bbolger.bsky.social
Sailor, skier and centrist. Mostly here for the politics and hoping some of rugby twitter comes over too. Kiwi expat.
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Hmmm… two countries with low debt/GDP at moment (>emerging market?)
One heavily involved in WW2, the other not…. Both long data series.
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Russia/China
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I would be happy build a field of windmills next to the house of any soulless jerk who hasn’t visited his mother in 20 years.
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Very well put.
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Back to the old hypothetical - if Trump was an actual Russian agent what would he be doing differently?
Maybe be less obvious.
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Imagine if the US had the same approach.
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Yeah guns are just for shooting school kids, as it turns out.
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Could it be that well paid workers got quite a bit less, to bring down the average?
My experience as an employer is that an increased minimum wage tends to push wages up for the next few tiers of workers as well to maintain relativities.
Which might not be all bad.
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Love it
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Yeah they are both regular listens for both me and my teenage boys 34 years on.
Bartman by the Simpsons (and the rest of that chart) not so much.
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Yes 100pc agree. Historians will track the downfall of the Tories back to the banishing of its liberal wing - @davidgauke.bsky.social & co - which led Tory voters in a direction where becoming Reform voters was the logical end result.
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If the goal was coalition govt with Reform, it would make sense to mop up liberal conservatives to broaden that coalition.
Pretty sure the Tories are just in a death fight for the socially conservative voters that have gone to Reform, hence Kemi wants to lose Tories liberal baggage.
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Very solid no.
Oh now I’ve watched video and I really wish I’d only listened to the song
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Perfect response
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And Losing My Religion which peaked at 19.
WTF, my generation??!?
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Plenty of opportunities there for the guy who married his step daughter.
Gross.
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This is the guy who was trying to convince prosecutors that Epstein was innocent, no?
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Moved from the farm to downtown in the city in 1975.
Had never been there, or indeed seen a traffic light before.
Little brother and I got our bikes unpacked, pumped tires up, fucked off exploring for 3 hrs.
I was 8.
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If there is another pandemic in this age of American idiocy, it will grimly amusing watching the US scrambling for mRNA about 15 mins after Europe starts vaccination programmes.
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It’s very clear to me that putting party leadership contests to a members vote is catastrophic.
We are unlikely to get better leadership while a tiny, extreme portion of the country have the final say.
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It’s good that the tax cuts - which will go straight the to bank accounts of wealthy people - will stimulate growth.
But the matching tariffs, which are paid by average consumers - who spend everything they get paid - will not be a drag on growth.
Voodoo economics.
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UK same
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Yeah it’s brilliant at the moment
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… in a graveyard
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Don’t worry, Joni has this PR disaster in hand.
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😬 Not sure I’m going to be able to unsee that image now
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Inappropriate but not unprecedented as this admin has weighed in on both elections so far - Germany and Canada - both times torpedoing their favoured candidate.
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Good luck
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Does he not read because he’s too vain to wear glasses in front of other people and in fact cannot see enough to read?
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… he’s made a lot of cars now and his last one (the one he was most involved in designing) is by far the worst
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…but as a social event, I’ve never left a ground without making friends with the people next to me whichever team they support.
Whereas I’ve been threatened with violence by my fellow Chelsea fans for not knowing players names.
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Good writing.. IMO (as a dissed SW London rugby dad) is rugby is better on TV at higher levels as the intensity, physicality and skills are in close contacts and often just not visible at a ground as big as Twickenham.
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And what matters is that some of you die very rich, right Joni?
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And then someone yelled “47, Mr President!”
it’s gonna be 47… so Canada remembers which President nuked them, for not being very nice.
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That’s exactly what I thought of.
He has these delusions and nothing seems to be able to shake them which I think is a sign of some weird cognitive shit going on
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Yeah that was my first thought
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Interesting this is all coming out now… looks to me like someone in the White House is really briefing against him…
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Good subtweet
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Could that possibly extend past the actual tariffs collected to those that lost sales as well?
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Fair point but can’t see it working here
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Will be very hard for Trump to get customs not to release goods.
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Class action coming from importers to recover tariffs already paid?
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Don’t worry Europe and Asia won’t forget how MRNA works.
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It’s all fun and games owning the libs until your kids end up at the local technical college hating you for ruining their lives.
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Ivy League should get together and just blackball any kid whose parents show up on a Trump donor list.
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I know, I know
The best decision I’ve ever made is not shorting Tesla and its still the most glaring short in history probably
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Ok I’m very impressed
But is that two geese fighting in the top left?