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mrjamesob.bsky.social • 147 days ago

Also applies in the UK.

It would be nice to see mainstream media acknowledge that every alarmist in their ranks about Trump and his henchmen has been correct, and every single "Let's all calm down" guy--a posture of blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media--has called it wrong from day one.

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benbrad4d.bsky.social•147 days ago

Especially Piers “it’s just Trump and Musk having a friendly chat on Twitter” Morgan.

m7agg.bsky.social•147 days ago

Farage has to just open his mouth and UK media are all over it. That includes LBC so you are not out of the woods James. LDs have 10x the seats yet barely heard. That's the problem.

mja66.bsky.social•136 days ago

Also, there's a global and pressing climate crisis yet I could count on one hand the amount of times I've heard any Green MP invited to speak or call the government out on their breaking of Green pledges on a near-daily basis.

They don't have Reform polling stats but those would improve if... etc.

mja66.bsky.social•136 days ago

This is a good shout. I've 'registered protest' with @lewisgoodall.com myself.

But I also get that there's a fine line between not platforming NF (ironic initials!) and rightly calling him out. And the amount of BS he needs calling out on is just so huge.

timash.bsky.social•147 days ago

You can't blame James for other presenters' sycophancy.

m7agg.bsky.social•147 days ago

How many times does James quote and refer to Farage, even disparaging, compared to Ed Davey?

timash.bsky.social•147 days ago

I have no idea. I try to avoid seeing or listening to Farage.
All he does is exagerate and outright lie.

rooflight1.bsky.social•146 days ago

I think there’s a bigger issue though.
Look at Marina Purkis and Jemma Forte’s posts and a lot of them are about garage and trump same with many other left leaning content providers.
thatcher said you deny them the oxygen of publicity.
As much as I despise thatcher she was right on that.

brennick.bsky.social•147 days ago

I am sure a lot of the “let’s all calm down” political pundits are just temperamentally and emotionally unable to admit that their “good chaps” world has long gone.

johnofnorwich.bsky.social•147 days ago

It could be argued that the greatest damage is not done by the likes of Trump himself, but by the news media that takes the edges off the insanity, makes it palatable for public consumption.

meherehoping.bsky.social•146 days ago

Exactly. I remember Iain Dale during his first presidency having a go at callers comparing Trump to Hitler and thinking how misguided he was…he was quite belittling to them but I think on some level he knew they were right; the more he got cross with them the less convinced he sounded

sukistockwell.bsky.social•145 days ago

He exudes petulance on these occasions.

drrjwarren.bsky.social•147 days ago

It so does.

jamesbev.bsky.social•147 days ago

Trump is just a TV personality. Pigshit thick ignorant.
The unelected money behind his is the true danger.
It could happen in the UK.

sarahviktoria.bsky.social•146 days ago

It is happening in the UK.

the-anachronista.bsky.social•137 days ago

Yes, and our media is complicit in pumping out messaging that favours these billionaires like Musk and Theil’s goals. Farage is a wannabe broligarch, and at present is still on outside looking in. We must dismantle and rebut this disinformation age if we want to keep these Nazis out of government.

soderbrod.nafofellas.com•147 days ago

That statement:

"blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media"

hits the nail on the head. There's this overwhelming "really no big deal" in a lot of UK reporting of the Trump administration.

michaelblueskyone.bsky.social•147 days ago

There’s nothing on the bbc website about these protestors in London, there’s thousands of them.
There’s a few papers that have run a bit but nothing overwhelming on ‘mainstream tv’ and it’s the nations capital.
Why is that?

https://youtu.be/Nvji6Wnvi4g?si=7ojsh60XEm8uBWyG

right-wing-dude.bsky.social•147 days ago

Oh and little Tommy ten names is too busy being reaped then sowed in prison.

right-wing-dude.bsky.social•147 days ago

Because Nigel Farrage or Kemi Badenoch are not available to provide their balanced opinion on it.

annedejavu.bsky.social•147 days ago

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-junta-establishes-him-as-head-of-government

sarahviktoria.bsky.social•147 days ago

Also applies to the UK state and media sponsored anti trans persecution campaign, which having happened in plain sight over here, we now see being rolled out as part of a package of fascist terror in the USA.

sonnet-lumiere.bsky.social•147 days ago

What's that saying again?

