Andy Watkinson

Translator, Scouser. Erstwhile guitarist. Probably living in the wrong country. Laplace: «𝐽𝑒 𝑛'𝑎𝑖 𝑝𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑒 𝑐𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒 ℎ𝑦𝑝𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒̀𝑠𝑒»

[Andy Watkinson @AndyWatk]

@jeremyfaust “Illness is neither an indulgence for which people should have to pay nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community.”

Aneurin Bevan. Founder of the UK National Health Service. 1948.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”

— George Carlin

[Andy Watkinson @AndyWatk]

@yeslem1986 @BinelliHarry @JeanGreige Se habla mucho de lo grande, intervenciones mayores, etc

Pero un tratamiento normal: cada rayo X, cada venda , cada bolsa de suero, aguja, inyección, tirita, hoja de papel higiénico, toalla, análisis, etc todito se apunta y se cobra a precio de oro

Y a pelear con el seguro…

[Piston Honda Pilot @ElmoWig617]

Setting aside the fact he’s a 34-time convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, and highly likely a child rapist, the current president of the United States is clearly not mentally competent to execute the office.
Claiming otherwise is simply denying reality.

[Andy Watkinson @AndyWatk]

@subi35460 How there can be anyone left in the U.S. who still swallows the continual lies is just beyond me
Well over 30,000+ lies still not enough?

And I say the U.S. because the rest of the world figured this out on day one
Bar obvious exceptions, Russia, Israel, etc…

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 This May Be One Of The Most Remarkable Things Trump Has Said About Iran Yet.

According to Trump, the United States has been secretly taking “millions of barrels of oil” from Iran.

Then he added:

“Iran just found out.”

For months, Americans have been told the goal was deterrence, diplomacy, and regional stability.

Now comes a statement suggesting something very different. Because if the United States has been covertly seizing Iranian oil on that scale, that raises a lot of questions the administration is going to have to answer.

[Caring Guy💙🇺🇸🌈✌🏻 @caringguy1957]

@greggutfeld 💥NEW: This is stupid even by your standards.

Platner said he did not know the tattoo resembled a Nazi symbol when he got it, and he later covered it. More importantly, he served in the military with that tattoo visible. The military reviews tattoos during the enlistment process. If it was so obviously a Nazi tattoo, apparently nobody in the military recognized it as one either.

And your Me Too point is even dumber. Some women described him as a bad boyfriend, a jerk, and one alleged physical abuse, which he denies. That’s not evidence that “believe all women” is dead. It’s evidence that allegations can be made and evaluated on their merits, which is exactly how they should be.

So no, Greg, Democrats are not “accepting a Nazi,” and nobody lost the ability to call actual Nazis Nazis because you found a new punchline.

Get back to us when you think of something intelligent to say. Which is to say we shouldn't be hearing from you soon.

[Jordi 🍊 🇵🇸 @Jordivll]

A ver queridos seguidores/as, a ver si le podemos dar un empujón a la cuenta de la amiga @SeFernande4ck1,
Muchas gracias!!

[Sé Fernández @SeFernande4ck1]

Empezar de nuevo en X, con apenas seguidores, es como escribir un diario que solo leo yo.

Querido diario: la operación de mi madre ha salido bien, sin complicaciones y hoy le han dado el alta hospitalaria. No puedo estar más feliz 😊

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

Love this ai

[Mendy Boyd @mendyboyd]

@RightWingWatch That's how I feel about some Christian churches these days. They're an intentional slight against God that scream "I hate Americans!" and "I would've stoned Jesus!"

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

There are credible allegations made against Donald Trump that he mutilated a child’s nipples while raping her.
Allegations so serious, his inner circle had to meet in the Situation Room to discuss them.

I mean, how the fuck isn’t this the biggest scandal in the world right now?

[Caring Guy💙🇺🇸🌈✌🏻 @caringguy1957]

We've got to stop electing representatives from strip clubs.

The timing isn’t suspicious at all.

The bill was a direct response to Sheriff Bianco seizing roughly 650,000 ballots. That’s why it was treated as an urgency measure.

You’re acting as if Newsom woke up one morning and randomly decided to change election law right before an election. That’s not what happened. The seizure came first. The legislation came after.

The timeline is straightforward: a sheriff took custody of hundreds of thousands of ballots, lawmakers didn’t want that happening again, so they passed a law addressing that specific situation.

Calling the timing suspicious is like saying it’s suspicious that a city installs a stop sign right after a major accident at an intersection. The timing is explained by the event that triggered the response.

[Andy Watkinson @AndyWatk]

@illogibot @JoeTegtmeyer Same as with any elevator, isn't it?

[Andy Watkinson @AndyWatk]

@justsayin60 @Acyn Pretty much the entire world is re-arranging everything from military bonds to trade to avoid the US like the plague.
EU and MERCOSUR, closer ties across Asia, etc...

And all because 77 million morons, a drop in the world ocean, thought he was one of them...

[Feisty is proud to be a Democrat! @FeistyLibLady]

Ted Cruz said this about Texas candidate for Senate James Talarico: "If you were making a list of 1,000 adjectives to describe this guy, 'masculine' would not be one of them. I mean, if a stiff breeze came by it would blow him over like a feather."

