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mrjamesob.bsky.social • 10 days ago

It gets more Brexity by the minute…

“.. We’re just in such a state of shock. We just don’t really even know how to respond,” Gilkerson said. “Everyone thinks all farmers voted for this, but we did not vote for this.”

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onahill.bsky.social•10 days ago

Same author

ceu---azul.bsky.social•10 days ago

both this trump takeover and brexit were made by Putin to weaken his enemies, so yes it has similarities :)

jegath.bsky.social•9 days ago

😟😟😟

sarf-london.bsky.social•10 days ago

podkin.bsky.social•10 days ago

Very good!

pavsmith.bsky.social•10 days ago

stolen!!!

paulobro.bsky.social•10 days ago

Nailed it!

lorfw.bsky.social•9 days ago

If they voted for Trump, they sure did vote for it... It was very clear what was going to happen.

fromoverthepond.bsky.social•9 days ago

Were the farmers so pathetically dumb they couldn't see beyond the January 6th event and Trump's lack of loyalty to anyone.
The world could see it

Repub voters will vote for anyone and anything to not have a Democrat ( stands for Democracy if they weren't aware)
Serves them right..no sympathy

sohame.bsky.social•10 days ago

Just glad someone has taken the baton for “shooting themselves in the foot” off of the UK!

alistairblantyre.bsky.social•10 days ago

🥴

mikejsear.bsky.social•10 days ago

I misread cuts.

gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social•10 days ago

overheard in a foodbank queue: "how could Americans be so stupid to elect trump?"

onahill.bsky.social•10 days ago

Well how could they do it AGAIN is a fair question

gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social•10 days ago

well, I hear johnson is combing his hair with a balloon again, scratching his arse in public and almost wearing a suit.

All 5 of his "aides" believe he can have a second coming. And Nadine Dorries. She wants him back. Wants him back. For good.

onahill.bsky.social•10 days ago

Felt a knee jerk denial of the possibility come over me (cross party bitterness over party gate and the longer view of Brexit damage). But yeah it needs to be watched a fought tooth and nail.

gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social•10 days ago

Watch out for this guy.....who leans heavily on restorative nostalgia - to a past that never existed - and pound shop intellectual arguments to whip up islamophobia & hate, all in a posh accent & demeanour that english voters seem to love.

Making racism great again for the middle classes.

joep90.bsky.social•10 days ago

I imagine several people might vote for him

cclcircles.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yep. Same bad actors, same corruption, same lies, same dark money, same manipulation and same outcome: everyone is broke, nothing works and the promises were utter lies and now shame has them all surprised and confused.

sissyspacecake.bsky.social•10 days ago

Well looking at all that red farmland on the map, I'd say you very much DID vote for this. You just didn't think he meant you.

The "other" President says "empathy is weakness" so don't expect any at all.

danhanjon.bsky.social•10 days ago

zizzerzoof.bsky.social•10 days ago

I've seen a lot of comments saying this is only happening because of people believing in American exceptionalism too...

deejred.bsky.social•9 days ago

But sovereignty was worth the pain ! 🙄

peterdavieson.bsky.social•10 days ago

Well it was organised by the same person ..

motosunburn.bsky.social•10 days ago

It's almost as if most of them voted for it. And as if nobody told them what would happen. Fckm.

stephent1649.bsky.social•10 days ago

Almost as if increasing barriers to trade isn't a good thing. Even in the USA. Who would have guessed? #brexit #tariffs

monterojesus.bsky.social•10 days ago

…with a whiff of Russian interference as well.

msbluewednesday.bsky.social•10 days ago

Maybe more of a pong?

melinbelfast333.bsky.social•10 days ago

If they voted for him, they voted for this

evab.bsky.social•10 days ago

So many times recently I've thought that it's a very similar outcome in USA to what we've experienced with Brexit. Now that there are (at least) two nations experiencing "outcomes" from this very special playbook, will the rest of the world wake up to how it could go for them if The Right take hold?

leetaylorbythesea.bsky.social•10 days ago

Vance will be happy to see them bankrupt, he wants to sell their land

joep90.bsky.social•10 days ago

They voted for a businessman who was bankrupt multiple times...

stephenseagal.bsky.social•10 days ago

Farmers voting for Trump, totally against their own interests...... maybe it's just farmers.

neurodistracted.bsky.social•10 days ago

Anything We can do, They can do better.......

ruralriding.bsky.social•10 days ago

No sympathy, call the rapist, you elected him.

colinbags.bsky.social•10 days ago

Let’s see if the USA citizens put up with the Trump tariff “benefits” like we had to put up with for Brexit. Accelerated Covid vaccinations spring to mind.

martinrobertson.bsky.social•10 days ago

it's the identical mindset - "No rules, no foreigners"

shortbreadfairy.bsky.social•10 days ago

It's same bunch that pushed both

theaccidentalotaku.bsky.social•10 days ago

White supremacy sure is expensive.

