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Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 6h

I’m fairly alcohol relaxed on a Friday evening so all I will say is very silly woman in orange dress on #Newsnight

Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 9h

As with Trump her "support" for Bolsonaro is purely to seek his help in opposing Maduro. There is again, no evidence she endorses or is aligned with Bolsonaro's domestic policy. She also supported the idea of this kind of strike, not necessarily the strike itself. It's nuanced, not black & white.

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Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 11h

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Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 11h

You can't base anyone's allegiance on one or two comments, especially when dealing with #Trump. She's stroking his ego in order to gain his support, like so many other political leaders around the world, because it's one of the only things he responds to. He's a child.

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Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 12h

She "supports" his position on Venezuela because it helps her political and social aspirations. There is no evidence that she "endorses" all or any of his domestic policies.

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Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 12h

Machado isn’t a #Trump style conservative - she’s a liberal democrat in the classical sense: pro-rule of law, anti-authoritarian, defends human rights, free elections, and markets. She’s pushed for institutional reform, women’s rights, and LGBTQ+ equality, not populist nationalism.

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Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 12h

Surely he'll just create a series of #Trump Prizes and award them all to himself, bigly?

Trump Physics Prize: Trump
Trump Chemistry Prize: Trump
Trump Physiology or Medicine Prize: Trump
Trump Literature Prize: Trump
Trump Economic Sciences Prize: Trump
Trump Peace Prize: Trump

Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 13h

That'll be the "No-balls Peace Prize" then?

"Get your authorised replica for $1000 #Trump crypto"!

Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 13h

Fingers crossed. I had cardiversion about 8 years ago, but had to have it redone a month or so later. Even that wasn't a permanent solution, so about 6 months later I had an ablation, which has so far proved completely succesful.

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Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 13h

If this is true then she is certainly politically shrewd. Stroking the Orange Felon's fragile, narcissistic ego won't do her any harm.

He's still a cunt BTW.

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Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 14h

Round table banishes Reform as a Traitor

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Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 19h

Nobel Peace Prize 2025;

NOT #TRUMP!!!!!!!!!

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha . . . . . . .

. . . . . . and a pointed dig at Trump by praising democracy and criticising authoritarianism and rigged elections.

Go Nobel!!!!!

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Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 19h

Nobel Peace Prize 2025;

NOT #TRUMP!!!!!!!!!

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha . . . . . . .

. . . . . . and a pointed dig at Trump by praising democracy and criticising authoritarianism and rigged elections.

Go Nobel!!!!!

Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 19h

A man who declares war in his own country? It’s a joke. If he were to be given it it totally devalues all previous winners and will likely be irrelevant moving forward.

Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 20h

305/365
That one minute and twelve second thought, when you wished you were a poet . . . . . .
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Counting Crows Walkaways

YouTube video by epic44321

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Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 1d

Ironic that the guy who desperately wants the Nobel Peace Prize wants to start a civil war in his own country.

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Nigel Holmes @niggleoid.bsky.social · 1d

304/365
Stand out track from the 1979 album, Even Serpents Shine . . . . . . .
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