D.L.Z.

Unknowingly arrived at a Christian version of politics, based on love and personal choice, but lapse when faced by hate-mongers & the corrupt.

[D.L.Z. @_D_L_Z]

Something that might happen in Piddington in a year or so is the top story for #Newsnight, an agenda worthy of GB News.

[D.L.Z. @_D_L_Z]

Lovely moment on #Newsnight when the professor points out the usefulness of critical thinking to the Tory MP

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

In this powerful monologue, Joe Scarborough proves that Trump and his cronies acting as cheerleaders for putin are no different from the Nazi sympathisers of the 1930s. It’s a chilling, crystal-clear wake-up call about what happens when leaders trade American democracy for a dictator's favour.

Joe Scarborough:

“… just peeling what putin has had a collection of useful idiots across America do now for the past five years.
I really I really don't say this often in American politics. but when you're defending vladimir putin, an ex KGB agent who is committing war crimes by the day, I'm not sure how you sleep at night.
And this phenomenon though, has historical parallels. It was 89 years ago this month in October 1937, that the former king of England walked up the steps of Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat in Bavaria. The Duke of Windsor had given up the throne less than a year earlier, but he toured German factories, inspected the SS and was photographed greeting the Führer. Time Magazine reported that Hitler gave the Duke a Nazi salute as they parted and Edward returned that Nazi salute. Later he told friends that Britain shouldn't fight Hitler, the war should not start. Winston Churchill had to actually send him to the Bahamas to keep him away from his new friend in Berlin. But the Duke wasn't alone, just like Donald Trump isn't alone. Here at home, Charles Lindbergh, an American hero who accepted the medal of freedom from Hermann Goering in 1938, went on to lead America First. And in a 1941 speech in Des Moines, he blamed Jews and the British for pushing America toward war. Even FDR's US Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, predicted democracy is finished in England. His appeasement and his lack of moral alarm cost Kennedy his job. In Britain, aristocrats like the Astors and Lord Halifax thought Hitler was a man they could do business with.

Does that sound familiar?
Sounded so respectable, trade, stability, money, peace in our time.

History remembers them now as morally vacuous opportunists who looked at a tyrant who was devouring his neighbours, the only thing they saw, a business partner.

The parallels with Trump are too on point. Now on Friday, Donald Trump got on the phone with vladimir putin who always plays him when they get on the phone and what happened? He lifted sanctions on the Russian diesel deal, he did it three weeks after Republicans had forced him to sign a Russia sanctions bill in honour of Lindsey Graham. The White House says his gift to putin will lower prices at the pump, but it won't. The first shipment is only about 2.2 million barrels and America burns through more than that every day. It's not going to lower gas prices in America. But it will help putin kill innocence in Ukraine, a country Trump has always hated. Trump's four billion dollar gift to the man he kowtows to every day will buy missiles, drones, and glide bombs that will keep terrorising and killing Ukrainians who are fighting for their country's freedom and their children's lives and yes, our freedom.
A bipartisan group of senators including Susan Collins wrote in a statement Sunday that the United States should not provide putin with a financial lifeline while Russia continues to kill Ukrainian civilians. But Trump's aping of putin’s talking points, they just keep getting worse. With this weak president attacking Ukrainian freedom fighters and perversely calling for new leadership in Kyiv. We do need new leadership, Mr. President, but not in Ukraine. Donald, I've known you a long time and I know you don't read history, so let me tell you how this story ends. The Duke of Windsor ended up a footnote, a cautionary tale in a fancy suit forever assigned to the dustbin of British history. And your time to finally do the right thing in Ukraine, Mr. President, it's running out. Stop bowing down to putin. And start doing your job.
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[D.L.Z. @_D_L_Z]

There are a small number of anti-EU Labour MPs and GB News / #Newsnight are keen to give them airtime.

[D.L.Z. @_D_L_Z]

False argument about nationalists in the EU keeping Britain out. Quite the opposite - they would welcome the traditional British scepticism in the EU. #Newsnight

[D.L.Z. @_D_L_Z]

Surprising guests on #Newsnight to discuss relations with Europe, clear majority of the population in favour of re-joining the EU but both are ardent Brexiters.

[D.L.Z. @_D_L_Z]

Tonight #Newsnight gives airtime to a spokesman for a war criminal. It’s that Brexit BBC balance kicking in.

[Sam @SamCKx]

Apparently Russian servers have been hit by a Ukrainian strike and immediately massive online hard right chatter has collapsed.

This particular chatter was in support of Germany’s AFD, their equivalent to Reform, but similar patterns are being seen in hard right movements everywhere, including the UK.

If anyone needed anymore evidence that Russia are driving a massive wave of hard right propaganda in Europe, this is it.

So, all you “patriots” - you’ve been duped by Russia, and you are about as far from patriotic as anyone can be. You are easily brainwashed though. This is how propaganda works.

[D.L.Z. @_D_L_Z]

Why is the editor of #Newsnight pushing GBNews on BBC2? The morons and misanthropes who watch that channel are not going to start watching the BBC when they’ve got 24/7 hate and lies already.

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

Crap debate on #bbcqt tonight on rejoining the EU. No panellist makes the key point that a steadily increasing majority of the public now want Britain to rejoin the EU

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

🇬🇧🇪🇺 Rejoin to revive Britain

The cheapest way to ease Britain’s crisis.

🔸 Full EU membership would add up to £92 billion to UK GDP

🔸 British exports would rise by £43 billion in the first year.

🔸 The UK would fully join EU banking, finance and services integration.

🔸 It would join coordinated EU defence, with a 50% joint procurement goal

Labour would win the next election and boost the British economy.

Labour must show courage.

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
This underrated sci-fi thriller didn’t just imagine AI taking over, it shows exactly how humanity loses control…and never gets it back.

[D.L.Z. @_D_L_Z]

Wonder if #Newsnight had existed in the 1930s it would have interviewed a Black Shirt in a similarly casual way.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Marxist economist Richard Wolff explains what's happening in the turbulent bond market and what it has to do with the U.S.'s ballooning debt.

[Truth Matters @politicsusa46]

The words of Hannah Arendt was a German and American historian and philosopher from 1951.

She could have spoken these words yesterday and they would be as true as they were 75 years ago.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/yTtvGYVfET

[D.L.Z. @_D_L_Z]

There’s something revolting about a Tory complaining about the lack of an industrial base. #bbcaq

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Don’t know if this is a real Banksy - but I hope it is

[D.L.Z. @_D_L_Z]

@DohaScot Nostalgic for the days when #Newsnight would see how shallow and impractical the “new Conservative policy” is, and treat this desperate message to the ignorant and prejudiced with contempt it deserves.

[D.L.Z. @_D_L_Z]

Difficult to believe the #Newsnight presenter really thinks that Spain doesn’t blame Morocco because “it hasn’t said so publicly” at a time that they desperately need Morocco’s cooperation to resolve the crisis.