I confess I’m puzzled by the fascination with Stefanovic. Who cares ? The Today Show died in the arse after Lisa Wilkinson left, watched only in nursing homes where the inhabitants were too frail to reach for the remote. https://t.co/5P2FrkF2sP
A new book by the Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan provides a vivid, rigorous, and unavoidably depressing chronicle of the first year of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House. “Regime Change” is packed with news that will stay news, David Remnick writes. It is particularly strong on the Administration’s colossal financial corruption, its heedless destruction of invaluable agencies such as U.S.A.I.D., and the sordid and unhinged nature of Trump and the culture over which he presides. Haberman and Swan contend that Trump ran in 2024 for one reason above all: “This was about staying out of prison.” Read Remnick on their “exceptional” book: https://t.co/JN3cm6pxD7
Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.
Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.
On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.
And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.
But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.
History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.
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So, Trump is gonna give Iran $300 billion to open a strait that wasn’t closed, so long as they promise not build a nuke they didn’t have?
Do I have that just about right?
@Peter_Fitz 😳🤯😱I wonder whether Pauline, Barnaby and James Ashby have already started having terrible nightmares of a possible hellish worse case scenario in her appearance this week at the NPC? A doodle.
Here is a list of some people Murdoch’s hit squad goons have targeted. Notice anything?
Grace Tame
Gillian Triggs
Brittany Higgins
Julia Gillard
Lisa Wilkinson
Christine Holgate
Laura Tingle
Katy Gallagher
Antoinette Lattouf
Samantha Mostyn
Monique Ryan
Jacinta Ardern
Tonight the NY Times confirmed what we already suspected
Trump is a pedophile
And his administration is covering up his crimes
The midterms can't come fast enough
Pussy ass bitch always walks out of interviews when he’s called out on his lies. Then he reverts to name calling. The good part is watching the lumbering fat fuck struggle to get out of his chair. Have I ever told you guys how much I hate this motherfucker?
Fearless questioning from Kristen Welker - a model for news organisations -which produces the biggest on-air meltdown of Trump 2.0. Grotesque to hear him call her “crooked” and “stupid”. Yet another attack on a female journalist of colour. She exposed his lies. He couldn’t cope.
ISRAEL IS GOING TO MURDER THESE INNOCENT KIDS FOR NOTHING. YOUR SILENT IS LETTING IT HAPPEN. SPEAK UPPPP FFS THEY'RE JS KIDS WTF THEY DID TO DESERVE THIS