The man’s as thick as mince. The US could have elected a six month old dishwashing cloth, and it would have made a better (and certainly less geo-strategically dangerous) POTUS.
The man’s as thick as mince. The US could have elected a six month old dishwashing cloth, and it would have made a better (and certainly less geo-strategically dangerous) POTUS.
Sends a message of peace by warmly welcoming a dictator who has demonstrably started an illegal war with a democratic neighbour & has caused the death & serious maiming of over a million people, including women & children? Right. He might need to try a little harder.🙄
At the end of what is looking increasingly likely to be the Chinese century, the history books will not look kindly upon Trump’s legacy. It is difficult to think of a single person who’s done as much to damage & put in peril the future of liberal democracy.
In some quarters of social media, it seems having no opinion is seen by some as having an opinion, and if your opinion by not having an opinion opposes someone else’s opinion, you are ripe for attack. 🤷♂️
KRAKEN. Well trained, well equipped, well led. God speed. Героям слава!
Sure. Because if a European nation tasked intelligence agencies to conduct influence operations in the US to manipulate the population, the US govt would be calm as f**k, wouldn’t it? 🥴
Can you imagine if, for example, Connolly had been a pro-Palestinian activist, calling for the burning down of government buildings, with complete disregard of whether (perhaps even desire) those inside died? Would Farage be raising the issue with the US over free speech then? Let me guess…🙄
Those who don’t understand the Palantir business model from their well-publicised history deserve to be ripped off. They take your data, ingest it, sell it back to you with pretty visualisations, then if you want to change supplier, charge a fortune to get your own data back, creating vendor lock-in
How on earth is that a deterrent? At the first sign of trouble, they’d simply withdraw from UKR. Their motivation will be profit, & that’s never enough to risk your life for a greater cause. Defending UKR isn’t a business transaction; it’s about defending western liberal democracy from a dictator.
Loving listening to people enjoying presenting history so much; it’s contagious! It can’t help but bring a smile to your face when you’re listening, while acting like a little appetiser to tempt you to want to delve into more detail on Carthage & Rome. Brilliant!
Sure. It’s all those other nations’ fault, and nothing to do with your President’s f**king imbecilic illegal invasion of a democratic neighbouring country. But I guess you don’t want to accidentally fall out a tenth story window, do you? 🙄
It’s all so mind-blowingly insane. One would think from the media that stopping tens of thousands of asylum seekers will fix the NHS, return growth to the economy, remedy the housing shortage & sort the broken infrastructure of the nation. I’m so tired of being told this is my No 1 political issue.🙄
So… if this decision is upheld by the Supreme Court, does that mean all the money accrued under this “illegal” tariff imposition (import tax) would need to be paid back? Because that sounds pretty painful for the US govt! 😣
That’s a (the) key line of communication between Pavlohrad & Pokrovs’k. Maximum support needs to be provided to the UAF from allies to stop the Russians from disrupting the defence of Pokrovs’k, which is a vital hub for the defence in the Donets’k direction.
I’m somewhat heartbroken that the Russians have managed to get into the outskirts of Pokrovs’k, & that the UAF are having to fire on Ukrainian infrastructure to rid it of the lodgement. Pokrovs’k is a key hub; here’s hoping it can be held until whatever ceasefire comes next.
Sadly I think there’s a large constituency in this nation that are pretty unmoved by that as an argument. Some of the media have done a decent long-term job of turning asylum seekers into “untermensch” in the eyes of the easily manipulated.
The fact a Reform spokesperson was allowed to use the term “fighting age males” repeatedly on R4 Today unchallenged left me flabbergasted. It was a term coined in Iraq & Afghanistan as part of the targeting consideration process. It was stopped because it pre-supposed a degree of guilt (I was there)
I suggest people read Pomerantsev’s book on the British WW2 propagandist Sefton Delmer “How to Win an Information War”. He soon learned there was no point arguing against the Nazi’s “facts”. Far better to undermine them through exposing their corruption & hypocrisy. Lesson remains just as valid now.
Unless the intention is to discredit & undermine data-driven facts so much, that everyone is reduced to having to believe their “gut instincts”, and gut instincts are informed by your perceptions through the media you consume. Which (as an outsider) seems to me quite beneficial to the Trump regime.🤷♂️
Were you taking photographs from inside a knight’s jousting helmet? 🤷♂️
Anyone who argues that we should increase fossil fuel usage, and reduce green energy for ecological reasons, should be treated with utter contempt.
Why do I not hear a reminder in the media that the only two nations to leave the ECHR to date are Russia & Belorussia. Are they really the freedom-loving, democratic pathfinders we wish to follow? 🤔
We the people, who consume the media that manipulates us, directed by those who wish to be the government.
