A stark reminder of the difference between Trump cosplaying as a world strongman and the real thing.
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A stark reminder of the difference between Trump cosplaying as a world strongman and the real thing.
A level history question, 2055: "Explain how President Trump's second term was the catalyst for President Xi's 'century of Chinese world domination'. "
The closer Farage ties himself to Trump, Musk and DOGE, the worse his electoral prospects become in Britain.
Worse than that: they all think he's a big wanker.
If you listen very carefully, you'll be able to hear the gales of laughter coming all the way from Beijing.
Even Trump must now understand how he is bringing about the end of American influence in the world.
If Trump knew any American history, he would know Woodrow Wilson's phrase 'speak softly and carry a big stick." Xi certainly knows that bit of American history.
Farage (MP for Clacton) is addressing the US House Judiciary Committee today. He will say that the UK is becoming an illiberal country and will urge US lawmakers to use 'trade' levers against Britain. A British parliamentarian is publicly inviting another country to attack Britain's economy.
Ignored by Putin, out-autocrated by Xi, threatened by Kim, abandoned by Modi. MAGA* *ha fucking ha
No comment.
Hope Trump is watching the military parade in China to see how it's done.
I don't understand why people can't see this. Any country whose economy relies on trade with the US will be at least contemplating China as a stable alternative.
Ignore the politics for a moment. What Trump has done is to singelehandedly advance Xi's economic agenda by years - if not decades - by threatening worldwide economic and trade consistency and predictability.
Concerning Trump's press conference today, RELEASE THE FUCKING FILES YOU CUNT
From her political demise? Starmer is 63 (today) and so will be well on the way to 70 by the time he has fought the next election. Even if he wins, he probably won't want to go on for much longer after that. So the jockeying starts now: Streeting, Lammy, Rayner; and now I'd add Darren Jones.
I was raised to treat the CEO with the same respect as the janitor.
Agreed. We have to acknowledge, though, that this latest spate of Rayner-hate is probably the result of internal labour factionalism being driven by people who don't want her to lead the party but prefer - I would guess - Streeting. And the reason? She's a gobby, opinionated etc etc
Only to be expected. She's a gobby, opinionated, self-made woman from Manchester.
A perfect metaphor for how many CEOs behave in general. Up to and including the obvious lie that he thought he was being offered the prize, when everyone watching the video clearly saw him snatch the cap from the child's head.
Kennedy and Trump: disease and ignorance. Timothy Snyder has a neat word for the politics of this administration: sadopopulism. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
According to Fox's Hannity, the answer to murderous rampages into churches is to have metal detectors outside schools.
This administration will likely succeed in doing what Trump's first administration failed to do: to weed out the sick from the population by restricting prevention of serious and deadly disease. I haven't read Project 2025, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't recommend some form of eugenics.
Newsom's pr team ought to win some sort of prize for the best ever trolling campaign
The poster doesn't understand: thoughts and prayers are specifically reserved for children murdered by the civilian owners of military assault weapons, about which Congress is powerless to do anything.
#art #political
Waiting with baited breath to see exactly how Trump attacks the Epstein victims after their press conference later this week.
Interesting slip of the tongue: is he really a 'vertebrate'?
Yeah. Wishing for a speedy resolution.
Whooooo-Wheeeee!
The Intel heist isn't 'communism'; it's a mafia protection operation.
Herr Hitler has an understanding with President Roosevelt over the German attack on Britain. The president criticises Mr Churchill for prolonging the war against overwhelming odds and denying German insistence that Britain is historically part of the Third Reich. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
On the plus side, though, is the fact that he must be aware of the squillions of posts that make it clear that many, many people fervently wish that the rumours were true.
He's 'following the science' in order to mug it when it's not lookijng.
He didn't 'pick' him. He gave him the job because that was Kennedy's price for withdrawing from the presidential race.
The Daily Telegraph - which used to be a newspaper - leads this morning with the important news that the teenage Camilla Shand (now Queen Camilla) hit a man in the bollocks with her shoe when he tried to grope her on the Tube.
After years of first-hand research I can confidently announce that 'fast-paced environment' means 'managers who insist on impossibly short timescales resulting in frequent reworking.'
Years ago Trump evicted 74 year old stroke victim Mary Filan from the Queens apartment he owned so he could move in someone paying more rent. www.villagevoice.com/beware-when-...
Farage will hold his fire. What's been revoked is the temporary injunction only, which was to have been in place until the full case is heard (in November, I think). Farage will keep his powder dry for a possible decision that goes against Epping council.
Well, yes. Poetic license on my part.
Rail is the simplest way to move large numbers of people from place to place, as the Nazis knew.
He doesn't need to be - not if the task is to implement P2025. Trump's only function is create constant diversions with his lunatic and chaotic interventions. His purpose is to divert the public's attention, while the real P2025 operatives - Miller, Vought principally - get on with the real coup.
But entirely premature. There's only one real difference between Trump and Vance: Vance has a functioning brain. And he will be supported by Murdoch and Thiel dollars. The nightmare will be very far from over.
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Well - they didn't actually say the words 'I'm sorry.' But the situation was defused rather than escalated and that's good enough for me.
'Hate' is the only element of consistency in the Trump administration.
I like the fact that on Bluesky people can make mistakes, be gently called out and, in effect, apologise. So different from the other place.