Well Senator Cruz, a masculine man would have stayed in Texas ahead of severe winter storm instead of running off to Cancun in 2021.

While Ted was in Cancun Texans had no power, people were freezing and people died.

James Talarico would never leave Texas in an emergency situation to play in the sand.

He is much more of man than Cruz.
#DemsUnited

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Okay, let me get this right. He can destroy the White House East Wing, The Rose Garden, drop bombs on other countries, bankrupt farmers, take away your health-care, spend millions of dollars on playing golf, blocking the Epstein Files. Yet, he runs away like a angry toddler when asked questions in an interview? I'm thinking this looks like mental illness.

He's a very weak man.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Political analyst Charles Blow STUNS a Trumper hack live on air by boldly calling out his bullsh*t to his face: "You are a liar!"

These crooks aren't used to direct confrontation...

"I just believe that this is a news show on a news channel. I have an ethical responsibility to say that you are lying," Blow said on CNN to Hal Lambert, a hardcore MAGA supporter and Republican donor. "You are lying."

Lambert was amplifying the completely false allegations of election fraud that Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Mike Johnson, and their entire party have been pushing about the Los Angeles mayoral election. Republican Spencer Pratt was recently knocked out of the running (an unsurprising development given how blue the city is) and conservatives are crying foul.

Lambert tried to interject but Blow plowed through him.

"I didn't interrupt you and you will not interrupt me," said Blow.

"You don't call me a liar on national TV, sir!" whined Lambert. "Do not call me a liar on national TV, sir."

"LIAR!" said Blow, pointing defiantly at him.

"You're a liar," Lambert weakly shot back.

"I can spell it too. I have an ethical responsibility," said Blow. "If people are going to go over here and poison voters' views of an election system that has no proof that it is rigged in any way, spouting the same lie that the President is spouting, we have an ethical responsibility at this table in a news show, on a news channel, to call that out. And I'm going to do that. You can huff and puff. You can huff and puff and be mad all you want, and I don't care."

Blow should be commended for his bluntness and moral clarity. We have allowed our political discourse to rot so thoroughly during the Trump era that men like Lambert feel comfortable going on television and spouting the most absurd, laughable lies with a straight face.

We know for a fact that there was no election fraud. There has never been a shred of evidence for any of these MAGA claims, but the Republican Party has become so warped by Donald's egomaniacal, insecure psyche that they simply can't accept the fact that their political platform is radioactive. Rather than change their pitch to the American people, they screech about rigged elections.

"You keep ignoring what I've said. There is... You're saying..." tried Lambert.

"I'm going to keep ignoring it. Because you're lying," said Blow.

Lambert then tried to jump into a rant about alleged Medicare fraud but host Abby Phillip shut him down, forcing him to focus on his false claims about the California election. He spun his wheels a bit, making vague claims, and Philip pointed out that he has no evidence to back up his outlandish accusations.

"They won't allow evidence to be gathered," Lambert complained.

"The absurdity of your point is that you don't have proof," said Blow. "And then I have to say this. He doesn't have proof. And then he says, 'I don't have proof, and I can prove that I don't have proof because they won't let us investigate.' So you don't have proof, and you just proved that you don't have it!"

"Hal, let me just give you some more information on this," said Phillip. "The federal government has received, I think it's millions of voter registrations from some Republican-led states that have given them access to it. Do you know what percentage of those votes or those registrations where they found actual fraud of any kind?"

"Do you?" asked Lambert.

"Yeah," said Phillip.

"What is it?" he asked.

"It is a fraction of a percentage," she said. "And in some cases, when they double-checked, those flags that they thought were fraud were actually not fraud.

"You're claiming that it's never been looked at. That's false," she added. You're claiming that this administration hasn't been able to look at it. That's also false. You are claiming that just the fact that the federal government hasn't looked at all the state voter rolls as proof that there is fraud is not true."

This is how every Trump proxy should be dismantled whenever they open their mouths to spew their toxic lies. The time for civility is over. Call them out and shame them!

Please ❤️ and share if you don't believe the MAGA lies!

[Andy Watkinson @AndyWatk]

@caringguy1957 ¡Buenas noches!

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

Jim, the point is not that those cases were unusually horrific. The point is that they happened during decades when the crime rate was dramatically higher than it is now. I appreciate that requires holding two thoughts at once, so take your time.

Violence down 83%. Burglary down 86.6%. Vehicle theft down 86.4%. All since the mid-1990s. Office for National Statistics, Crime Survey for England and Wales. Look at the chart below.
(Source: https://t.co/AK3HqreMUt)

@PatrickChristys said he preferred the country before. The country before had more murder, more violence, more burglary, and more theft. Those are not my opinions. They are ONS figures covering forty years.

You looked at a list of serial killers, mass shooters, and child murderers from the decades your side is nostalgic for, and your response was "those were unusually horrific". Yes, Jim. That is the point. The country you preferred was unusually horrific. The data says so. The nostalgia is for something that never existed.

And I said nothing about importing anyone. You invented that so you would have something to argue with instead of the numbers. The numbers are in the chart. Argue with those.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

Fucking audit it. By all means, please do. And when no fraud is found, MAGA Republicans need to make a public statement apologizing for their relentless effort to sow doubt in our elections. Constantly claiming fraud without evidence isn’t patriotism it’s an attack on public trust and the democratic process itself.