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Mark
4 years ago

Just how profoundly corrupt and evil are the US Democrats?

Are there limits?

Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Few Republicans are any better, I’m sorry to say.

Horse
Horse
4 years ago
Reply to  Susan

Like British “Conservatives”, the GOP no longer stands for anything.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago
Reply to  Horse

They stand for lining their own pockets whilst keeping the Tory mafia machine in power.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Horse

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/03/25/public-turning-shambolic-tories/

So this isn’t the politics of Maggie but of Macron – a politician who frankly epitomises the “all things to all men” approach. And herein lies the real problem for the Prime Minister. Everyone got angry with David Cameron and George Osborne’s “omnishambles” of a budget in 2012 – exemplified by two former public schoolboys who didn’t appear to know what a pasty was.
But in many ways Wednesday’s schizophrenic offering was much worse. Because it speaks to a Government that is so unsure of what it is – or so divided over what its governing philosophy on the economy should be – that it thinks it’s acceptable to claim to be both tax-cutting and tax-rising in the same breath.
Are they a social democratic party of public services, or are they for individual responsibility and empowerment? Because they can’t be both.
If the Tories can’t decide what they stand for, then like the lady on Question Time, the public will conclude that they stand for nothing at all.

pjar
4 years ago
Reply to  Susan

Few politicians are any better…. anyone who starts out with nothing in the bank, gets paid a modest salary throughout his political career and ends up with millions and a knighthood, is a crook. Plain and simple…

JXB
JXB
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Are there limits? None that are apparent.

Mark
4 years ago

The woke left .. their ideology, it’s built on a house of cards…. It can’t stand up to scrutiny, whether that be scientific inquiry, logical debate, and, God forbid, laughter and ridicule. So in order for their world view to survive, their only option is force and power and government regulation … maybe they do realise how ridiculous it makes them, but it’s really the only tool they have in their toolbox to keep their ideology going.”

Mark
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

And what do you make of the argument, well you know Twitter is a private company, it can ban whoever it wants for whatever reason it wants?

“.. I don’t consider it a traditional private company, I mean Twitter is so powerful, so monopolistic, and it’s in bed with the United States government, too…The government has been very clear in America about sending messages out to Big Tech about who they want silenced. During covid, Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki here for the President explicitly said: we want these people taken off of social media because of covid misinformation and Big Tech capitulated to that, so in a very strange way the government is laundering their censorship through these private companies, and to me that makes them a non-private entity. They’re just kind of a shadow arm of the government”

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

In the USA a baker was forced to write pro gay messaging on a cake despite him being oppossed to the messaging.
But apparently social media sites don’t have to host any messaging that they don’t approve of.
Sounds like the progressive/globalists want to have their cake and eat it.

kaddy89
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

I would love to know who downvoted this. Was it one of the fake women who sent death threats to Jo Rowling?

Liberty4UK
Liberty4UK
4 years ago
Reply to  kaddy89

You couldn’t be suggesting that fake women could do an unjust caricature level of maximal male pushy and entitled aggression now, would you? I feel sure that under our present all-wise and all-knowing controllers that would be non-PC and non-woke. So I’ll take it that that is not possible, shall I?

Mark
4 years ago
  • Hair-shirt energy policies won’t hurt Putin” – The only way to wean ourselves off Russian oil and gas is to source our supplies elsewhere – preferably from beneath our own land and seas, argues Ross Clark in the Telegraph.

But to want to “wean ourselves off Russian oil and gas”, you’d have to be as stupid as the climate alarmist idiots. If it’s cheap, buy it. We aren’t unduly dependent on it, and even for the European states who are, the Russians have been remarkably reliable suppliers over the years. The fantasies of “threatening to cut off supply” never materialised.

If we want to avoid events like the Ukraine, our priority should be to root out the neocon warmongers and liberal interventionists in our own midst who generate these kinds of disasters, Especially, the behind the scenes manipulators of our own (US and UK) security deep states who have been concocting all the anti-Russian smears and lies designed to generate hatred of Russia and manufacture consent for their confrontationist policies, from the poisoning and “gas attack” fantasies to the Russiagate cock and bull story.

pjar
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

If you’re going to wean yourself off anything, you need a readily available substitute. With current production of 0.3GW in response to a demand of 24.8GW, that isn’t renewables.

DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago
Reply to  pjar

A more accurate word for renewables might be ‘unreliables’?

JXB
JXB
4 years ago
Reply to  pjar

Can we wean ourselves off Climagheddon and Net Zero?

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Indeed, for all I hear about Russia losing the war bigly, I notice that they’re still sending gas down the pipeline.

JXB
JXB
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Trade is two way. In exchange for their oil and gas, the Russians want something from us. That is how we get a stable and peaceful World. As the man said if goods don’t cross borders, armies will.

It’s not the Russians who cut off gas and oil to Countries, it’s the Countries that cut themselves off. In the case of the USA they went one step further, proving no level of insanity is too high to be bettered by Government, they not only cut off Russian oil and gas, they’ve cut off their own.

