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[Fire dream @ramputsnik]

@TMTLongShort How many Russian nuclear reactors are within range of Ukrainian drones? Chernobyl had the potential to lay waste to most of Europe. Are you insane?

[Fire dream @ramputsnik]

@CasinoCapital Why should they be happy? lol

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

‘Why The British Don’t Like Trump’🇬🇧

- Written by Nate White🇬🇧

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

[revs8 @revs8uk]

Energy = work done. Restricted (expensive) energy means less work done . Simple. Only solution is for government is to make energy cheaper by temporarily unlocking our own cheap sources of gas until a nuclear solution and grid infrastructure is in place in 10 years time.

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

I believe that the spectacle that unfolded in the Oval Office today was disgraceful. Here’s a video explainer as to why, and why it worries me. @ZelenskyyUa

[Jean Philippe Tissot (Condorito) 🇺🇦 @jptissot1]

Again here Really?

Historically, America stood as the backbone of the free world!! The one one order thinking here is abysmal!

Ukraine’s not NATO” doesn’t erase America’s role as a defender of freedom—or the consequences of bailing now. Saying “America’s done enough” isn’t a strategy; it’s a surrender signal to every dictator itching to redraw borders, particularly against countries who beg for freedom, allies f the free world. In WW2, America didn’t ditch Britain or the Soviets because they weren’t in some club—it sent 17,000 planes and half a million trucks to fight tyranny, no “you’re on your own” ultimatums. Why? Because unchecked aggression doesn’t stop at one country—it snowballs. russia already got Crimea, Donbas, chunks of Georgia, Moldova—tell me where russia stops if America shrugs and walks off. And again I want to emphasize America provides this huge amount of weapons to the soviets! Without asking anything in return, and believe me ww2 prior to Pearl Harbor was always far away from America, still America stood tall.

You think “wrap it up or fight without America” works? Ukraine’s tried that—25 broken deals since 2014, from Minsk to the 2019 Paris flop. russia signs, smiles, then reloads during the ceasefire. No guarantees, no peace—*just a bigger war later*. America is asking Ukraine for doing the same thing that provoked the full scale war, can’t believe there are people who can’t see this.

Look at history: appeasing Hitler with Czechoslovakia didn’t “wrap up” anything; it fueled a world war. This isn’t hypothetical—Ukraine, Georgia, they trusted russia’s ‘peace’ before, and got more tanks in return. Telling Zelensky to take a toothless truce or go solo isn’t tough love—it’s handing to the russian dictator a win he’ll cash in for Round Three.

Imagine if FDR had told Churchill, “Give me your coal, or you’re on your own against Hitler”? That’s the vibe this administration’s giving off—ambushing Zelensky the second he calls out their flimsy “diplomacy” line. It’s cowardice dressed as strategy.

And let’s flip it: after 9/11, allies didn’t say, “America’s not our problem—figure it out.” NATO invoked Article 5, sent troops to Afghanistan, bled alongside America in Iraq—no one checked a membership card first. That’s what alliance means, NATO or not. Ukraine’s fighting the same autocracy America’s rallied against for decades, and now this administration ambushes them for asking, “How do they stop Russia from screwing them again?” It’s not just petty—it’s a betrayal that trashes America’s credibility. Allies globally are watching—is this the America that stood tall, or the one that cuts and runs when it’s inconvenient?

America walking away doesn’t end this—it escalates it. Russia’s propaganda already claims America’s weak; Sachs parrots it, blaming NATO while ignoring russia’s land grabs. This “today’s the day” nonsense proves them right, not wrong. America’s not irrelevant yet—but keep this up, and it will be at least during this administration, with every free nation paying the price.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

The Art of the Deal.

[Wexboy @Wexboy_Value]

Breaking news...NEW BLOG POST:

'2024 Annual Review…Out of Sync'

Yes, it's finally here, my 2024 annual review...

...and yes, I'm finally smart enough to know I shd actually put the blog link in my NEXT tweet, so click & scroll down! 👇

Thanks & plse retweet!

[𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐇𝐲𝐩𝐞 @EffMktHype]

Sam seeks long into the deep and the deep seeks back

[Fire dream @ramputsnik]

@MichaelAArouet 100% tariffs on US goods and services obviously

[Fire dream @ramputsnik]

@michelle511 @moving_charlie Is it Charlie's US twin?

[Fire dream @ramputsnik]

@david_katunaric @Wexboy_Value CAKE.L was Patisserie Valerie that went bust a few years back

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

[Fire dream @ramputsnik]

@JMPSimor @Mortgage_Stu Don't call me "little people". 😏

[Fire dream @ramputsnik]

@thewealthster Ask him/her if they need an aprentice?

[Benjamin Carlson @bfcarlson]

In the last interview of his life (1996), astronomer Carl Sagan warned of the dangers that come when citizens cannot ask skeptical scientific questions of those in authority. Watch and ask: was he right?

[Mark Taber 🇺🇦 @MarkTaber_FII]

I have just received an unbelievable refusal 👇of a FoI request from @theFCA. I simply asked for a breakdown of the 160 enforcement cases closed in 2020/21 between 'closed with no action', 'criminal outcome' etc as disclosed in previous years. They also took 3 months to respond🤬

[Fire dream @ramputsnik]

@functi0nZer0 NEVERMIND, FOUND IT MYSELF

[Fire dream @ramputsnik]

@functi0nZer0 Where can I find that link?