montyboo1.bsky.social•10 days ago

Oddly today in Sainsbury's I noticed Us Spitits IE jack Daniels and Capt Morgan rum etc were all on a big discount. Can't help wondering why. Hopefully it's because people have stopped buying American.

agood1.bsky.social•10 days ago

I am hoping that this debacle immunises the UK population ready for the next election.

thisthattother.bsky.social•10 days ago

sadly it will not. Check out any local facebook group to see the endless pro-reform posts from ignorant, bigoted morons, they are no longer a minority. Used to be that every village had an idiot, seems like now it is every door step.

agood1.bsky.social•10 days ago

Problem is the village idiots coalesce on a Facebook page. It’s the same number but instead of howling at the moon the buggers meet up to talk about conspiring elites (not incl the elites in and supporting reform)

threepot900.bsky.social•9 days ago

Trump thought Brexit was a great idea - remember he told the Maybot to sue the EU!?!

It's like he watched the chaos over the last decade and said to Boris, "Hold my coke and watch how to do it properly boy!"
(obviously after checking the step by step manual Uncle Vlad gave him for christmas)

dombrett.bsky.social•10 days ago

Question (James/anyone).

Should Lib Dems start campaigning now to rejoin the EU?

podkin.bsky.social•10 days ago

Of course!

dombrett.bsky.social•10 days ago

Agreed. So why don't they?

bluesea13.bsky.social•9 days ago

Because there not have us back so quickly. I think that’s been explained over and over again

podkin.bsky.social•10 days ago

You'll need to ask them, Dom.

podkin.bsky.social•10 days ago

Sometimes you come across people who see themselves as pro-Brexit. They hate having to change their minds.

ne63.bsky.social•10 days ago

We’re going to need a tinier violin

acewiz8.bsky.social•10 days ago

The truth is that until Brexit is truly recognized as the monumental failure of common sense it was and is the healing will never begin! Every day will be a be a Ground Hog Brexit Day!
As a nation we’ll be trapped in a seemingly never ending whorl of stupidity and regret! We must sorrowfully own it!

stu31.bsky.social•10 days ago

When both are based on lies the people that suffer most are those that believed.

gb47stir.bsky.social•10 days ago

I feel so sorry for 50% of Americans!

pavsmith.bsky.social•10 days ago

but they did vote for this. precisely this. with #brexit we should have known better. in the US case, trump said he was going to do all this. they all voted for him because it sounded so good.

jessicajsalmon.bsky.social•10 days ago

Dear Reader, they voted for this.

jpwills.bsky.social•8 days ago

I know people who voted Brexit for different reasons but because you keep thinking you can put them all in one 'dumb' basket, they'd vote the same tomorrow because of you. Similar situation in the US, but hey, I'm just a remainer myself. I promise to buy ya book if you don't call me an antisemite

safraser91.bsky.social•10 days ago

TBF, Trump had the sense to bung them cash last time. The tories were pretty happy to receive cash from others by contrast.

ciaranmclovin.bsky.social•10 days ago

The Trump they voted for goes to another school....

squarearse.bsky.social•10 days ago

During the Brexit debate I tried on numerous occasions to get a handle on what the NFU’s take was. Every time I tried to access their web site it was unavailable due to site maintenance. Convenient 🤔

arcadianvision.bsky.social•10 days ago

Sorry "Gilkerson", you did vote for this.

crickbar.bsky.social•10 days ago

Stop press! Right wing populists go back on their promises!

fromfaraway.bsky.social•9 days ago

Absolutely, including the "we don't need them at all" and "without us they are a failed state" comments from Trump 🤡

nomeart.bsky.social•10 days ago

it's so much like Brexit and Austerity wrapped up together then delivered at turbo speed! I keep having anxiety flash backs

dgr70.bsky.social•10 days ago

"We didn't vote for this" say people who voted for this

heppy111.bsky.social•10 days ago

It's brexit on steroids.
Brexit was the dry run.

anfieldsmustard.bsky.social•10 days ago

No but trade deals, Buy American, Panama, Greenland, Canada …. Big picture James …. Big picture…. Huge, nothing like it, huge no ones done deals like this before …

almunro.bsky.social•10 days ago

If only we had a crystal ball🤦‍♂️

djohnrowins.bsky.social•10 days ago

champierth.bsky.social•10 days ago

It’s almost like you can’t assume what mandate you have just from the fact that people voted for you.

jumpers4goalposts1.bsky.social•10 days ago

Vote stupid get stupid

andlist.bsky.social•10 days ago

“Thoughts and prayers”.

chudlt.bsky.social•10 days ago

They certainly lobbied for it and more than likely voted for Brexit.

legalclaret.bsky.social•10 days ago

My version of Trump goes to a different school.

andrewbrook.bsky.social•10 days ago

Could it be that the U.K. needs to see Brexit happening in glorious Technicolor, across the pond, for us to realise what a disaster it has been for us?

johnbroggio.bsky.social•10 days ago

Possibly but no prominent politician would be brave enough to draw the parallels

barbaraeichner.bsky.social•10 days ago

Just faster - because of the delayed implementation of Brexit, it took longer for Brexit supporters to wake up and smell the coffee.

skzcartoons.bsky.social•10 days ago

IIRC there's no good data on how British farmers voted. There was I think one minor poll done by a farming magazine. The numbers I recall seeing afterwards showed that British farmers tended to vote as most people did: slightly in favour but huge numbers opposed.

skzcartoons.bsky.social•10 days ago

But lots of people online posted lots of photos of farms displaying pro brexit signs. Many farmers were very well aware of the impact.

