I don't think I need to recapitulate everything that's happened in the last week. There's little point because you've heard about it, and either you're okay with it (in which case, please fuck off into the nearest black hole ASAP) or you're not. It is a truism that Those Fucking People on board with Satsuma Harkonnen always accuse everybody else of what they're doing (or about to do), just like your classic school bully. Specifically, That Kid that everybody knew had something way the hell wrong with him that nobody ever did anything about.

You know the one I mean …

It is highly unlikely that you've missed the events of the last month or so. If you were sufficiently fortunate to have been in a medically induced coma, you missed Donald Trump not only alienating every possible ally the United States still had on this planet but starting a trade war by enacting a tariff policy which appears to have been generated by an LLM which, predictably, fucked up badly.

• Bangladesh - 37%
• Bosnia - 35%
• Cambodia - 49%
• China - 34%
• the Falkland Islands - 41%
• Fiji - 32%
• India - 26%
• Iraq - 39%
• Liechtenstein - 37%
• Norfolk Island - 29%
• Sri Lanka - 44%

And, of course, not …

David and Eileen Wetzel converted a 1986 Volkswagon Golf to run on vegetable oil as fuel a couple of years ago, and have been driving around with it for a while now. The Illinois Department of Revenue is investigating them for criminal charges, mostly for not paying tax on fuel that the car doesn't even use, retroactive to the point at which he re-worked the car's engine. The couple (who are in their late 70's) had to post a $2500us bond (no mean feat when living on a fixed income, as many retired people do), and have to pay $244us …