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https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1237518906073346048 Satire is dead and so are we.
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For the first time in history, Chris Grayling has some intelligence faculties.
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Mar 11, 2020 01:05
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When you're so corrupt other Tories are going "Uh hang on a sec Bozza mate" 
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Mar 11, 2020 01:06
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I hope he does the same thing for the intelligence committee as he did for transport. I stopped fifty terrorist plots last year Chris. I can't provide any evidence of this because of the secrets act, but it's real. Please bung a bunch of cash to my company I just set up.
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Mar 11, 2020 01:11
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"I wrote two articles about Russia, Boris. I've got strong feelings about corruption. I know I can do this job."
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Mar 11, 2020 01:13
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"If you send me fifty million pounds I can prevent terrorist attacks" is 50/50 pork barrel spending or protection racket.
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Mar 11, 2020 01:13
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Once upon a time I was told that 'American Intelligence' was a perfect oxymoron, much like 'Microsoft Works'. I don't know why I'm suddenly reminded of that fact.quote:The new boss’s first task will be to publish a report on Russia’s influence on the British establishment, which Boris suppressed in the run up to December’s general election. Harsh, harsh words from the Scum towards His Worship The Honorable Lord and Prime Minister Bozza there. Wonder if they edit that. E: Oh right, remember everybody we're going to have a budget tomorrow! I'm sure a couple of minor giveaways will stop this virus thingie in its tracks. Tune in at 12.30! Best part? At 18 months I think this is officially the longest ever gap between government budgets. And it's getting done by someone whos been in the job for less than a month. Strong and Stable! RockyB fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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Mar 11, 2020 01:14
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Ms Adequate posted:"I wrote two articles about Russia, Boris.
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Mar 11, 2020 01:24
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Chuka Umana posted:Tory mind: Oh the left praised Diana Spencer when she touched an AIDS patient but now they're going after BoJo for shaking hands with a coronavirus patient!?! So much for the tolerant left!! Tory mind too stupid (but I repeat myself) to grasp that what Diana did was demonstrating that the type of contact she was making was not a way of catching HIV/AIDS and perfectly safe. Whereas what Boris did was to do something that medical advice says is a way to catch this particular virus in a stupid (again with the repeating) stunt that was blatantly trying for some of that Princess of Hearts energy. He deserves everything he might have caught, and several other things because I'm generous like that.
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Mar 11, 2020 01:27
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Wasn't the hospital he went to one without known covid cases, so it's more Boris liar than Boris brave but misguided?
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Mar 11, 2020 01:31
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Ha. That wouldn't surprise me at all tbh. Stolen Lady Di Valour - how very on brand. Also, "brave" is a word I will never associate with Boris ever and if he's misguided he's only himself to blame.
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Mar 11, 2020 01:36
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"Brave but misguided" seems to be a very English way of politely saying "loving idiot" in hindsight, but yeah I agree. He's not filled with that type of stiff upper lipped stupidity, as much as he makes out that he might be, so my money's on the liar, no covid cases side.
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Mar 11, 2020 01:39
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What he's filled with like all his type is very little brain, spite, bile and a stiff upper-class cupidity.
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Mar 11, 2020 01:46
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EmptyVessel posted:What he's filled with like all his type is very little brain, spite, bile and a stiff upper-class cupidity. Not familiar with this translation of Galen but find it very applicable.
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Mar 11, 2020 01:47
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Just realised that I've accidentally described Winnie the Pooh's evil twin, which fits Boris pretty drat well in hindsight.
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Mar 11, 2020 01:52
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Not sure if this was posted earlier? (Internet playing silly buggers tonight): https://twitter.com/LabourGRT/status/1237448038957924352?s=20
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Mar 11, 2020 02:12
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how the gently caress are people looking at joe loving biden and bernie and going 'aye, that biden lad looks like a good shout'
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Mar 11, 2020 02:31
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ThomasPaine posted:how the gently caress are people looking at joe loving biden and bernie and going 'aye, that biden lad looks like a good shout' Boris/Corbyn. Some people just live on another plane of existence.
