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Recently retired music teacher. Lefty. Just moved so busy exploring new town and retirement. Love history, music (of course), books (and more books), podcasts (can’t get enough), languages (Latin, classical Greek, French, Scottish Gaelic, Mandarin).
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Someone really should take Trump aside and give him a quick China History 101 course. Maybe then it might penetrate his thick skull that Western bullying over trade was never a goer as far as China’s concerned.
April 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Someone really should take Trump aside and give him a quick China History 101 course. Maybe then it might penetrate his thick skull that Western bullying over trade was never a goer as far as China’s concerned.
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If Donald Trump and JD Vance were both on fire and you only had one fire extinguisher, where would you hide it?
March 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If Donald Trump and JD Vance were both on fire and you only had one fire extinguisher, where would you hide it?
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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
April 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
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A point not made enough: the UK runs a trade goods deficit with the US so shouldn’t be paying any tariffs at all based on the White House formula (10% is not a “win”).
April 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
A point not made enough: the UK runs a trade goods deficit with the US so shouldn’t be paying any tariffs at all based on the White House formula (10% is not a “win”).
Canada, keep hold of your tree pulp. Do not sell your tree pulp to America. Sell your tree pulp to anywhere but America. This could be the clincher. The world is counting on you, Canada. 😂
March 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Canada, keep hold of your tree pulp. Do not sell your tree pulp to America. Sell your tree pulp to anywhere but America. This could be the clincher. The world is counting on you, Canada. 😂
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just profoundly disturbed by the kidnapping and disappearing of people right off the streets of this country. hard to think about much else—and there’s so much else.
March 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
just profoundly disturbed by the kidnapping and disappearing of people right off the streets of this country. hard to think about much else—and there’s so much else.
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We do not have a free country in this moment. When they can nab someone off the street because they don't like what they say, they can nab anyone.
March 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
We do not have a free country in this moment. When they can nab someone off the street because they don't like what they say, they can nab anyone.
‘Why are we pouring money into defence in Europe?’ ‘Erm…defending Western values against aggressive dictators?’ ‘You care about that old shit? What a bunch of losers.’ Sorry decent Americans but I’m beginning to hate your country.
March 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
‘Why are we pouring money into defence in Europe?’ ‘Erm…defending Western values against aggressive dictators?’ ‘You care about that old shit? What a bunch of losers.’ Sorry decent Americans but I’m beginning to hate your country.
Bloody hell. That’s a terrifying new low from a very low bar.
March 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Bloody hell. That’s a terrifying new low from a very low bar.
Freeloading, pathetic Europe??!! Cheeky fuckers.
March 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Freeloading, pathetic Europe??!! Cheeky fuckers.
Remember when we moaned about the clowns in Johnson’s government? Compared to the Trump administration they begin to look like…statesmen? Whatever happened to the concept of statesman?
March 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Remember when we moaned about the clowns in Johnson’s government? Compared to the Trump administration they begin to look like…statesmen? Whatever happened to the concept of statesman?
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‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’
March 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’
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The president of the United States openly threatening to send American citizens without due process to a foreign prison known for torture should be full blown red alert — constitutional crisis situation.
March 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The president of the United States openly threatening to send American citizens without due process to a foreign prison known for torture should be full blown red alert — constitutional crisis situation.
This is how I’m feeling at the moment. I did all that in the 70s and 80s but now?
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This is how I’m feeling at the moment. I did all that in the 70s and 80s but now?
Did nobody ever tell Trump that a deeply entrenched geopolitical conflict isn’t a property deal?
March 19, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Did nobody ever tell Trump that a deeply entrenched geopolitical conflict isn’t a property deal?
So what’s Trump achieved so far? Erm, give me a minute, I’m thinking. O yes, a US Russia ice hockey game. Wonderful.
March 19, 2025 at 6:20 AM
So what’s Trump achieved so far? Erm, give me a minute, I’m thinking. O yes, a US Russia ice hockey game. Wonderful.
So business as usual in Gaza and business as usual in Ukraine. That was a foregone conclusion. “I’m gonna stop the war in 24 hours”. O yeah?
March 19, 2025 at 6:17 AM
So business as usual in Gaza and business as usual in Ukraine. That was a foregone conclusion. “I’m gonna stop the war in 24 hours”. O yeah?