Hate them both…..

Why does anyone have to pick a side? Has polarisation programmed us THAT much? I'm over here, hoping they completely destroy each other. Fuck 'em.

Stay with my logic RM publishes story which they say is true DT claims not so sues Other publishers think twice about publishing true stories cos they don't want to be bogged down in expensive legal action What's the betting DT and RM agreed to this to kill the other JE stories

If we are lucky they’ll bring each other down.

Oddly gunning for the lawyers here

It is a war, and this is a single battle. Rupert Murdoch is responsible for bringing Western Civilization to its knees with right wing lies and propaganda bringing fascists to power. Trump is the monster Rupert helped create, whose minions continue to defend and protect (Hannity et all).

Yes. Farage Vs Musk.

Murdoch this time, easy. His people were ‘doing journalism’… and it appears that he knew about it.

Just this once I am supporting Murdoch.

Murdoch - that's how truly horrendous an individual Trump is. Funny how with all those petty grievances he's never sued the family of the guy who tried to shoot him.🤨 🔎

Paid martyre for maga

It's just show business. Melomaniac Monopoly. And we aren't even pieces, we are dust on the board, the power we give away to the greedy from the moment we are conceived is terminal.

Apparently he had contacted Murdoch prior to the story coming out . Murdoch probably said to him, don’t worry I will take care of it , then though t f.. you , you don’t tell me what story to print. Picked up the phone and instructed his team to print it. I predict the case will not go to trial.

Two cheeks of the same arse.

Pity they can't both lose! ;-)

I don’t want either side to ‘win’, but Trump WILL ‘lose’ …

Let nature take its course. That’s all I’m saying

I am not picking a side in this one. Support of either would make my skin crawl!!

One possibly significant thing, does the bigger the damage claim mean the closer the story is to the truth? After all the big T's usual aim is to scare the other party into settling. Will Murdock do that???

I expect him to counter-sue. Who has the best lawyers?

Who has the most overworked ones?

Revolting old gurriers with inflated egos having tantrums. Pathetic.

Can’t they both lose?

I’m edging towards supporting Murdoch - but it’s only about 52/48 🤦‍♂️

That’ll be the will of the people then.

Sooooooo difficult, in the end I went for the bbc news logo in the corner but was still left with a nasty taste

Was saying that half an hour ago. At least they'll both be losing lots of dollars in legal fees.

Everybody has seen his birthday card now, it’s a bit late, really 🤣😆🤣😆🤣

Murdock is Baphomet, Trump is Satan.

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

Meanwhile the planet is burning.

The last human reset was 12.5 thousand years ago. We'll not be far from another with dickheads like these in charge.

Not if I had two shots.

It's a trap for Trump

Hold your nose and watch the scrap

Agreed, though it is hard to support a President that uses litigation to suppress the press. I mean $10bn - in what universe is that even vaguely reasonable.

Both truly ghastly human beings.

Child rape Trumps everything.

I'm not taking a side until I know this isn't just another opportunity to bung Trump multiple millions of $ through fake legal cases.

I agree, but you have to question Trump's logic in alienating men as powerful as Musk and Murdoch.

"Would you like to be punched in the stomach or kicked in the balls? You must pick one."

We can only hope for MAD, mutually assured destruction.

I didn't have rooting for Murdoch on my 2025 bingo card, yet here we are.

Pest vs Cholera

There are very few times when you should feel compelled to sit on the fence and buy cinema snacks.

Maybe they'll drag each other into the abyss? That'd be pleasant.

Two extremely dangerous, self serving, divisive, nasty bits of work.

I waan see trump win. Mugdock is more destructive than trump

I hope they both spend a fortune in a years long legal battle.

But will MAGA donate enough to cover the costs? $10Bn is a lot to cough up when he loses.

I don't tink I'd care, personally.

😁

Murdoch must have the receipts to do this.

Without doubt Murdock is utter scum & personally responsible for the right wing surge across English speaking countries. But Trump is a rapist Nazi white supremacist facilitating the destruction of Ukraine & building World War III on our doorstep

No, they're both cunts. Don't forget the scums headlines in the 80's of "gay plague" during the HIV/AIDS crises. Owned by the testicle Murdoch.

Maybe they will take each other out and the World can be healed..

Liverpool vs Real Madrid?

Uh oh. It is written. Euro hating chipmunk, he who cannot be distracted by quaint royal visits, incoming. apnews.com/article/jd-v...

Roll out the sofas!