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Mar 11, 2020 02:34
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for fucks sake https://twitter.com/rowenamason/status/1237435387490062339?s=20 me and my partner have been trying to contact 111, we're both sick with flu symptoms and basically just want the go ahead to self isolate. i'd obviously like a test so i know if i'm covered in grandma death virus but ofc i dont expec the UK to be doing that properly. so we call 111, it tells you to gently caress off unless you've been to wuhan or call the coronavirus hotline, we call the hotline and its closed for the night but directs us to an nhs information site, the nhs information site tells us to gently caress off unless you've been to wuhan they're so goddamn insistent on only closing the gate once the horse has bolted. our government is totally incapable of serious action on ANYTHING. we're honestly gonna make italy look like korea. we're 2 weeks behind italy and the governments plan is to ASK people to quarantine if symptomatic (too late)... in 2 weeks! Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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Mar 11, 2020 02:53
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OwlFancier posted:Boris/Corbyn. It's more that the media gets to decide who has that fabled magical power called "electability" and there isn't really a way around that. Trying to bypass through alternative/social media isn't enough because they have more reach and the olds vote more than the youngs. Trying to impress or placate them isn't enough because they're intimately linked with the existing political structures and their interest will always be in maintaining the status quo. Who knows what the solution is. Personally I'd like to see a left that treats the media with the scorn and bile they deserve, but that's more about grim satisfaction than thinking it'd improve our electoral chances much.
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Mar 11, 2020 03:19
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Time may change it, people who spend less time reading the papers vote more left, and they're also materially hosed by society. It'd be nice if we could get ahead of the fuckery but I'm pretty much convinced that entire concept is ahistorical at this point.
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Mar 11, 2020 03:26
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If nothing else the last few years have made me much more enthusiastically, ahem, bolshevik, about things. Not that that means anything given how hosed we are very soon and how there is absolutely zero significant appetite for more direct revolutionary politics. Pretty sure Lenin himself couldn't whip up the proletariat in UK2020.
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Mar 11, 2020 03:29
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bernie's crushing defeat tonight made me finally vote in the leadership at least its nice that the labour party isn't the DNC and i can just straightforwardly vote left, we may not win it but eh, better kier than loving BIDEN (he still didn't get any vote from me tho) i got to vote in the scottish deputy leadership too, it was just two candidates, one who is endorsed by gordon brown and one guy who is all eyebrow i voted for eyebrow
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Mar 11, 2020 03:33
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ThomasPaine posted:how the gently caress are people looking at joe loving biden and bernie and going 'aye, that biden lad looks like a good shout' I have been wrestling with this since a lot of my friends have been "Starmer is the one for me!" Whilst there are more melts then we thought a lot of it is people deciding that there is no way a socialist candidate has a chance against the billions of capital and the full force of "liberal" media which will combine to defeat them. Whilst I personally think this is a reason to fight harder, I can't say they're wrong and am beginning to understand why they're giving up. Biden ain't gonna beat Trump mind so the US is hosed either way.
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Mar 11, 2020 03:43
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DickEmery posted:I have been wrestling with this since a lot of my friends have been "Starmer is the one for me!" yeah, also to be fair to kier and his supporters he's not running as a blairite, he's basically running on corbyn's platform more or less. centre-left. i don't trust the people backing him, and i think he's bojo's ideal opponent, but his platform is pitched as a reconciliation of the two wings not a rejection of one. i think he may even mention socialism in the leaflet he sent me i'll stick around if he gets in, i'll stick around for as long as labour is anti-austerity. even though mcdonnels loving stupid surplus plan was basically austerity, but i squinted for a couple years to pretend it wasn't
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Mar 11, 2020 03:52
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I have begun to unfollow all the poo poo take-havers I follow on Twitter and instead put them into a special 'brainworm quarantine zone' private list, this is an excellent feature that means I am only exposed to the lunacy when I choose to be and also doesn't give them the implicit support of a follow, would recommend
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Mar 11, 2020 04:00
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https://twitter.com/LivPosting/status/1237575905439969280?s=19 https://twitter.com/pklinkne/status/1237548891286851584?s=19
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Mar 11, 2020 04:17
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All these loving melts on twitter going "oh just cos you politically disagree with dorries doesn't mean you shouldn't wish her a fast recovery" like motherfucker she'd kill me as soon as look at me, she's made a career out of killing people for political reasons, of course I hope she loving dies.
