peterhorne.bsky.social
Born the year WW11 ended. Lived through an era of optimism when you could wake up in the morning and be hopeful about the day.
Now saddened by the gratuitous acts of self harm inflicted upon future generations by the gross incompetence of our Politicians
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If isolationist America had joined the Allies in fighting fascism in 1939 after the invasion of Czechoslovakia the war might have ended in one or two years and the Holocaust would never have happened.
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Why isn’t Litigious Trump threatening legal action over Musk’s assertion that he is on the Epstein report and allegations of paedophilia.
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Why isn’t Litigious Trump threatening legal action over Musk’s assertion that he is on the Epstein report and allegations of paedophilia.
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Spooked by the ERG.
Under 52% voted leave, Over 48% voted remain.
A statistician will tell that’s within a margin of error. It was advisory and should have been judged so.
Cameron should have gone back to the EU and said we must address issues returned with revision and 10 years later 2nd Ref.
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Muirfield Golf Club required 60/40 to allow Ladies to become members.
What was Cameron thinking.
Probably that no one would be so stupid as to vote leave.
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Capt Titanic asks passengers would you like the fast North route or safe South. 37% say North,33% say South, 30% stay in cabins.
Next day Capt reports icebergs on Northern route would you like another vote. 37% say that’s not democratic we had a vote.
Ship hits iceberg.
Moral in here somewhere.
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The Advisory Vote over leaving the EU in 2016 resulted as follows.
37% voted leave, 33% voted remain, 30% stayed at home. Therefore 63% didn’t vote to leave.
Farage jumped around declaring it to be an overwhelming instruction.
It wasn’t.
Swiss government require 60/40 in referendums.
I despair.
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Hamas didn’t exist until 1988,was the birth child of Israel in response to the illegal settlements.
Why didn’t IDF prevent October 7th.
They were warned about it by the spotters.
The spotters were told to shut up or be arrested and locked up.
Netanyahu needed the attack to keep him out of jail
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Anyone who supported Brexit and now Farage is guilty of lazy simplistic thinking or extreme gullibility.
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How can America veto a UN RESOLUTION to require a permanent ceasefire in Israel and continue with the delusion that they occupy the moral high ground.
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If Trump had used the money he inherited from his slum landlord father and bought the Dow Jones index and did nothing but play golf every day he would be worth many times more than he is today.
Correction. Since using the Presidency for personal gain he is probably doing better now.
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Reminds me of the old Country and Western song about divorce.
“She (Trump) got the Gold mine, I (Musk) got the Shaft.
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I remember an old Country and Western song about a divorce.
“He got the mine and I got the Shaft”
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Ask yourself the following. Boris Johnson snuck off to a Party after a meeting of NATO in Italy to a KGB officers villa.
Emerged looking like hell and appointed KGB’s son to the House of Lords.
Kompromat.
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Spent many years in Eastern Europe and mostly Russia. Am aware of what is on offer to business people after business discussions.
Trump’s obsequiousness to Putin has only one explanation.
Kompromat.
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I can feel your pain, but don’t despair, it won’t last forever, I hope.
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I’ve got a good idea.
We don’t have adequacy in medicines, steel, aluminium etc. so let’s impose tariffs on those who can supply us.
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Sickened by the BBC Headline that UK has won because we will be spared from Trump’s steel tariffs.
Capitulation to a bully, never before in my lifetime.
Total humiliation.
We should have told him to go to hell.
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Sickened by the BBC Headline that UK has won because we will be spared from Trump’s steel tariffs.
Capitulation to a bully, never before in my lifetime.
Total humiliation.
We should have told him to go to hell.
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Can someone explain how Netanyahu has unlimited economic support and military aid while being accused of violations of international law and is never limited about its use in committing genocide.
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Instead of tying one arm behind Ukraines back in 2014 and 2022 the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum 1994 should have fully backed Ukraine and told Putin that one Russian military boot on their soil and the allies will annihilate the aggressor.
Instead we said we are frightened.
Pathetic.
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Trump and Vance have humiliated themselves and the United States of America while President Zalenskyy has emerged with his dignity intact and reputation as a World Statesman of stature enhanced.
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Where are those morons who said “they need us more than we need them” now.
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How dare they do what we told them to do.
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The only way way for this war to end is for the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum to honour their commitments.
They haven’t done it since 2014 and so de facto they have sent a clear message to that gangster running a rogue state that we are frightened of you.
Pathetic.
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On tariffs. Story of Mrs Bernsteins chickens. How much are you charging for chickens. $1 per pound.
But Mrs Goldstein down the road is changing 75 cents.
Then go and buy Mrs Goldsteins chickens.
Well problem is Mrs Goldstein doesn’t have any chickens.
Same as Aluminium and steel.
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Good, nobody told him that the US needs steel imports so he is showing his trade supply ignorance for all to see.
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She might have won awards but more importantly she won hearts, as did they all.
Some episodes were funny but the ones that touched me were the ones full of Pathos and there were many.
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I didn’t hear Trump saying thank you to Ukraine for sending over 2,000 troops to support the US in Iraq after 9/11.
More than 20 killed.
All allies should send in their invoices covering the International support provided.
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Why does Trump care.
He’s proved that you don’t need education intelligence, a brain or basic common sense to become President of the USA.
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Who cares, I won’t be buying anything produced in America until Trump is a footnote in history.
Just in case I’m shooting myself in the foot can someone tell me what I will be denying myself.
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Trump’s achievements so far
Damaged the economy
Trashed the reputation of the USA as a reliable country
Trashed the illusion that US occupies the moral high ground or is the exemplar of Democracy.
Humiliated America in front of visiting Heads of State
Added $1 billion a month to Trump wealth
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For decades the USA has basked in the delusion that it occupies the moral high ground and that it is the exemplar of Democracy.
Trump has exposed that myth for all to see.
Perhaps when he is gone America will come to terms with its reality and history and become a better place.
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The good news for White Anglo Saxon Protestant Criminals is that you will be pardoned and released from jail.
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Just proves that some will vote for a vacuous empty shell.
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Unfortunately the penguins are not immune from Trumps stupidity over the environment.
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It seems incomprehensible that Governments are frightened to raise the upper rate of tax by a penny for fear that a few mean minded millionaires might leave the country but don’t care about the medical professionals who are leaving the country in droves in order to have their value appreciate.
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Trump and Vance humiliated themselves and by association every man, woman and child in America.
Zalenskyy and Ramaphosa emerged with dignity, stature and the admiration of all right thinking people the world over.
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What Putin does realise is that Trump is an empty shell with delusions of adequacy who can be played and then ignored.
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Notwithstanding Trumps fantasy about Domes and pretty much everything else, what I worry about most is that half of Americans have been taken in by his delusions of self worth and adequacy.
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Trump has proved that you don’t need education, intelligence honesty or integrity to become president of America so why would he worry that Baron has been rejected by Universities of excellence.
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This can’t be allowed to continue.
What’s the matter with America.
If America doesn’t distance itself from Trump then it’s complicit.
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No, but the Bone Spurs addition is being given away at the Arlington National Cemetery.
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Putin must be quaking in his shoes wondering what Trump will do.
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Why don’t our politicians stop kowtowing to Netanyahu’s bluster about antisemitism and point out that he allowed the Hamas attack about he was fully aware to happen in order to keep himself out of jail.
I will respond to anyone challenging my assertion.
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USA foreign policy has been a disaster since the 1930’s.
And never disappoints.
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USA has 3000 nuclear warheads and is frightened of Putins threats.
What has Putin got on Trump that makes him so subservient.