Love the Blast. If you just looked at the episode titles you might think it was full of hysterical partisan overreaction, but honestly I feel like it’s the only pod with the appropriate, rational level of “wtf is going on?” to suit the moment we’re in

Love that we’re all spending the morning trying to work whether a civil servant should have mentioned something about an ambassador who was already sacked months ago, and within the hour the president of the United States, a convicted felon, will either claim to be Jesus or threaten to nuke NATO

Are we to assume that “No 10” here is code for Morgan McSweeney specifically?

I just think if the government was to become this unpopular this quickly, they might as well have done it by increasing taxes on median+ earners.

How many of them need to be true for the judge to simply toss his lawsuit out of the window?

It wasn’t the fake news that told us this, it was Marco Rubio

New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped

Must be nearly time for Trump to threaten annihilation again. It comes around so quickly these days

On any given day, you might as well roll a die to predict whether Donald Trump is going to claim total victory; imminent victory; a negotiated ceasefire; an imminent ceasefire; new attacks; crucial negotiations or imminent crucial negotiations. The only certainty is that he’ll be lying.

So the number of people saying he should resign has actually dropped

This is the stupid thing: all along Trump has had these real-time performance indicators blaring out of every screen and he’s still managed to fuck everything up

What, you mean like it was before you started this illegal war??

I did think it possible this was the UK plan, even if Trump’s gang had no clue who he was.

I don’t anymore, because if the genuine reason was "we needed a slippery crooked bastard to be our Trump-whisperer so we ignored all the warnings" then at this point honesty is the best policy

If you see this and think it’s a personal attack on you then there’s a chance that you might be the problem

as far as i can tell pope leo has never mentioned trump by name hes just like “killing people is wrong” or “concentration camps arent good” and theyre all taking it personally

I think this every time. Just say “fuck all is happening, better luck next time”

useful reminder from Private Eye

Sometimes I think I hate Mike Johnson even more than I hate all the others. In his sycophancy there is no line he won’t cross. Such a worthless, spineless, shameless little toad

“Well I am the prime minister and that was a question”

Good. The public aren’t going to take warnings about Trump’s capacity seriously unless they see you actually trying to do something about it

This seems like a good move. You’re not going to convince the public unless they see you doing something about it

I maintain that among the media's biggest mistakes has been continuing to ask Trump questions as if he's a normal guy instead of asking things like "Can you explain who Jesus is" or "Describe the process of pumping gas"

This was over the sketch / poem for Epstein's birthday that Trump claim didn't exist.

I'd imagine one issue with the lawsuit is that the sketch definitely exists:

it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth

I know this is me still mourning a long dead world but it does feel remarkable that, not that long ago, British papers on the right would have run editorials and columns arguing that Hungary showed that only a solid, reliable centre-right party could defeat dangerous populists, but now? [crickets]

Not true. This is exactly who he has always been. This erratic, this insane, this dishonest, this ignorant, this thin-skinned, this racist. It’s just that now he’s doing it with bombs.

A lot of people were fine with it until gas prices went up.

It’s increasingly obvious that Trump only learned of the existence of the Strait of Hormuz towards the end of March 2026

Vance warns Iran against 'trying to play' US as he heads to Pakistan for peace talks

Trump has done nothing but try to play the Iranians with all these wild threats and contradictory statements. Why should they expect the other side to behave any differently?

Jesus wept, even after all this he still can’t resist an utterly baseless dig at Kamala. Like what the fuck does he think she would have done that’s worse than what is happening now?

Impeach him now please