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Brit living in Toronto. Politics, books, jazz, Doctor Who and many more
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This is, quite straightforwardly, why the political realignment is that all cranks and criminals and paedos vote GOP now
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Across the west, conservatives are divided between those who support Trump and those who oppose him. The UK Conservatives have found a third position, which is simply to IMAGINE a version of Donald Trump and support that one.
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What is precious and opportunistic about “I don’t read this write but if he used this phrase he was wrong to do so”
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As I said before - is he stupid or does he just think you’re stupid?
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On top of everything else it never fails to make you sound like a fifteen year old, the kind you don’t want your own kids hanging out with
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It’s very much a “are you stupid or just think I’m stupid”? moment for me
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Pictured: CCHQ
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At some point soon the Lib Dems and Tories are going to be tied at 15% in the polls
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POLITICO is a right wing gossip rag, if what they do can be called journalism then I’m Carl Bernstein
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Massive inflation / shortages re eggs and meat were also a feature of the Nixon administration
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What is very clear is that absolutely none of these people care about or believe in anything other than owning the libs
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Also feels tremendously arrogant on Kemi Badenoch’s part to think that an overtly racist rhetoric and worldviews will never have a negative impact upon her own political fortunes
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The WH is making the same mistake many many politicians make, where they decide that winning an election narrowly means that they are in fact the box populi and said populi will go along with literally anything
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In both distant and recent history things like recessions and scandals and policy failures are far more perilous for dictators than democratic governments
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You would assume that the Washington Post subscriber debacle might’ve taught these outlets that they can only insult their own readers and colleagues for not sucking the sweat of Trump’s toes for so long but apparently not
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Reminds me of that COVID-era social media storm against the woman who made soup for their neighbours, the outrage was at someone actually practising what they all preached (in that case, community and mutual aid aid)
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Does rather feel like these guys are fucked off at being shown up by people doing actual journalism, hence they need to be put back in their place.
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Also how many of these columnists / gossip writers are so openly contemptuous of not just their shitlib readers but their own colleagues
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It’s very revealing how the beltway/New York media cliques will circle the wagons around very obvious journalistic misconduct and then refuse to show even the slightest bit of solidarity with people who don’t kowtow to their sources, sorry I mean Republicans
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I realise I'm really quite cross about this. AP readers outside of the United States do actually exist. It's not in fact, a strange double standard to say you'll go with what the US decides to call its own mountains but that the views of other countries do actually matter outside of it.
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That’s where it originally comes from, but then it evolved
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It’s a slur aimed at lesbians
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I do think we massively underestimate how bad it’ll get if/when Labour elects a female leader
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The right has actually done the March Through the Institutions, but they only needed to do the media and a couple of other bodies (notably the EHRC) because the others could just be sidelined.
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Be they Hillary Clinton or Blake Lively or that Australian Footballer who the Met tried to stitch up. It happens to men as well but it's much easier to turn women into lying shrews based on almost nothing.
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The way it's become a meme completely devoid of any substance or context repeated by people who know better because it showed up on their TikTok or LinkedIn feed is something that happens all the time to female public figures
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Now she’s actually making decisions as opposed to a character in a factional drama she's bad and lobby journos are throwing anything at the wall in the hope that something will stick. And what sticks better to a woman than the idea that their achievements are fraudulent?