Between Smotrich-like Israel and Hamas?

Is it wrong to hope that both end up penniless and in prison?

It's all hot air & obfuscation. Trump will drop the suit given time and a suitable distraction.

Is there precedent for such a figure? Ten billion sounds like the kind of thing a six year old would yell.

bsky.app/profile/jonc...

It's like a Chelsea Vs Man Utd Final. You want them both to lose.

A delight to behold. Popcorn out.

It's like watching Leeds v Liverpool

It like one of those occasions when your side is already through to the final and you just want the other two semi-finalists to beat the s**t out of each other, regardless of the result

I pick Murdoch I NEVER in a million yrs thought I’d say that! But I don’t think it matters what side you pick as Trump won’t let this get to discovery phase Hopefully Murdoch will do the right thing for once in his cold dead hearted life & release what else he has on Trump. I’m sure he has more..

Hopefully they will destroy each other….. 2 birds, 1 stone. Win win for the rest of the world.

Yes, at present, Boris Johnson v Keir Starmer

Nonsense 😂

Not really. I want Murdoch to lose. But I want Trump to lose harder. Is it libel if it’s true?

Chesterfield v Notts County playoff final. Picking the lesser of two weasels for a Mansfield fan.

$787m the payback

Double KO?

come on.

No need to pick a side. Two pieces of shit. Just be happy one of them has to lose.

Mutual self destruction would do the world a whole lot of good

Fortunately, the lawyers always win...

Surely you want to it to go the distance and a "full" discovery process.

Maybe the subsequent horror for the loser and joy for the winner, will result in a fatal heart attack each. I’m not saying I hope that will happen, but it is possible…

I dunno... Reform UK leadership elections...

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump revokes Rupes citizenship then sets ICE on him 😂

Hahaaaaa. Stupid old goats.

Fingers crossed a trial proves so stressful their hearts simultaneously explode.

No this is easy. Trump winning this would be bad on every level. It's not really about Murdoch, it's about a paper being able to publish a story critical of the wannabe dictator

What does it matter to ordinary people who of the two of them wins and which loses? At this moment in time we are all the losers. The rich have all the power and they just play their games at our expense.

Comforting to know that even Murdoch has some moral boundary at least.

Both will likely be dead from old age before this is resolved

The age of honour is truly dead. They should be made to fight a duel. With grenades.

If they simultaneously 'fell off of the twig', the world would feel like a brighter and cleaner place to live.

Hopefully a lose lose scenario.

Do we have to pick a side? Can't we just hope that this fatally wounds both of them?

Rats in a barrel 🐀

My cynical side thinks that this is a good move by Trump and Murdoch, file a lawsuit, fight it out for a few months in Aileen Cannons court, Murdoch will settle for a pittance, Trump can tell his followers that he was right,that it was a hoax, and his people will swallow it and that's the end of it.

No, but I can have two thoughts in my head at the same time.

Trump again sees a way of making money, Murdoch will settle without any apology I guess a billion will do.

Well, on the one side you have a cruel, ruthless, morality-free, multi-married megalomaniac, and on the other side you have Donald J Trump.

Sit back with a popcorn and enjoy the show.

My money’s on Rupert! Trump will have to fold, otherwise he’ll have to subject himself to a deposition, something he can’t afford to do.

Whoever wins, neither will collect the 💰. ⚰️🪦

I doubt this is a fight WSJ would pick if they didn’t have the goods to back it up, and legal discovery is going to rake up a whole load more stuff that Trump would rather stay buried. #popcorn

The shredders in the DoJ are burning hot. Discovery is going to be that a lot of files they have already seen no longer exist.

Ghislaine’s family have the dirt, as does Ghislaine herself - unless something unfortunate happens to her in Prison and CCTV footage goes missing.

Given how many Mossad agents work in various government departments, that isn't as weird as it sounds.

There is no way this will get to discovery The chicken man will just rant and rage while lawyers quietly bury it

It’d be nice to see him get forensically taken apart and all the dirt to flow out. He pretends he’s got spuds bigger than King Kong, but he hasn’t. I was rather hoping his ego and stupidity would compel him to press his supposed advantage.

Ya...likely an attempt at intimidation more than any desire to actually see it through.

Interestingly though, this is absolutely a bluff murdoch can call Threaten to put trump on the stand and ask him about his pal

Yeah. No way in hell Trump is willing to put up all of this for discovery in a lawsuit against a company publishing dirt on him lol

Those court transcripts won't be sufficient so they'll need more evidence. Can see TACO chickening out again if Murdoch calls his bluff.

It sounds like they are. They've already made a statement that they stand 100% behind the reporting and will defend it rigorously, which is lawyer speak for 'We have the receipts, motherfucker. Try us'

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To quote AvP's tag line 'whoever wins we lose'

Chump may well be about to get a lesson in where the power actually lies Feel free to interpret lies in any way you please

I hope they both lose.

Judge: "While in this case the letter isn't accurate, we do have evidence you're a raging peado rapist, 'Mr President'. I fine the Murdoch Empire 500 times Nvidia's value and sentence Mr Murdoch And Mr Trump to 5000 years in an active volcano"

Make it so.

Neither would suffer for long in an active volcano.

Oh, how I wish 😂

Only time it’s appropriate to support North Korea’s generational incarceration

Having just before read the 5000 years in a volcano, I initially read that as "incineration", arguably better in the case of these two particular specimens.

but still Nazism sadly, so I guess incarceration will have to do.

My instict, sadly, is that somehow they will both win. That just seems to be how the world works .

Both could be in Hell by the time this gets to Court 😄

Don’t tease me with hope like that! 😂

Will either Trump or Murdoch live long enough to get to court?

Nah. I'm 100% Team Grim Reaper.

To quote the late Lilah Morgan, esteemed lawyer at Wolfram and Hart. “The enemy of my enemy can kiss my ass too.”

It's like when Everton play Man utd, you want them both to lose 🙄

I would prefer them to duel it out 🤺 on live TV

Never ever thought I would be on Murdoch's side

Back to back they faced each other; drew their swords and shot each other! #popcorn

Sorry, even when stuck in a pit of vipers there’s always degrees of slimyness, so the slightly less slimy (true it’s only less by a modicum of shit) is Murdoch 😂😂

How is either of them a winner? Both of these vile men break all the rules of right or wrong with their gross depravity, relentless greed and lack of morals.

Let em destroy each other🍿🍿🍿

Let’s hope Nigel Owens is the ref. The lectures to the two sides on expected standards of behaviour would be interesting!

Great one for the neutrals!

I believe this rifts between right-wingers proves that the saying "enemy of my enemy is my friend" completely wrong.

It's dead easy, I want them both to loose!

My old Dad used to watch England and Australia play rugby..."Wouldn't it be good if both sides lost?"

I'm rooting for 'mortality'

Murdoch's not a nazi paedo.

At least the lawyers win 🤣🤣 Two of the worlds most obnoxious people, impossible to pick a side.

I’m going for the plucky little Aussie fella. (Aussie as in ‘about to lose his US citizenship’).

😆 😹 🤭

Palpatine vs Darth Vader

Jarndyce.

rats in a sack springs to mind.

Well, let’s hope that it gets deep and protracted, and therefore very expensive for both parties. Get your popcorn folks 🍿🍿🍿

I bet they just settle, like the others did.

This is in the top 2.

On this occasion my enemy's enemy is still my enemy.

I hope they both lose. The good thing is, is that it's likely they both will.

A better scenario is that Murdoch turns on Trump out of pure spite.

Bro, we're all Murdoch now.

Difficult one 🤔 Are Ladbrokes taking bets yet

Interesting that J.D Vance met with Murdoch very recently. Do I smell a coup under way? 🤔 Was this the plan all along, win the presidency with Musk & Trump only to oust the 34-count felon for Vance the couch elf? bsky.app/profile/madi...

Buridan's donkey comes to mind. It's great fun watching the army of lickspittle client journalists watching as the hands that feed them fight.

It's the same feeling I get watching Man Utd v Man City. I want them both to lose.

Whoever wins, we all lose.

Not the lawyers.

Trump’s approach to paying his lawyers is similar to his other creditors. You would be unwise to act for him without money upfront.

He’ll probably be using those pro bono deals he strong armed some firms into.

I pick the truth, which can be found, somewhere in the middle.

Could it result in the biggest ever loser wins case?

Imagine the agonies Piers Morgan is going through today

Two cheeks of the same arse.

I'm on the side of their mutual annihilation.

What a nice little war of the damned! Both these AHs are parasitic rotten maggots! Criminals!

Just enjoy the spectacle. Either man being undermined is a win.

Shot by both sides. Hopefully.

3 rats. 1 sack. Leave them to it.

This. Enough already! Stupid old men.

Hopefully they both lose if possible.

