Liberalism is becoming fascism 'cause ...

Listening to the radio this morning and the main topic for discussion was a teacher in Northern Ireland who put a display on a school notice board calling the day that abortions were decriminalised, and gay marriage was legalised the ‘darkest day’. Because this is Northern Ireland, which is further right in some respects than the bible belt in America, the reaction was mixed but mostly a shrug, because why shouldn’t she be allowed to express her views etc etc …not surprising really. But completely wrong. Since when was it OK for a teacher to push their religious beliefs on children? It is complete and utter nonsense. But the icing on the cake was the religious right phoning in and the common theme was liberalism is becoming fascism ‘cause we will not tolerate the far right freedom of speech to speak hatred (or as they put it, be anti-progressive)? Heh.

Dorothy we are not in Kansas anymore… seems like we are coming up beside the far-right Christo-fascist movements in the USA who do false equivalency oh so very well.

https://twitter.com/BBCNolan/status/1187283256531705856

'The highest of high crimes' Rudy Giuliani accidentally blows up Trump's defense against impeachment

A gaggle of the electorate venerates the puerile. This is a problem.

Politicians talking about ‘gut feeling’ decision making and ‘telling it how it is’ gets a high five from certain constituencies. The expert is the new ‘elite’ trying to fool people by analysing information and data and making fact-based decisions. What a bloody outrage they cry as they are faced with the facts.

You can’t fool us cries the fool, little realising how much they have been fooled already.

Charlatan leaders and their enablers fooling the fools, being sold a pup of the sunny uplands of Unicorns and rainbows that exist only within the rarefied atmosphere of white rich (mega rich) male privilege. No pots of gold at the end of the rainbow for anyone else, only fool’s gold for the foolish that have fallen for the bombastic rhetoric of our leaders. This is a problem.

On course for a General Election, this strategy could almost write itself...

Based on the votes that took place yesterday - yes to the second reading of the Boris Brexit deal (thanks to some Labour support) but no to the limited time frame with which the Tories wanted to push the deal through to prevent proper scrutiny (which will lead to a further extension to the Brexit leave date), must suggest that the UK may well have a pre-Christmas General Election.

Some strategies for winning literally write themselves…

Conservatives – Jeremy Corbyn has blocked the Brexit that MPs voted for, if it were not for Labour we would have left on the 31st October, Labour BLOCKED Brexit. Vote for us for Brexit.

Liberal Democrats – Jeremy Corbyn bailed out the Boris deal, Brexit is only happening because of Labour votes, if we leave the EU, Labour PUSHED THROUGH Brexit. Vote for us to Remain.

Labour – uuhhmm, oh shit.


Heh.

Strange Fruit 2019

SC-Sen: Susan Rice On Pod Save America, "Lindsey Graham (R) Is A Piece Of S@#$"

Using the death of 39 people in Essex for Brexit purposes in 3..2..1...

RIP those victims of the overall lorry people smuggling operation which led to the death of 39.

As we have a Prime Minister that used the murder of Jo Cox to justify a hard Brexit the fact that these poor victims where smuggled through Wales - which means they must have gone through Ireland - to the mainland will be music to this Tory Administrations ears. What a way to justify a wet border, stop people smuggling across the Islands
If only Brexit had already happened something like this would have been stopped.. It is not that they would have wished this happen, of course not, but as it has... hhhmmmm
Boris and Pritti say they are shocked and saddened so we should probably give them an hour before they start using this incident for political purposes .. because they are literally that vile.

Britain was built on the backs of slaves. A memorial is the least they deserve

As a child of the troubles I see them returning

There is nothing more ironic than the situation that the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland finds itself in. They are the Northern Irish party of Brexit, because they saw the ever closer cross border cooperation between the North and the South as a danger, and as THE party of the Union, they saw Brexit as a way to distance the North from the South. This is not what happened of course, they were thrown under the lying Boris bus and there will be a wet border in the Irish sea, creating even closer union on the Ireland of Ireland and treating Northern Ireland distinctly differently from the rest of the UK.

To say the Unionist are angry is somewhat like saying God was slightly pissed when he sent the floods. They have been hung by their own petard. BUT, in the country of my birth, people do not walk away when they have been had over. They do the opposite. They go in hard and they do it without any thought for the final consequences. It is who we are, it is our national psyche, it is why we had the troubles for so long. We live in our history, not in the present and not in the future.

And the loyalists are pissed. They are really really pissed. The loyalist community is the community who grew all the protestant terrorist groups in the troubles. They are not just unionists, there are many of those who would never dream of violence, loyalists are a different kettle of fish. Their blood runs red white and blue and Norn Iron and the Union for ever. There are current proscribed organisations in this community who still exist as ‘community organisations.’ And as I said, they are pissed.

The one problem they may have is that their 'effectiveness' in the troubles was in many ways directed by the security forces, that will not happen this time. But with the Real IRA rattling their border drums with increasing acts of violence and the loyalist community at boiling point… 3…2…1 to the likelihood of the troubles shit hitting the fan, again.

The new MAGA circa Oct. 2019