"The road to fascism is lined with people saying you're overreacting."

nicktheinventor.bsky.social•147 days ago

It does.

But it’s also going to apply to all of those people who told us to “shut up until they are elected and stop helping the Tories” when we said that labours electoral platform was a recipe for disappointment in power and a Reform surge to government.

muichoi.bsky.social•147 days ago

Fortunately it is not, don't be so silly.

baylissfx.bsky.social•147 days ago

It didn‘t work with Hitler.. it will not with the aspiring autocrats..

ladyboater.bsky.social•146 days ago

But look at the appalling toll in carnage Hitler left in his wake

baylissfx.bsky.social•146 days ago

If you let go the achievements of your ancestors by letting pass important moments (due to short term benefits in money, time or just indifference) … there will be a price to get it back (if at all). You need to protect democracy every day… America sold itself long ago.

robocopperpot.bsky.social•146 days ago

And anybody that supported these fuckin ghouls should be deplatformed for basically supporting racism, I'm looking at piers Morgan, you know....the cunt....

rushty321.bsky.social•147 days ago

Definitely. He’s an out and out fascist.

mockneypiers.bsky.social•146 days ago

Tbh all I want is context when reporting his words, like "trump blames dei" should then say "because he's been a massive racist for 50 years" or musk's unusual arm movement followed by "and he's been hanging out with nazis and been a massive racist for years"

stuzipants.bsky.social•147 days ago

Daubney and Dewberry celebrating Trump’s first days earlier whilst sat in their MAGA hats live on GB News
But lockdown was an act of fascism, right?

ladyboater.bsky.social•147 days ago

The combined IQ of a grape. How did Daubney's Lads Mags work out?

sandyofipswich.bsky.social•141 days ago

Also applies to the Climate Crisis. Also applied to Putin (“this is a man we can do business with”). Also applied to the rise of the Nazis.

suebeesley.bsky.social•146 days ago

Cassandra syndrome. No-one's interested in people who predict bad outcomes for things that sound 'exciting'.

jim1132.bsky.social•146 days ago

Maybe one of your many right-wing colleagues at @lbc.co.uk will tempt one of the "Let's go, WTO!" guys on tomorrow - Tice, Rees-Mogg, Leadsom, to name but few -to talk about Trump's trade war.

trevm12.bsky.social•147 days ago

The media is as complicit as the actual perpetrators & must be held to account.

btad114.bsky.social•147 days ago

Shades of the Brexit Omerta

lvfox.bsky.social•146 days ago

Id like to know what measures are being put in place now to protect us, including our gov held data, from US corporate junta. Esp if they try to take UK at next election.

the-anachronista.bsky.social•137 days ago

Well, the Tories sold the contract to store our nhs data to Palantir owned by Peter Theil, the same guy who is not only known to “lose” or rather sell, data to foreign interests. Theil is also the money man behind Vance and is supporting Musk. These billionaires have been hoarding wealth for years.

lvfox.bsky.social•136 days ago

Bad news indeed. Presumably tax, land registry, pensions, passport office safer at the mo?

the-anachronista.bsky.social•135 days ago

Nothing is being denied to Musk so any government agency or allocated funding including historical data is at risk by musk and his gang of teenage hackers.

ben1908.bsky.social•146 days ago

I'm actually a little bit proud that Liz Truss was the lowest we sank. her mad antics seem mild, now.

sazdosanjh.bsky.social•147 days ago

While the voters cheer him on, how are you deciding what/who is correct? I've always said it, politics isn't about being right, it's about winning. Boris J never lost an election, nor did Truss, their successors are out there, building support. Farage is definitely not alone.

jago2012.bsky.social•146 days ago

Surely you can see who/what is dangerous.
They employ lies.
So it's not about being correct.

