Vance is not really a Republican or a conservative. He aspires to be our first horseshoe president, uniting all the worst elements in the American electorate — a bumbling, bumptious, know-nothing lumpen proletariat with the Angry Appalachian with the Yale chin at the very top.
A reminder, Andy, of the Thatcher era:
• Income tax: 83% → 40%
• Basic rate: 33% → 25%
• Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)
• Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)
• Real pay for the average earner: up by a third
@spectator What a tiresome amount of commentary on a non-event.
Maggie, who was a massive philosemite, embargoed Israel for most of her tenure as PM.
States do what is in their interest to do. Right now, the UK is an antagonist toward Israel and the Argies an ally.
@yassineltruhan@alaaklf_@LucBernard She me the condemnation of Egypt's Gaza wall from ANY of Egypt's players or coach. If they're so pro-Palestine then why don't they take a public stand?
Egypt is a dictatorship because of the backward, supremacist mindset of its people (and Arabs like you) who are Jew obsessed.
@yassineltruhan@alaaklf_@LucBernard Ah yes, "Palestinian suffering" which explains why Egyptians built a massive wall on their Gaza border and are so eager to call Messi and the ref "Jews" when they lose to the Argies 😄
Chart of the Day 🤓
Andy Burnham: "if we don’t have sufficient public control over the cost of the essentials, how can we have control over inflation?"
Reality: prices have risen much more sharply in sectors with greater state intervention than in those led by market forces 👇
Hunger strikes are based on the premise that your hated enemy is so moral that they care if their enemy dies by their own hand, when the hunger striker themself probably wouldn’t care in the reverse situation. It’s an admission that your enemy is a better person than you. https://t.co/3vq0aKdmG3
I’ve engaged in a lot of arguments about rent and rent control and landlords over the years and the main takeaway is that leftists aren’t interested in having an argument, really — it’s just naked contempt. That hate landlords. They hate business owners.
They don’t understand them, identify with them. They don’t see anything from their point of view.
And they have no interest in trying.
The thing that they really want to say is simply, “I hate you and I don’t care about what happens to you. If bad things happened to you, that would be fine.”
It’s pure hatred and contempt and the world makes sense once you accept that.