Have we not learnt from the Brexit debacle, & Trump’s election? If you allow these snake oil salesmen to set the narrative, & then force everyone to counter their claims (£350m/week, etc), you will never successfully win the argument. And yet here we are again, hoping for a different outcome. 🙄
If we as a nation haven’t learnt after Brexit that simplistic solutions to complex problems that seem too good to be true, seem that way because they are actually too good to be true, we deserve the sh*t future that will come under a Reform regime.🙄
My mother in law loves Farage, & has complained about the UK being “over run” by foreigners. She lives in the whitest of white areas, & rarely leaves the home other than to go to a supermarket. Her window to the world is GB “News” & the Daily Mail; she & her ilk are merely easy manipulation fodder.🙄
I mean, Russia invaded a neighbouring democratic country (after promising it wouldn’t), sends any political opposition to the gulags to die, shuts down media opposed to Putin, throws dissenters out windows, deploys death squads to murder in other nations, but *we’re* the bad guys. You utter pillock.
Reminds me of a historian saying people historically didn’t see themselves living in a shit time; it was just their (& everyone they knew’s) reality. They didn’t all live in constant depression; they had enjoyment in their lives. Makes me wonder what future historians’ll make of our lived experience
Wow… nearly as many arseholes contained in that fridge than there are in the current US administration.🤔
If we allow tabloid media to conflate wider migration with asylum seekers (& the small boat subset) day after day, we shouldn’t be surprised that people see it as a major issue & don’t understand the actual facts. It’s the first rule of propaganda to manipulate; repeat a simple message over & over.
Oh, they should look great after the forthcoming rain, some sunshine bleaching & a week of diesel soot from the traffic.
So someone wants us to walk all over, and drive over, the English flag?! They haven’t really thought this through, have they? But I suspect “thought” is a foreign concept to them. 🙄
While singing an American song… waving a flag celebrating a Roman Catholic soldier born in what’s now Turkey who slayed an imaginary monster. 😂
Week after week feature stories of asylum seekers crossing the channel. Then report that migration is a top issue for voters (fed stories week after week stupidly conflated with small boat crossings). Then be surprised that populist parties with unworkable simplistic solutions do well in polling. 🙄
Prayers don’t stop Shaheds & hypersonic missiles. They should spend the breakfast discussing something useful.
So the ZAPAD exercise is dramatically reduced due to Russia’s forces being exhausted from a self-inflicted wound, while an enlarged & better equipped NATO holds more and larger scale exercises in Eastern Europe. Way to go Putin. Congratulations on your strategic “success”.
Civil servants are overpaid? 😂 Is that why they struggle to recruit suitably qualified ones, or if they train individuals to be suitably qualified, they immediately jump ship to private industry where they can get twice the salary? Christ, people are willing to comment from the top of Mt Stupid.🙄
The same civil servants who apparently are the enemies of Reform, considered as wasters, blockers & and overhead that needs to be removed? Have they learnt nothing from the US & DOGE? They sound like turkeys putting up the decorations for Christmas. 🙄
Willing to bet most voted for Brexit ‘cause, you know, foriners & sovrintee innit? Then promptly moved to an EU country. The sad thing is most are too stupid to realise how stupid they sound.
I’ve had to tolerate a live speech by this utter bellend before. He spent the whole time berating the UK & EU audience on our lack of freedom of speech & immigration position. Meanwhile, as the Trump adviser on terrorism, he couldn’t tell Hezbollah from Hamas. He’s an ignorant Hungarian linked fool.
If Putin wanted to remove the root cause of the illegal invasion of Ukraine, he’d have to shoot himself in the head. Chance would be a fine thing…
My dreams are usually batshit crazy, make absolutely no logical sense, & I only have a vague recollection of something mental when I wake up. That’s not a film I want to pay to see.
Of course many young want to go private. They’re far less likely to need intensive health care, so a once in a blue moon need & relatively low insurance costs would be highly attractive. But then you grow older, & the insurance companies & private medical providers need to make profits…🤷♂️
Yeah… massive surprise of 0.04% higher than the forecast. But let’s hype it up. 🙄 “the Bank of England forecast for July inflation was 3.76%” www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
The same Trump who when asked whether he would honour NATO Article V if called upon was completely non-committal. If he won’t commit to the “real” Article V, I’m not sure I’d trust him to honour an “Article V-like” arrangement. 🙄
Hungarian jets? Were they part of the formation, or shadowing the NATO aircraft on behalf of Putin?
Lucky Trump wasn’t around during the US Revolutionary War, or that the French didn’t take the same approach at the time. “Hey, Britain is a far bigger military power than you. You should just roll over & surrender.” But I guess Trump’s only interested in money, so liberal democracy means nothing.🤷♂️
Nothing says patriotism like making the nation poorer, reducing international trade, becoming a “rule taker” out of desperation to mitigate economic damage, diminishing our strategic influence & removing opportunity for the next generation. How very “patriotic”. 🙄
Europe now has three things to be thankful of UKR for: 1. Attriting RUS forces down & holding the line against Putin’s aggression. 2. Providing the impetus to properly invest in def & security incl better coordination. 3. Exposing reliance on the US & trusting them to do the right thing as foolish.