Comparative advantage is about exchanging with others what they do well/cheaper for stuff we do well/cheaper. This frees up resources for both parties to use to do other things. Thus we end up with more stuff to consume.

Mark
4 years ago

An interesting perspective: “What turns people’s minds towards human-race-threatening escalation, the Pineapple would suggest, is the mentality described by the philosopher Michael Oakeshott as “Rationalism.” The term, which appears in Oakeshott’s 1962 essay “Rationalism in Politics”, might conjure up an image of a desiccated logician. Not at all. The Rationalist is violently swayed by whatever wind is currently blowing: “The politics it inspires may be called the politics of the felt need; for the Rationalist, politics are always charged with the feeling of the moment… That anything should be allowed to stand between a society and the felt needs of each moment in its history must appear to the Rationalist a piece of mysticism and nonsense.” There should be no obstacle to responding to such needs, because in the Rationalist’s world—this is the essence of Oakeshott’s portrait—reason is supremely able to solve every issue. The Rationalist is a kind of heir to the scientific revolution; not its benevolent aspect, the expansion of knowledge and technology, but the ideology which grew out of it, and which places its faith in the ability of the human mind to reason its way to a solution. The conduct of affairs, for the Rationalist, is… Read more »

Mark
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

We seem to be experiencing one of those periodic war frenzies that drives societies into what can be a catastrophic self destruction (eg 1914), but this time in the social media age. And it is perhaps only the existence of nuclear weapons that might still prevent WW3 breaking out. The crucial difference with nukes is that whereas in former times, before the Nuclear Peace, elites could manipulate their societies towards war with reasonable confidence that they themselves and most of their families and interests could evade the worst consequences, with nuclear weapons ultimately nobody can really be sure that they are safe from the hardest consequences of war. Perhaps, in their less frenzied moments, even the warmongering fools mentioned by Dan Hitchens (Morgan, Tisdall, Blair, McFaul, Ellwood, Levy, Macaes, Frum) might draw back from their lunatic societal death wish. [Granted the Nuclear Peace isn’t peaceful for all. But it has so far prevented WW3, which without nuclear weapons would surely have broken out between the US and USSR, or between China and USSR or US and China, at some point in the past 70 years. Will it continue to prevent WW3? Perhaps, until the technological position changes, provided we can… Read more »

kaddy89
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

2 warmongers downvoted you. They have logged into the DS but do these cowards ever comment?

Mogwai
4 years ago
Reply to  kaddy89

You don’t need to have an account and log in to like/dislike posts. Any old random can do it.

Mark
4 years ago

Never forget. Never forgive.

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Jo Starlin
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

A serious roll of dishonour there. “Parents against unsafe schools” sound a particularly nauseating bunch even just from the name.

Alter Ego
Alter Ego
4 years ago

Is it possible that our governments are so corrupt that jobs are kept and honours received by the inept and the unworthy, because they know things?

And that this old and shameful practice has now become standard? Something has to explain the rampant stupidity and bungling. Or is it that serious and genuinely talented people now avoid political parties (perhaps because they are corrupt)?

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

I’d be astonished to discover that Sir Gavin knows anything at all.

Alter Ego
Alter Ego
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

I confess I did wonder that. Perhaps he’s just really good at pretending that he does?

Horse
Horse
4 years ago

In 12 months, the Biden Administration has forced the Russians into Ukraine by leading them to believe it would join NATO when this was never on the cards, triggered unprecedentedly warm relations between Russia and China and China and India, signalled to the rest of the world that their money is not safe and can be frozen at any time should they not obey Washington’s diktats, instilling distrust and fear around the world, set in motion a new global financial system based in Asia that locks out the West, turned the UK and EU into permanent vassal states of the US, and set a fuse on the worst inflation ever seen in the West’s history, and they did all that while still gaslighting Americans about race politics.

But then history tells us that those who steal power are always tyrants.

And while it’s hard to see what is the most damage they have inflicted in the world in their 12 months of power, let me be the first to say this: it’s when they forced New Delhi and Beijing to bury the hatchet. This has massive geopolitical and economic significance that propagandised Westerners simply cannot comprehend.

Jo Starlin
4 years ago
Reply to  Horse

But, but, Will Smith slapped someone at the Oscars! C’mon man!

Mogwai
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

Yeah but he cried afterwards, apologised to everyone apart from Chris Rock and gave a cringetastic monologue about how self-righteous he is. Using key words such as “God” and “Love” always wins over a vacuous, superficial audience so the guy had a stellar night, reputation intact, all in all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Cr3CgtCl8

Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago

THE NEEDLE AND THE DAMAGE DONE
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HVZJBPJYsmZ8/
Apocalypse_Watchman

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MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago

Surely we can solve all these challenges?
Can’t transgender athletes be wired into the grid to create energy instead of beating girls who simply aren’t as good as men a sport and thereby reduce our reliance on Russian energy?
Obviously we will need trannies that haven’t had the vax as raising your heart rate to high levels tends to see athletes collapsing with heart failure.

