You may know, Aaron, that after the Liz Truss/Kwasi Kwarteng budget meltdown in the UK, which resulted in that administration being toppled by its own party after 40 days in power, she went on to blame "left-wing banks" and "woke markets". I feel Trump is very close to that level of insanity. - ThreadSky

sturdyalex.bsky.social • 65 days ago

You may know, Aaron, that after the Liz Truss/Kwasi Kwarteng budget meltdown in the UK, which resulted in that administration being toppled by its own party after 40 days in power, she went on to blame "left-wing banks" and "woke markets".

I feel Trump is very close to that level of insanity.

Reposted from Aaron Rupar

This is a Hitler-screaming-in-his-bunker-at-generals level of lunacy

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benbrad4d.bsky.social•65 days ago

The European Union was formed to screw the USA …. Ok 👌

sturdyalex.bsky.social•65 days ago

Talk about "main character syndrome".

jagsman.bsky.social•65 days ago

Nothing to see here, move along, everything is FINE!

lesserspottedh.bsky.social•65 days ago

I think Trump’s deranged utterances are for internal consumption, ie. his voter base.

albiwan.bsky.social•65 days ago

If my father ranted like this I’d have to put a warm blanket around him and slowly walk him back to the comfort of his residential home, pool lamb.

yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social•65 days ago

Nearly as insane as Liz Truss is not a good place to be.

aphexgwyn.bsky.social•65 days ago

"Globalist"? We all know what that means.

feelingantsy.bsky.social•65 days ago

She still gets all the ex prime minister perks.

Was it the Greeks who picked a rich person to lead, stripped them of their wealth, and how much they got back at the end of their term was dependent on how the city state had done under their rule?

Do well get rich, do badly and share the pain

aphexgwyn.bsky.social•65 days ago

“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?”
“Why?”
“It saves time.”

― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

feelingantsy.bsky.social•65 days ago

😂

dafydd63el.bsky.social•65 days ago

Sadly too many in the USA agree with everything he says and does!

ianrobo.bsky.social•65 days ago

he was long there Alex but here we had checks both within her own party and even the vapid rabid right wing press could not stop her resigning ... there nothing like that but meanwhile the disconnect between US and ROW is speeding up at least in the stock markets

dickytoller.bsky.social•65 days ago

Time to introduce a lettuce?

victoria1921.bsky.social•65 days ago

Why does anyone think that greedy, self serving narcissists, sociopaths in control of government funds is ever going to end well?

It took 14 years, 5 hopeless Conservative PMs, their austerity, corruption and incompetence before UK finally voted them out.

How long can US endure Trump/Musk regime?

makingsawdust.bsky.social•65 days ago

“Tariff related money is pouring into the United States”

Is he lying or does he genuinely not know what Tariffs are?

juliemontoya20.bsky.social•65 days ago

I think he probably genuinely does not know. He was never a particularly smart person before the brain worms got to him; he just had a talent for saying the words people wanted to hear, without regard to the truth, and a team of people smarter than him to clean up his messes after him.

jim1132.bsky.social•65 days ago

The parallels are uncanny - except we could get rid of Truss, with the help of the final remaining sane members of the Tory Party, Mark Carney, and some of our press. The US are stuck with him.

davidnice.bsky.social•65 days ago

He'll be calling the WSJ 'woke' soon.

beealing.bsky.social•65 days ago

Next he'll scrap Wall Street full stop. And trading. And stocks and shares. And banks.

andyinafield.bsky.social•65 days ago

"THEY NEED US MORE THAN WE NEED THEM!!!!!"

Making an early appearance, too.
https://bsky.app/profile/lesliepicker.bsky.social/post/3lkbbfs4h3k26

yorkshirepaddy.bsky.social•65 days ago

In all of this I am consistently astounded at the incredible incompetence and vapidity of a lot of very rich people. Is it just evil that is required to get rich?

samanthasearrings.bsky.social•65 days ago

It's Putin. Those are his words and the words of his cultural attaché Dugin, who has been the toast of US right wing U-Tube channels.

andyinafield.bsky.social•65 days ago

I have no idea. I see all sorts of packaging of same-but-different. Convergent evolution, perhaps.

They all tend to totalitarianism, though.

samanthasearrings.bsky.social•65 days ago

I tend to think nowadays that somebody put together a starter pack of ideas and instructions for introducing a captured state regime.

Not necessarily one set of prescriptive instructions, but a set of ideas and strategies to try.

Some strategies were notable for failing with the public UK.

samanthasearrings.bsky.social•65 days ago

"UK public"

andyinafield.bsky.social•65 days ago

That's what the neoliberals have done. Their ideas have become orthodox.

Brown's greatest triumph was also his greatest failure.

The catastrophic market failure precipitated by this pervasive ideology was mitigated.

It got away with it.

So, crazy town now.

samanthasearrings.bsky.social•65 days ago

I don't agree that this is convergent evolution or the standard neolib playbook any more. There are too many parallels, more than people can remember unless you remind them.

