Narcissistic egotistical sociopathic lunatic 😡

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

A reminder:

Prominent members at that.

They still support him.

No matter what he does.

To anyone sane, that’s considered a cult.

Whereas UK decided (for right or wrong) to leave EU & at the same time lose influence in the EU as a result (which is obvious really); Bulgaria may well choose to stay in at Putin's behest to block aid to Ukraine etc

A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.

Joseph Schwartz’s case is the latest in a string of health care fraud pardons by Trump.

The president also granted clemency to nursing home magnate Philip Esformes, convicted of a $1.3B scheme, and Judith Negron, convicted in a $200M fraud case.

Presumably Chris Mason will be reporting on the calls for Tice to resign over his tax
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Not making excuses for Starmer who should have known better than to appoint Mandelson in the first place but the double standards...

This is the kind of leadership America should have. I’m disgusted every day seeing the treasonous criminal filth that infests the US govt today.

Agreed. They just didn't do anything to stop him.

Every single time people act like it's a surprise.

It's the super rich grifting. It makes sense when they can't extract any more from the US for them to use the power of the US State to extort money from other countries either through corruption or war.

It's galling that they feel so entitled to do it.

Just like Trump and his 10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. Why didn't he file it when he was out of office? It's blatant theft and Republicans are letting him do it.

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

He rigged it.

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“To me it seems H!tler has won. He’s changed us J€ws from being compassionate and caring…into this vicious, Genocidal, nationalist nation,”

—Miriam Margolyes, an 84-year-old Jewish Australian-British actor publicly condemns Israelis

But anyway back to my point; the machinery of state has always been intransigent, and very few UK leaders have been able to do much with it, for better or worse

You said "any Scots" not "a majority of Scots". Whatever.

The wraparound sunglasses...

Doesn't care when it's other people's money

She was able to use the machinery of state to do stuff, maybe not the stuff some people wanted. There are lots of places in England that also resent her. And besides, wasn't it 20 odd constuencies in Scotland that voted Tory in 79 and 83?

It may be a mix of public & private institutions with their hooks embedded in the state. Obama was seen as an outsider to fix it on America. So was Trump. Right wingers call it the deep state or The Blob. Left wingers call it failed government. Again I don't know the answer in general.

I don't know what would fix it. Also I recall previous PMs including Tony Blair discussing it. Their answer was to apparently be extremely switched on as PM. Possibly only Thatcher & Blair that had the presence of mind to be able to deal with it.

Thanks, I did use some paywall shorting websites but to no avail, thanks again anyway this one worked. Interestingly, Rishi Sunak said something similar. But at the same time he sold out the UK's public services to HIS OWN IT COMPANY to the benefit of 100s of millions of pounds to himself.

Keir Starmer is playing a blinder.

What insiders? (Paywall)

NATO needs to join Ukraine.