TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy

I’m sure the same papers that got two weeks of headlines about Keir Starmer’s free glasses will have plenty to say about this. No?

Why is Donald Trump changing his mind every five minutes and saying completely mad stuff an embarrassment for Keir Starmer? It feels like it should chiefly be seen as an embarrassment for the United States.

If only there had been some clue that he was like this.

2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

Translation: “we have been lying to you for the past 15 years”

You can be as racist as you like but my god you'd better be a loyal racist

When the interior ministry declares its militia to be above the law in terms that equate dissent with treason there really isn’t any question of whether or not we are looking at an authoritarian regime.

Nadhim Zahawi MP: In Farage’s Britain, it would be legal to discriminate against me on the grounds of race conservativehome.com/2015/03/23/n...

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

I’m sorry the decorum argument was dead ten fucking years ago when the entire republican party hitched themselves to mister “grab them by the pussy” come on

Keiths:

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

It's completely unacceptable in every sense, except the very literal one, in which we are going to accept it.

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

Five years ago.

Beyond the obvious "you shouldn't invade another country and kidnap the president" there are so many intensely hateful things about Trump/Venezuela: * Trump supporters who claimed for years that he was a peace-loving America First president are now 100% cheering on regime change in another country

The opportunity for a period of quiet, sober reflection between the excesses of Christmas and the revelry of New Year’s Eve can easily be avoided by continuing to drink.

Didn’t he already send the DOJ after Clinton to take the heat off himself? No surprise the senile old fool has forgotten all his previous contradictory lies and deflections, but anyone with a functioning brain cell can see through it.

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Yeah maybe this Labour government isn’t perfect, but I’m afraid there’s simply no credible alternative

Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

God this stuff is so embarrassing. There is so much about modern Britain that *should* offend conservative Christians, yet we get this complete wibble instead. The 'true' meaning of Christmas is being cancelled by consumerism, not 'the woke liberati'.

Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

This takes me back to #MeToo. Friends of the accused coming out and saying "Well he never abused ME." If a number of people claim on the record that he said racist things, it really doesn't matter if some other people don't recall him doing so. They may be telling the truth, it's just not relevant

IGuys I wouldn’t waste your valuable time on it, just take his name and ask Trump to pardon him now

Finally home after > 27 hours of grindset creating shareholder value through AI agentic workflow and guiding a warrior-ethos meditation during my ketamine break. My 8 year old dog: "Do you have to slay so hard because the villain misrepresented an OBR analysis to Parliament?" Me: "Bitcoin."

Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber

Newspaper journalists who supported Brexit and Boris Johnson for years have only now suddenly realised that they don’t like politicians lying to them

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

I see a lot of people who supported Liz Truss’ budget aren’t happy with Rachel Reeves this morning. Perhaps they should sit this one out

Literally!! The right wing papers Hate You Anyway!! Why not give them something to Really Hate You For, and know - at least - people will thank you in ten years time???

MAGA is falling apart. The Republicans are falling apart. Trump is falling apart. They will continue to do terrible (and in some cases irreparable) damage at home and abroad but something has changed. You can feel it

“testing the ceasefire”

If nothing else, it’s quite telling that the president treats it as a personal attack when some senators remind the armed forces they shouldn’t follow illegal orders. My “I don’t issue illegal orders” t-shirt is prompting a lot of questions etc.

It is bewildering, disturbing and a stain on America that Trump’s approval rating isn’t in single digits

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

I want handwriting experts to compare Trump's signature on the Epstein birthday card with his signature on the new bill demanding the release of all the files

Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”

The thing I despise is inhumanity. It’s not really a political position, it’s an existential one. But if your political party manoeuvres itself into a place where it practises and promotes inhumanity, I will despise you.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Remember when everyone spent a whole weekend worshipping Donald Trump for delivering everlasting peace in the Middle East? Like everything else with him, he lies about it, takes the credit, then fucks off when it all goes wrong. He does not give a single shit

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.