Paul Russell
@pwrussell.bsky.social
Deeply disillusioned Labour voter in South London. “Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.” — Mahatma Gandhi I block bots, spammers and fascists on sight. #PAFC
created October 15, 2023
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Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Totally agree. Brosnan could display a real edge of nastiness behind the suave exterior which hinted at an intriguing dark interior to the character. Unfortunately, the preposterous plots and gimmicks he was landed with overshadowed his acting.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s going to explain how, during his near death experience a couple of days ago, he had a blinding revelation that he was a wretched, amoral human being whose whole life has been a meaningless litany of cruelty and greed and how he’s now going to become a Buddhist monk to try and atone.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Don’t tell me, he’s going to announce his resignation, isn’t he?
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social)
We are becoming a nation of simpletons.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Well tbf Elon’s been busy encouraging the deportation of all non-whites from Britain and generally doing his bit to advance the cause of world wide fascism so maybe his focus is elsewhere right now.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Is this something that correspondents think their readers are interested in or have they all just collectively decided to start behaving like juvenile halfwits?
Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) reposted
It’s been almost a week since Trump made a public appearance or spoke to the press, apart from being spotted leaving the White House, allegedly on his way to the golf course. This is very unusual. What’s going on?
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
This is like kicking a corpse. Can we turn our attention to Farage and the fascists please?
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
I strongly disagree.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Actually, you are right wing.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Economists have been pretty unanimous up till now that both buying and selling are relevant economic activities, but stable genius Trump knows better and from now on only selling counts.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social)
Fascism has to be shamed, derided, if necessary physically beaten, from the public space, whenever and wherever it makes an appearance. When civil society neglects to do that, this is how fascism takes hold.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
They should be *leading* not waiting to be shamed into whatever half hearted measures they end up taking - if any.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social)
It’s foul, it’s virulently racist and it bears no relation to the truth.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
What is the point of the first paragraph, unless to try and provide some convoluted cover for circumstances about to become public? Why not just ‘While travelling on the highway…’?
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
None. Reform voters like this kind of crap and none of them are planning voting Labour anytime soon.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh look, another right winger who can’t tell the difference between ‘the truth’ and his own ignorant prejudices.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Our politicians are having a ‘debate’ with themselves and then they’ll just go ahead and do whatever they’ve decided without consulting us.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social)
What have we come to that politicians and public figures can now call for mass deportation - including British citizens - with barely a murmur from the media? These people don’t mind mind being called fascists or Nazis because they now just openly embrace it.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social)
Chat GPT
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Wrong
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
And also to the car behind asking them politely to drive more than a fucking foot away from your rear bumper.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
As it’s if half the UK has overnight decided that the civilised values that bind us as a society and enable the human species to survive are just too irksome to be bothered with any more.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Not like him to miss a chance to shoot his mouth off. Something’s up.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Understandable. I’m sure the magistrate will be sympathetic.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Good job you put quotation marks round that. You had me going there for a second! 😀
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Nobel peace prize coming right up.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s as if our right wing politicians, their friends, families and the rest of their entire circle have all made a conscious decision to become unutterably stupid.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Stephen Miller and co keeping him busy playing golf, and pissing about with the White House decor while they get on with the real business of destroying democracy.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Except they do it every single time.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
So it’s not illegal immigrants they hate. It’s not violent or criminal immigrants. It’s just immigrants, period. Ignorant, stupid bigots.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Do that!
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Not only are they not representative of local communities, their whole ethos is antithetical to very idea of community.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
On me? 🤔
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
📌
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Meeting the moment… by eating cheesecake.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
They’d better turn their attention to James Mc Murdock now. Their work is never done.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
How is it an ‘efficiency’ to sack all the park workers and then replace them with expensive highly trained soldiers?
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
The government, the media, our entire political class and half the electorate. Truly insane.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought it was trending over there!
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social)
Everyone on Bluesky sitting around, trying desperately not to jump too hard on the #trumpisdead bandwagon, because we’re all far too sensible and level headed to believe these wild internet rumours, and yet desperately hoping against hope that it might just possibly be true.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
They don’t care.
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Nice to know that Robert Jenrick is also fully on board with this flag shagging orgy. Tory frontbencher Robert Jenrick flies Union Jacks from lamp-posts www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Waiting for Nigel Farage’s exucuses for this one as they absolutely, definitely, 100 percent are not a racist party.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social)
Whatever happens in the future, whether Reform one day win a majority or not, these people will always be repulsive, snivelling worms, the very worst the human gene pool has to offer, all putrefying together in the foul, stinking cesspit known as far right politics. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
It did rather and we’re still paying the price.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
“Furious” is a loaded word. Not ‘chaotic’ or ‘unruly’ or ‘disgraceful’, but ‘furious’. It implies righteous anger.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
We can only hope. I stopped feeling guilty about being happy about another person’s death the day Thatcher died.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
I dunno. What kind of pathetic far right is this that can’t even stage a proper riot when they want to?
