I really don’t think most people realize just how hard the boot will come down if Trump and the Republicans win the election. Most people have never experienced the totalitarian surveillance state with the power to reach into their homes and minds at will they are telling us is their plan.
JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise:
—Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!)
—Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well.
—No bloc close to majority.
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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working
biden is going to say “uh” as a pregnant pause in a great speech and the new york times is going to call for him to be taken out back and shot like old yeller
what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct
There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.
Starmer talks a lot about how he’s “changed” the Labour Party and turned round public and media perception, but the bigger achievement is surely the reinvention of “Lord Buckethead” as “Count Binface.” Jonathan Harvey has really smashed this one. Change for Britain.
LOL Rishi Sunak stayed up till 4:30am to stand in a suit onstage next to a guy in a knight costume & a dude holding a ventriloquist dummy in a cowboy outfit.
Now that Nigel Farage may have finally realised his dream of winning a seat in Parliament, please enjoy this photo of him at his Nigel Faragest
(ta again, @jshoffstall.bsky.social, for alerting me to this whole photo essay)
Shapps is ABSOLUTELY STICKING THE BOOT IN during his speech to the Tories.
Somehow seems to have forgotten that he was in the government for all of it.
Horrifying yet not unexpected, given the gross zeitgeist, that one of the main reasons Labour is up & Conservatives are losing seats is bc a lot of Tory voters defected to the Reform party, the trumps of Britain. They looked at the party of Thatcher & went, “Not cruel & racist enough, mate.”
