Whatever he's got, I hope it's something they were about to find a cure for, but his administration canceled the funding.
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Whatever he's got, I hope it's something they were about to find a cure for, but his administration canceled the funding.
The Republicans better reclaim their party, to save themselves from only being known as the party for sexual offenders. The intersection between politics, religion and sexual abuse is gross.
You're hysterical. It was you who started the insults! And now your only justification for the gun ownership insanity in America is YOUR OPINION that they're all held for sentimental reasons. How many AR-15s did your great granddaddy own? How many flintlocks are used in school shootings? Tell me.
More guns than people. That's a (pretty sick) fact. I'm not persuaded you know enough about higher education to have an opinion.
We may have more in common than the limits of X allow. If you go back, my complaint is why 1688 is not called a coup. You wanted 'abdication', but the spin is all wrong. G. Revolution is better but not as good as coup. The English narrative is unacceptable to a Scottish perspective. Words matter
I'm lost by this. What the hell are you talking about? If you use 'fiction' as a pejorative term you fundamentally fail to understand how much effort and labour historians put into their trade. The blood on the ground is not false. Your desire to fictionalise it is weird.
I thought it was you who was relying on the legal rationales? For the record, I'm articulating the dominant Scottish (not English) view. History can be diminished to competing narratives, but they still have to take account of the facts and the blood on the ground is a fact.
Maybe not if he dies first, but I still believe.
If your view is that James VII voluntarily abdicated (is that correct?) then why all the subsequent bloodshed (which is not a narrative but a fact)?
If Trump goes to jail do you think that he too will die of suicide?
Don't make me go back to my books. It was a revolution, a coup, the overthrow of a monarch. The equality you present between actions = abdication is not adequate. The arc of subsequent Stuart history in Ireland, then Scotland is not one of 'going quietly'. It is a fabulous era too little discussed🙂
No he didn't (as far as I know)
And in 1688 there was a coup in which the same James VII was deposed but I've yet to read anyone who uses the word 'coup' when justifying this event.
For a moment I thought you were going to say that you needed to show a gun license - glad I was wrong.
You're funny. Insult me all you like, it just make you look small. A society which has more guns than people is sick. So much for the gospel of love which your fellow citizens have turned into a gospel of fear.
Nice bit of self-serving rhetoric. Go ask ai to make you a table of gun ownership, gun deaths and mental illness per 100,000 in Western Europe and recognize what an outlier the USA is. Gun deaths are caused by guns. You are a primitive people.
Sorry, thoughts and prayers are all that's left in the dregs of the Federal budget.
You don't need straightening out!
CREEPING SOCIALISM LIKE NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE!
That Trump chose the image of white supremacy to represent his ICE Gestapo tells me everything. He wants them to have no ethics, no morals, no hesitancy when asked to commit whatever heinous crimes he demands. ICE will be/is the new NAZI army, we must be ready!
Socialim rides again... what will MAGA say when they realise the betrayal
Brings a tear...
Target's CEO of over 11 yrs, Brian Cornell, is stepping down due to lost revenue from boycotts due to their ending DEI. COO Michael Fiddelke will be the next CEO. Target reported a $12.4 billion drop in market value and a 3.1% decline in Q4 sales. #ProudBlue apnews.com/article/targ...
Sorry, he's already solved the Russia Ukraine war and it doesn't matter what anyone says.
Governor Newsom is fighting for us.👏💪🏽
Are people on Blue Skye going to the IAHR in Krakow? I'm organizing an open panel on Religion and Madness with the wonderful Ann Taves on the 29th. What events do you suggest?
New word for the day: "Osmogenesis" The concept of fragrance or odors being associated with spiritual or supernatural phenomena
The Zelenskyy team heading to DC: 🇪🇺 Ursula Von Der Leyen 🇬🇧 Keir Stammer 🇩🇪 Friedrich Merz 🇫🇷 Emmanuel Macron 🇮🇹 Giorgia Meloni 🇫🇮 Alexander Stubb 🇳🇱 Mark Rutte (NATO)
As compensation for not stopping the war, will Trump give Putin a Kennedy award for his contribution to distracting attention from Epstein?
My goodness I can just imagine Republicans clutching their pearls at this outrage.
Journalists covering the Alaska summit, please ask if Putin is in the Epstein list...
America has become a shithole country
It turns out Trump's attack on the homeless people of DC has been misconstrued, he's rounding them up to relocate them in his ballroom.
It could also be that Zelensky can just go home because Trump is going to 'return' Alaska to Russia as the territorial offering to settle the Ukrainian war... madder things are possible.
Brilliant idea - and outcome. If Trump gives Alaska to Putin for peace in the Ukrainian war both sides will be happy, the Europeans will be happy, hell, the whole world will be happy and Trump will definitely be deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize. As for Murkowski, well... she'll equivocate.
I was being a bit slow
before jumping
But I heard him say on TV that his ratings were above 70% - does that make him deluded, a liar or both?
The worst, or is it the best, bit about the Epstein cover up dinner taking place at the White House tonight is the lack of transparency. The conspirators (Vance, Bondi, Patel, Wiles, etc) will devise a strategy to save Trump, whilst denying you the details of his sexual abuse of teenage girls.
Witkoff is being played by Putin, just like Trump was before - what happened to ending the war on day one - Trump had no plan, he lied. None of these people are credible.
Oh my goodness Maxwell didn't find any wrongdoing by Trump Bookmakers all over the world are going bankrupt due to the inevitability of this deep state stitch-up Every right wing podcaster knows Trump is guilty as hell and a convicted liar and child abuser is not going to clear his name.
" My life as a young person was just beginning. You robbed me of that by exploiting my hopes and ambitions." - Virginia Guiffre's statement to Ghislane Maxwell, read in court the day Maxwell was sentenced June 28,2022 ( Read full text in comments)
Trump The Demented Psychopath is rambling on again. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! #ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
BREAKING: Bono just got Joe Rogan to agree that Trump’s cuts to USAID are devastating to America’s world standing and power. MAGA is already trying to hide this. Make sure everyone sees this. substack.com/@demwinsmedi...
Possible MAGA don't understand 'quid pro quo'? If you move a vile convicted sex offender, what is gain in return? Conspiratorial podcasters please help me out here... and don't say better job numbers
Hypocrite is not quite the right word for a man who sacks the keeper of the employment and inflation data and goes after Jack Smith for doing his job, while overturning the sentence of a sexual abuser. None of it makes any sense until you look through Trump's utterly self-serving point of view.
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Justin Wofers has been terminated by Donald J Trump for exhibiting excessive sarcasm.
Too coherent for a real TACO post on Lie Social.
Hope you have been having a lovely #Lughnasa #Lammas, ready for the arc to Samhain... wonder what it will bring...
Why are there so many chairs? Do they not understand the role of dance?
Ha, Scotland had a shot at being God's chosen ones in the National Covenant of 1638... Are you familiar with Pew www.pewresearch.org/search/circu... - seems obtusely oblivious I'd like a more robust analysis of Galatians/Jerusalem and contemporary practice in the USA to understand the politics
Since when are we obliged to take a child murderer seriously? Shut him down - and stop selling him weapons... or adding contingencies into the recognition of Palestine.
OK, I'm ok lowering my figure to 71.2%! worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
Right now, I got it off AI but only cos I couldn't re-find the source on PubMed I'd previously consulted. I imagine the precise % is subject to various contestations - but the point remains: circumcision is widely practiced in America - and I don't know why as it isn't required by the New Testament
It is a matter of fact that around 80% of America men are circumcised. Why? What does this mean? If circumcision is symbolic of the covenant relationship between Abraham and his God, how does this fact influence Americans' relationship with Israel today?
The bit about the Epstein case is that President Trump clearly knew Epstein and that having sex with under age girls (aka raping) was against the law. So how come Trump didn't do the responsible thing and inform the authorities - to save future victims?
Thank you kindly!
You're skating on thin ice with this one...
Tomorrow's front page of The National 📰 'Stand up to this bully'
I was brought up on my parents' copy of An Evening Wasted, whilst poisoning pigeons was easy to understand it was Masochism Tango which stretched not only my pre-teen vocabulary but also my imagination.
If a man demonstrably cheats at something as trivial as golf why do his MAGA cult continue to trust him on anything?
Tomorrow's front page of The Sunday National 📰 'The spineless seven'
Everyone in Scotland
Jesus wept (and then he smote)
Indeed. Apparently we (Scots) are paying for the 5,000 police officers required to keep the monster constrained... disgraceful.
Trump's mum dreamt of America and fulfilled her dream with a German immigrant. Today her vile son is back in Scotland trying to escape his pedophile past. Oh, how proud his mum might have been of all his immoral deeds. But the land of Scotland rejects his lie.
Steady on... you're not wrong, but we in Scotland also have to pay for the 5,000 police detailed to keep the monster constrained.
What Tod Blanche should say is: "This woman is vile, her sentence should be doubled". Instead he will say: you can get out of jail as long as you don't tell the world what my boss did with under-age girls
Donald J Trump has come to Scotland to avoid questions about Epstein. I'm so proud of the Scottish response setting up miles of fencing and five thousand police officer to keep him under control. Well done #policescotland (p.s. if it's a private visit why did he bring the press corps with him?)
On his visit to Scotland, I'm glad British Royalty are doing the right thing and standing in solidarity with the American President.
Tomorrow's front page 📰 Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
I'm concerned for the truth of Hulk Hogan's demise
Preparing the way for his future career
Donald Trump's concerns about the Epstein files have infected Channel 4's coverage of Gaza - at this rate there will be peace by tomorrow.
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵
I think you're being taken by the play.
Was MLK on the Epstein list? Didn't think so, but I do know who is desperately trying to distract from their sleazebag past with their best friend Jeffrey.
Ha ha ha - He's so petty.
Bondi's new strategy of diversion. Never mind Epstein, look at me make guns more accessible to criminals: "For too long, countless Americans with criminal histories have been permanently disenfranchised from exercising the right to keep and bear arms... No longer" www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-...
I do not understand why the media are so coy about publishing the actual image - oh, I forgot ...I'm now going to be sued for billions too...
Er, can you remind me of the emissions of AI and crypto - just so we can have some factual context... If they're destroying the planet then taxing them isn't punitive, it's an outrage.
Funny you should mention this, I was just thinking Moscow with nukes - gotta make it bigger than anyone has ever seen before...
Na, spiv's charter. The scum who consistently creamed off working people's profits have poisoned the well. I remember the big bang and pension deregulation, I remember paying for the financial crash, your complacency and complicity with Reeves is quite remarkable.
I'll take that as rhetorical
So sorry FEMA has been decimated by Trump
“Just one more thing, sir: why did Republicans unanimously vote against releasing files that don’t exist?”
tragedy or comedy - I still can't tell...
It tickles me that the UK power supply can be shut down by the flick of a switch in Paris.
What the Epstein files highlights is the way MAGA are prepared to give the serial adulterer and adjudicated rapist a pass, as if Donald J Trump's wider sexual abuse was an inconceivable scenario. How stupid are these people?
BREAKING: In a shocking moment, Republican-led House Rules Committee voted AGAINST releasing the Epstein files. Rep. Ro Khanna proposed the amendment that was defeated by 7 GOP votes, all no, vs 4 Dem and 1 Republican who voted yes. What are they hiding?
The DWP knows how many carer's allowance they steal. They have a cost for full time care for a disabled person. Multiply one by the other and there you go... that's how much unpaid carer's save the state. For me it's the deliberate cruelty of the law which is so offensive
Indeed... and both of them add insult to injury by counting carers allowance as income and then intentionally stealing this back where a couple are on UC/ESA etc (even though you can actually earn more than that from normal sources). If unpaid carers walked away the state would collapse.
Trump is such a jellyfish
Lessons to be learned for U.K. journalists and the government