Now, the fishing industry wwre stupid and I'm happy to have Schadenfreude there! But farmers seem to be blamed for something they didn't actually do.

geor9e.bsky.social•10 days ago

billybeans.bsky.social•10 days ago

Putin wanted a weaker EU and so did Trump. They loved Brexit. If UKG made a rejoin application now, watch how the Trump/Musk/Putin dynamic changes. If Putin thinks Trump is actually working the reverse of his objectives he is going to dump him.

serenas.bsky.social•10 days ago

Said that to some of my American friends. They're the half that couldn't work out why the other half voted the way they did, why they're so belligerent about it, what fresh hell will come each day...

But for them, it seems worse. Deportations. Virus going wild. Economy in free fall. Truss + Brexit

serenas.bsky.social•10 days ago

So I feel for them even more. But I also see fight. I see the town halls descending into chaos. I see the careful move of conversations and action to more secure places. I see the strategy.

This will feel more like a resistance movement. I think they will prevail but it will be painful.

drkwildschut1984.bsky.social•9 days ago

Disgruntled South African farmers aren’t deterred. Buyer beware.

ladyboater.bsky.social•10 days ago

I wondered when they would deny littering the whole countryside with those giant Vote Leave boards.

strettonbluenose.bsky.social•10 days ago

It looks like a quote from a leaver to me. "We didn't vote for this", meaning "we voted to leave, which was undefined, and built a fantasy in our heads on what it meant, based on the promises of liars, in no position to make promises, and don't like this now that it's not our fantasy".

foolishmichie.bsky.social•10 days ago

It is like Brexit if you came out of it, righted the ship, and then voted for it all over again. These farmers do not get to claim ignorance twice.

https://youtu.be/XeF51PPtpAw?si=kTPKsL33ewktOfB2

mrbrooklynite.bsky.social•10 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/mrbrooklynite.bsky.social/post/3lkdn76vajs2z

foggymac.bsky.social•10 days ago

Gosh! It appears Brexit has weakened Britains economy! Oh no! How did this happen! Why weren't we warned! 🤦‍♀️

mrgtan121.bsky.social•10 days ago

You didn't vote for this? Yes you did cocker, it wasn't even hidden in the small print.

skinlessgorgon.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yeah, didn't USAID buy $2 billion worth of commodities from US farmers?

localnotail.bsky.social•10 days ago

As Brexit, so Trump

https://bsky.app/profile/danancona.bsky.social/post/3lafipze4zg2t

petemarchetto.bsky.social•10 days ago

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/joe-biden-president-good-bad-legacy-1235240727/
The questions asked were about the positives of the Biden administration. How would the same poll look if the questions were tailored to the negatives?

And no, I didn't want Trump to win, but these skewed polls don't help us any.

localnotail.bsky.social•10 days ago

The questions asked were about reality of life in America.

They were asked as part of a survey on the link between media consumption and public opinion. What makes you say they were skewed?

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/link-between-media-consumption-and-public-opinion

petemarchetto.bsky.social•10 days ago

I was talking about the meme. Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

petemarchetto.bsky.social•10 days ago

Point underlined. "Americans who primarily get their news from Fox News and Conservative Media and social media/other are more likely to answer questions about inflation and crime incorrectly than Americans...

petemarchetto.bsky.social•10 days ago

... writ large. On the other hand, in May, Ipsos polling found that Cable News/National Newspaper consumers were less likely to answer questions about the level of border crossing correctly."

margotescargot1.bsky.social•10 days ago

Lies travel 6 times faster than the truth on social media… (I think it’s 6)

ziggyman.bsky.social•10 days ago

Unfortunately, it works everytime🤨

toogloomy.bsky.social•10 days ago

And all roads lead back to Putin.

localnotail.bsky.social•10 days ago

Putin and Dugin, in plain sight all along

https://bsky.app/profile/localnotail.bsky.social/post/3ldv7u5w5ok2i

adybee.bsky.social•10 days ago

localnotail.bsky.social•10 days ago

in another Brexit echo, when Trump won again, predominantly Black recipients in at least six states received racist, trollish text messages telling them they had been “selected” to “pick cotton at the nearest plantation”

intolerance emboldened
@motherjones.com
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/racist-texts-black-voters-election-trump/

mado007.bsky.social•10 days ago

The truth always has the annoying habit of catching up with reality.

The finding out phase is long and painful.
Some will stay in the cult to the end. Sunk cost fallacy and all.

francios-1878.bsky.social•10 days ago

Farts and Prayers

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