FlyTheNest

Morning all.

Good afternoon

" Africa is about fourteen times larger than Greenland" !

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Afternoon. It's back so it looks like I'm going to have to endure a soaking if I'm going to procure the necessary alcohol, it's pissing down here with no sign of letting up.

Geniuses, the lot of them.

Goodbye democracy --



Only 5.34 --

Goodbye US Democracy, it hasn't got long at all --

‘Trump Has Already Rigged the 2028 Presidential Election’: US Defence Insider
Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues Brynn Tannehill

Brynn Tannehill 22 January 2026
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/01/22/trum ... e-insider/

"" Thus, Democrats should be thinking at least as much about dealing with Trump’s efforts to overturn the election as they are on how to win it. They need to have a plan for the most likely outcome in 2029, when a clearly stolen election has put another unpopular despot back on the throne, and it has become clear to most political observers that elections cannot change the direction of the US federal government.

The party also needs to prepare for the nearly inevitable existential crisis they will face: whether to push for the dissolution of the United States into separate sovereign territories or to remain a permanent, powerless minority in a sham democracy. ""

Just to think that Biden's Brainz didn't want Ukraine to smash Russia , in case it led up to a messy dissolution of the RU Federation ....

and all the time Trump and the GOP 2025 Project were aiming for a one-party monopoly of Power in the US itself,

and the possibility of a messy dissolution .

Independence For Vermont was always a joke, but California ?
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Question Time came tonight from Macclesfield. A place I've only visited once, by mistake, after my idiot brother entered the wrong location into Google Maps and drove us into a Macclesfield housing estate when we were supposed to be going camping in the Peak District.

For Labour we had Emily Thornberry. On an evening when a peculiarly quiescent audience sat on their hands for most of the evening I think Emily got the sole round of applause. Apparently Trump has vomited out some fresh bile about how Nato troops never fought on the front lines in Afghanistan or some such nonsense and Emily got rather cross. She shook her fist and said how dare he, it was an insult to our brave troops, and so on and so forth. She really did appear quite agitated, and the audience took her side. Which was all well and good but she then went on to lavish praise on Starmer for his somewhat less robust responses to the ravings of the demented orange toddler and when she finished you could hear a pin drop.

For the Lib Dems we had Layla Moran. Layla undoubtedly came out with the best line of the night on the subject of Tory defections to Reform. She said she'd spoken to a Conservative colleague who had told her that, 'Reform are the best natural laxative the Conservatives have had in years.' Which I found amusing and disgusting in equal measure. Like any other sane human Layla treated Trump with the contempt he deserves before going on to quite rightly eviscerate Labour's house building policies. The cheapest houses on the proposed Adlington new town near Macclesfield, built on the green belt, are expected to be £400 grand. When asked about it Thornberry shrugged her shoulders and said young people needed somewhere to live. How many young people from Macclesfield can afford a £400 K mortgage? Layla asked what we all want to know, why are so few genuinely affordable homes being built? Where are the properties to affordably rent? I mean from my own point of view we can all see these new build estates springing up all around us, mostly looking like crap if I'm honest, but how does that help city councils having an average of 30,000 people on their housing waiting lists?

For the Tories we had Stuart Andrew. I thought I'd never heard of Stuart before but it's hard to say because he was so instantly forgettable. He tried to put a brave face on Tory solidarity after the Reform defections saying they'd never been more united as a party. Which was pretty funny. Like that dog saying, 'This is fine'. When it came to Trump Steven objected to an elderly spray tanned baby invading Greenland but gave succour to Republican rationalisations which I'll come to in a minute. Other than that Susan offered little of consequence besides implying Jenrick might have been a bit shit at any job he was given which is hardly a revelation.

For Republicans overseas we had Greg Swenson. Believe it or not Greg started off ok. Admitting that Trump might not be a details guy and that sometimes he got things wrong. From there it went downhill. I may not agree with Greg politically, but he's clearly not an idiot of the Maga cult variety. Nevertheless while accepting that Trump might talk demented shit he seemed to be claiming that Trump was doing it on purpose as part of a larger plan that we were all to stupid to understand. Just look at what he'd achieved in getting European NATO countries to increase their defence spending. That was all down to Trump's ingenious 4d chess manipulation of European leaders. As evidence he cited European defence spending as a percentage of GDP going up from 2022. Guess what else happened in 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Hmm.