In the last year alone... was going to do until the beginning of the administration but it fair to say I nearly lost the will to live


All the very best people... Heh.

We are witnessing live the lies and self-interested manoeuvres of politicians whose more than obvious tactics are all about party and as such they are unfit to serve. It seems that the national interest, international obligations, our standing in the world and our wellbeing are be sacrificed at the altar of hard left and hard right power games and electoral calculations. It seems to me that both parties dream of recasting our moderate nation in their radical image, and Brexit gives them that opportunity. And by God they are running with it, with much gusto.

For the rest of us, as they play their power games, we stand in front of a future that in which we will have diminished standing and rights because a section of the electorate gave power to isolationist wannabee autocrats because of spite, anger and tantrums focused in completely the wrong direction.

As I watch the bear pit this morning it is clear that whatever happens today, we will not be seeing closure to this crisis anytime soon. And quite frankly anything the ERG agrees is a good deal means that it is really shite. This Brexit obsession will continue to suck oxygen from UK politics in foreseeable future.

You can check out anytime you want but you can never leave…

All of this

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/moscow-mitch-mcconnell-rips-trump-for-grave-strategic-mistake-in-blistering-washington-post-op-ed/|]

A smattering of ODS of course. That is always going to be a fallback. I wrote something earlier here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212596855

And i have to confess I am feeling slightly smug having predicted I would hazard a guess that these power players will not protect Trump for much longer, They do not need to. They have played into his ego for enough time for the far-right wing coup to be nearly complete.
Causing world war 3 is probably not in their immediate plans.

[link:https://www.joemygod.com/2019/10/gabbard-unleashes-on-queen-of-warmongers-hillary/|]

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1185289626409406464
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1185289629148291078

Hhhhmmmm "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

We see it all over the interwebs

‘’Oh, can you imagine if Obama did (insert whatever major transgression Trump has just been exposed for), Republicans would go batshit crazy coming after him if he had ever done that, but they don’t go after Trump. HYPOCRITES’’

We all know that republicans are dishonest hypocrites but why should that mean we should imagine Obama committing criminal and immoral acts and acts of treason, and how republicans would have reacted to that, just to reaffirm what we already know about republicans? Obama is a great man who does great things and bringing up Obama in mythical comparisons with the conduct of the Traitor in Chief, is, I think, insulting to Obama and both his Presidency and legacy. Let’s face it they screamed at Obama for just being a black bloke while Presidenting. That is all they had, the racist fuckers and they are still wagging that tail today. Remember, there is a very good reason why we do not have any real-life comparisons between Obama and Trumps bad behaviour to go to, so why create hypothetical situations where Obama behaved in the way Trump behaves, when he very obviously would never ever do so? Particularly when the republicans try and blame everything wrong on Obama as it is. It is illogical.

He has enabled the worst of society to push their way to to the front of the queue and demand that we listen to their nasty... maybe just maybe we should demand that those around us STOP it...

https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/1184944481046614039



Heh. As Laurie Penny said



We need to try and stop the rot - not feeding the nasty by giving them a mainstream platform, seems a good place to start...

[link:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-50094551|

Good, we have much less tolerance for intolerant homophobic right wing wankers, in comparison to America...

Dang it, our liberal secret commie plot has been exposed on the interwebs. Meat free guns stat!

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/deadly-turkey-air-strikes-shatter-trumps-hours-old-ceasefire-deal/|]

So a ceasefire that was all about forcing the Kurds out of their homeland - at the same time Trump was giving a not to Turkey re ethnic cleansing - was always going to look like this. It is sickening.