A Political Thread pt. 2

[Al Bangor]

 

[Al Bangor]

 

[Al Bangor]

 

[Al Bangor]

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Video from 4 years ago, but still scarily accurate.

"DJT is viewed as JC, by the a hard core of the evangelical right."

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Boris Johnson wants to ‘do a Berlusconi’ back to power, says Rory Stewart

Former Tory rival says outgoing PM aims to return to No 10 in style of other deposed populists

www.theguardian.com

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Boris Johnson wants to ‘do a Berlusconi’ back to power, says Rory Stewart

Former Tory rival says outgoing PM aims to return to No 10 in style of other deposed populists

www.theguardian.com

Genuinely amazed when you look at the mail or express readership and see how many people genuinely seem to believe that Johnson was the victim of some witch hunt and didn't do anything wrong, and that these morons are allowed to vote...

I can't for the life of me understand the cult-like hero worship of people who it is clear to see are complete lying, selfish scumbags. Do some people enjoy being conned or something? What exactly do they see in someone like Johnson?

 

[Bada-Bing!]

I can't for the life of me understand the cult-like hero worship of people who it is clear to see are complete lying, selfish scumbags. Do some people enjoy being conned or something? What exactly do they see in someone like Johnson?

Sadly yes. Willing to overlook his clear flaws, for what they perceive to be what he stands for.

Not too Tory, a little bit Blair and a whole lot of brown: how Sunak’s formula failed | Nesrine Malik

In running his leadership like a corporate takeover bid, he looked like a man willing to say absolutely anything to win, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

Another pretty scathing critique of Rishi. Sad, despite Truss being demonstrably worse. Neither fit to be PM.

 

[Al Bangor]

 

[Al Bangor]

 

[Gavin]

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Just like Johnson, these people are cowards and afraid of anything that might hold them accountable.

 

[Reiser99]

On a personal level it's cowardly and just further highlights awful she will be. In terms of winning this vote it makes sense as the only person likely to beat her is herself, so the less she's out there to make a mistake the better. I do wonder how it must feel when your strategists tell you the best strategy is not to say anything or do anything.

 

[Welsh Exile]

On a personal level it's cowardly and just further highlights awful she will be. In terms of winning this vote it makes sense as the only person likely to beat her is herself, so the less she's out there to make a mistake the better. I do wonder how it must feel when your strategists tell you the best strategy is not to say anything or do anything.

This is 100% true but then also, on the other hand, she could stick 2 pencils up her nostrils and put her knickers on her head saying "wibble" for the entire interview and it wouldn't do her any real harm. They're not going to vote Sunak in anyway.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

So as a matter of interest I went on the Daily Fail comments about the impending cost of living crisis and problems with fuel costs. Know what one of the most popular comments was (other than being angry at the absence of any sort of governance surprisingly)? Blaming renewables. Yep, in a crisis largely driven by oil and gas, your DM readership is convinced renewables are actually the problem. You couldn't make it up, these people are utter morons and incapable of seeing they hold completely contradictory positions simultaneously.

On the one hand we are bad for investing in renewables and simply shouldn't have ever bothered but then renewables are also bad because they haven't get got to a stage where they provide enough to completely offset a massive fossil fuel crisis... Besides coal, which had been in decline for nearly a century, we have been fully exploiting our economical oil and gas reserves. Even without current moves away from it, a lot of the coal in the UK simply isn't economical to mine, as shown by the fact that the final death of it was after coal mining was privatised and still they were being shut down.

 

[Al Bangor]

 

[Al Bangor]

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Mikhail Gorbachev has died aged 91. Different era….

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Mikhail Gorbachev has died aged 91. Different era….

Putin hated what the end of the Cold War did to the old USSR. I wonder if he authorises a state funeral for the architect of its end?