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In Britain, constitutional crisis usually means that the average journalist can't understand what is going on. Therefore, nobody can.

Some people have an odd way of saying Happy New Year

Yep - with an ancient gas-guzzler. And what is it with the Yanks and two-door cars? Are they all they can fit through?

Of course, it's perfectly possible these aren't the boots they think, but something made by the US equivalent of Next. Or indeed something purchased in a sale. Anyway, so what? Shoes are something where, so people have told me in the past, you get what you pay for. The same media would be telling you how sensible a posh right-winger was in purchasing such quality.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Thu Jan 01, 2026 7:08 pm Shoes are something where, so people have told me in the past, you get what you pay for.

Yesterday, my Red Wings celebrated their 30th birthday.

In fairness, they have been resoled once, even if that was not strictly necessary at the time.

Call themselves socialists and they wear shoes, more lefty hypocrites.

Louise Mench once slagged off anti-capitalist protestors for drinking take away coffee.

Oh, did you have to remind us of that idiot, Tubbs?

Somebody compared white supremacist Vlogger Nik Fuentes with Wee Jimmie Krankie.

I can't stop laughing.

Remember Obama wearing a beige suit was headline news for days and a "constitutional crisis" and "an insult to the position of president".

They were the days eh.

Nick has a Substack, which I subscribe to, and he has further thoughts on his substack.

Right now, the average American is sitting at home, mortified by what they saw in Minneapolis, waiting patiently for the right to come up with a plausible, believable narrative they can latch onto that absolves the ICE officer who murdered Good, so they don’t have to admit the annoying liberals were right again. Deep inside, they desperately do not want it to be true that ICE executed an innocent civilian because it will have to make them rethink whether or not their support for strong immigration enforcement helped provide the justification for an American Gestapo disguised as an immigration enforcement agency to think nothing of murdering an innocent civilian like a 20th-century Latin American junta.

America’s descent into fascism isn’t happening in spite of the American people; it’s happening because of them. It’s not just happening because of the 70+ million people who voted for Trump, but because of the tens of millions more who are willing to look past it, hoping the ugliness of the Trump years will pay off and return us to the halcyon version of America they yearn for.

This will most likely pass. Americans will throw out this current crop of fascists - if they are allowed to. However, like a battered wife who keeps returning to her husband, I have zero faith that after a few years of trying to return the country to a less chaotic place, Americans won’t once again fall under the spell of fascism and return the monsters to power again, hoping this time will be different. The cycle will continue because America is an ever-changing society, and that scares the population into embracing fascism every generation or so.

I'm going to make a prediction.

Tomorrow, Littlejohn will cover the Minnesota murder. He will make a big deal of Trump’s success in cutting immigration, and accuse those in Britain expressing outrage of bandwagon jumping, and not knowing where Minnesota (or Venezuela) is. Comparisons will be made with George Floyd and BLM. Silly woolly lefties and rent a mob protestors. Maybe a reference to Swampy and him being a bit smelly. At best, a muttering about omelette making and eggs.

What else do you expect from a country which has built its whole existence around the ethos of profits before people?

The whole independence thing was orchestrated by a rich elite who didn't want to pay their taxes. Nothing has changed in the last 250 years.

There's some resistance.

Meanwhile, on exercise in Finland, the US army was forced to surrender to a bunch of Finnish reservists.

...during NATO’s annual winter exercises — Joint Viking — in northern Norway in 2025, American troops “encountered difficulties.”

The organizers of the exercises were forced to ask Finnish reservists, who were playing the role of the enemy, to go easier on the Americans...


https://militarnyi.com/en/news/us-army- ... in-norway/

US army get their arses kicked by Finnish reservists. US marines regularly get beaten by the Royal Marines. USAF keeps coming second in encounters with the RAF.

Trump's military might be big, but they're not particularly good at doing their jobs.

You don't have to be a military strategist for your mind to boggle as to how the heck the US would take Greenland. Their small military base would be shut down by NATO troops, they have no allied logistics, bases or support because you're at war with them. There's no warm water ports to support a military flotilla so that leaves parachuting in thousands of troops. Good ol boys from middle America Vs Nordic and British troops trained in Artic warfare. I know where my money would go and not for patriotic reasons.

Yug wrote: ↑Sat Jan 24, 2026 8:24 am Meanwhile, on exercise in Finland, the US army was forced to surrender to a bunch of Finnish reservists.

...during NATO’s annual winter exercises — Joint Viking — in northern Norway in 2025, American troops “encountered difficulties.”

The organizers of the exercises were forced to ask Finnish reservists, who were playing the role of the enemy, to go easier on the Americans...


https://militarnyi.com/en/news/us-army- ... in-norway/

US army get their arses kicked by Finnish reservists. US marines regularly get beaten by the Royal Marines. USAF keeps coming second in encounters with the RAF.

Trump's military might be big, but they're not particularly good at doing their jobs.

It's time to dust off the Finnish sniper meme.

For reader who've not seen it, and example: