Just over 10 minutes to New Year here in old blighty. The champagne is chilling, and I just wanted to wish everyone a very happy new year. We know that we are living in turbulent times. The news is bleak every single day, BUT new decade must bring new hope. I COMMAND it, dammit.

So here is hoping for a decade where progressive values win the day against dark forces.
Here is hoping for a decade when we can right the wrongs of the last few years.
Here is hoping for a decade when ethics and moral promises overtake avarice and injustice in how our countries work.
Here is hoping for a decade when hope wins

It has been the worst of years, may the new year bring us personal happiness and community wide peace.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!



Soph x

Uugghhh
Horrible poisonous wanker. Period.

https://twitter.com/davidcicilline/status/1211854954366939136



Team Trump’s Furious Hunt to Find Out Who ‘Liked’ a Chelsea Clinton Tweet



[link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpworlds-wild-hunt-who-liked-a-chelsea-clinton-tweet|]

Like all good wannabee dictators he has a terribly thin skin. Oh and if you work for the state...

One step away from the Ministry of Truth
“The most gifted of [the Proletariate], who might possibly become a nuclei of discontent, are simply marked down by the Thought Police and eliminated.” ― George Orwell, 1984



Not just the destruction of words but the destruction of freedom of thought if he got his way.

They are counting on people having short memories, most do... and the levels of tolerance for hate filled actions increase.



All of this. Same in the UK where hate crimes have multiplied ridiculously since Brexit.



Heh, racist nazi wankers.

[link:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-thunberg/i-wouldnt-have-wasted-my-time-on-trump-says-greta-thunberg-idUSKBN1YY0PV|]

More sense than him and his cabinet put together!

And this is sooooo cool



Two exceptional people having a lovely chat about something that is so important.
https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/1211565610590769152

Marvellous!!!!!! Gives one hope I think.

https://twitter.com/PattyArquette/status/1211389648183803904



He thinks he can get away with literally anything. They are not even trying to hide their collusion with Russia. Brazen in your face they don't care bollocks. Everyday he provides new evidence for further articles of impeachment. Ridiculous!

I do not have a vote in this game. But I have deep ties in America – we have owned a family property in the States since the early 1990’s, so state and property taxes burn every year! Heh (Oh, and if Trump starts a world war we are all fucked). So, I want to throw my hat in the ring behind a democratic contender. Still sitting on the fence at this point seems a tad blah. BUT, as an outsider who sits inside sometimes I cannot come to a definitive choice. I think part of it stems from the UK general election result, there is a message there I believe about how far you can push social democratic policies in working class areas. Also, part of it comes from who I realistically think can change key votes in key states, and part of it comes from wanting to believe in better rather than settling for the status quo. I hate to say it, but settling could be a win, more than asking small c conservative and small d democrat to go big and go hard. I don’t know. I cannot decide. I just pray that whoever you all decide to vote for can get rid of the monster currently doing his best to destroy democracy in the White House.

The candidates all have their strengths. I will leave you with something I posted in October, cause really… whoever is nominated, as long as they kick his arse… it will be grand…

I hear the wave a comin', It's blowin' 'round the bend


Cartoonist: Bart van Leeuwen

I hear the wave a comin'
It's blowin' 'round the bend
And I ain't seen compassion
Since, I don't know when
I'm stuck inside Trumps Treason
And time keeps draggin' on
But that wave keeps a-rollin'
On down to Election Day 2020 when the wave is going to kick frigging arse!

Lyrics me. Apologies to Johnny Cash.. hehe
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=edit&forum=1002&thread=12571122

No matter who..... Vote BLUE!!!!

MAGATs treading nasty racist nazi water... Heh

Exactly this
Oh and they hate women having agency...

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/i-dont-believe-in-violence-but-trumps-most-rabid-supporters-warn-of-civil-war-if-he-loses-in-2020/|]

*Ahem*



When it comes to it, although they are revolting they will not revolt. Not enough of them to make a difference anyway...

So worth dying for? Right? Trumpsters be like...


Hehe. Delusional Idiots.