Here's a reminder that the second amendment was conceived as a buttress against government overreach, and not as therapy for disaffected young men.
It's not all caps. Clearly fake therefore.
The fact that you're asking that question (as am I) is an indication of how much he has damaged public discourse.
She died defending Trump. That's all anyone needs to know.
People don't understand how violent those leaves can be.
Slightly awkward that the the murdered children were literally praying at the time.
Ha ha ha. Very funny.
If they win, they win. If they lose, it's rigged. All pretty standard authoritarian behaviour.
I'll be very surprised indeed if his Big Revelation next month, on the causes of autism that he alone has discovered, identifies vaccines as the culprit. Does anyone know if he is being 'advised' by Andrew Wakefield?
His mouth looks like an anus.
Also - if policing DC is entirely in the hands of a Trump acolyte, who will there be to turf him out of the White House if he loses in 2028? (And, no: that wasn't a slip-up. I'm pretty certain that by the next election, the law limiting him to two terms will have been either changed or repealed)
Reform isn't a party at all though; it's a public limited company. What a political party does is determined by the views of its supporters and members. What a plc does is determined by its owners.
Explanation is simpler than that: it's because he's a mean-spirited, petty, vicious little man and fuck the consequences
He agreed to pull out of the presidential race didn't he. Leadership of HHS was presumably his price.
We'll discover the answer to that question when he dies.
No. Although he shakes hands with the right hand, he wanks with his left hand.
Wrong. That will only lead to a severe case of adVanced fuckery.
Someone should have asked Leavitt what exactly 'cardiovascular prevention' is. Why do Trump's doctors want to 'prevent' his 'cardiovascular'? Are they surreptitiously trying to kill him?
Himmler's line on murdering Jewish children was that it was an unpleasant but necessary duty. SS members, he insisted, must grit their teeth and carry out orders that might be repulsive to them, in order to secure the future of the Third Reich.
When is she going to announce that she's joined Reform plc?
God's a funny old cove, isn't he. For instance, he saved Trump so he could make America great again. There's no way of working out what God will do is there.
#minneapolisshooting Fox News host Trey Gowdy said that “the only thing that can give us any modicum of peace” ove the Minnesota school shooting is that the two victims were with Jesus Christ now.
Bullshit and nonsense, of course. It's not drugs. It's fucking guns and the ease with which clearly disturbed individuals can get hold of them legally.
So this administration is now taking pot shots at the people who call out the 'thoughts and prayers' hypocrisy. Bottomless offensiveness.
With one notable exception. The last time a senile old man occupied the White House that was a Republican also.
And Trump's 'not happy' about it. Glad he cleared that up.
Wonder how his mitochondria are doing.
If RFK says he can diagnose kids by looking at them - what would he say if he could see himself as others see him?
Except this wasn't a school was it.
Hannity the enabler will burn in hell.
American civilians do not need assault weapons.
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I dunno. Maybe they just aren't praying or thinking hard enough.
A better idea would be to stop them getting their hands on guns in the first place.
He probably doesn't need to worry; scotus will almost certainly rule that he can fire her if he wants to. And even if they don't say that explicitly, he can still do it, knowing that he won't face punishment.
I shall
I wish Labour would now capitalise on the clear sentiment in the country that brexit was a disastrous mistake - a stupid initiative largely brought about by Farage's agitation. That would be one clear way of negating any influence he would have on the next election.
Yup. The notion that Farage would knuckle down to the hard graft of being pm is hilarious. Apart from anything else, it would interfere with his drinking. And that's before you get to the question of whether he has the patience to absorb the huge amount of information that would cross his desk.
I wouldn't worry if I were you. Farage isn't going to be prime minister and he knows it. This is all about making a big noise to attract enough idiots to panic Labour and the Tories to do something close to what he wants.
Correction: they're going to drive out the homeless, not homelessness.
Why should she deny anything on the basis of hearsay from people who clearly have a problem with her? The time for her to deny that she committed mortgage fraud is after she has been charged by a prosecutor and asked how she pleads.
What we haven't heard from Mr Trump is we haven't heard him say "I didn't rape adolescent girls". He just keeps saying that we should move on.
The perfect response to Charlie Kirk's fucking nonsense about Taylor obeying Travis because he's the man.
Kirk is a cunt and should fuck off and mind his own business.
Well - it's sort of correct. The supreme court of the United States says that he can do whatever he wants as president without fear of prosecution. Presumably, that includes abrogating the constitution.
If there's any doubt about who will be 'in charge' in their marriage, just conduct this thought experiment: imagine what would happen to Travis if he mistreated her in any way and that became public knowledge.
Farage’s “probity and judgment were sold as the product called Brexit. It turned out to be a piece of shit.” And, unbelievably, this Labour govt finds itself trapped because it has refused to call this out. What a profound - and now dangerous - political failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Be interesting to see how this develops. My guess is that scotus will support his right to fire her. Then what?
But isn't it too late? Action through the ballot box will likely not succeed - especially if they do rig the next two elections as they are trying to do. And any action outside the boundary will be met by armed force - by next year properly cemented into place in likely centres of opposition.
And what do they do with 'domestic terrorist organizations' (no - not the white supremacist ones)?
I agree with you.
The Trump government is suing California because it is redistricting. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Everything Trump and his acolytes are doing is designed to ensure that January 6 2029 does not fail.