Suits

1 March 2025

It is clear to people all over the internet, that the vicious bullying attack in the Oval Office by Trump and “V.D.” Vance was orchestrated to justify what will be a switch to supporting Putin. It started with a journalist asking President Zelensky why he was not wearing a suit. Everyone knows that Zelensky has said he will not wear a suit until his country is free of the Russians murdering, raping, torturing, bombing, stealing children. It was a set up. It was choreographed.

Suits.

It’s what rock musicians call corporate lawyers and their lickspittles in record companies.

Urban dictionary:

Suits is a dis-affectionate term for people who are business men, government workers, for example the CIA, FBI and other three letter government officials.

Suits … and ties.
Who wears them nowadays?

Suit sales have dropped dramatically, and Lockdown more or less finished them in many business areas. My lawyer doesn’t wear a tie. My bank manager doesn’t wear a tie. Doctors have stopped too. Years ago, it was found that surgeons’ ties were home to as much bacteria as a toilet seat, more as no one cleans ties with bleach. The last time I saw a GP he was wearing scrubs.

A couple of years ago. Saturday morning. Tesco. I couldn’t find something. A man in a dark blue suit, white shirt and tie was standing there. I asked him. He was confused, he didn’t work there. But on Saturday morning a man in a suit and a tie really looks like an employee. A lowly employee too. Mind you, I just Googled Tesco manager and the images had jackets but no ties.

Don’t ask me though. I haven’t owned a formal suit since the mid-80s. If it’s formal, I wear a jacket and tie but not a suit. I wore a pale loose linen suit at my son’s wedding in California in 2012. That’s the last time I wore a suit of any colour or kind.

Wear one if you want to. My father-in-law liked to wear a jacket and tie while gardening. An author friend always put on a jacket and tie before starting to write each day as it put him in work mode. It’s personal choice. I quite like jackets because there’s somewhere to put your phone.

Barack Obama often appeared without a tie, as have most British Prime Ministers of the last 25 years. Disrespectful?

Yesterday, Prince William made a formal visit to Bournemouth. He wore a separates jacket, a jumper and no tie. Disrespectful?

What is Trump going to say when he finds King Charles III is not wearing a blue corporate suit AND not even wearing trousers?

An addition. Hugh Dellar just posted this on his page.

This is Winston Churchill at the White House. He is not wearing a suit because his country is at war,

Bad men in suits …

So what is the magic of a suit and tie? Is it the badge of tyranny? Putin wears them. Xi Ping wears them.

Respecting the White House?

What would Trump and Vance say to Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia , or Narenda Modri of India or Bola Ahmed Tinuba of Nigeria if they arrived in the formal dress of their countries?

Disrespectful?

Three more world leaders. Why aren’t you wearing a suit?

Here is the rule about formality. The more work needed to maintain a costume, the more formal it is. In hot countries, white is more formal because it needs more work to keep it clean. Loose fitting is good too.

SAY THANK YOU!!!

That was “V.D.” Vance’s demand. Then Trump’s $300 billion last week became $350 billion this week. He claimed three times as much as Europe.

According to the Keil Institute:
24 January 2022 and the end of 2024, Europe as a whole spent $138.7bn on Ukraine. In the same period, the United States spent $119.7bn, according to their figures.

$119.7 billion NOT $350 billion.

So President Yelensky is not only supposed to let the USA mine $500 billion of natural Ukraine resources but to say ‘Thank you’ as well. Have you seen the film If ….? Or read English public school stories? Take If … . After being caned, flogged, beaten brutally, the victim had to thank the schoolmaster or prefect who did it.

We know all about ‘Thank you, America’ while we pay back loans with interest. Lease / Lend kept us going in 1940 to 1941. We bought largely obsolete US warships and weapons. We were grateful. But we had to pay it back. Ever wondered why the USA was so prosperous in the 1950s while we had food rationing and dingy poverty? It took Britain until 2006 to repay those American loans.

That’s what America does. Sell you a load of weaponry that was due to be scrapped so the UK in 1940 / Ukraine 2022-25 can fight Fascist forces alone instead of them doing it. Then you pay back many times over. Then you have to grovel, and have to say ‘Thank you for flogging me, sir.’

Fighting Fascism? Then again, America likes its uniforms: