Some astonishingly naive Walter Mitty level garbage there.

Now all anyone has to do is spray some aerosol flu virus is the local navy bars just before it goes to sea and half the task force goes down.

“But I’m the Secretary of WAAAHfighters, I know how to WAAAAH!”

My entire Arsenal-supporting household would be ok with 2nd place if Spurs go down.

My personal Palace loyalty is torn - if we lose to West Ham tomorrow Spurs are in deep trouble. It’s worth losing, just to see Spurs playing a wet Wednesday at Preston.

But I think we’ll win.

Good points except, if I may, the idea that REF would win a GE. They’ve hit a ceiling in popularity and are now slowly deflating back to around 27-28%. They can get high on their own supply of saying they “lead the field”, but it also means they ain’t getting a majority at a GE. They need 30%+++.

Yes. Yes we can.

Fair. For me that’s Otto. I should like him, he even lives near me and I’m fairly sure I fed him at my last job, and he’s probably lovely, but his online persona drives me nuts.
Dunt is literally a north London intelligentsia but I learn stuff.

Maugham can get in the sea. A sea of foxes.

Got to disagree about Ian Dunt. Maugham is an embarrassment and Otto bangs the same drum over and over, but I feel Dunt contributes to the debate. Do I agree with everything? Of course not, but he’s worth reading. His sweary schtick is maybe a bit 🤷, but I often learn things amongst the ranting.

It’s like Dan Hodges. Quite a lot of “what on earth…?!” interspersed with clear-eyed common sense and logic.

Hodges is a little more reasonable than Hannan though. Prob the only one is would like to see on Bluesky.

Many years later she took glee in telling me of the other FOH staff who also wanted to shag me whom she put off by telling them I was gay, in order to keep them away from me.

That left me very confused over whether I should be flattered or annoyed. The German girl was particularly hot.

The woman I’m (somehow) still married to after 23 years, who I obvs fancied rotten but thought she wasn’t into me, literally had to look me in the eye and say “so are we gonna shag or what?” before I realised the feelings were mutual. Such was my utter inability to pick up on any kind of interest…

So the Saudi’s are happy to send *someone else’s kids* to die for them.

I try not to generalise about people and nations, but the Saudi’s are some nasty little bastards.

Really quite a lot about the, ahem, views of their ruling classes that I don’t like.

Absolutely no military or political strategist I, but can it not be argued that the wildly asymmetric nature of what each side considers to be ‘victory’ possibly favours Iran?

America has to bend Iran to its will. Is Iran has to do is keep its theocratic regime in power.

I will forgive him pretty much anything because of Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil.

(Kevin Spacey not so much)

Is he aware that US oil isn’t actually great quality? And that it still needs to be mixed with Saudi stuff to make it good?

It was said satire died when Kissinger got the Peace Prize.

Trump has done the same for hyperbole.

It’s the way he doesn’t seem able to use paragraphs that’s the best part.

Just a solid block of crazy.

Has he…only just worked this out?

So you’re taking the couple of thousand people (out of a pop of 70 million or thereabouts) to be an accurate representation of national feeling?

Cool story bro.

This is the dumbest website I’ve seen in a long time. There’s so much wrong with the basic premise that I don’t even know where to start.

This is true. Same for hai attitude to Putin.

I said at the time that Venezuela was where they drank their own Kool-Aid, that this was the point at which they had over-reached.

Yes it was a success, but so is fooling a three year old into thinking you’ve ‘got their nose’.

It made them think they could take anyone.

“Requested”

So I think we can see what direction the influence moves in that relationship. Wonder if we’ll ever find out what Netanyahu has on him?

I can’t for the life of me understand why he thought this was a good idea.

And yes I know there’s no understanding him or his reasoning but even so, it’s astonishing.

Once again Montie demonstrates that although a stopped clock is right twice a day, he is still mostly wrong.

My lord, that’s some absolute asinine verbal diarrhoea he’s spouted there. Even by his standards that’s incomprehensible.

This. Absolutely this. Plus their military is running low on the expensive big shooty stuff.

And in the end Trump will back down. Oh he’ll paint it as a victory, no doubt. He’ll even believe it. But there’s enough people around him trying to end this thing that he’s not gonna destroy Iran.

Israel? Different story.

He is blatantly going to push the deadline, claiming some kind of victory. It’s what he does, claiming victory when he knows he’s losing.

Public Enemy especially also had much wider messages going on. Kanye is not exactly a political activist or supporter of the working class.

What pisses me off most is that when America agrees a “deal” with Iran, it will learn absolutely zero lessons from this, except that ‘might makes right’. Any deal will doubtless personally enrich Trump and those around him, and America will continue thinking it can bomb its way into regime change.

Because with Trump one mental proclamation has just as much chance of being true as the completely contradictory mental proclamation he makes 24 hours later, so for the most part people forget to ignore his words and watch his actions.