Monday 24th July 2023

[refitman]

Morning all.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Good morning all.

Gratifying election result in Spain.

[frog222]

A tiny (and horrible) example on the psychological phenomenon of Not-Masking When You Bloody Well Ought To --



Last July Biden declared the " end of covid ".

And just to prove how right he was Senator Dick Durbin has had it three times since .. last July !

( He's OK , unlike most people in the world he will be on full pay, quarantining and WFH . )
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/i ... 9/3192491/

[frog222]

Good morning all.
Gratifying election result in Spain.

Morning AK --- indeed !

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... n-majority

[RogerOThornhill]

Good morning.

I see that I am now on X. But I can also 'Search Twitter' which is...interesting.

How utterly pointless.

In other news 'er indoors has apparently been found a place in a nursing home. Not too far to travel and the same group has other homes much closer so there's a possibility of a move at some point. Hopefully the move will be soon and she can get used to more pleasant surroundings.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Good morning.

I see that I am now on X. But I can also 'Search Twitter' which is...interesting.

How utterly pointless.

How typically Musk, then.

[frog222]

I wonder what new 'brand' he has lined up for those cars ?

[refitman]

Good morning.

I see that I am now on X. But I can also 'Search Twitter' which is...interesting.

How utterly pointless.

In other news 'er indoors has apparently been found a place in a nursing home. Not too far to travel and the same group has other homes much closer so there's a possibility of a move at some point. Hopefully the move will be soon and she can get used to more pleasant surroundings.

Legally, he has to keep the Twitter name and logo on the headquarters.

[refitman]

Lmao

[refitman]

Fuck Labour (evergreen message)

[refitman]

[frog222]

Both of these people went along with the 'AntiSemitism exclusions' , considered 'necessary' which did a lot more than just 'segue' into anti-Socialism !

Lawson "

By early 1997, in that whatever-it-takes spirit, Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown were communicating closely, brokered by Roy Jenkins. “I set the meeting up, in the Goring hotel, where the whole electoral deal was done,” Lawson recalls, with vim. Peter Mandelson and Chris Rennard, election campaign directors for Labour and the Lib Dems respectively, “swapped their target seat lists, which the Mirror then printed: ‘If you live here and want the Tories out, vote for that.’ I’m the person who did that, and they want to throw me out of the party? Fuck them.”

"

Zoe W -

" There were a lot of expulsions in the drive to root out antisemitism in the party, which was widely accepted as necessary; this segued into a more general ejection of Corbynistas, which was more contentious, but they often went without a fight, having lost their enthusiasm under the new leader anyway. Where members did appeal, so far none has been successful."

Back to business-

" Lawson thinks it’s complacent to assume that people will vote Labour whatever happens; he wonders how many people will vote Green or abstain. But more than that, he says, getting elected is only the beginning: if a Labour government comes in and underperforms, fails to deliver meaningful improvements to the millions of lives that have been assailed by crises both caused by Conservatives and beyond them, “that opens up the trapdoor to the far right” for the election after next. “That’s how big this is. The only thing that stops the authoritarian right is a new politics, and Labour are currently a million miles away from that.” "

Which is scary , and quite possible .

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... a-platform

[refitman]

Reeves is properly vile. Strong words from a fan of actual fascist Nancy Astor

[refitman]

[refitman]