Some of them, who have committed the most horrendous of atrocities, including the raping of women, killing of children & murder, do. To have been fooled to participate in an illegal war is one thing; to act without an ounce of human decency quite another.
Loving the way Murdoch’s press is trying to use this story to bash the BBC. She’s earned the money legally; what’s it got to do with anyone that it’s come from BBC payments? Do we need to know who pays everyone’s earned wages that contribute to causes? Pretty cynical Times…🙄
This is really confusing… because one of the key “selling points” from those pushing Brexit was that it’d mean cheaper food… yet it seems reversing many of the implications of Brexit will actually reduce the price. It’s almost as though those promoting Brexit were being disingenuous…🤔
The US President is a global disgrace & an embarrassment to the nation.
It’d be good to have some form of sentient life form in the room with Zelenskyy during the meeting. Lord knows nothing intelligent is going to come from Trump.
He should troll Trump by presenting him with a bottle of chipotle sauce for the TACO. 😏
While Trump (& frankly all western nations since 2014) have done an appallingly bad job of deterring Putin & his murderous activity, the promise of this in the future when a ceasefire is eventually & inevitably declared will be a significant morale boost for the Ukrainian people. Слава Україні.
He’s achieved plenty through this meeting with Putin. It’s just that the beneficiary is Putin. Western democracy & Ukraine? Not so much…
Ironic, isn’t it, that Europe keeps getting hounded by the Trump MAGA administration that we don’t allow sufficient freedom of speech, while they welcome a murderous dictator that absolutely denies any form of non-compliant media & Musk’s Twitter/X won’t allow you to post a pretty placid observation
In Putin’s hands it would fall to the floor and smash. Blood is pretty slippery.
If only there was some trade conglomeration we could’ve been in, where we had a say in the rules of trade to make sure they were mutually beneficial. Where we didn’t have to accept terms dictated to us because we were the smaller party. If only we could take back control of our trade deals…
Putin shouldn’t be “pitching for peace”. Russia is the aggressor; they conducted an internationally illegal invasion of a sovereign democratic nation costing 100s of 1,000s of lives. Since when does a murderous thief get to set the terms of his settlement (apart from in Trump’s disfunctional mind)?
So not import taxing the sh*t out of the American people & business will have a detrimental impact on the American economy? Right…🥴 Then to end up in such a predicament would be evidence of gross economic incompetence to me. 🤔
Says the regime withdrawing funding from universities that don’t tow the GOP line, constraining cultural institutions & deporting people who protest in support of issues they don’t agree with. I don’t think we’ll be taking any lessons on free speech from Vance & his ilk. In sum: He can f**k off.🙄
What’s the collective noun for a gathering of populist snake oil salesmen?
Ah, the 2012 Olympics. Pre-Brexit. When the UK presented itself as open, modern & cultured. Then in 2016 we allowed ourselves to be conned by snake oil salesmen, to become divided, cynical & isolationist. So using the 2012 Olympics as a signpost to post-Brexit Britain is a ludicrous assertion.
But you’re not a politician that needs to sell tax rises to the population… and the branding of NI is a much easier sell given the average voter doesn’t understand your above knowledgeable points. So here we are…🤷♂️
US: We’d like you guys to stop, after which we won’t allow UKR NATO membership, make sure they’re neutral, and will slowly arm them. RUS: So…you won’t do anything if we continue/re-invade, & the longer we wait, the harder it’ll be? US: Errr, yeah. Actually, it sounds pretty silly put like that.😒
I think it depends on perspective; endothermic from the perspective of your body, as evaporation requires & consumes heat & therefore cools the skin & body. From the perspective of surrounding air, exothermic, as the surrounding air is heated as a result. 🤷♂️
Occupying another nation, especially one where you’ve disassembled all the local infrastructure & governance, & the majority of population (vehemently) don’t want you there, is extremely complex & costly. No wonder the Israeli Army think it’s crazy; it’s a fool’s errand.
Because there are lots of stupid people in the UK, who are so easily manipulated & such slow learners that they’ve not learnt from the farce of the Brexit campaign. It’s not rocket science. 🤷♂️
We’re going to build a big tariff wall, and the Americans are going to pay for it.
Better to have the world think you a fool, than to open your mouth and prove it. Unless you’re Rupert Lowe. 🙄
And presumably the rest of the Europe passively pays into Uefa coffers as pro-Russian corruption siphons it away to Russian teams, while Ukrainian teams are denied funding for having the temerity to be invaded by Russia. Great.🙄
Apples & oranges, surely? They were always going to be different, because the EU runs a large surplus in (goods) trade with the US, & that’s really what the Trump regime was attacking. UK-US trade is pretty even. So if the UK sold more goods to the US, it probably would have looked more alike. 🤷♂️
Waiting for Farage & Tice to be outraged, demanding residents instead pay for good ‘ol fashioned fossil fuels at whatever rate Putin & OPEC demand. 🙄
If that was a survey done in the UK, you’d know some of the ridiculous responses were just people taking the p*ss for a laugh. In the US, I’m not so sure… Which is concerning…
Possibly one of the dumbest, selfish, short-termist decisions ever. What on earth do these people think will happen? And if they’re that out of touch at considering how such an action will be perceived by the public, they have no business with holding office.
Over one million dead and wounded Russians for some Ukrainian land? No thanks…🙄
“Trump’s sweeping import taxes for American people & businesses.” 🤔
Waiting for the outraged St George’s flag waving mobs to attack police cars and attempt to burn down houses of white middle aged English men in Suffolk, coz’ ya know… protecting our families, innit? 🙄
Because if they pay Musk more, everyone in Europe will forget the fascist salute & his promotion of extremist European parties, & go out to buy Teslas again…🥴
There is a border invasion in Europe. Trump golfing in Scotland and Vance holidaying in England. They can both f**k off. Is that okay for “free speech”?
When I’m sweating away on a Wattbike, the fan I use helps evaporate the sweat from my skin. Evaporation is endothermic, removing heat from the body. So I hate to break it to you, the fan keeps me cool(er), lowering my body temperature.🤔
A useful dead cat to throw on the table. Flood the zone, so nobody’s talking about… what was it again? The thing Trump *really* doesn’t want anyone to mention…?
The current estimated male birth rate in Russia is 1,590 per day. Putin doing a great job of creating a massive demographic gap in the Russian population; one they’ll pay dearly for in the future.
“Averted a half-dozen wars”? That’s brilliant. How are we to prove or disprove the counter-factual, let alone the causal relationship with anything he said or did? But the “real” wars, the ones that could be demonstrated to cease, saving 10s of 1,000s of lives, he’s completely failed to address. 🙄
What a f**king bellend. He looks at the paperwork in front of him from researchers & criticises the minister for referring to notes. I’ve had managers go berserk if subordinates state things off the top of their heads without having access to the detail. Has he learnt nothing from Boris Johnson? 🙄
Meanwhile, Trump has declared economic war on trade partners & allies around the world, with comparative silence over the atrocities Russia continues to commit in Ukraine… If only he could punish adversaries like Russia half as much as US allies. 🙄
Hastening the process of this being the Chinese century, as global trade reconfigures to the path of least resistance, which is certainly no longer with the US. 🤷♂️
Well done ‘Merica. You’ve got an administration imposing massive taxes on your population & businesses, while manipulating a significant proportion of the population into thinking “someone else” is paying. 😂
It’s always taught in military training to cross “Zs” and “7s” when hand writing, to avoid confusing them with 2 and 1, which could be potentially disastrous.
The Russians (& other adversaries) are well aware of how to use information as a weapon (& they’ve been employing it on UK & allied audiences). We need to educate the population to defend them from manipulation, just as we would wish to educate to protect from any other “physical” weapon.
I’m not quite sure why Brexiters gloat about the differing deals, when the basis of the difference is because we have largely goods trade parity with the US, whereas the EU sells far more to the US than it buys. So we’re celebrating not being as successful in exporting to the US? Right…🙄
It’s not a levy on countries; it’s a levy on the American population & industry who will need to pay an import tax on items from respective countries. Sure, it’ll damage the economy of those countries (as well as the US), but let’s not pretend they pay the tariff.🤷♂️
From my limited exposure, “influencers” is a misnomer. They generally do what they do to make money, so they won’t say or do anything to risks their base following. They will merely reflect the zeitgeist of their audience, sell/advertise products & not deliver “lines to take” that threaten it.
It’s a sad state of affairs, where I had to check whether you were referring to the nation or the US state; either could have been the focus. 🤔
Strange how migrants both simultaneously come here to steal all “our” jobs, and also don’t work, costing millions in benefits. 🤷♂️
So (nearly) everyone gets what they want. The EU have a “deal” that improves the trade environment, while knowing they won’t need to fully deliver. Trump gets to sell it as a win for the US, while the US population fail to recognise they’ll pay the tariffs & won’t receive the stated benefits.🤷♂️
With that degree of ignorance, coupled with overconfidence, “Stylishskunk” must have some amazing views from the top of Mt Stupid.
Interesting in the context of “Labour are reducing the voting age to 16 because young people vote Labour…” 🤔