Taking the piss out of politics

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It will be interesting to see if Trump relinquishes power in three and three quarters years time.

You seriously think he'll still be in the land of the living at that time?

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I generally avoid the "news" and politics for my own mental health. I put the radio on at work and heard some disturbing stuff. Wish I hadn't now.

Trump said America would get Greenland eventually, one way or another. Couldn't quite believe what I was hearing. Minerals in Ukraine as well.

Econony not doing as well as expected and the world is a different place since labour came to power. More cuts to welfare. Haven't vulnerable people been squeezed enough already?


FFS

[TheMarlin]

I generally avoid the "news" and politics for my own mental health. I put the radio on at work and heard some disturbing stuff. Wish I hadn't now.

Trump said America would get Greenland eventually, one way or another. Couldn't quite believe what I was hearing. Minerals in Ukraine as well.

Econony not doing as well as expected and the world is a different place since labour came to power. More cuts to welfare. Haven't vulnerable people been squeezed enough already?


FFS

‘New labour’ just meant ‘more Tory’.
The wealthy want the NHS dismantled, and replaced with the USA based system (the poor and uninsured can’t afford to stay alive).

I have a friend in the USA, he lived with a hernia and a cataract for over a year so he could get three surgeries done in the one year. He had to pay the first $20000 of the cost of Surgury, but you only pay that once a year, so he saved up all his terrible ailments (including suspected cancer) so he would only have to pay that $20000 once.

The older I get, the more I admire the French. They wouldn’t put up with this sh*t. They blockade the streets, burn everything in sight, and put the fear of god into their politicians. It time the Brits looked up the phones, smelled what was in the air, and start to remind the government that they work for US, and not the other way around.
I’m ashamed of Starmer, refusing winter fuel payments to the elderly is sickening, and just the tip of his greasy iceberg.

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The Conservatives have aligned with UKIP of old, so Fromage has had to lean further still to the right, Labour has moved into the arse-worn and still tepid seat left behind by the Conservatives so they, and the Tories have become for all intents and purposes, two cheeks of the same arse. Starmer has all-but destroyed socialism and socialists within the party and turned Labour into his own personal fiefdom, mostly staffed by yes-men. There are a few still fighting from the inside, but the writing was on the wall when Jeremy Corbyn had the whip withdrawn, and lifelong members started getting the boot, like Ken Loach, who was expelled from the Labour Party because of his relationship with the organisation Labour Against the Witchhunt, with the party saying he was removed for failing to "disown" Labour members who had been expelled. Shades of Chairman Mao and The Stasi, where people are punished for not informing on their friends and neighbours, and guilt-by-association was cause enough to punish people

I was a lifelong Labour voter, a party member, and a Trades Union Representative. I tore up my Labour Party membership card and stopped giving them my money soon after the liar Starmer took the reins. The simple fact that he's close to Blair and has given Mandelson a job probably says more than you need to know about Starmer, who habitually tells lies to gain favour and then either doesn't do what he promised, or does a complete u-turn and ends up doing the absolute opposite.

He is a horrible, grey, little man with no principles, the personality of a housebrick, and the reliability of a stopped clock. He'd make a wonderful Traffic Warden, and if they ever revive "On The Buses" he's a shoe-in to play "Blakey"

Please be aware that all views are my own, and Starmer is not necessarily a duplicitous prick ...although he is. YMMV.

[Geoff.R.G]

The Conservatives have aligned with UKIP of old, so Fromage has had to lean further still to the right, Labour has moved into the arse-worn and still tepid seat left behind by the Conservatives so they, and the Tories have become for all intents and purposes, two cheeks of the same arse. Starmer has all-but destroyed socialism and socialists within the party and turned Labour into his own personal fiefdom, mostly staffed by yes-men. There are a few still fighting from the inside, but the writing was on the wall when Jeremy Corbyn had the whip withdrawn, and lifelong members started getting the boot, like Ken Loach, who was expelled from the Labour Party because of his relationship with the organisation Labour Against the Witchhunt, with the party saying he was removed for failing to "disown" Labour members who had been expelled. Shades of Chairman Mao and The Stasi, where people are punished for not informing on their friends and neighbours, and guilt-by-association was cause enough to punish people

I was a lifelong Labour voter, a party member, and a Trades Union Representative. I tore up my Labour Party membership card and stopped giving them my money soon after the liar Starmer took the reins. The simple fact that he's close to Blair and has given Mandelson a job probably says more than you need to know about Starmer, who habitually tells lies to gain favour and then either doesn't do what he promised, or does a complete u-turn and ends up doing the absolute opposite.

He is a horrible, grey, little man with no principles, the personality of a housebrick, and the reliability of a stopped clock. He'd make a wonderful Traffic Warden, and if they ever revive "On The Buses" he's a shoe-in to play "Blakey"

Please be aware that all views are my own, and Starmer is not necessarily a duplicitous prick ...although he is. YMMV.

Need I remind you that a stopped clock is right twice each day...

