I don’t think they spend billions do they? Otherwise they wouldn’t be billionaires. I think they get their propaganda much cheaper than that unfortunately….

The first clue was Kavanagh’s cautionary footnote in the National Guard case, the second was going after Waltz and Frey for impeding. This creates the flimsiest pretext for the Insurrection Act.

⅓ of America want to kill ⅓ of America whilst the other ⅓ stands around and watches. That’s the story too….

Anyone that accepts ‘permission to be their worst selves’ was already a horrible c*nt to begin with. I guess Reinhard Heydrich was handed permission by Hitler….

Heard. Political parties should be publicly funded. Any donations from private entities should be capped, publicly listed & traceable. No foreign donations of any kind.

We have plenty of problems of our own (apart from those created for us by you guys). None of them yet involve rounding up citizens at scale or threatening to invade sovereign nations. Give it time.

We have 650 MPs in our Lower Chamber. Whilst there’s plenty of stupidity and venality to go around you con only reliably depend upon a few dozen to routinely come out with this kind of shit. In the Lords we have 865 members of which about half can be bothered to vote much less speak.

That was precisely my point.

“I am totally prepared to go to war to win the Peace Prize!”

This is the US’s much broader problem. As long as there is room for assholes like this to get elected in any numbers your society will be f*cked.

Sounds like a version of the quote oft attributed to Gore Vidal: “A third of Americans will kill a third, while the other third stands by and watches.”