International Domino Awards 2019
IF YOU look under the Christmas tree, you’ll find among your gifts the eleventh annual Domino Awards inspired by the Khooky Khast of Kharacters from my domino-playing years, starring that happy-golucky idler, the Dunce.
These awards are my clumsy attempt to inject humour into the annual tradition of handing out variegated ‘awards’ based on criteria only the judges understand. My criterion is satire.
So, first up, I’ll hand out some international awards:
1. THE INTERNATIONAL DUNCE AWARD
JEREMY CORBYN so badly misread British sentiments that he conducted an imbecilic strategy of parliamentary obstruction of the Brexit plans of a hugely popular prime minister, whose stated intention resonated with the majority of traditional and ‘new’ Brits alike. They were disgusted with the Labour Party’s supercilious attitude that ignored their referendum vote and repeatedly insisted it knew more than they on Brexit.
Then, faced with the inevitability of another referendum (sub nom general election), Corbyn ran a leader-centric campaign pitting his intellectually patronizing persona against that of the people’s hero and received a classic ullo that would make even Botox blush.
Jeremy, the Dunce sey: macca, mek it jook yu!”
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America’s DEMOCRATIC PARTY wins this award hands down for its ill-conceived, nonsensical, counterproductive proceedings to impeach
USA’s mentally (not age-related) infirm president. For the confused among you, impeachment isn’t removal from office but the equivalent of a criminal charge (indictment) that must be tried against an accused person who is presumed innocent. What must be established is that this moron knew he was doing something wrong. But is he capable of knowing that?
The vital distinction between criminal and impeachment trials is, the latter are political circuses. In this one, two-thirds of a Republicancontrolled Senate must vote for conviction to unseat a sitting Republican president. Democrats knew from the outset this just wasn’t on.
It’s more likely President Dotard will continue labeling himself ‘Victim-in-Chief’ and thus motivate his functionally semi-literate, jingoistic base to support him with vim, vigour and vitality come November. Democrats’ parliamentary exercise in intellectual masturbation, combined with their muddled, grab-bag contest to nominate Herr Trumpf’s opponent, add up to political suicide. That twenty-odd-ring circus is dominated by national non-electables, except Joe Biden, who seems well past his sell-by date and an easy target for Dotard Trumpf ’s standard mud-slinging tactics.
3. THE ARCHBISHOP’S AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR
Let’s face it. My generation has abysmally failed the Earth. Worse, we continue to pretend, like Billy Bunter (or Shaggy), that it wasn’t us. So in a year when youth took on the mantle of world leadership, probably inspired by 2018’s Never Again MSD student revolt after a vicious mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, another youth movement motivated a global campaign for action against climate change.
The FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE student movement successfully highlighted climate change’s imminent threat and embarrassed stuck-in-the-mud legislators everywhere.
Now, students around the world take to the streets monthly to demand politicians do more to acknowledge and act upon the reality and severity of climate change. These regular marches have attracted more than one million young people in more than 100 countries.
The movement is also proof that one person can make a difference as it was inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who, in 2018, staged a lonely protest vigil in front of the Swedish parliament for three weeks to draw attention to the climate emergency. Within a year, she was addressing September’s UN Climate Change Conference.
“How dare you?” she asked world leaders. “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words”.
She warned, “My message is, we’ll be watching you!”
This year’s International Personality of the Year Award goes to the FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE MOVEMENT for galvanizing a global conversation about climate change, leaving non-believers nowhere to hide.
Merry Christmas to all! And to all…
Peace and love!