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Mar 11, 2020 04:18
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Thing with Bernie vs. Biden is it's not just Left vs. Center or Right, it's that Biden's brain is so transparently melted and so utterly, utterly unsuited for any kind of office or, frankly, anything more than assisted living. His brain's way further gone than Trump's, and Trump's brain is extremely filled with holes bored by worms. Anyone who putatively cares about America or the Democrats should feel impelled to vote for Bernie even if they disagree on every single one of his actual policies because it's vastly more important to get someone who is at minimum aware of where they are when they wake up in the morning. Christ, Trump might be a rampaging narcissist who has only failed to start WW3 because of his own incredible cowardice, but at least he doesn't seem inclined to start it because he thinks it's 1982 and the reds are making intimidating manuevers in the Carpathians, or whatever the hell Biden is going to believe when he presses the button. Last chance saloon is the final debate, and when I say "last chance saloon" I mean, like, not just for the Bernie campaign but ultimately for the Dems, for the USA, and for any kind of effort against climate change. e; Galling thing is that it's not really in Bernie's hands it's whether Biden has a meltdown so spectacular that it ruins him. Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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Mar 11, 2020 06:12
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1237518906073346048 I seriously don't understand why Grayling keeps getting jobs. Yeah, he's probably friends with a bunch of policians, but surely May/Johnson/etc have friends who have only majorly hosed up one or two things. Does he have a load of blackmail material? Does Johnson want to look good by comparison?
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Mar 11, 2020 08:06
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How does this affect today's budget lol https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1237635037593505792?s=19
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Qwertycoatl posted:I seriously don't understand why Grayling keeps getting jobs. Yeah, he's probably friends with a bunch of policians, but surely May/Johnson/etc have friends who have only majorly hosed up one or two things. Does he have a load of blackmail material? Does Johnson want to look good by comparison? Id say Grayling has every bit of blackmail accrued, pig picture included, but he’s such a terminal moron that he’d accidentally tweet any pictures he had every time he opened his phone. On the plus side, if he’s supposed to continue suppression of this you can nearly guarantee it’ll end up being sent to the guardian or something 
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Mar 11, 2020 08:25
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Jose posted:How does this affect today's budget lol It means they can inject a load more into spending (read borrowing) to make number go up. It'll last 2 days
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Mar 11, 2020 08:33
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Hahahah I just learned something interesting this thread will enjoy. A long time ago I posted in this thread about a financial instrument used by the WHO to generate money to fight a pandemic. I don't recall the exact details but it's something like "deposit some money with us and we'll give you more money back later on, UNLESS a pandemic happens in which case we'll use all your money for that and you can go gently caress yourself" Well, half a billion is tied up in that now, and curiously the WHO is not declaring this a pandemic https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/425m-in-world-bank-catastrophe-bonds-set-to-default-if-coronavirus-declared-a-pandemic-by-june quote:“As an investor, we do not want to lose money,” said Chin Liu, a portfolio manager at Amundi Pioneer, a Boston-based firm that purchased the bonds as a way to diversify the company's $1 billion catastrophe fund. “But then, we also understand if it’s unfortunately triggered, it benefits every single person, including ourselves, to keep the virus controlled.” Microplastics fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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Mar 11, 2020 09:05
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Oh great, we're copying the Amercians and trying to quantitatively ease our way out of what is fundamentally a supply / labour issue. https://twitter.com/bankofengland/status/1237635066089611265 Gotta prop up those banks while doing absolutely nothing for the average person. Quick, roll out the distraction dog! https://twitter.com/BBCNormanS/status/1237647490545078272
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Mar 11, 2020 09:16
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Beyond all reason I still want to hold on to some kind of hope that those born after 1975 or so will not mellow out as they age
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Mar 11, 2020 09:20
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https://twitter.com/gohkokhan/status/1237040096571871233 https://twitter.com/juliaoftoronto/status/1236967717535731712
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Mar 11, 2020 09:21
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Id say Grayling has every bit of blackmail accrued, pig picture included, but he’s such a terminal moron that he’d accidentally tweet any pictures he had every time he opened his phone. Blackmail is all I can think off, that or the need to keep a fall guy on hand that no one cares about. but they keep putting him into the wrong department, and he never ends up taking the blame.
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shiiiiiit it's coming for me
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