kevininthemiddle.bsky.social
Ex-army but not a flag waver, left-leaning, anti-facist, been around most of the horror stories in the world in the last 30 years but still optimistic
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He’s a vampire, that’s all.
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So he's afraid to face down Putin, he's chickened out with his tariffs, his tariff policy is in tatters, so what does he do? He sets loose US military forces on protestors in L.A. What happened to "letting the kids fight it out a little longer"?
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Two fake warriors - a rapist and a drunk - now want to send National Guard and U.S. Marines into L.A to deal with the protests. If ever there was a textbook definition of small dick syndrome, this has to be it. Goodnight America🥹
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"Warrior ethos" my ass. I did 10 years with 2 active service tours; the best I served with just got on with the job and did what had to be done. They didn't need to posture and pretend they were "warriors" - they did what they were trained to do. Hegseth is little more than a pathetic wannabe.
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I stand corrected on my conflation with CGT, my point, clumsily made is that we should pay tax on what we receive that we have not earned. Your point here is well made about houses being considered as both a generator and store of wealth. It's an obsession in both the UK and Ireland.
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Inheritance for most of us is a relatively new issue - the vast amount of wealth created by property prices has created a situation where we believe that wealth accrued by our parents is ours to inherit without taxation. It's not! We didn't earn it. It's a capital gain and should be taxed as such.
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Trump said "It was a good conversation". What does that even mean, "good conversation"? What was the call for? So they could shoot the breeze and talk about the weather?
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Just what the world needs, even more weapons. There's something truly distasteful about the world's biggest arms manufacturing countries all sitting on the UN Security Council and bleating about the need for peace as they fuel the conflicts with their products.
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The News Agents must have been infected with the BBC "balance virus" so they need to give bullshitters like Amber Rudd air time to spout nonsense and be indignant.
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What to say that hasn’t already been said? The delusional ranting of someone who is clearly mentally ill.
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a perfect parody of the insufferable nonsense that is Jordan Peterson. This made my morning; thank you!
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Am so very disappointed to see The News Agents now acting like the average talk show and bringing on guests hawking their wares. Tapper is offering nothing by way of political analysis (he never does) and is simply selling a sensationalist hatchet job; and you guys are lapping it up. Poor choice.
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He is the very definition of vulgarity, rudeness, vanity, self-absorption, crass boorishness and sheer stupidity. President Ramaphosa was a model of composure as the wall of shit that is Trump washed over him.
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Is this "quite close" the same as the "quite close" we've been told about for ever for harnessed nuclear fusion technology? Seems more like a sales pitch than an actual verifiable fact.
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Me too. Feels like an aural tabloid sometimes and that they’re just filling airtime with tabloid fodder.
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Ah so if there were only white people with guns it would be fine? What a repulsive and racist argument that is.
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Stupid garbage logic indeed - from you! Your militarised police are still as ineffectual and useless as a wet paper bag. Giving everyone the right carry a gun has only increased the risk instead of reducing it. Only in America does pouring gasoline on the fire equate to firefighting 🤦🏻♂️
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He's gone away to screw the South African government - the one he accuses of genocide against white South Africans - out of a couple of hundred million for Starlink. Another grift brought to you by Trump Inc.
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I had elevated PSA, went from 4.5 to 13 in a year. Did biopsy, they found some cancer on both sides. Gleason score was 7, had radical prostatectomy - 7 laters later I am still clear with no measurable PSA on annual test. PSA is not very reliable but it’s a good place to start once you’re over 40.
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On that we can agree !
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Again, perhaps you should ask them, not me.
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You need to hit the dictionary and read what existential means. They have never had the means to threaten the very existence of the state of Israel. Surely that is clear when you see what is happening to Gaza now.
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Why ask me when you clearly have your own answer all lined up? You also have no proof they did that other than what IDF spokespersons tell you. In any case, I'm not defending Hamas. I was (a) pointing out you were wrong about 50 years and (b) saying I am not anti-Semitic. So go ask Hamas instead.
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Moreover, I don't hate Jews. I have been to both Gaza and the West Bank many times and have seen what it is like to live there under the Israeli occupation. To be against what Israel does is not an expression of anti-semitism. That's just an easy argument to hide behind.
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Well that's not really true is it? Hamas was only created in 1987 during the first Intifada. That doesn't make them any less reprehensible, but we might as well use facts to make an argument. Hamas has never really been an existential threat to Israel, but it has certainly been a dangerous one.
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It is truly staggering that the head of Homeland Security doesn't know what Habeus Corpus is. No surprise however that this plastic dimwit doesn't know.
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That's exactly the description I use for him. Uncontrolled flow of excrement every time he opens his mouth - nothing useful to say, nothing clever, nothing kind or empathic. Only shit!
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I absolutely agree!
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What are the odds we’ll have a loaded panel on Question Time with Farage, Badenoch and their odious gobshite fellow travelers being given equal billing for “balance”?
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Very good point. The media is complicit in this endless promotion of Farage and Reform. They don't go after him; they fawn over him and his witless utterings.
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I'm not sure I can agree that there are gradations of racism. A racist is a racist.
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It was a pleasure to watch Maitlis surgically fillet this odious little man and his racist views. He is vile, his politics are vile, yet the BBC still brings out Farage et al. for every political issue for "balance". The first question they should be asked at every interview is "are you a racist?"
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One only has to listen to Netanyahu, Ben Gvir and Smotrich to understand that this is not a bargaining ploy.
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Why is this particularly chilling or extraordinary? Francesca Albanese (and many other worthy souls) have been describing what is happening for ages already. In fact Fletcher is wrong - it's not being used as a bargaining chip because Israel is not bargaining; it is actively eliminating Gaza.
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Blah, blah, blah. The "planet" is not destroyable but all human life is. There were no humans around when it was "MUCH warmer". The ecosystem is in decline, but if you imagine that single-cell organisms in hot oceanic soup is a good future for the planet then good for you.
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I would have thought shit was his natural environment.
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"The goal is 14"? Seriously, what does that even mean? That just sounds like an aspiration. It would be better to know what is the minimum operating requirement for safety.
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So is anyone actually buying this bullshit sandwich? - apart from him, that is.
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Normalizing Hegseth's approach to the military by printing this garbage.
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. . . . and to distract from his grifting and the enrichment of his criminal enterprise family.
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This is the real story. I’ve said it here before and we need to keep saying it. He keeps saying “look over there” while he, his crime syndicate family and his minion horde are grifting and enriching themselves to the detriment of everyone else.
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Obviously he's realised how much money the rest of them are scamming so he wants back in.
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Oh I am more than sure of that. But you are right to point it out !
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Hasn't really been much of an influence for good has it? In fact one could argue that it's a veneer behind which American Protestantism continues as before; white country for white people, manifest destiny and the rest of that 19th century claptrap.
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Wasn’t Peter, the first Pope, jewish? Come to think of it, wasn’t Jesus jewish too? I don’t think he was a white anglo-saxon protestant with blue eyes and blonde hair. These MAGA lunatics know as much about their own professed Christianity as they do about tariffs.
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You’ve just got to love the fact that the MAGA universe is going into meltdown because the Pope is not a raging bigot like them. “Woke Marxist Pope” 😂😂😂 The idea is so ludicrous.
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Surely it's the "art" of the deal 😂
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So Americans - or at least those who can afford to - can buy Range Rovers with only a 10% tariff instead of the 25% Trump slapped on UK. But 10% is still higher than the original 2.5% before he started his tariff bullshit. Not much of a win there. "Deepen the economic relationship" - my ass!