Randler posted:

While we might not live to see it, there definitely will be a Brexit-like event for America in the futurer. A point in time which will, in retrospect, be considered the exact moment all their pretenses and imperial nostalgia will come crashing down.

Chokes McGee posted:

p sure that already happened in 2016

Randler posted:

While we might not live to see it, there definitely will be a Brexit-like event for America in the futurer. A point in time which will, in retrospect, be considered the exact moment all their pretenses and imperial nostalgia will come crashing down.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

i dont see why his re-election would be more impactful than his first election given that everybody's pretty much resigned to it already

Opferwurst posted:

Because a huge amount of people are still in massive denial and think the 2016 election was some kind of fluke/rigged/Clinton's fault. Like, America is just temporarily embarrassed but poo poo is still salvageable. Trump's reelection will let the gravity of the situation finally sink in for a lot of people.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

the sunday sport is the sex badger little people one right? cause that ain't the onion, that's weekly world news

Chokes McGee posted:

imagine 50 years from now, when the history books talk about how embarrassing an era this was and how america elected a brain damaged tv star criminal to the highest office of the land, it will be followed by "at the same time, in England,"

twoday posted:

That’s nothing, watch this:

https://twitter.com/johnmach2001/status/1114262769380003842?s=20

EU to trigger fish and chips CRISIS if UK doesn’t open fishing waters in no deal Brexit

BRUSSELS bureaucrats could trigger a fish and chips shortage in Britain if the Government refuses to grant access to its waters, EU officials warned today.

EU officials could introduce tariffs on popular fish consumed in Britain in the event of a no deal Brexit. They claim Britons consume more white fish than exists in British waters, with the UK relying on imports from the Continent. An official added haddock and cod supplies are the most popular with Britons and both species will be subject to tough tariffs if Britain refuses to grant access to its waters for European fishing boats.

The tariffs could be implemented as early as April 12 if Britain leaves the bloc without a deal.

EU and UK officials have promised to leave talks on a joint-fisheries agreement until after Brexit.

The European Commission confirmed retaliatory measures could impact cod and haddock supplies to Britain if talks breakdown.

A source said: “Currently the UK consumes more white fish than it catches in its waters and could catch in its waters. Any fish the UK doesn’t catch it will have to import and that will become a trade issue.”

Karmenu Vela, the Commissioner responsible for fisheries, said insisted the EU is keen to strike a reciprocal deal.

He said: “in case of a no-deal Brexit, EU fishing vessels would have to leave UK waters and UK vessels would have to leave EU waters.

“This would have significant negative economic consequences on the part of the EU fleet, which depends on access to UK water.

“Obviously, even on the part of the UK fleet fishing in EU waters.”

Mr Vela offered Britain the opportunity to keep its waters open in order to prevent any disruption to its fish supplies.

Reacting to the threat from Brussels, Tory MEP Daniel Dalton told Express.co.uk: “This threat is codswallop. This is just more posturing by Brussels, but in an area where the EU has got far more to lose than the UK.”

The news comes as Bank of England governor Mark Carney warned earlier this week that the chance of a no deal Brexit is now "alarmingly high”.

Mr Carney defended his continued gloomy forecast of a no deal Brexit as the UK’s April 12 deadline to leave the EU fast approaches.

He told Sky News: "Unfortunately I think it proved accurate. It's alarmingly high now. We're in a situation where the expressed will of Parliament is for some form of deal, so to put it in the double negative: parliament is against no deal.

“The Government, as expressed by the Prime Minister, is against no deal, the European Union is against no deal, and yet it is a possibility - it is the default option.

"So no deal would happen by accident, it would happen suddenly, there would be no transition - it is an accidental disorderly Brexit."

Hentai Jihadist posted:

nah things have always been ridiculous and stupid.

JFairfax posted:

America already elected a b-movie actor thirty five plus years ago

etalian posted:

Also this B-movie actor married the blowjob queen of hollywood.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Randler posted:

While we might not live to see it, there definitely will be a Brexit-like event for America in the futurer. A point in time which will, in retrospect, be considered the exact moment all their pretenses and imperial nostalgia will come crashing down.

Regarde Aduck posted:

This makes you horny you weird little german bitch

Regarde Aduck posted:

This makes you horny you weird little german bitch

Raskolnikov38 posted:

the sunday sport is the sex badger little people one right? cause that ain't the onion, that's weekly world news

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

the UK is two fish and chips-less days away from a revolutionary communist republic

Quantum of Phallus posted:

it is absolutely wild seeing the rise in Irish nationalist feelings among people my age (25+) ever since Brexit, like it's stuff I used to find embarrassing as a teenager but the UK government loving Brexit up so bad and showing utter disdain for NI (they would have sold NI down the river if not for that snap election) and the glimmer of hope of a united ireland has shown that the Brits did more in three years than Sinn Fein could do in the last twenty. mad

The Dipshit posted:

Kinda checked out of this thread for a while, did anything change since Tezza was told to ask the EU for a free pony?

frankenfreak posted:

Ah, haven't seen a "we need a proper war to toughen up the kids" in a while.

Hentai Jihadist posted:

im FREAKING OUT about this rn

twoday posted:

The UK fishing waters contain lots of fish, just not the fish Brits eat. There is lots of herring, squid I think. The white fish that is used to make the fish in fish and chips (often sold as cod, rarely is cod) comes from further north, much of it from Iceland. Iceland is not in the EU and as a frigid volcanic rock has little negotiating power so you should be able to bully some fish out of them.

hobbesmaster posted:

With this UK government attempts at bullying Iceland would result in successful raiding.

Hexyflexy posted:

A "friend" of mine has recently joined the British navy (at age 35 because he's a loving moron), and I can say whole-heartedly that with that quality of personnel, in a fight between the British navy and the Icelandic trawler fleet, I'd put money on the trawlers.

twoday posted:

The UK fishing waters contain lots of fish, just not the fish Brits eat. There is lots of herring, squid I think. The white fish that is used to make the fish in fish and chips (often sold as cod, rarely is cod) comes from further north, much of it from Iceland. Iceland is not in the EU and as a frigid volcanic rock has little negotiating power so you should be able to bully some fish out of them.

Cerv posted:

the UK on a 3 for 3 losing streak with Iceland in the cod wars.

strategically too important to NATO for it’s position in the north atlantic, so they’ve got Iceland’s back on this