[TheMarlin]

The Conservatives have aligned with UKIP of old, so Fromage has had to lean further still to the right, Labour has moved into the arse-worn and still tepid seat left behind by the Conservatives so they, and the Tories have become for all intents and purposes, two cheeks of the same arse. Starmer has all-but destroyed socialism and socialists within the party and turned Labour into his own personal fiefdom, mostly staffed by yes-men. There are a few still fighting from the inside, but the writing was on the wall when Jeremy Corbyn had the whip withdrawn, and lifelong members started getting the boot, like Ken Loach, who was expelled from the Labour Party because of his relationship with the organisation Labour Against the Witchhunt, with the party saying he was removed for failing to "disown" Labour members who had been expelled. Shades of Chairman Mao and The Stasi, where people are punished for not informing on their friends and neighbours, and guilt-by-association was cause enough to punish people

I was a lifelong Labour voter, a party member, and a Trades Union Representative. I tore up my Labour Party membership card and stopped giving them my money soon after the liar Starmer took the reins. The simple fact that he's close to Blair and has given Mandelson a job probably says more than you need to know about Starmer, who habitually tells lies to gain favour and then either doesn't do what he promised, or does a complete u-turn and ends up doing the absolute opposite.

He is a horrible, grey, little man with no principles, the personality of a housebrick, and the reliability of a stopped clock. He'd make a wonderful Traffic Warden, and if they ever revive "On The Buses" he's a shoe-in to play "Blakey"

Please be aware that all views are my own, and Starmer is not necessarily a duplicitous prick ...although he is. YMMV.

Need I remind you that a stopped clock is right twice each day...

It’s wrong 718 times more than it’s right.

[Geoff.R.G]

The Conservatives have aligned with UKIP of old, so Fromage has had to lean further still to the right, Labour has moved into the arse-worn and still tepid seat left behind by the Conservatives so they, and the Tories have become for all intents and purposes, two cheeks of the same arse. Starmer has all-but destroyed socialism and socialists within the party and turned Labour into his own personal fiefdom, mostly staffed by yes-men. There are a few still fighting from the inside, but the writing was on the wall when Jeremy Corbyn had the whip withdrawn, and lifelong members started getting the boot, like Ken Loach, who was expelled from the Labour Party because of his relationship with the organisation Labour Against the Witchhunt, with the party saying he was removed for failing to "disown" Labour members who had been expelled. Shades of Chairman Mao and The Stasi, where people are punished for not informing on their friends and neighbours, and guilt-by-association was cause enough to punish people

I was a lifelong Labour voter, a party member, and a Trades Union Representative. I tore up my Labour Party membership card and stopped giving them my money soon after the liar Starmer took the reins. The simple fact that he's close to Blair and has given Mandelson a job probably says more than you need to know about Starmer, who habitually tells lies to gain favour and then either doesn't do what he promised, or does a complete u-turn and ends up doing the absolute opposite.

He is a horrible, grey, little man with no principles, the personality of a housebrick, and the reliability of a stopped clock. He'd make a wonderful Traffic Warden, and if they ever revive "On The Buses" he's a shoe-in to play "Blakey"

Please be aware that all views are my own, and Starmer is not necessarily a duplicitous prick ...although he is. YMMV.

Need I remind you that a stopped clock is right twice each day...

It’s wrong 718 times more than it’s right.

Yes but it is 100% reliable. A clock that loses 1 second a day is right only every 236.72 years give or take a bit.

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Trump Golf Weekends’ Cost To Taxpayers Hits $18.2 Million

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s insistence on playing golf at his Florida courses has now cost American taxpayers more than $18 million since he regained the presidency, setting him on a pace to exceed the $151.5 million he spent in his first term, according to a HuffPost analysis.

On Saturday, Trump is playing golf for the 13th day of his 48 in office. It was his 10th day playing at his course in West Palm Beach, across the Intracoastal Waterway from his Mar-a-Lago country club home and adjacent to the Palm Beach County Jail.

He spent another three days at his course in Doral, just east of the main runways at Miami International Airport.

According to a 2019 Government Accountability Office report examining the first four trips Trump took to Mar-a-Lago during his first administration, each one costs $3,383,250 — a sum based on 2017 dollars that is likely higher now.

Trump and his entourage fly down on Air Force One while the military brings down the vehicles for his motorcade on C-17 transports. Because Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, straddles the width of the barrier island, police boats with machine guns mounted on the bows patrol the Intracoastal while a Coast Guard vessel is stationed off the beach in the Atlantic. Additional costs include law enforcement and explosive-sniffing dogs.

On his first trip after retaking office to California, Nevada, and, ultimately, his Doral golf resort, reporters aboard Air Force One asked Trump if he would be playing golf on that trip. “No. I don’t think so. I’m busy,” he said.

Two days later, a Fox News reporter posted photos of him playing golf at his Doral course.

SOURCE

Well, it IS politics, and it's certainly taking the piss. Imagine Starmer behaving like that.

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The annual salary for the US President is $400,000.

So that for each golfing trip he's blowing ten times his annual salary on travel and security costs.

And it's not like there aren't any nice golf courses near Washington DC.

There are parallels to the end of the Roman Empire. When decadence and corruption and laziness and incompetence set in from the top down and permeated all levels of society...