Gordon Fielden

Speaking truth to power. Watching politics with clear eyes. Pro-democracy, pro-alliance, anti-authoritarian 🇬🇧🇪🇺⚒

[BMcArthur @bmcarthur20]

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.

"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive.

A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.

You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.

Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.

Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.

And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging, insurrectionist, running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.

And you're calling Greenland poorly run?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.

'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.

And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.

So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth."

This was published by Annalise B Winterborne on TikTok.

#DemsUnited

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

@talkSPORT @CaddyComps Bit like your Spurs there Jamie

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

It was Republican members who laid the impeachment motion against the Secretary of Defense. The sitting Democrats simply voted in support of it.

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

This motion has not failed. It has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee, where it remains subject to consideration. That is plainly not the same as a vote rejecting the allegations, nor does it amount to an exoneration of the Secretary of Defense.

The present Congress remains constituted until 3 January. Thereafter, the incoming Democratic House will be fully entitled to introduce fresh articles of impeachment should it decide that the evidence warrants them. The referral may have delayed the matter, but it has neither resolved it nor caused it to disappear.

[Financial Times @FT]

‘The Democrats’ attempt to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has miserably FAILED!’ the US president said on social media after lawmakers voted against advancing a motion challenging Hegseth’s conduct of the Iran war https://t.co/jMMLMMRvPw

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

@MarkfEditing Warning shot of what is come.

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

@talkSPORT Very sad News RIP

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

The Massie resolution has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee. It has not been rejected. It will, however, fall at the end of this Congress on 3 January 2027.

That does not amount to an exoneration of Hegseth, nor does it determine the substance of the allegations against him. From 3 January, the incoming Democratic House may introduce the same articles again, in precisely the same terms if it wishes, and refer them to its own Judiciary Committee for investigation and a subsequent House vote.

Given the gravity of the evidence already before the House, the question is no longer whether Hegseth should face impeachment, but when. He is on course to become the first member of this Trump administration to be impeached.

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

This man has just unravelled himself on national television, claiming that he has never heard Donald Trump tell a lie. He has no credibility whatsoever after making such a statement.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Q: Have you ever heard Trump lie? Has he ever publicly communicated a lie?

Jim Jordan: I've not. No.

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

This motion has not failed. It has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee, where it remains subject to consideration. That is plainly not the same as a vote rejecting the allegations, nor does it amount to an exoneration of the Secretary of Defense.

The present Congress remains constituted until 3 January. Thereafter, the incoming Democratic House will be fully entitled to introduce fresh articles of impeachment should it decide that the evidence warrants them. The referral may have delayed the matter, but it has neither resolved it nor caused it to disappear.

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[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

@FordJohnathan5 Are you going to be Trump’s puppets, or are you going to do your jobs, represent your constituents and ensure this administration is properly held to account?

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

@_InfoGram_ Fantastic that reporter stood up to him.

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

@CultFooty Just get a new goalkeeper and then we will not lose so much.

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

As the new Israeli Parliament is sworn in and a new Prime Minister takes office, one thing is clear: it will not be Benjamin Netanyahu.

This is another disaster for Donald Trump. Yet another far right extremist leader has been removed by the people of his own country. We have seen it in Hungary and South America, and it is becoming a repeated pattern.

Netanyahu must now face the criminal proceedings in Tel Aviv for fraud and other alleged offences, cases which were put on hold during the emergency while he remained Prime Minister.

It is also unwelcome news for the impeached US Secretary of Defence. A new Israeli government is far more likely to reduce tensions with Iran as it seeks to restore Israel’s standing in the world.

A good day for democracy once more. Last week it was the midterms. Now it is Israel.

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

The Israeli people now have a new Prime Minister and a new government. The fascists and extremists, Benjamin Netanyahu and his cohorts from the far-right parties, are out of government.

One hopes that the authorities act quickly to arrest Netanyahu and bring him before the court on his corruption charges, because this man is hanging on by a thread. Hopefully, once that court case has been dealt with, he will be sent on to the International Criminal Court to face the war-crime charges.

Most of all, Donald Trump has lost another of his far-right allies. They are falling all over the place now, as the world realises that far-right extremists have been trying to take over everywhere.

It is time for us in the United Kingdom to recognise Nigel Farage and his group for what they are: part of that conspiracy group, coordinated through the United States and multi-billionaires.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Israel's new parliament to be sworn in as leaders compete to form government https://t.co/X1uYdECwYf

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

So your defence is that the President makes the decisions and you simply follow his instructions? That is the old “I was only following orders” defence. It does not absolve a senior government official of responsibility for carrying out unlawful actions. You have a duty to uphold the Constitution and refuse unlawful orders, not merely carry them out.

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

That is precisely the point. These are not allegations brought by political opponents simply objecting to a military operation. The eight articles of impeachment were laid before Congress by Republican Congressman Thomas Massie.

They accuse you of taking the United States into war with Iran without a declaration of war, specific authorisation from Congress, or the circumstances required under the War Powers Resolution. They further allege that you continued the conflict after both Houses directed the removal of US forces, and beyond the statutory time limit.

The articles also raise allegations concerning civilian casualties, lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers at sea, the alleged denial of rescue to survivors, retaliation against Senator Mark Kelly for protected speech, the seizure of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, and an unauthorised war in Yemen.

You are not being impeached for carrying out lawful and successful operations. You are being impeached because the resolution alleges that you broke the law, ignored Congress and failed in your constitutional duties as Secretary of Defence. You may be the first, but I doubt you will be the last from Trump’s administration.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Hegseth condemns impeachment effort against him over as “a political spectacle” in his first news conference from the Pentagon in six months. https://t.co/Tf4GkjvqbB

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

That is precisely the point. These are not allegations brought by political opponents simply objecting to a military operation. The eight articles of impeachment were laid before Congress by Republican Congressman Thomas Massie.

They accuse you of taking the United States into war with Iran without a declaration of war, specific authorisation from Congress, or the circumstances required under the War Powers Resolution. They further allege that you continued the conflict after both Houses directed the removal of US forces, and beyond the statutory time limit.

The articles also raise allegations concerning civilian casualties, lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers at sea, the alleged denial of rescue to survivors, retaliation against Senator Mark Kelly for protected speech, the seizure of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, and an unauthorised war in Yemen.

You are not being impeached for carrying out lawful and successful operations. You are being impeached because the resolution alleges that you broke the law, ignored Congress and failed in your constitutional duties as Secretary of Defence. You may be the first, but I doubt you will be the last from Trump’s administration.

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

Let’s hope they begin to work together. How many times did Jarrod Bowen and Edvin Austbø put crosses into the box, only for there to be no West Ham player anywhere near them?

Can we also have an update on the goalkeeper situation? The rumours are everywhere at the moment. Is it true that Alphonse Areola injured himself just before the start of the match simply by bending down? Also, what is the current status of Finlay Herrick? Is he fit and available to play? As for Hermansen, nobody is interested in him.

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@m_dyline Sink the Bismarck