This also demonstrates why assassinating Hirohito in 1945 would have been disastrous, there would have been no on who sections of the military would have obeyed over a surrender.

Further irony in that the Tx Redistricting was to try and capitalise on the big swing to Trump among Latinos in 2024 but all the polling evidence now is that the mass arrests have sent it back the other way. Miller’s obsession with deportations has probably cost them more seats…

I remember reading that Apartheid SA had a similar law about Communism, and that in one trial the judge actually berated the Prosecutor that the definition of Communism in the law was so broad that it was effectively meaningless.

For those wondering why NATO exists and why countries want to join the defensive alliance.

What Carlson is “tormented” by is that Trump’s unpopularity threatens right-wing influencer grift. Same with Rogan and the other meatheads.

Obviously they have their own ulterior motives, but Iranian propaganda is very clever - and effective - to focus on deriding Trump rather than Americans per se.

“If Nixon had beaten Kennedy he’d have done Linebacker II in 1965 and the Nork’s would have sued for peace!“ Except that the Christmas Bombing was about trying to give cover for a pull out and it didn’t end the war…

This is genuinely one of the foundational copes of the modern conservative movement, a stabbed-in-the-back narrative about why the US lost Vietnam

I mean there’s absolutely no occasions in history when an Army‘s ability to fight has been destroyed by an outbreak of infectious disease.

Oh no siree,

Absolutely none….

the art of war: “you - yes, you, dipshit - need to feed your men and make sure they don’t get sick. no you are not exempt on the basis of being a very special boy. oh my god, why am I surrounded by idiots.”

Fun Fact: The Tsar Bomba was originally a 100 megaton design, but early on even the Soviets realised that it was insane to build it and scaled it down.

When the 50-megaton Tsar Bomba was detonated in 1961, Britain was told there was little to fear. But secret files show fallout reached our shores, and Downing Street hushed it up.

Here’s What They Don’t Want You To Know:

whattheydontwantyoutoknow.substack.com/p/fallout-fr...

First: hilarious.

Second: A core belief of Trump-brand conservativsm is there are and never have been difficult problems, only dumb leaders without the strength to be cruel enough to solve them.

It's why they always look so baffled when pushing the "more cruelty" button doesn't seem to work.

It’s not as if there’s any historical examples of armies being severely weakened by outbreaks of infectious diseases.

Oh no sure,

Absolutely none…

I'll be honest with you, people don't like Keir on the door but it's not over this Mandelson thing. They don't like him personally

Great news boss, this Mandelson stuff isn’t cutting through on the doorstep because they already think you’re a cunt

Yep usually, “If Nixon had beaten Kennedy he’d have done Linebacker II in 1965 and the Nork’s would have sued for peace! Except that the Christmas Bombing was about trying to give cover for a pull out and it didn’t end the war…

In the past the EU Commissioner’s post was a good way of achieving this with minimal risk. However in this case it would have been “Been there, done that…”

Independence Day was right in that a lot of cost overruns on defence and infrastructure projects are actually to cover spending on black ops.

Justin Trudeau’s dad is actually Mick Jagger…

Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as Amended, on Domestic Petroleum Production, Refining, and Logistics Capacity MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY SUBJECT:       Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as

Several executive orders this evening invoking the Defense Production Act so Trump can directly financially support US oil/gas/petroleum/coal production, which is a great signal about how poorly this war is going economically and how little they planned for this
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Sounds like he needs to go back to Walter Reed for a top up of whatever theyre pumping into him!

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

Climate Change Concern Near Its High Point in U.S. The 44% of U.S. adults who currently worry "a great deal" about climate change or global warming is near its 46% high point from 2020.

US elites decided, like a school of fish, that climate concern is old, boring, "woke," square, not hip & popular any more. As usual, it was based almost entirely on internal elite dynamics. It had nothing to do with the actual public, which is more concerned than ever.

Hungary must arrest Netanyahu if he visits, Magyar says Israeli PM Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court, is due to visit Hungary later this year.

Hungary’s Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar said today that his country must take Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into custody if he enters Hungarian territory while wanted by the International Criminal Court.

I remember a poll of UKIP voters about a decade ago that found the majority of them wanted the government to set prices in supermarkets. O*** J**** commented about how even he didn’t go that far!

Islands in the sky

The Mourne, Cooley, and Gullion peaks peeping through the clouds this morning as Carlingford Lough vanished under a blanket of fog. A ‘Dawning of the Day’ to remember.

📍 Viewed from the Turf Road, Omeath

🗓️ 20th April 2026
🎶 Fáinne Geal an Lae

#carlingfordlough #ireland

Spat at, threatened and kidnapped: British Jews tell of rising antisemitism British Jews have described to BBC Panorama how they are experiencing a rise in antisemitism.

Yes. Netanyahu is bad, but nothing justifies this

Starmer should thank his lucky stars that it won’t be a Michael Howard or William Hague facing him, they were both very good at these sort of set pieces

The fact there was a mass shooting with EIGHT dead today and it barely made the front page of any news site tells you everything you need to know how fucked up we are as a country. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/us/shreveport...

In Robert Massie’s Castles of Steel there’s a quote from a German businessman about how before meeting the Kaiser, “I always find out who he last spoke to, that way I know exactly what he’s thinking…”