Bruce Sterling on Boris Johnson's bizarre, cyberpunk dystopia address to the UN

In British politics, being a member of the right old boy network is everything. Assmonkey Johnson got where he is because he owes and is owed by a lot of rich, influential people. Like Reagan, Bush, Cheney, and Trump in this country, and Rob Ford in Canada, he’s a useful distraction who keeps attention centered on him so his corporate puppet masters can quietly loot and rape the country in the shadows. That is the standard tactic of the ultrarich ultraright looter-capitalism class today: put a ridiculous assclown in office and use his idiotic public visibility to smokescreen their crimes.

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