There will not be enough fireworks the world over for that day.

I'm half-American, watching this god-awful situation from Scotland. I stand in disgust that Trump could be elected again over Harris; the choice never more stark.

This is beyond the point of failure. That he hasn't been removed shows Americans to be weak, ineffective, and bereft of moral stature.

And a country where you don't play the lottery each day you send your kids into school; wondering if they're making it back out alive...

Cook becomes Executive Chairman so that he can focus on Apple's government relationship.

This can only mean one of two things:

1. Navigating difficult terrain whilst keeping them at arms-length, despite the optics.

2. Going all the way in.

An Apple-Palantir joint manifesto signals option 2.

But only if they also deal with the problem of deliberate and artificial software obsolescence — applying blocks to updates and upgrades.

If minimum serviceable lifetime included mandatory security and vulnerability fixes for a 10y period, that would go some way to addressing early landfill.

Palantir should not be involved in *any* UK government operations / infrastructure; too much risk for the return.

The UK already has the homegrown talent to build a far superior offering. It's about time the UK government put its so-called investment money where its mouth is and back UK firms.

If you really must drive a truck, at least choose a nice one...

America voted him in directly or by abstention as per the Electoral College system. Regardless of the inconvenience of that truth, it's America's mess to clean up.

Was the vote manipulated? Yep, I'd say both domestic and foreign — and the clincher: the assassination attempt. Staged? Perhaps.

If you strip the ill-gotten, just from this one family, and then some (just for future deterrence) how much would that go to alleviating the poverty-stricken?

Multiply that by the profiteering of the crime family's inner and outer circles.

Their payment is due and the American people must collect.

I was always under the impression that Mandelson's appointment WAS on the basis of his corruption and prior disgrace; being perfect for liaising with the Trump Administration — use a snake to deal with a snake.

I also hold similar view.

But let's also look at the legislators who enable the conditions for these things to happen.

Good intent can't be an excuse for failure of duty and due diligence.

Accidents happen.

The question: are they rare and exceptional or systemic in their occurrence?

"Leader of the Free World" was an American media concoction to assert America's Cold War position.

Outside the US, the term was never seriously adopted outwith the media circle beyond the image of projected military strength in response to the Soviet threat.

People in general don't buy into it.

One might be charitable towards a single failure of judgement. A whole string of such failures point towards the behavior of intent.

It applies to Trump every bit as much as Johnson; to whom I refer.

And the difference between them: I expect Johnson to understand the directive of the commandments.

A deal that is so easily reneged was never a deal in the first place — it was a hostage situation.

Britain was always a half-in half-out country. We already had the best 'compromise' deal. The referendum skewered that either way.

Farage is just continuance of '90s Tory posturing; remember 'Save the 25y-old decimal Pound' nonsense.

Seems we had to leave to teach ourselves why we need to be in.

• Immoral
• Arrogant
• Corrupt
• Hateful
• Selfish
• Greedy
• Chaotic
• Vengeful
• Extortionate
• Untrustworthy
• Meritless
• Lawless
• Divisive
• Ignorant
• Retarded
• Violent
• Soulless
• Friendless
• Debased

Otherwise full of welcoming charm and hospitality; with free stay at an ICE hostelry.

30 pieces of gold ought to do it...

Trump would be gone in a heartbeat if the corporate dollar depended upon it.

So..., target the money supply-chain. If you're an advertiser, use a different outlet. If a sponsor, change advertiser. If a consumer, switch brand based on their sponsorship.

Tell them why.

Make trickle-up work.

Stochastic parrot makes argument for stochastic parrot supremacy.

I work in neuro-symbolic AI and can assert the PLTR crap is as effluent as the CEOs words.

AI isn't coming for jobs anytime soon; layoffs are something else — but the hype is sure going to see a few more investors royally fleeced.

And thinking the world will start begging the US, cap in hand, for US/Venezuelan oil at inflated prices.

The playbook here is American oil-based petrodollar extortion, not nuclear.

The crisis is manufactured and not taken seriously by the Administration except for the 'war powers' thus claimed. Sending Vance was for the theater of pretending to be serious.

But for the spectacle of sending a honking great clown to put out the circus fire, the joke's on the American people.

Fair point.

This type of response boils my bright yellow liquid.

Given world events today, I'm honestly not sure which way I would vote in a 2nd indy.

But I would argue that if SNP secure >50% of the total received vote, then democracy surely demands the right to put that choice forward based on mandate.

Awesome!

The clan seat from my mother's side.

With first-hand insight: we have the Knowledge Engineering and Semantic AI expertise in the UK to produce a far superior and more ethical offering over the Palantir abomination.

Match the expertise with UK commitment, we'd steal their crown for sure.

Trump promoting PLTR tells how rotten they are.

Nice idea in principle, but who would want to soil a classic vehicle with a Tesla drive unit?

Brett Sinclair could've climbed out of that.

Ah, the McDonald's effect.

Size of the vehicle reflects the size of the ass driving it and coincidentally inversely proportional to IQ.

Don't forget to add the bulk weight of the knuckleheads that typically drive them.

Beyond status-symbol conformity, I really do not understand why people find these S**t-Ugly Vehicles so desirable. Is it a low-IQ symptom or something?

All that body weight pushing down on his brain; something's gotta give...

...and it's pretty regular, if we're being honest about it.