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The only thing Trump has liberated today is any last vestige of respect for America. The USA is now the geo political equivalent of an angry man in an ill-fitting gimp suit, riding a mechanical donkey through the centre of town whistling the Benny Hill theme tune through his buttocks.

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

Hey, MAGA Americans ... the UK doesn't pay those tariffs, the EU doesn't pay those tariffs.... China does not pay those tariffs... Indonesia doesn't pay those tariffs YOU pay those tariffs. You just got taxed to within an inch of your lives.

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

1. I've come to detest the defeatist claim, attributed to various authors, that “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. Of course you can't imagine the end of capitalism if you don’t know what it is! But as soon as you clearly define it, you can see how it ends. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

Elon Musk just found out the hard way that he can no more buy elections than he can buy love, respect, or happiness. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

May 2023, Trump tells voters: “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.” 1,728 hours have now passed since his inauguration and:

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.

submitted 5 days ago • 783 comments

This is today's explosive discussion with a Labour MP, a Tory MP and a columnist for The Sun/rightwing thinktanker about Just Stop Oil and the politics of protest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzs8...

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

"It would take a political 'meteorite' to shift the country’s posture on joining the EU. Given the experience of the first Trump administration that is hardly unimaginable. "It would be ironic if the 47th president were to become a great unifier of Europe."

submitted 104 days ago • 3 comments

Another blow to the elites as billionaire who just sold £175 million flat becomes Reform party treasurer

submitted 118 days ago • 56 comments

I don't think many people outside the political bubble ever watch it, which is a shame, as Kemi Badenoch is truly DIRE at PMQs. Like a year 5 pupil having a go in their first school mock election debate. Absolutely incredible how low the Tories have fallen in leader quality in just a generation.

submitted 123 days ago • 37 comments

By far and away, my favourite thing about this spectacularly dumb post... Is that that's THE MATTERHORN

submitted 124 days ago • 837 comments