Mogwai
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Heehee that made me titter! 🙂

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Having titters is not a pre-requisite for being a woman, bigot.

Mogwai
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

“Titter ye not!” 😉

Idris
Idris
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

If I identify as a horse can I run in the Grand National?

Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago

Proof the Pandemic Wasn’t as Bad as It Appeared
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/03/28/how-the-pandemic-was-fabricated.aspx
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola

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Steve-Devon
4 years ago

The idea that measuring testosterone levels is sufficient to distinguish men and woman in sport is ridiculous. To my mind if you have gone through puberty as a male then you should compete in men’s sport.
I notice this problem only seems to cut one way, there does not seem to be a problem with women becoming men and then competing in male sporting categories, that in itself should tell us something?
We seem to be confusing outward appearance with fundamental biology, I am greatly in favour of a much wider range of clothing and styles for both sexes. If a man wishes to wear a skirt and have long, nicely managed hair well, so what? that should be perfectly acceptable. But what we should not do is somehow imagine that change in outward appearance has also changed the fundamental biology. A man can turn up at the sports arena wearing high heels and a mini-skirt but if he has gone through male puberty he should change in the men’s changing rooms and compete in the men’s events.

iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

Alternatively trans-people should have a section of their own in the paralympics!

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

Just have one category for every type of sport, no sub divison by gender/sex.
That way only real men will win anything, no women or trans deviants will win anything.
This is the nest solution as everyone knows that womens football is terrible, so this is a great way of phasing it out.

Liberty4UK
Liberty4UK
4 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

“We seem to be confusing outward appearance with fundamental biology.”

I agree except inasmuch as skeletal formation creates outward appearance. If we all had the observational skills and the immediate comprehension of the different proportions of male compared to female bodies that competent artists (and criminal pathologists and detectives) have there would be far fewer people even trying to ‘pass’ as the other gender, since the task would be close to hopeless.

JXB
JXB
4 years ago
Reply to  Liberty4UK

We do have those observational skills which we start to learn once our senses develop as babies. However they are subconscious.

myrtle
myrtle
4 years ago

I wake up, I read the DS and I despair. The comments cheer me up
and even give me hope but, on the whole, the world is a
pretty grim place at the moment, isn’t it?

And I can’t help but think that it’s all part of the plan; covid misinformation, vaccine misinformation, data manipulation, the war, the refugees/mass immigration, supply chain issues, food shortages, fuel shortages, rampant inflation, the trans debate, CRT – all of it is just chaos and division wrought to make it easier to control us with the New World Order. 

I have faith in George Dowd, especially when he  said ‘we are legion’, and Reiner Fuellmich’s efforts are tireless, but little more gives me hope.

Tell me that I’m wrong and that there is light on the horizon. 

Jo Starlin
4 years ago
Reply to  myrtle

Pick any decade you like, and I’ll list five absolutely appalling things that were going on at the time. The mask has just come off the villains’ collective faces. Plus much of the world is literally mad. There’s always hope, always. Never give in to despair

myrtle
myrtle
4 years ago
Reply to  myrtle

*I meant Edward Dowd

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago
Reply to  myrtle

It is the process of demoralisation, they are doing it to us to make us despair so there will be no resistance to what they force on us next, the Marxists loved this sort of thing.
Getting people to openly state that they believe things to be true which are clearly untrue (the transgender thing) is important to them.

Liberty4UK
Liberty4UK
4 years ago
Reply to  myrtle

The light on the horizon is that the evil forces are being unmasked. I hope and pray that we will get to the stage where they will be shunned and punished. But the Hunter Biden laptop saga is powerful in showing what has been happening, and as long as we don’t lose impetus it will improve.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  myrtle

You need to go out for a walk in the countryside. Mike Yeadon and Reiner Fullmilk are really not bringing in any ‘lawyers’ to save everyone. Neither is “tramp’s mate” Russell Brand.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Williamson probably has photographic proof of Boris being bummed by Bill Gates.

Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago

How immigration has allowed the government to interfere in all our lives in an alarming way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wiPkzeJAic
History Debunked

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago

Edward Dowd interview very informative 👍

Star
4 years ago

In another comment here I noted that interests that want war do NOT like peace talks that may be about to lead somewhere, and that such interests may not even be within one of the belligerent parties. If they’re powerful enough, they may seek to scupper peace talks, using means that are extremely foul. I have seen this happen before – two sides are actually seriously trying to reach an agreement, and then, “whoopsadaisy”, “something” happens.

This is probably what occurred with the poisoning of Roman Abramovich and Ukrainian negotiators.

The idea that it happened because “the Russian government is nasty” – i.e. the line in the western MSM – is for consumption by cretins only. The message that is being conveyed is don’t have peace talks – in other words, continue the war. That is a truly disgusting message. Those of us who are humanitarians want peace – that is so obvious it should hardly need to be said – and peace will only come about through direct peace talks between the Russian and Ukrainian governments.