nonnie.bsky.social•147 days ago

Yep

plank42.bsky.social•147 days ago

"But all politicians are the same" crowd will never quite get it!

anneroberts54.bsky.social•147 days ago

Indeed I don't want to hear any more UK politicians talk about having a "dialogue" with this monster, or backtracking on their previous comments about him. All this does is make voters even more disillusioned with politics and drives them to Reform etc.

the-anachronista.bsky.social•137 days ago

And that’s exactly why they do it.

id4man.bsky.social•147 days ago

Especially the headlines from the ‘Daily Fail’ and ‘Torygraph’ can’t we have a ‘Trades descriptions act’ for these publications?

They are sold for money, therefore normally if you buy anything and it’s not fit for purpose, you have the right to claim

greywildwolf.bsky.social•146 days ago

Trump is a Nazi. Simple.
He's taking executive power and eliminating checks and balances like Hitler. Trump's first target is to burn books and scientific papers on Trans people and HIV advice.
The Nazis first target was early research on Trans and Intersex people.
I'm screaming into the void.

the-anachronista.bsky.social•137 days ago

I really wish more people would understand this part of Hitlers history. This “culture war” that seeks to demonise trans people is straight out of Nazi playbook. I think what’s missing from the trans debate is that they are PEOPLE and they deserve to live their truth as much as anyone else.

mike20000.bsky.social•147 days ago

What I find odd in the UK media is the imbalance of attention given to parties like Reform. Feels like match of the day giving an hour to a 5 a side team from Clacton and 5 minutes to Liverpool.

right-wing-dude.bsky.social•146 days ago

Based on the election results Reform were joint 7th with the DUP for number of MPs. The media have now moved the goalposts to base it on number of votes. I bet they wouldn't do that if Greens got 4m votes but only 5 MPs.

the-anachronista.bsky.social•137 days ago

Very that!

ledredman.bsky.social•136 days ago

It's far from accidental.

rooflight1.bsky.social•146 days ago

Poootin’s money funnelled into deform, the tories, tufton st etc works wonders…

norysstorys.bsky.social•147 days ago

It’s genuinely shocking that the Lib Dem’s don’t get the air time they supposedly should be receiving, the 3rd largest party in the house should be getting far more talking time on television but no, the media at large needs to pander to the xenophobes and the outrage response to those xenophobes.

alphast.bsky.social•146 days ago

Especially since Labour is so pathetically, utterly proving to be useless. They have full power and don't use it for anything else than removing some of the most egregiously idiotic policies of the previous Tory government. It's ridiculous.

mike20000.bsky.social•147 days ago

Was thinking this the other day. It’s crazy, whether the media is consciously doing it or not they’re giving a disproportionate amount of voice to the far right which British voters massively rejected at the election.

brennick.bsky.social•147 days ago

About 80% of the English newspapers are fully supportive of Reform. Same beliefs, same agenda. Throw in the awful GB News, a terrified and timid BBC and soap opera Sky and you can see we’re in a bad place.

mike20000.bsky.social•147 days ago

Terrified and timid is a good description of the BBC.

solvognen.bsky.social•147 days ago

Its Tory placemen at the top are wholly complicit.

oldhuman2.bsky.social•147 days ago

Also applies to us lefties and centrists (e.g. Richard Murphy) warning about Starmer and Reeves - derided as deluded, Corbynites, commies etc. We were correct!

alexmcguinness.bsky.social•147 days ago

It's not about getting it right, it's about getting away with it as long as possible

ladyboater.bsky.social•147 days ago

Not shocked to see the UK media talking about this maniac as if he's some kind of legitimate democratic figure who is a little bit erratic. He's unwell and won't last 4 years, I see another Brezhnev situation coming 'nope, he's not at all dead, look at this 5 year old footage of him in fine health'

craig.nikolic.co.uk•147 days ago

Lots of “look at what he does, not what he says” people a couple of weeks ago downplaying his ranting.

Ok, I’m looking at what he’s doing, and it’s pretty much what the Cassandras were saying.