you scintillate, squirrel T
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somewhere there is a hungry volcano
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Oh, I love those. Beats Cracker Barrel, paws down.
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Because she is an ideologue.
Ideology can commandeer even the most intelligent mind. Itâs like she has a virus. Seriously.
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Trump, Farage and Bannon bear the bulk of the responsibility for the jam Britain is in. Everything Trump touches dies. The sick shits agitated for this going way back.
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Like everything else about the Trump transition, the President-electâs approach to dealing with foreign leaders and dignitaries has been completely off the wall. In the first nine days after the election, the Times reported, Donald Trump received thirty-two congratulatory calls from world leadersânone of them routed through the âOps Centerâ of the U.S. State Department, which typically choreographs such conversations.
But none of these interactions carried quite the same ring of two-thousand-sixteenness as Trumpâs first meeting with a foreign politician after his election. On the evening of November 12th, a picture appeared on Twitter of Trump and Nigel Farage, the fifty-two-year-old British right-wing populist and Brexit campaigner, standing in front of the golden door of Trumpâs apartment, grinning like schoolboys.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/nigel-farage-on-the-story-behind-his-friendship-with-trump
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Might Common Sense prevail at last? One can only prayâŚ
Why we didnât have automatic re-dos for both of the russia-influenced 2016 fiascos is beyond me.
We have literally been rewarding russia for their meddling.
And Brexit was worse than Trump in many ways, because of the absolute permanence of the move.
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I know this is a serious issue with global economic implications.
That being said, that specky git Farage can kick rocks. Your plan to make England great again is heading toward the rubbish bin! In your smug, toothy face, you spotted dick.
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Oh thatâs so funny-I was going to write in a drawn and quartered suggestion for Farage about 10 minutes ago but I lost my nerve, wary that I might be misunderstood. I must have more faith in the future.
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Good that you didnât. @mondfledermaus has black helicopters on their way to his place right now, think theyâre just a few minutes out.
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Itâs about time somebody showed some common sense before plunging over the edge of the abyss.
Yesterday a report on the BBC World Service said that some idiots in a party who support a hard Brexit demanded that the MPs who support extending the Brexit deadline all resign because they are going against the will of the people Yeah, right.
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It took a long while for the socialist loon to come around, but with about 1/2 of his party ready to jump if he did not stop helping the Tories push though a hard Brexit, he was finally willing to give in, if only to have some slim chance at no. 10.
If Labor had a reasonable leader they would be ahead by 10 points in the polls and Brexit would already be over.
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They held a no confidence vote the day after parliament rejected the deal. May survived, in part because the MPs know the job is a suicide mission at this point.
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Beautiful! Now if only you can throw in a âgormlessâ or two, it would have been perfectâŚ
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Well, for that @corncaucus2008 would have had to include Boris Johnson in the mix.
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Perfect!
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Agreed. Iâve been watching some of the Parlimentary wrangling these past few weeks, and it struck me that Corbyn was playing a very risky, and ultimately, stupid game of trying to chivvy May out of Number 10, before time ran out on Brexit. Ian Blackburn (SNP) was trying to needle him into getting off his arse, but it was only the growing revolt within the Labour that seems to have finally galvanized him. One hopes.
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Sure. Farage, though, really grinds my fears. He is a grinning, unrepentant fool for authoritarianism. He needs to be behind bars.
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I too felt hopelessly clueless until l read this rather bracing NYTimes op-ed by Pankaj Mishra, [The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class][1].
Such a pattern of egotistic and destructive behavior by the British elite flabbergasts many people today. But it was already manifest seven decades ago during Britainâs rash exit from India âŚ
The malign incompetence of the Brexiteers was precisely prefigured during Britainâs exit from India in 1947, most strikingly in the lack of orderly preparation for it. The British government had announced that India would have independence by June 1948. In the first week of June 1947, however, Mountbatten suddenly proclaimed that the transfer of power would happen on Aug. 15, 1947 â a âludicrously early date,â as he himself blurted out.
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