Blood will Flow

This might sound weird, but this morning, Alex Salmond was on the radio, talking about Donald Trump, and something he mentioned made me pause. He was talking about meeting Trump many times in the past when the Orange Man came over to do business in Scotland. Putting aside how well or otherwise that business went, Salmond mentioned that Trump then was a paid up Democrat, a Clinton supporter and showed no evidence of the most outrageous opinions he expressed during the campaign. (He was still disgustingly sexist but that's another matter).

Salmond mused that he wasn't sure if it was a good or bad thing to think that all of the anti muslim, anti Mexican racist bollocks, together with most of the radical and obnoxious views Trump spouted during the last few months, were in fact things he truly believed in, or lies said to garner free publicity and get the most ignorant and fearful voters onside.

Shades of Brexit again, actually - given that the likes of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove didn't actually think their campaign would win and said what they did in order to further their own personal agendas...

BUT. If Trump was lying (and we all know he's an inveterate fibber without any scruples), that conversely gives me some hope for the future. If he didn't really believe in that idiotic wall, exporting immigrants, banning Muslims, criminalising abortion etc etc then perhaps he won't follow through.

I don't know. He's going to have a lot of explaining to do to all the Trump supporters who thought those things were aces if he doesn't now make them happen. But still. A tiny morsel of hope gleaming amongst the steaming pile of shit.

I was feeling very down after yesterday, and a friend posted this on Facebook, by a comedian I'd never heard of, and I found that I am in total agreement with the sentiments.

Boston. Fucking horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."   Patton Oswalt

And then there was the story about the 78 year old marathon runner, who is the guy you see on the news footage who gets thrown to the ground by the blast.  He was helped to his feet and finished the race, he then walked back to his hotel - 26.2 miles and he wasn't going to let a terrorist bomb stop him finishing.  I do find that both crazy and admirable - and typical of all the runners I know (including my hubby).  His story, and I'm sure there will be many others, demonstrates how true Patton's statement above is.

In your faces, anonymous cowardly murderers.

The beautiful Can't & Won't pictures are by pineprecipice on tumblr