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What happened in Edinburgh should disgust every decent person.
I hope Rupert Lowe, Richard Tice, Elon Musk, Tommy Robinson and the rest of the anti-Muslim outrage industry are proud of themselves.
I am sick to death of their daily hatred.
Enough.
Absolutely enough.
When the illusion finally shatters, what remains isn't disappointment,it's humiliation.
The man you poured your faith into was never a visionary, never a savior, never even remotely exceptional.
He was a hollow fraud wrapped in ego, fueled by noise, and sustained by endless self-promotion.
Every boast, every grand promise, every display of swagger crumbles the instant reality enters the room.
What looked like confidence was arrogance.
What looked like strength was insecurity.
What looked like leadership was little more than a carefully marketed illusion.
Scratch beneath the surface and there's no hidden brilliance, no master strategist, no misunderstood genius. Just an impulsive, self-absorbed figure stumbling from one failure to the next, desperately trying to drown incompetence in a torrent of bluster and spectacle.
In the end, the strongman image collapses into exactly what it always was: cheap theater.
A gaudy performance.
A caricature masquerading as leadership.
A salesman peddling an image he could never live up to.
And the hardest part isn't watching the act fall apart.
It's realizing how long you applauded it, defended it, and mistook obvious bullshit for substance.....
"[Reform-led] Leicestershire County Council said it could face costs of hundreds of thousands of pounds to wind up its school meal service."
https://t.co/YVcehE4dhT
Scientists have identified specific gut bacteria that appear to trigger multiple sclerosis (MS).
In a groundbreaking study conducted at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, researchers examined 81 pairs of identical twins in which only one sibling had MS. This unique design allowed them to control for genetic and environmental factors, isolating the role of the microbiome.
The team found that two bacterial species, Eisenbergiella tayi and Lachnoclostridium, were significantly more abundant in the twins with MS. When these microbes were transferred into mouse models, they directly induced MS-like autoimmune symptoms, providing strong causal evidence.
This is the most precise identification of microbial triggers for MS to date and adds powerful support to the gut-brain axis in autoimmune disease. The discovery raises hope for new approaches to early detection, prevention, and treatment — potentially by targeting or modulating these specific bacteria before symptoms appear.
While human clinical trials are still needed, the findings represent a major step toward microbiome-based therapies for MS and other autoimmune conditions.
[Yoon, H., Gerdes, L. A., Beigel, F., Sun, Y., Kövilein, J., Wang, J., Kuhlmann, T., Flierl-Hecht, A., Haller, D., Hohlfeld, R., Baranzini, S. E., Wekerle, H., & Peters, A. (2025). Multiple sclerosis and gut microbiota: Lachnospiraceae from the ileum of MS twins trigger MS-like disease in germfree transgenic mice—An unbiased functional study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(18), e2419689122. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2419689122]
Robert De Niro on Donald Trump: “He’s a punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. He’s a con. A bullshit artist. A mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Doesn’t do his homework. Doesn’t care. Doesn’t pay his taxes. He’s an idiot. He’s a national disaster. He’s an embarrassment to this country.”
What happened to the Epstein files ? They distracted everyone and ended the issue.
The world's most characterless leader, Trump of superpower America, considers girls as toys and used to do dirty things with girls.
America’s President, Trump, has pushed everyone toward war to protect himself from the disgrace of the Epstein files. Today, the world is facing crises, and petrol and diesel prices have become very expensive.
President Trump is only trying to suppress the Epstein files controversy and distract the American people from the Epstein files by pushing the world into war.
Trump is a kind of unstable leader. Such people can go to any extent to satisfy their ego.
Today, America is facing very high unemployment, and its relations with many major countries of the world have deteriorated. The job situation in America is becoming worse and worse.
But Trump seems busy pushing war after war and destroying the world. A reckless president like Trump should not be in power. A businessman may focus only on his own profit and loss in business, but after becoming President, such a person can also bring destruction to his own country and to the world.
Donald Trump often appears to contradict his own statements. Sometimes he says one thing, and sometimes he says something completely different. He lies countless times throughout the day.
Sometimes he insults a small country like Pakistan, and at other times he praises it, calling it a great friend.
America once had a very strong relationship with India, but now that relationship is no longer the same. The bond between India’s Prime Minister Modi and President Trump, which existed during Trump’s first term as President, no longer appears to exist. Trump often seems to act against India’s interests while building friendly relations and holding meetings with Pakistan.
If you do exactly the opposite of what Tony Blair is saying.
Renationalise everything.
Support pensioners, disabled people and low paid workers.
Don't waste all your budget on War.
And tell Donald Trump to fuck off.
That's a pretty good manifesto isn't it?
The cold hard facts regarding Brexit need to be repeated over and over again until the country rejoins the EU. Never let the liars who sold to the public get away with it.
Britain has gotten poorer over the last decade. Brexit didn't work.
Disposable income has fallen more than in other European countries and certainly more than in the US.
They cut their nose off despite their economic face, a populist, nationalist, emotional decision, and now they're stuck because you can't get the same deal with the EU you once had.
People are done with both parties and they want to throw the bums out.
Now Farage is rising. I've met him and think he’s a con.
Go read his economic proposals — some of them are hate-based, some are tribally based.
Farage's broader economic proposals are populist noise that will make the country weaker and hurt the very people supporting him.
A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked US sanctions against United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese, saying that the administration of Donald Trump likely violated her free-speech rights
https://t.co/ana5YkS7MQ
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States for the seventh time won the war that wasn’t a war, so the United States can open the Strait of Hormuz that was open before the not war.
The not war that started to get the uranium that was completely obliterated, so that the Iranians can’t build the nuclear bomb that they weren’t building for the not war that the United States started.
Then the United States which has nuclear weapons threatening to use nuclear weapons to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons because having nuclear weapons is dangerous.
If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.