Penguins

 I couldn’t let a blog slip by without mentioning the penguins.

In this crazy world, where I am able to waste inordinate amounts of time watching short videos, penguins are quite high on my list. Animals generally get my viewing time, as do swearing toddlers but penguins are some of my favourites. 

So, along with my obsession with the orange idiot that the Americans elected to run their country, I am now delighted. I’m here for the penguin content. Memes, reels and cartoons of penguins are everywhere and my lazy dopamine hit is joyous.

In the ‘Independence Day’ trade war the Trumpanzees chose a whole list of countries that would have tariffs. The president announced each item as though it were a game show, claiming that he was getting back the countries that had raped and pillaged their land. Russia wasn’t on the list but the islands of Heard and McDonald in Antarctica have a tariff of 10%. No human has visited the islands for over 10 years and so the world is wondering what the penguins have done to Trump and the reels and memes are fabulous.