Hope everyone had a nice weekend! I got one party down and my house is in a frenzied state of disarray due to decorating, cooking, and cleaning.
Home state loves to be embarrassing. Even Taylor Swift won’t go there.
In Ohio, an immigrant community prepares for Trump’s crackdown
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/15/ohio-immigrants-trump-mass-deportation
Wait wut
Yvette Cooper admits ‘complex’ relations with China amid Prince Andrew spy claims
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/15/yvette-cooper-admits-complex-relations-with-china-amid-prince-andrew-spy-claims
Oops
Russian tanker sinks in Black Sea spilling 4,300 tonnes of oil
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/15/two-russian-tankers-sink-in-black-sea-spilling-oil
Sprots!
Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez makes ‘the best save ever’ in Premier League match against Nottingham Forest
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/15/sport/emiliano-martinez-save-aston-villa-nottingham-forest-spt-intl/index.html
Have a great day!
Yvette Cooper is a piece of work. You can see it in the “crazy eyes.” You just know that one day Britain will have a “Death Wish” scenario on their hands. And I’m sorry, Madame Home Secretary, but I am an American citizen resident in the US so I don’t think you can arrest me for thought crimes, like you do to so many of your fellow citizens. It’s no coincidence that George Orwell was British and not American. Curtain twitchers, a term unknown to USAmericans, but all too relevant in the green and pleasant land.
…they need to be net curtains to really be a twitcher…& before ring doorbells or nextdoor existed or there was a whatsapp group for a neighborhood many a curtain twitcher clubbed together into neighborhood watch groups which the constabulary took a pretty positive view on
…the thought crime stuff is beyond even the sort of meltdown the telegraph has been having the last few years, though…setting fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers including children because you’re already having a bit of a riot & you believed a bunch of misinformation pushed online is not being a political prisoner even if you’re dumb enough to think a vote for reform is anything but a solemn vow to make the problem worse
…haven’t had the time to get into what kind of ball anyone can accuse ms. cooper of dropping but with respect to the chinese trying to manoeuvre for advantage along a vector that went gangbusters for mohamed al-fayad…who turns out to be guilty of the same order of stuff as jimmy saville got away with…along with some other radio djs from back then…or at least somewhere on the sliding scale that makes andrew’s chumminess with epstein a worry
…but it’s unlikely she’s in a position to say anything meaningful that anyone’s going to present as a political masterstroke…& that game has been in progress forever & won’t go away…so…it’s all tea leaves, really…is it worse than it has been or being handled less competently…none of us get to have that sort of information really…is it being effectively leveraged into levels of embarrassing laundry to have to air in public in ways that as a nation state you wouldn’t expect your friends to…yeah…pretty much
…does that equate to trying to pin the state of something with a ton of interrelated variables operating over longer timespans than ministerial careers on one individual relatively new to being where the buck potentially stops…also basically yes…but the utility of that exercise is largely measurable by the amount of relish the person performing it takes in trying to make labour look bad “on principle”…so…your piers morgan type take, say
…&…aside from the too-many-things-not-enough-hours aspect of my week…that’s basically why I’m not in a rush to bone up on all the ways I’d say that would leak if you try to make it hold water?
P.S.
…the assisted dying stuff was near enough to a responsible debate that people made a big fuss of how grownup parliament was about it…but it’s a long way from being on the books so nothing about how that would be proposed to work is confirmed & even once it is it would still have to pass both houses…the debate will always have those edge cases but not even nigel thinks there’s a percentage in gunning for a logan’s run scenario
I have trouble keeping all of the British papers straight, bu tafter checking a little on the Telegraph they seem deranged in a way that lacks the wink wink of some of the tabloids.
Who are the people who read a headline and think they’re doing anything but a con job? I assume it’s the equivalent of JD Vance types in the US – highly educated insecure strivers?
