wokey42.bsky.social
UK-based Medical doctor, anti-Brexit and anti-Tory.
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There's a lot of good people in Belfast.
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Aside from the Orwellian undertones, it also speaks to the lack of rights employees in the US have. Anybody so fired in the UK and Europe would have a copper-bottomed done deal win legal case.
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Starmer appears to be taking J Paul Getty's investment strategy, "I buy when other people are selling." and applying it to politics. He is going to soon realise they are not the same thing at all.
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He really is a malignant growth. In the UK it wouldn't be taken as a resignation/sacking offence unless the answer was: 1. Fuck, 2. Off, 3. You, 4. Utter, 5. [rhymes with Hunt].
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Hegseth is too fucking stupid to realise that even someone appointed under DEI might be the best person for the job.
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He's not wrong. Good to see that some Republicans are not utterly spineless and feckless.
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Bezos just needs a scar to look like Donald Pleasance-era Blofeld. The irony. To make it Amazon-like, needs a new Bond who looks good but is really only an average performer. Henry Cavill is ideal.
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Oh, and Trump doesn't give a toss what Führage thinks, he is just seen as a random vandal on the fringes of UK democracy. Trump can find others in the unlikely event Führage starts to flirt with morally reasonable positions.
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As a barometer of how fucked up the world has become, agreeing with Tim Montgomerie and hoping and expecting that Führage does the right thing, having also agreed with Bad Enoch on her condemnation of Trump's attack on Zelenskyy, is pretty well up there.
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Kennedy doesn't have the intelligence, training, relevant experience and especially objectivity to review antidepressants, vaccines or pretty much anything else.
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That POS should be injected with every virus in the vax schedule. If he survives, he may think twice about his unscientific ignorance.
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Trump is a lying, hypocritical bastard, and he doesn't give a damn about peace or war in Ukraine or Gaza, he only wants to rinse both places for resources and land and a new American Empire.
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I saw a social media post saying that if the cardiovascular effects of all those Big Macs finally kick in, McDonalds should get a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Improve safety? Stop the Musk team from coming in would be a good start.
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If we hadn't committed that senseless act of deliberate self harm, we would have less need to boost armed forces as there would have been less instability and division around feeding it.
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Führage knows that he is a shit debater, only good at throwing hand-grenades from the margins. He would lose badly to any half-capable Tory (which doesn't include Bad Enoch, obvs), so he is waiting for a complete melt-down for his chance.
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He did this, the amoral, cowardly, self-serving fuck that he is. He owns each and every death or illness caused by this and every other moronic and medieval policy RFK brings in.
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She makes Nigel Führage look like a skilled politician of some subtlety. I hope she stays in her role and continues to drive the Tory existential crisis to a full extinction-level event.
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The central myth is that the US stood ready to defend Europe. It didn't ever give a fuck really, it only ever acted to defend its own interests. That used to be paranoia about communism, now it is rare earth metals and Trump appearing to be a big dog who wins at stuff.
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Mixed between going to only slightly fuck Ukraine if they give us their rare earth metals and going to really fuck Ukraine if they don't?
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I am sure this is the right decision, but is still another example of how fucked up the US is - 2 Biden appointees vote one way, a Trump appointee votes another. The US desperately needs an independent judiciary, as well as independent police, dog-catchers etc etc.
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I thought the US was leaving regional security to Europe? Maybe Rubio should mind his own business, stay at home and focus on the assault on Greenland or Panama?
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Where did I say it was OK to do so?
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Indeed. Trump believes in the market, albeit a rigged one, and supply and demand would suggest healthy pay rises. Then those who stayed in post could follow suit. All in all, money wasted rather than saved. A roadmap for how Musk's indiscriminate idiocy will end up costing more.
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I am an equal opportunity atheist - all religions are as wrong as each other. But I don't care if someone believes in a magical deity so long as they keep the interpretation of the city's imaginary teachings to themselves and not impose it on others.
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I realise that, but my point is that someone's distress does not mean someone else has either done something wrong or been untruthful.
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It may cause distress to religious believers for someone to point out that the basic tenets of their faith are based on absurd myths and supernatural nonsense.
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And it begins. A scientifically illiterate charlatan in charge of health. Bill Cassidy and other supposedly sane Republicans should be ashamed of themselves. In that piece RFK was talking about people attending reparenting camps for 3 or 4 years. He needs some antipsychotics, never mind SSRIs.
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He isn't wrong. And the US may prove to be as large a threat to pease in Europe and surrounding areas as anyone else. If another crazed MAGA fuckwit gets in after Trump, we are fucked. President Hegseth, anyone?
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Hegseth said that the US would no longer provide European security. If so, he and Vance should fuck off back to MAGAland and the US stop interfering in Ukraine and Gaza and pandering to Putin, Orban and the AFD.
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Apart from his many other character flaws and personality defects, the man is a complete vulgarian.
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If JD doesn't like Europe, he is free to fuck right off back to his imaginary hillbilly paradise.
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RFK Jr has instructed FDA to immediately approve that concoction based on this irrefutable evidence and to ban all other antidepressants.
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Trump does not seem to understand trade deficits. The US gets stuff in return, which is often used to make other products that generate US profits. Canada
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What a pitiful sycophant and coward, and disgrace to his profession. He should turn in his medical license.
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For someone who thinks he is a great dealmaker, Trump has spunked away almost all of his leverage already.
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We now live in a world so fucked up that McMahon is not even on the shortlist for worst nominees for Trump's cabinet.
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Looks like they are the guarantor of European insecurity.
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Obsequiousness and hypocrisy are two of the key attributes needed for GOP right now. But they know that if they kiss the ring Trump will give them at least some of what they seek.
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Not a problem, she will hold a seance. Can you subpoena spirits?
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So Trump has broken the cease-fire by giving cover to that fuck Netanyahu to do so. Trump owns all the bodies that result on either side.
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That little shit Jake Richards is an excellent illustration why I won't be voting Labour anytime soon, pandering to Reform bullshit and showing no interest in any principled position. Labour need to find their spines on immigration and Brexit and start to change the narrative on both issues.
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I should be a nailed-on natural Labour voter, but mainly for their ineffectual Brexit position, went LibDem at the last GE. Now even less likely to vote Labour.
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Yes, the Ro for measles is estimated to be around 15, which means that cases can multiple fast, but also that the level of immunity needed to prevent outbreaks is very high.
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America - the finest democracy money can buy.
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The right know these stats are bullshit, but they also know that they will be believed forever by many of their gullible followers despite any amount of fact-checking or corrections. It is one of their major weapons. Rational arguments don't work for their cause, so lies will be used.
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The main proponent of this medieval policy is a family physician. Should know enough to have a basic understanding, but family physicians are not experts in the science of mRNA vaccines or gene therapy (which this is not). Her language is so hyperbolic as to be recognisable as obviously deranged.
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They could just explain to Trump that a trade deficit doesn't mean a country is being ripped off, may just mean it is getting excellent products at a good price.
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You broke it, you bought it.
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Trump is rather simpatico with grifters who have rinsed gullible people with dodgy deals and imaginary promises.