It still makes me giggle that the British establishment was so scared of a bumbling Social Democrat hippie in the midst of rapidly deteriorating material conditions that they just installed an MI5 government.

If I were a QAnon chud, I’d be having the time of my life - the bar that Starmer’s Chief of Staff ran in the 1980s (when fun things were happening) is now a daycare

My poorly thought out conspiracy take on the election:

In 2019, Farage and the Brexit Party did not contest Tory seats, which protected the right wing vote and helped retain a Tory majority.

In this year’s election, Farage emerged late in the race and ran, bringing huge attention to Reform and destroying the Tory vote, thus leading to a Labour landslide. Curiously, Labour pulled their candidate in Clacton (Farage’s constituency) after he started to gain traction against Farage. In hindsight, did Keith make a deal with Farage to run for Reform in exchange for not directly contesting him? Getting fascists elected seems like a very on-brand thing for him to do.

Edit: the candidate that was running in Clacton doesn’t even seem to be a Corbyn guy, he’s following the Starmerite line on a “changed Labour Party”.

WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - One in three Democrats think U.S. President Joe Biden should end his reelection bid following last week's debate against Republican Donald Trump, but no prominent elected Democrat does any better than Biden in a hypothetical matchup against Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Tuesday.

The two-day poll found that both Trump, 78, and Biden, 81, maintain the support of 40% of registered voters, suggesting that Biden has not lost ground since the debate. Election Day is Nov. 5.

Among the names of top Democrats put before respondents, only Michelle Obama, wife of former Democratic President Barack Obama, outperformed Biden and led Trump 50% to 39% in a hypothetical matchup. Michelle Obama, author of the best-selling 2018 memoir "Becoming," has said repeatedly she does not intend to run for president.

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Biden has vowed to stay in the race. But should he exit, the Democrats whose names emerge as possible replacements perform only as well or worse than Biden against Trump in hypothetical matchups, according to the poll. Vice President Kamala Harris, for example, trailed Trump by one percentage point, 42% to 43%, a difference that was well within the poll's 3.5 percentage point margin of error, making Harris' showing statistically just as strong as Biden's.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/one-three-democrats-think-biden-should-quit-race-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-07-02/

Mossad rigging Eurovision in the belief that it will change public opinion on an active genocide is the most Israeli thing ever

According to an FDA study relying on 2016 and 2019 data, 4.4 percent of Americans report consuming raw milk in the past year, although the number has almost certainly grown since then.

• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/10/the-alt-right-rebrand-of-raw-milk-00145625

Bird flu virus found in pasteurized milk, though officials maintain supply is safe

It’s “fragments”, which gives me hope. Then again, reactionaries from the wellness set (both liberal and fascist) who drink raw milk are going to be some fun little vectors

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Comrades. I will send myself to the gulag for this, but please excuse me. With the ongoing Katespiracy distraction that sadly has entered my brain, here’s my conspiracy theory as to what’s going on and how it could mean the end of the Royals

1. King Charles is dying of cancer, possibly within months
2. Prince William is supposed to become king
3. Kate wants to divorce William after an affair (or even worse, e.g. DV)
4. The circumstances of the divorce would make William a deeply unpopular king and harm their reputation, possibly to the point of a majority rejecting the monarchy. Therefore, they’re trying to cover it up.
5. The line of succession (lol) goes to their children, so if they skip William the UK would have to have a child monarch - again, harming the reputation of the monarchy to the point of the public questioning it.
6. The line of succession then goes to Harry, who has been outcast from the Royal Family.
7. The line of succession avoiding a child monarch then goes to….Prince Andrew

The end of the royal family would be so fucking funny, especially if it plays out this way

Somehow I missed that Sam Altman of OpenAI is attempting to con the UAE out of $7 trillion dollars. Absolutely incredible levels of astronomical grift.

When they fart low we fart high

UAW president urges other unions to align contract expirations in 2028 to “begin to flex our collective muscles” as “it’s important that we not only strike, but that we strike together”

Macklemore says Free Palestine

(In the second tweet in this thread)

Scottish First Minister states Israel is going too far.

His mother in law is trapped in Gaza. I fully expect MI5 to intervene in his political career because of this.