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It might be as strict, brutal and authoritarian regime under the guise of religious piety, but also, Iran kinda has a point here.

Is it cynical of me to suggest that the best chance of it not being WW3 is if the whole thing is regarded as more of a proxy war situation?

Trump is America's "deal-maker in chief", or so they say. There's nothing in that title, of course, that he's also even America's "promise-keeper in theory", let alone in practice.

I wouldn't have put it past them to have offered a sweetener to make up for past betrayal.

Remember when Dr Who ended a political career with 4 words? Well, my best attempt is 5 words:

"Doesn't he look like Andrew?"

This sufficiently challenges Poe's law such that I can't be 100% certain it's a political shitpost.

... but if someone DOES make that claim, it's now going to be damned funny.

Do: Be normal, be down to earth, give straight-forward answers to questions, avoid BSing, give a damn about people, appeal to their better nature and let them feel good about themselves, and be upfront and frank with it.

Avoid: "What I'd say to you is" and "It's tough, but we have to be realistic".

As long as it's to Lightning, not the Panthers.

Lies, more lies, venom, and propaganda.

Beware the inverse proposition: Those who remember history sometimes intend to repeat it.

That's because most of "these people" are very old, and will need buried once they die as the world moves on beyond them and their shit. It's just circle of life stuff.

"How do you not stand? How do you not stand?", he says to the people who disagree with him?

Might it have been something he said, perchance? Might it be a difference of opinion regarding the veracity or unreality of his views?

Can't have that now, can he? FFS.

Have we even seen a SOTU, or even a president, doing this so blatantly and coarsely before?

followed up with the allusions to Christofascism as figureheaded by Charlie Kirk, of course. FFS.

This SOTU is basically just Trump saying "Me? I'm awesome. As are the people who enable me. The Democrats though? they're kind of evil. Not even Kind of. They're evil. Bigly evil. They won't even stand up to applaud me." ...

... even as he bears down on a already minoritised scapegoat.

It's a bootleg live album of their 2002 Finsbury park performance.

All the people, Look Back in Anger
And they all Go Let It Out, Fade In-Out through their Parklife.

State of the Union prediction:

America good, but only because me.
Iran bad - should watch out!
Supreme court betrayed me on tariffs.
Me = the best... bigliest.

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Meanwhile what drives me absolutely fucking insane is that I have been described as a "conspiracy theorist" for stating that the entire anti-trans moral panic was a psyop, when they had a public summit in which the principal actors explicitly said "we're going to start an anti-trans moral panic."

What about the New Zealand review which was delayed expressly to consider the Cass report (and arguably even double counted her work), which then also rejected the UK approach?

þæt hāt sunne biernþ myne hneccan,
mīn fēt byrnað swā ic gā.
þæt hāt sunne me swætan wyrcð,
þæt déor cymð nēah tō mē, ac hit is gēn to bītan.

Hwæt! Ic ne mæg sealtiġe.
Ic ne mæg sprece.
Þæt án þing be mē is hū Iċ gān.

So, they've announced the bill to make English the official language it already is, and after commenting on something for giggles last night, I became slightly (just a little) obsessed with an old variety of English.

So here it is, a reading (with all it's faults) from the song of Genesis:

Yorkshire Dialect YouTube video by Dirty Belter

Would you settle for the Brummie dialect?

Or perhaps old Broad Yorkshire/Tyke?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F8l...

Just realised that Kid Rock is older than The Rock.

I haven't been so disturbed since I found out that Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan.

They’re announcing that they plan to strip women and girls (the main beneficiaries of the Equality Act) of their rights and protections next.

We told you so.

It was always transphobia.

Hate all the way down:

Ic ne mæg sprecen.

Þæt án þing be mē is hū Iċ gān.

-- Ye olde Phil Collins from Genesis.

What! I trowe that this is a yvel idea. I can thynke of litel more that wolde be a gretter waste of the tyme of the folk and here leddres.

Yif thou wolt make English an offycel tongue, thou must first define what kynd of English thou meanest.

"Verily, I trowe that this is a wast of parliamentes tyme and resources. I can thynke of litel that wolde waste the tyme of the peple and here representativs more."

or

"Ic mæg þencan of lytle mare þæt wære mæst forspild þæs tīdes þæs folces and heora witan."

I can't decide which way to go.

I already know my submission:

"Hwæt! Ic wene þæt þis is yfel idēa."

Or... hear me out... We could have a debate in the chamber in SCOUSE!

Straight up we have a coordinated, intentional pattern that explicitly intends to push overwhelmingly wahine Māori from public and political life - not just from members of the public, but hugely from our media outlets. Do you know how fast this racist disinformation turns into outright fascism?

"What I'd say to you is that you already know what I'd say to you, so what I'd say to you is this: nothing I have to say about allthis is new, so there's not a lot of point in me saying anything at all. I'm only doing it because they say I have to for the optics".

I guess “the taliban”, as they were once dubbed, really did take control over the National Party.

The leadership and statements of Christopher “abortion is murder” Luxon really should have made that obvious from the outset.