MachineMarkSanders

45 years old, former pro wrestler. Fan of grunge and alt' rock. Fountain of useless knowledge.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

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, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban 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. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[MachineMarkSanders @MachineMSanders]

@BladeoftheS

[MachineMarkSanders @MachineMSanders]

@ServeOnlyGod Every. Year.

[MachineMarkSanders @MachineMSanders]

@BenGrahamUK Yup, it's March!

[AxoAndy @AxoAndy]

In honour of @SuellaBraverman defecting to Reform UK today

Only seems fair to revisit this glorious moment…..👇🏼

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

The British government learnt of the data leak in August 2023.

24k Afghans secretly granted asylum, costing British taxpayers up to £7 billion.

The government covered it up.

Who was in government?

Home Secretary: Suella Braverman

Immigration Minister: Robert Jenrick

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

The Channel crisis has now become an emergency.

If Home Secretary Suella Braverman wants to keep her job, she needs to come out of hiding — and quickly.

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

If you’re looking for voices in the UK who actually challenge Reform, call out misinformation, and deal in facts rather than fear, these are worth following:

James O’Brien
Owen Jones
Novara Media
Aaron Bastani
Ash Sarkar
Byline Times
Peter Jukes
Led By Donkeys
Gary Stevenson (GarysEconomics)
Marina Purkiss
Zarah Sultana
Naz Shah
A Different Bias
Femi
Daniel Lismore
Artist Taxi Driver
Zak Polanski
Carole Cadwalladr
Emily Maitlis
Pod Save The UK
Double Down News
The Canary
Barry’s Economics
Akala
Billy Bragg
Niko Omilana
Cody Dahler
Some Old Geezer
The Trawl
Anthony Jones (YouTube)
Bowler Hat Man
Maximilien Robespierre
TattooDave
MeidasTouch (UK audience overlap)
Brian Tyler Cohen (UK audience overlap)

Some are journalists. Some are politicians. Some are commentators or creators. All push back against the nonsense and actually do the work.

Follow. Share. Amplify.

[MachineMarkSanders @MachineMSanders]

@Rmcfmjay Pannuci

[MachineMarkSanders @MachineMSanders]

@Liampete @WorldByWolf Now reported that the 35 year old make wasn't part of the attack, but lovely to hear that he never belonged here.

Wrong 'uns are chomping at the bit to condemn this as Islamist terrorism and are now desperately searching for anything that might fit their agenda.

Pathetic.

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

This is how Reform UK work.

They find a false story, and turn it in to a tool.

The real story is that the project actually involved improvements across all government departments, doing 'silly' things like improving accessiblity and creating efficiency through improved user experience.

And guess what? The £500k price tag was for a swathe of work, the change in logo(s) was one final part of it.

@TiceRichard never looks at the detail. Imagine him anywhere near power?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Leaving the ECHR would allow the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, Sick Pay, Maternity Pay, Paid Holiday and working hour limits to all be abolished.

They would make hundreds of billions from this.

That is what they want.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 James Dyson says: “Even if you’re worse off, it’s better to make your own decisions”.

But Brexit wasn’t about *our* decisions, it was about his and he isn’t poorer.

Dyson wanted freedom for billionaires to do what they like, pay less tax and shrug off rules that never stopped them trading across the world anyway.

👉 The result? Britain is poorer, families are struggling and small businesses face more red tape, while Dyson still sells into Europe and runs his HQ from Singapore.

Dyson pushed a decision that worked only for super rich, and left everyone else carrying the cost.

Brexit means

👉 Independence for billionaires to dodge EU investigations into tax avoidance.

👉 Freedom for the super-rich to set their own rules, while the rest of us face food inflation, red tape & weaker rights.

Brexit was sold as taking back control. In truth, it was billionaires taking control and ordinary people paying the price.

[MachineMarkSanders @MachineMSanders]

@CommanderNash1 Colchester

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

For a man who fashions himself a free speech martyr, Mr. Farage seems most at home with Putin and the autocrats of the world.

In Congress he testified freely, calling the UK an “authoritarian” regime but left before all Members could question him so he could be on his TV show!

[MachineMarkSanders @MachineMSanders]

@leeharris Wasn't a true reflection of how @RepRaskin exposed him for who he is!

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Jamie Raskin, "They only want to protect free speech that they agree with"

JR then demolishes Farage, ending with

"You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

@Nigel_Farage Reform UK are stating that Judges have used the ECHR.

Only the judges haven’t used the ECHR.

Please spread this far and wide.

@Nigel_Farage, @TiceRichard, the lot. Lying.

[Craig. @bambibristol]

Reform UK enthusiasts….what is it exactly that gets you all frothy?

(1) Tax reform that favours the rich.
(2) Cuts to welfare.
(3) Reduced rights for workers.
(4) The privatisation of the NHS.

Or…

(5) Being mean to foreigners.

It’s number 5 isn’t it?

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

What issue does flag waving solve? Does it:

a) reduce food prices?
b) reduce energy costs?
c) improve the NHS?
d) raise wages?
e) create better jobs?
f) none of the above?