are just some of them: https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/new-zealand/articles/11-awesome-things-new-zealand-gave-the-world

TravelSkite said...

Let’s not also forget the electric fence and, arguably, the aeroplane..

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