[Bones McCoy]

Negotiation more widely known as "unconditional surrender".

Funny thing, memory.

I recall Uncle Addie's grey matter splattered across the Fuhrerbunker couch.

Fash leaving their fluids on couches. A worrying trend.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yuck, thanks!

How's civil libertarian Glenn Greenwald doing these days? Not well.

[Bones McCoy]

[Abernathy]

Jeebus. Did Trump deliberately select Shady Vance as his presidential running mate because he was every bit as pigshit thick as Trump himself is?

[RedSparrows]

Vance is 'just' unconscionably cynical.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Jeebus. Did Trump deliberately select Shady Vance as his presidential running mate because he was every bit as pigshit thick as Trump himself is?

Do you really need us to answer that?

[kreuzberger]

With three Trumpy officials being hauled over the coals by Denmark, accused of what are basically toxic destabilisation attempts in Greenland, one thing is patently obvious: our former stalwart ally is now an active enemy.

Time to knuckle down and buckle up.

[Boiler]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2qdz9 ... bac12#post

[Tubby Isaacs]

With three Trumpy officials being hauled over the coals by Denmark, accused of what are basically toxic destabilisation attempts in Greenland, one thing is patently obvious: our former stalwart ally is now an active enemy.

Time to knuckle down and buckle up.

We're making other plans, but there's a limit to what anyone can do now. The Budget will be important. Reeves should break her tax promise and call it a Putin Tax.

[Bones McCoy]

Handshaking ??




Plenty think the big beautiful day isn't far off.

[Oboogie]

He is visibly much worse, physically and mentally, in the last couple of weeks.

[Boiler]

When I think of how my neighbour has just lost his wife and then see Trump, Putin and Netanyahu still walking this Earth, I can only conclude that the Devil looks after his own.

[Bones McCoy]

When I think of how my neighbour has just lost his wife and then see Trump, Putin and Netanyahu still walking this Earth, I can only conclude that the Devil looks after his own.

Keeps them here while they do his work.

[Bones McCoy]

White House fires CDC director as other officials resign from health agency

My Emphasis.

The White House says it has fired the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Susan Monarez, after she refused to resign on Wednesday.

In a statement, it said she was "not aligned with the president's agenda" and she had been removed from her position at the health agency.

The US health department earlier announced her departure, which prompted a statement from Dr Monarez's lawyers who said she had not been told of her removal and she would not resign.

They said she was being targeted for refusing "to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts" and accused Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr of "weaponising public health".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy3zjxy3dwo


We may be watching the first superpower deliberately relegating itself to third world status.

[Andy McDandy]

And that's where we'll face the real problem - when the survivor bias kicks in. When that sense of "Well, we did it - it wasn't easy and we lost a few people along the way, but we're here. And we've still got the nukes." lands.

We've seen it before. In Russia following the breakup of the USSR. In Britain following the 2008 crash. "Oh, they told us it was going to be like Mad Max, but in the end it wasn't so who cares what they did to avert the Bad Future, it can't have been that bad because we made it out OK..."

The leaner, hungrier society. The one with no time for any of That Nonsense, unless it can be monetised and sold* as a premium item or lifestyle choice. Great.

*Or rent out, for preference.

[Boiler]

We may be watching the first superpower deliberately relegating itself to third world status.

Woo 1 -v- 0 Science

(read in the dulcet tones of Len Martin, aka "Len The Lip")

[Abernathy]

You know, I have never ever actively desired the demise of any public figure - not even Thatcher . But Donald Trump is the standout exception. Followed closely by N. Farage.

[Boiler]

Goodness, the last time I saw that GIF was - I think - in the days of that Corbynite paediatrician who used to be on here.

[Oboogie]

You know, I have never ever actively desired the demise of any public figure - not even Thatcher . But Donald Trump is the standout exception. Followed closely by N. Farage.

But what follows Trump - as proved with Thatcher - is probably even worse.

[Andy McDandy]

You know, I have never ever actively desired the demise of any public figure - not even Thatcher . But Donald Trump is the standout exception. Followed closely by N. Farage.

I want him to be disgraced before he dies. Either with some dirt that he can't brush off, or him doing a Hitler and blowing his brains out as America tears itself apart around him. I fear he'll likely be beatified, idolised, made into some sort of icon. And then there's his fucking kids.