Like deciding which turd to wear for a hat

It’s quite easy to pick a side. The really, really, REALLY difficult bit is then being on the side of Rupert Murdoch. I feel dirty.

It’s as if there was a movie “Nazis versus alien invaders that want to destroy the earth”. I mean, sure, you’re going to have to root for the humans, but aren’t going to be too upset if they are mostly wiped out, as long as they win. Then, they can die after that.

I hope the strain does for them both.

Does anyone think that Murdoch/WSJ would have gone ahead without evidence?

If Trump is lol g forward to having Murdoch being deposed for ‘many hours’…then can the other side not get Trump in for a deposition?

…’looking forward’… damn typo!

The law is almost certainly on Murdoch's side, but tRump thinks he is the law. Once the dirt is raked up it will end in stalemate, a bunch of lawyers will make a lot of money, probably at the cost of US taxpayers in tRump's case, and it will fizzle out. That's assuming it isn't already orchestrated

Johnson v Corbyn? But, as much as I hate the idea, on this occasion I have to hope Murdoch comes out the winner Not that I expect it'll do us much good...

Murdoch and Trump fighting. It's like... well, Musk and Trump! I suppose that if the world's worst people are fighting it's... something? It's kind of Murdoch and the monster that he created attacking each other.

Can we just fast forward 10 years to when both of them are dead?

Not really.

Perhaps not if one recalls the denouement in Blanco Canyon in The Big Country.

You don’t have to pick a side James. Just hope they both come out losing.

"Mutually Assured Destruction", he said hopefully.

I’m rooting for chronic venous insufficiency.

Rupert Murdoch

Mate, just open a bag of popcorn and enjoy

It’s a game. Do you honestly believe that the puppet master pulling the strings at Fox News would allow TACO to sue him without prior permission?

I suggest Advanced Thunderdome ™️ : Two go in, noone comes out.

😅

Cholera is better than plague

Trump can fuck right off. Sorry not sorry.

'Restart Exposed: Unveiled by an Insider' by Andrew Davies—guest blogger "Disclosures from a staff member working with the UK government’s Restart Scheme, reveal realities about how the scheme operates, and raise questions about the true purpose of it." jeffrey-side.blogspot.com/2025/07/rest...

Low tie with career-ending injuries.

I usually trot out the line, "It's a shame there has to be a winner"

Won't come to anything..........TACO. He'll just say that Murdoch backed down and apologised to him.

I don’t find it hard to pick. Whatever the multiple shortcomings of the Murdoch empire, on this occasion they seem to be doing proper journalism holding the executive to account. The executive is trying to intimidate them. We have to hope journalism wins.

I hope they wipe each other out.

Couldn’t we just put them both in a big pit surrounded by tigers and let them fight it out?

Never thought in a million years I’d be rooting for Rupert Murdoch but on this occasion it’s a no brainer.

It still a deeply disturbing position to be caught in.

Murdoch created Trump... it's Darth Sidious vs a Darth Vader with no redeeming origin story.

Agreed but really not looking forward to President Vance.

Trump is a cult, Vance is just obnoxious, he'd face more significant opposition from Republicans.

This isn't trial by combat, unfortunately. The Senate will never ever impeach Trump under literally any circumstances.

Now all I want is trial by combat !

It's not president Vance that concerns me. It's VP Miller and the possibility that Vance might be defenestrated shortly afterwards. I've seen Designated Survivor.

Unless he is in the Epstein files. Fingers very firmly crossed.

Epstein was before his time.

It’s mutually assured destruction

No need

Clash of the Shitenans….

No need to pick a side. Hopefully they'll both lose.

Murdoch wins then dies. What’s not to like?

No wait, the BBC has somehow managed to publish a news item without somehow bringing Farage into it? What's going on!

He's implied, on both sides, so no need to actually mention him.

One of those opposite of "daddy or chips" times...

Could it all be a setup.....deflection!

It will be great to see Murdoch eat Trump's lunch. Without Fox, and by extension Murdoch, Trump would still be bankrupting Casinos instead of the US Economy. Murdoch can then go straight to where his Eternal Rest waits for him—and it's very hot there. Trump will eventually join him.

It will never (ever) be enough, but Murdoch has chance to make amends for many many years of undermining democracy across the world.

Well I think Murdoch [slightly] gets the edge this time! 😇

Is it? Think I’ll just pick the side who isn’t a nonce.

TACO time

Let them Jarndyce each other.

👏👏👏👏👏

2 wrongs don’t make a right.