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[bovril]

32 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Musk is genuinely going to get a British politician killed soon 

Yes good chance of serious unrest and violence in England now. If you wanted to create the perfect conditions for it you couldn't do much better than the UK government in the last few years

[Trav Le Bleu]

42 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Musk is genuinely going to get a British politician killed soon 

What's Kekius done now?

 

 

[bovril]

Musk is basically doing to Britain what the British press and politicians have done to other countries for years - denigrating our politics and institutions, amplifying certain voices and whipping up anger towards elected politicians. I don't think it's anything new, it's just that Brits are not used to it happening to us. 

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, bovril said:

Musk is basically doing to Britain what the British press and politicians have done to other countries for years - denigrating our politics and institutions, amplifying certain voices and whipping up anger towards elected politicians. I don't think it's anything new, it's just that Brits are not used to it happening to us. 

I would agree that it's nothing new under the sun globally.

 

It's time for the UK democratic process to have that severe stress test, it would seem.

[Torquay Gunner]

2 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Shame they didn't finish him off

Tbh, him waking up in a cold sweat every morning, not knowing when the next attack is coming would be some kind of poetic justice in itself.  After all that’s what his poor daughter had to endure at his hands, during her short life.  

[Sol thewall Bamba]

3 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Shame they didn't finish him off

Nah, they'll kill him eventually so hopefully he gets messed up a few more times before they finish him off.

[Clogger_]

I feel sorry for Tesla owners

[urban.spaceman]

The ****ing state of this

 

 

[Alf Bentley]

In other news, sad to see that the man with the greatest stage name in rock 'n' roll died over Christmas.... Boring Bob Grover of the Piranhas.

 

They put some decent lyrics to an old tune for their big hit, but the B-side (below) was arguably even better....

 

 

 

[reporterpenguin]

I wonder if there’s a point that Musk becomes so unhinged it’s too much even for Trump. 
 

If that point does exist, we must be getting close to it. 

[urban.spaceman]

4 minutes ago, reporterpenguin said:

I wonder if there’s a point that Musk becomes so unhinged it’s too much even for Trump. 
 

If that point does exist, we must be getting close to it. 

Imagine being so mental that even MAGA has to tell you to calm it down a bit.

[leicsmac]

7 minutes ago, reporterpenguin said:

I wonder if there’s a point that Musk becomes so unhinged it’s too much even for Trump. 
 

If that point does exist, we must be getting close to it. 

If they fall out, it will be because of direction of ideology, not extremity of it.

 

The past few years have shown quite clearly what lengths Trump and his supporters go to when they have the power to do so.

[Lionator]

1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

Imagine being so mental that even MAGA has to tell you to calm it down a bit.

Remember in the past week Musk has been criticised by the MAGA lot for being too moderate when it comes to visa’s for immigrants.

[Paninistickers]

3 hours ago, reporterpenguin said:

I wonder if there’s a point that Musk becomes so unhinged it’s too much even for Trump. 
 

If that point does exist, we must be getting close to it. 

I don't think Trump is unhinged in the least. Unpleasant. Narcissistic. Ruthless. Yup. But sane and rational. 

 

So, yeah, agree, very real that he'd drop anyone who is like a stone. 

 

 

 

 

[Sampson]

22 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

I don't think Trump is unhinged in the least. Unpleasant. Narcissistic. Ruthless. Yup. But sane and rational. 

 

 

Not sure rational people go around saying immigrants eat people’s pet dogs and cats to win political arguments

Edited 3 January 2025 by Sampson

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Sampson said:

Not sure rational people go around saying immigrants eat people’s pet dogs and cats to win political arguments

But it's so true. Completely and totally, without question. It's the truest thing that there's even been and nobody has ever said a truer word or ever will!

[Lionator]

Blaming Starmer for the failures over the grooming gangs seems really weird and desperate??

[leicsmac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwl569p57lo

 

Trump: "The U.K. is making a very big mistake. Open up the North Sea. Get rid of Windmills!"

 

... remind me, what's the diplomatic way of saying "you demean and always have demeaned the office of President of the US and go fvck yourself with your lack of regard for the future of our species"?

 

On a more serious note, how is the UK - or indeed any other nation who actually thinks beyond their own line of sight spatially or temporally - supposed to deal diplomatically with this hailstorm of bullshit from multiple sources and how it might affect policy?

[Wymsey]

 

[Jon the Hat]

3 hours ago, leicsmac said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwl569p57lo

 

Trump: "The U.K. is making a very big mistake. Open up the North Sea. Get rid of Windmills!"

 

... remind me, what's the diplomatic way of saying "you demean and always have demeaned the office of President of the US and go fvck yourself with your lack of regard for the future of our species"?

 

On a more serious note, how is the UK - or indeed any other nation who actually thinks beyond their own line of sight spatially or temporally - supposed to deal diplomatically with this hailstorm of bullshit from multiple sources and how it might affect policy?

Why should his opinion affect UK policy in power generation?  I can see it will affect our defence spending, and probably foreign policy.

[Sly]

Trump is a loose cannon.

Musk is a loose cannon.

It’s like two evil Super villains in a Marvel movie trying to co-exist. 
One will turn on the other, eventually. 

[CosbehFox]

8 hours ago, Lionator said:

Blaming Starmer for the failures over the grooming gangs seems really weird and desperate??

Yeah in essence. Musk going after Jess Phillips who had zero involvement too. There was a chance of enquiry in 2021 which was turned down by the Tories. This is a complete swaying of truth. The sad lessons have been learnt. We aren’t seeing the sane appetite for Grenfell are we? 

[leicsmac]

5 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

Why should his opinion affect UK policy in power generation?  I can see it will affect our defence spending, and probably foreign policy.

... because he will expect the UK to act like a subordinate who does exactly what he says in all matters, not just defence and foreign policy.

 

The character of the man and how he views personal and national relationships is abundantly clear. Enemies, subordinates, but no friends.

[Lionator]

2 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

Yeah in essence. Musk going after Jess Phillips who had zero involvement too. There was a chance of enquiry in 2021 which was turned down by the Tories. This is a complete swaying of truth. The sad lessons have been learnt. We aren’t seeing the sane appetite for Grenfell are we? 

If people were energetically furious at what happened (we should all be), then fair enough, but the timing of it all is incredibly obvious to me. It’s an obvious attempt to undermine democracy in Europe and funnily enough is exactly out of the supposed Russian playbook yet it’s even more in plain sight, and to make it worse, unlike Russian interference, we’re powerless to do anything about it because Europe is pathetic, sold itself out to America and is terrified of upsetting Trump and musk. 

[CosbehFox]

3 minutes ago, Lionator said:

If people were energetically furious at what happened (we should all be), then fair enough, but the timing of it all is incredibly obvious to me. It’s an obvious attempt to undermine democracy in Europe and funnily enough is exactly out of the supposed Russian playbook yet it’s even more in plain sight, and to make it worse, unlike Russian interference, we’re powerless to do anything about it because Europe is pathetic, sold itself out to America and is terrified of upsetting Trump and musk. 

Yep undermine government, court system etc