Why has everyone forgotten those interviews with Johnson and other senior members of the cabinet where they appeared high?

sturdyalex.bsky.social•65 days ago

😂

lucyabbotts.bsky.social•65 days ago

[German car industry briefly considers whether to even bother saying that they won’t be coming to the rescue]

andyinafield.bsky.social•65 days ago

Oh, do keep up. We're in the deployment of sparkling wines phase.

lucyabbotts.bsky.social•65 days ago

Cheating. But I guess if you play golf like he does, it’s all he knows.

alisonm.bsky.social•65 days ago

I think he's way past that, but he doesn't have a ruthless party behind him who will dethrone him at the first sniff of disaster like the Tories would.

jasonm1.bsky.social•65 days ago

Eggs are very much becoming Trump's "pork markets" moment.

vibedancer.bsky.social•65 days ago

How is tariff related money pouring into the US when he puts them on and off again more often than my 12 year old opens and closes the fridge?

nonnie.bsky.social•65 days ago

He seems to have people around him who only tell him what he wants to hear. Another red flag to dictatorship

wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social•65 days ago

Tariff related money pouring into the US.... from the pockets of people that live in the US??

tomhill.bsky.social•65 days ago

Hmmmm. Which is more mad: the lettuce or the orange? is a tough one.

laikax.bsky.social•65 days ago

Juice the bastard.

pewtertankard.bsky.social•65 days ago

Remind me again, what did Hitler do shortly after screaming at the generals?

Hold on, don't remind me though. The thought of Mr President Vance is no more cheering.

freefran.bsky.social•65 days ago

Again, you are being too kind Alex!

paulkillick.bsky.social•65 days ago

I still think it won’t be long before Trump actually blames Musk for everything that’s gone wrong, maybe even throw him in prison because of illegal activities of Doge and probably try to take a load of his money/assets

clarkeeeeee.bsky.social•65 days ago

I often wonder if Musk realises he's one of many marks in Trump's scam of the American people. I get the impression that Musk is too arrogant and stupid though.

paulkillick.bsky.social•65 days ago

You’d think if you was trying to tell the world you’re a genius you’d look at what Trump did to the closest people to him the first time around

clarkeeeeee.bsky.social•65 days ago

There's a slight twist in that Musk is doing what marks do - paying up. In exchange for what is the equivalent to Musk of the loose change I keep in my car for parking fees, he's gained approval to be openly Nazi, got his hands on data and even had a free Tesla advert.

His time will come though.

paulkillick.bsky.social•65 days ago

I think that time will be up within the next 6 months…. Tesla is a Toxic brand, the doge cuts & tariffs will take hold and the population will be very angry and he is the perfect fall guy. With it being the US it’s a toss between shot or arrested…. Maybe escape on a private jet

clarkeeeeee.bsky.social•65 days ago

Not sure on the timescale, but it will inevitably happen. Marks get dropped when money runs out, they make the conditions of paying the money unworkable for the scammer, or external factors make the mark a risk to the scammer.

The way Musk is going, any might happen and Trump unleashes MAGA on him.

irishdreamer.bsky.social•65 days ago

Also, he leveraged Tesla stocks to buy Twitter. He could end up losing both.

jago2012.bsky.social•65 days ago

And the Blob, the Tofu Eating Wokerati, and the anti-growth coalition.

dotlepkowska.bsky.social•65 days ago

Trump and Truss are from the same ideology and funded by the same backers.

laikax.bsky.social•65 days ago

They're also sharing the same brain cell.

dotlepkowska.bsky.social•65 days ago

I do wonder why noone has stepped in. Family or close friends who care about them, to get them to stop.

verygoldenturtle.bsky.social•64 days ago

Absolutely with Truss, but in Trump's case I doubt anyone genuinely loves him. Fears him, needs/uses him, whole family seem vile and morally bankrupt

dotlepkowska.bsky.social•64 days ago

True.

paulmalyon.bsky.social•65 days ago

Maybe because the only family and friends are so reliant on them for £ / $ that they simply see no other option but to let them continue?

dotlepkowska.bsky.social•65 days ago

Yes, possibly. Truss used to be worried about her daughters not having FoM, now she would sell them down the river.

algorithmblues.bsky.social•64 days ago

Her parents must be so proud 🤯. https://www.indy100.com/politics/liz-truss-dad-tory-leader-2658451266

clivemitchell1.bsky.social•65 days ago

Thank heavens that the UK's constitutional set-up enables rogue governments to be pressured out of existence.

sturdyalex.bsky.social•65 days ago

I don't think it does.

clivemitchell1.bsky.social•65 days ago

I'd argue that, because the govt's power is entirely dependent on being able to command a majority in the Commons, if that confidence leaks (or floods in Truss' case) away, then the pressure can build relentlessly. It eventually did even for Thatcher.

quietnotabot.bsky.social•65 days ago

His few remaining neurons are operating as a random quote generator, splicing this gobbledegook together. Lyrically, it’s the Black Lace approach.

“I have a dream Jean Genie lives on this walking carpet and look Momma needs a bigger boat, fava beans and a nice chianti. And Spray!”

tomaszrykala.bsky.social•65 days ago

Who knew that the EU was created solely for "screwing" , or as he said yesterday "taking advantage of", the US. Those pesky sneaky Europeans, eh?

wrbski.bsky.social•65 days ago

I guess Truth Social doesn't fact- check then?

Why am I not surprised.

alisonlancslass.bsky.social•65 days ago

I think you might be giving Truss more credit than she should have by saying Trump is close to her level of insanity 😆

sallyinfrance.bsky.social•65 days ago

But - any chance his own party will bring him down? I fear not.
Wow, this is worse than the Johnson administration. The speed with which Trump’s regime is falling over is breathtaking.

samueljcrab.bsky.social•65 days ago

Liz Truss's reaction to...

Pork markets 😁
Woke markets 😔

wabznazm.bsky.social•65 days ago

lucyabbotts.bsky.social•65 days ago

The corrupt racist fraud needs to get Winston Churchill’s words out of his mouth.

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