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
The only ‘issue’ I can see, Sir Michael, is that you love your country so much - as we all do - that you are willing to sacrifice your personal dignity, your sense of embarrassment and, indeed, all public respect to prove it. God save the King!
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
That may be, but it might be an idea not to let people with serious mental health problems have guns.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh it’s going to the Supreme Court. Well that’s alright then.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social)
“Jobs aimed at improving the wellbeing of people at an immigration detention centre… are unnecessary.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
META is a destructive, parasitical monstrosity.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
They look as if they’ve just come from the PTA meeting.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Indeed but - sorry to be the pessimist - also look at trends.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree. Let’s just trust the people who can shout the most nonsense loudest.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social)
What the judge actually said, amongst other things, was that forcing the asylum seekers to move would encourage more protests, disorder and, in extreme cases, lawlessness. So now here are all the usual culprits popping up to attack the judiciary and express their support for law breaking.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
The difference in his case being that people have nothing to thank him for.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m ok with discrimination against mass murderers.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s relying on the fact that most people will have neither read nor heard the judgment so won’t be able to tell that he’s lying through his teeth. Isn’t that where the media are supposed to step in?
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
I listened to the judgment. The human rights of the asylum seekers were barely referred to and the ECHR not at all. But of course they were always going to blame the ECHR, whatever the judge said.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
I so want it to be true, but I’m afraid I’m not convinced that some bruises and swelling are pointers to imminent death. Would love it if a doctor could disabuse me.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
And a eugenicist no doubt. Encouraging.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Will the medical insurance companies have anything to say about this now that vaccinations are no longer CDC supported?
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh sure, because political loyalties are well known to be genetically inherited.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Can’t they hear how beyond stupid they sound, saying that guns are not the problem with gun deaths?
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Supporting a genocide is not normally considered the best way to atone for committing one.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Well you could find a different job for one.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
According to these people the cause of gun violence could be mental health, transsexualism, windows, poor security, SSRIs - in fact anything apart from guns.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Sky’s immediate coverage after the ruling was to a) talk about how angry people were about it and b) quote Robert Jenrick’s response.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
The day I say ‘thank you’ to Vance will be the day he resigns from the vice presidency.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Why tell the truth when you can rabble-rouse much more quickly and effectively with lies?
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social)
Judging by its coverage immediately after the appeal court’s asylum accommodation ruling, Sky News now sees itself primarily as mouthpiece for Robert Jenrick and a noisy minority of asylum protestors. The decent majority are ignored. Not good enough. Do better @skynewsrss.bsky.social
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
The BBC’s doing its best to change that.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Right wing politics has never been about freedom. The closest they get to it - ‘personal liberty’ - has only ever been cover for a free for all that favours the already rich and powerful.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
How surprising - a far right party that doesn’t like even the mildest form of scrutiny. Can’t think why that would be, given that their policies are clearly so sensible and evidence based.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, that she wasn’t emitting a constant stream of babble about the ECHR, the Taliban and asylum hotels would be one indicator.
Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted
CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Don’t look up!
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
The left’s rush to blame guns for gun deaths really is pathetic.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social)
RFK is full of horseshit. Take it from an immunologist.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
In the absence of any action, it’s definitely fair to say that it’s a substitute for action.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Another knowing pundit mistaking his personal opinions for a general trend.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
When you think how MAGA tried to twist every killing, every disaster, every accident to be somehow Biden’s fault and then here they are presiding over this utter negligence without so much as a ‘sorry’.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
All of a piece with the ‘wellness’ brigade. Any quack cure will do so long as it’s not backed up by a hint of science.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Not familiar with the guy, but I think Brandon Tatum might just possibly be an asshole.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Indeed. How could gun deaths possibly be a ‘gun thing’?
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
How’s it been working so far?
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
They’re willing to investigate the links between absolutely anything (probably including the weather, space lasers and DEI) and gun deaths, except for the link between guns and gun deaths.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
J K Galbraith had it about right
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
You have all my thoughts and prayers - for what they’re worth!
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh I’m sure the governor would welcome it with open arms.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Well you I don’t need to tell you about then!
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
And they’re mostly in seats so gerrymandered they don’t really have to give a toss what their voters think.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
When you’re forced to answer every question with a lie, it might be to consider whether your policy positions are really as great as all that.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
So is the idea that all websites showing bias should be closed down? They should be careful what they wish for.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure, those people are the real victims in all this.
Paul Russell (@pwrussell.bsky.social) reply parent
Or she’s just flat out lying as usual.