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Remind me: Which part of DOGE does a golden ballroom address? #tinpotDictator
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Trump Starts Tearing Down Part Of White House To Make Way For New Ballroom — HuffPost UK

The enormous new venue is funded by private donors, which has raised ethical concerns.

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Farage and the Tories' ECHR BS called out. #lies

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158. Baroness Hale: The Supreme Court, Boris Johnson, and the ECHR — The Rest Is Politics: Leading

How did it feel to take on then Prime Minister Boris Johnson when Baroness Hale ruled his suspension of Parliament “unlawful”? Why does the Trump administration present such a threat to the internatio...

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Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 1d

No sht – fraud is on the increase after the criminal-in-chief has gutted government oversight and pardoned fraudsters. 🤦

Trumpism coming to the UK with fanboy Farage.

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Stocks tumble amid US banking fears — The Independent

The FTSE 100 index closed down 81.52 points, or 0.9%, at 9,354.57.

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Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 1d

But but but "he listens", "he understands", "give him a chance"... 🤦🤦🤦 #dumbasses

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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Gerry Bolton @gerryb.bsky.social · 1d

Putin’s useful idiot

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 1d

Trump last month: "Putin and Russia are in BIG economic trouble, and this is the time for Ukraine to act."

Trump now: Ukraine must give up the Donbas or be destroyed by Russia

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Trump Told Zelenskyy To Hand Over Ukraine Territory Or Be 'Destroyed' By Russia

The US president reportedly shouted and swore during heated heated talks at the White House.

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Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when Farage told you that we needed to Brexsht to "control our borders"?

And the dumbasses believed him?

Who got richer and who got poorer ? #conman #selfService #kleptocracy

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Borders chief can’t name a way Brexit has helped UK control its borders — The Independent

The new border security commander, Martin Hewitt, said he did ‘not immediately’ have an answer

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Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 1d

"Free speech" for dumbasses:

You can only say and write things the regime agrees with.

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Only 15 reporters remain in Pentagon after press pledge prompted walkouts. This is who they are — The Independent

A handful of reporters from pro-Trump outlets signed the policy, as well as freelancers from foreign-based publications and obscure independent websites.

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Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 1d

When you vote to give a conman who "understands you" "a chance". Like some dumbasses did for Brexsht.

I guess at least they don't have to worry about IHT…
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China imports no US soybeans in September for first time in seven years — Reuters

China imported no soybeans from the U.S. in September, the first time since November 2018 that shipments fell to zero, while South American shipments surged from a year earlier, as buyers shunned Amer...

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Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump pee-pee tapes are TRUE!!! #saddoPerv #epsteinFiles #putinsPuppet

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Trump posts fake video dumping brown substance on rally as GOP dismisses No Kings marches

Organizers said there were more than 2,700 "lawful and peaceful" demonstrations across the U.S.

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Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 1d

Tommy Robinson on stage in Israel, hailed by Jews. The world has truly gone mad. #channel4news #dumbasses

Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 2d

"Nigel Truss" 😂 (The Economist 10 May 2025).

It's another con for the dumbasses who didn't learn their Brexsht lesson.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

ICYMI Green Party membership numbers have now overtaken the Conservative Party's! 🎉

📈 125,000 members and counting.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
MORE MEMBERS than the Conservatives
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 2d

How fcuking dumb can you be?!!! "HONEST"!!! 🤦🤦🤦

The conman ran a fraudulent university! He was widely known for not paying his contractors! He was a joke (and obvs seriously disturbed) calling news desks pretending to be someone else and praising himself!
#tooDumbToVote

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Former MAGA Supporters Reveal What Finally Made Them Dump Trump — HuffPost UK

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 2d

"Whether it's Reform or Labour, I think they don't quite know what to do with me," Zack Polanski tells Lewis Goodall

"One day, I'm being painted as an incompetent clown, and on other days, I'm a very dangerous Machiavellian man"

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Zack Polanski: 'As soon as we overtake the Tories, we're coming for Labour next' | The News Agents

Zack Polanski, leader of the Greens, tells Lewis Goodall why neither the right or left in UK politics knows how to deal with his party’s rise in public opinion since becoming leader, and why he…

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Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 2d

How many of these dumbasses use social media?

You give away all your personal info to billionaires who sell it to ppl who use it to tear the country apart for profit.

But you oppose gov to be able to reduce cheating, illegal immigration, efficient benefit allocation🤦
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Thousands protest plans for mandatory digital ID cards in the UK — Metro

'If you accept digital ID today, you've accepted social credit tomorrow', one placard read .

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Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 2d

Now there's someone who could fix his state's debt – why do they get to keep both their vast fortunes AND be taxpayer funded? 🤔

Taxpayer sponsored child abuse.

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The monarchy is stronger now Andrew and Fergie are banished — The i Paper

King Charles has done the right thing in cutting out his brother and former sister-in-law and stemming the poison leaking from Andrew's connections

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Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 2d

The Brexsht conman who's going to bring us Trumpism, thanks to the dumbasses, because he'll bring "change".

Yep, "change" in the amount of taxpayer money redirected to himself and his cronies while making life worse for everyone else.

Just like Trump. 🤮🤮🤮

Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 2d

I asked ChatGPT how long it would take for the USA to end up like Argentina.

ChatGPT reckons it's years away. I reckon it's ✅✅✅❌✅ and the last tick will happen next year when Trump replaces Jerome Powell with a stooge.
#its2008again #thanksDumbasses

Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting if this is Labour's response to the rise of the @greenparty.org.uk … #zackPolanski

Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to see VAT on aviation fuel in the budget.

Or has fossil fuel supporter Rachel Reeves decided to hit EVs rather than long overdue aviation and APD increase?

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Reeves plots extra tax on EVs hitting 1.3m drivers with surcharge in Budget — The Sun

Reeves will also have to make a decision over keeping fuel duty frozen which The Sun has successfully campaigned on for the past fifteen years

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Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 4d

It is just astonishing that dumbasses believe that "anti-fascism" is bad.

"Anti" means "against". "Fascism" stands for:

Dictator
Military
Suppression of opposition
Natural (racial) social hierarchy (guess who's at the bottom)
State control society and economy
#dumbasses #whatYouVotedFor

Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 5d

Heathrow emboldened by Rachel Reeves flawed decision to support airport expansion:

Woken up by low flying aircraft at 05:02. Aerial motorways coming above your house without notice, without planning permission and without recourse. 🤮🤮🤮 @heidialexander.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk

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Facts re farmers' IHT and Motability cars for ADHD for dumbasses being exploited by wealthy tax dodgers and those monetising outrage.

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Are millions of people getting Motability cars for anxiety and ADHD? — More or Less: Behind the Stats

Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week:The Conservative party conference has been told that millions of people are getting free cars from the government because they have ...

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Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦 @crson.bsky.social · 5d

The "free speech" bullshtters.

The dumbasses lap it up – too stupid to see how they're being exploited.
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Self-proclaimed free speech advocate tells Newsmax ‘I do not want’ Charlie Kirk critics to ‘have free speech’ — The Independent

‘Free speech is everything. Stand up and be heard,’ Dennis Kneale said just a few months ago, while also assailing others for trying to take away free speech because they are ‘scared and intimidated’

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