bluethrunthru
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He is going to milk his perp walk for all its worth later
Trump in Stormy Indictment Popcorn Fest.
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And Ted Cruz is the biggest recipient of NRA cash.
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My mate is in Manhattan now on holiday with his Mrs. Just sent me a message saying they've never seen anything like this.
He's described it as a Circus has taken over Manhattan. Him and his Mrs are totally belwildered by it all
He's described it as a Circus has taken over Manhattan. Him and his Mrs are totally belwildered by it all
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I haven't watched it yet, but this popped up in my feed, and a very quick glance suggests it's likely to confirm a lot of thoughts I've had over the past few years (and in particularly over the last few weeks).
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Britain maybe has turned a corner, a tiny little bit. First of all, the Tories lost the crowd with Truss - which disables the 'follow the leader' effect that the party under Boris had on a lot of people. People forget how strong the effect of the visible leader is on the crowd. And Boris was always visible (think the COVID briefings) - right until his undoing. His last two moments where everyone watched him came in front of parliamentary committees. honestly I think the Linekar debacle helped. It brought forward a lot of informed debate on here, for sure. Hugo Rifkind in The Times today said that the new mood thing people were politics was competance, rather than ideas or causes. And that perhaps people were of a mind that big ideas and causes were repeatedly being shown as doing nothing much beyond creating a 'front' of endless disagreement and controversy, whilst nothing was actually achieved or even managed reasonably. That ties with the endless barage of coverage and trivial stories that acommpany Trump and Boris.
They - the two of them - understood that the internet was less regulated and less picky than traditional media. Trump had Fox, as well. And Boris has a BBC that's been pumped full of Tory control. They understood and made the most of the opportunity to exploit this. We have to hope that people understand in the afterwards what an awful stress that places on us, in return for very mediocre management of the country and a lot of cronyism.
America is still vulnerable in my mind. One, the population has been shown to contain more RW's who will break RW and demand that the world they see reported is heavily biased against RW, no matter how much they are given, they will always demand more. Two, the institutions they support do not include a widely loved and trusted non-commercial broadcaster and news agency. And their Judiciary is heavily politicised, subject to appointment by presidents at the top, and subject to repeated election further down the line (as are local law enforcement leaders). We are lucky to have both the BBC, mature publishers and broadcasters, a history of succesful regulation of media, and a judiciary that is free from the demands of having to play to the crowd in the way elected officials always do.
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What did they expect in the US of A.
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It's New York City, fat chance. I guess a sixth floor corner window will have to suffice.