It is obvious but worth repeating that regimes built on lies survive only as long as they can suppress truth. The promotion of complicit media (alternative facts) & denigration of objective media (facts) is not just desirable but essential. This process is being turbo-charged in the USA right now.
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Also frustrating; how fuckin dumb Americans are
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As do the bulk of the press
Reviewing the papers is effe4ctibvely repeating far-right talking points as there is little else in the press.
Who has discussed Musk, Bannon and the Mexican guy giving Nazi salutes at CPAC? Or the attendance of snr Tories there? etc
ALTERNATIVE VIEW: But but but ........ The Taliban
Don’t get me wrong, my only hope is this lot will fail because they are so dense and incompetent.
"and then they came for me"
The sad part is those people will believe him if he simply says it was Obama that caused it.
Everyone else just seems to shrug and carry on…
The nearest the French have got to mass uprising was 1968, and that was stamped on ruthlessly.
If you’re not scared by brown faces or don’t think trans folks lower house prices then you may as well not exist! 🤪🇬🇧
Starmer has to be as resilient as Macron.
No doubt, Trump will tell Starmer that the Gazan children started it first.
https://youtu.be/YJxfPMqAHxY?feature=shared
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie."
It will be a while before that happens, but it will happen.
When was the last administration in the US that didn’t face a crisis (typically unforeseen)?
The rot is already built into this one
The not the judiciary stands in his way and that looks shaky
For another 80-odd years, when morons will support them again.
I suppose we're about to find out...
Nothing!
"I'm swinging from a lamppost on the corner of the street".
Apologies to George Formby.....but not to Trump.
I might have been a regular listener of your show for long, but I definitely do appreciate it and your wit. Keep it up! 😁
Name calling, rage and hate (from any political side) reads to me as classic Russian propaganda. Quite easy to spot Russian agents by how quickly they get angry in face of facts and logical arguments.
So yeah, thanks James!
Something has changed and it is now beyond doubt that Trump and his supporters are fascists.
They need to be exposed, and the danger they represent highlighted repeatedly.
Over to you…..
Something is definitely fishy.
Sadly to many businesses in the US have decided to side with fascism.
The courts and regular people seems to be the last bastion.
Who will the police and military side with in the end?
We are living in scary times.
Consider how ridiculous the BBC has become since 2016, with false equivalence presented as "balance".
where enough people will be unwilling to admit if they have been fooled by confidence tricks or policies that sound populist until "didn't think that would apply to me".
I'm hoping that his other quote/prediction also comes true.
And soon.