…once upon a time when being a broadsheet was a big deal they were like what the mail aspired to be if it grew up…nicknames like the torygraph were not uncommon
…these days it’s owned (a few shells deep into the tax haven game) by one or both of the barclay brothers
…they also own the ritz…& claridges & are absolutely the “genteel british aristocracy” equivalent of the people bernie talked about in that clip I threw in the other day
…bit like britain it’s using the diminishing returns of past glories to get frothing nonsense out there to drag that overton window in directions that benefit entrenched interests & screw basically everyone
…before them it was conrad black… who’s at least as much of an asshole as…paul dacre, thiel, musk, the kochs, bezos or any of the other wrong ‘uns with paper-buying piggy bank access
…it’d be less obviously akin to a mental breakdown at the editorial level of it were the mail or the sun or something but it’s a mystery to me it still has a rep worth trading on…& at least one of grandparents was a subscriber…& it was available to students at the schools I went to…so I remember when it made sense to talk about alongside the Times…but that ship sailed a long, long time ago?
…that’s about the best cliff notes version I can put together in the time available?
Connie Black, Lord Of Toilet Harbour and fraudster extraordinaire.
Fancied himself an English Twit…
Oh well, him landing in jail was good times indeed.
Who’s the readership? Is it the Upper Class Twits from Monty Python?
One of the clever things about that skit is the twits start out dumb but harmless, until they move on to be violent, rapey animal abusers who destroy themselves in the end. And of course have no self awareness at any stage.
…sort of…urban dictionary should have a few definitions of the term “gammon”
…think farage, piers morgan or someone else who thought GB news was a good idea…or a brexit voter with a nice final salary pension & a house worth a few mil
[P.S. …not for nothing but the roald Dahl story the twits (& esio trot, I think) is basically about gas-lighting but neither of the spouses in the twits is likeable…even the python lads likely read those…albeit probably to their kids rather than as kids]
So corrupt. So, so corrupt. And not in a fun way, but in a grubby “why bother?” way.
Somehow, some miscreant recently got their hands on my credit card information. Not the card itself, but the numbers. Did they go to Bergdorf Goodman with my lavish credit limit? No, they bought $12 worth of food at a Harlem McDonald’s. It was a test, I suppose, and probably an inside job (the cashier must have just accepted the number.) Pain in the neck, cancelling the card and eventually getting a replacement.
Oh well, it’s not like we all have very limited time to deal with this bullpucky at this time of the year!
McDonald’s? Does anyone know where Trump is at the moment? We know he doesn’t like to pay his own way.
…the card thing sucks & hopefully they get that re-issued with alacrity but the list of ways it’s potentially possible to acquire the “near field” type of card details that people load into apple/google wallets to pay for stuff by waving phones & watches about is longer than anyone enjoys contemplating…hopefully they just managed to get near enough to clone it at some point but I’d probably be some way into resetting all my online banking passwords in your shoes in case they moved fast after the fast food to escalate their access
…hopefully surplus to requirements but probably better safe than sorry?
Governor Kickback is offering kickbacks to buy the citizenry’s votes! Good luck, Krazy Kat. Unfortunately I qualify for the $300, being impoverished, but Better Half does not: he is the economic engine that keeps this household going and keeps the wolf from the door.
He is still amused by the fact that I, from a white family who has never owned slaves and, in fact, probably avoided Black people all their lives, might be on the hook for reparations. “You could start by paying the Uber bills.” “Come here, Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson has a little surprise for you.”
So you need to be a sex offender and a drunk now to be on Trump’s staff?
You don’t have to be drunk to work here but it helps.
NGL I watched that a few times for a laugh.
Actually I am surprised none of the toffee nosed Wonks didn’t start their own memecoins like the Spit girl did to her detriment.
…one of them probably minted fartcoin
…they love to huff theirs so it makes sense they’d think throwing real money at that until it has a “real” market cap around $700million…makes sense
…the rest of still think the whole thing stinks, though…so it’s just the asshole bros & their marks in that game & none of that money’s doing anyone any more good that the stuff hiding from the international tax man…just costing extra in resources we need to be using less of for the shit they do we actually derived something from that isn’t entirely fucking stupid?
It almost seems like it has been awhile since the last one?
feels like theres always one just before christmas tho…and one in the first 2 weeks after summer holiday
Hey the shooter is a girl! Look at her closing the gender gap for homicidal behavior.
welp…with how people voted….that might become a trend
i get the impression that a lot of girls…might be somewhat miffed…at the state of things…
Oh, I wouldn’t want to meet one of my sisters, or my mother, or my mother’s mother, in a dark alley. Only one of us would have survived, and it wouldn’t have been me.