'Eff that. North London. Saturday afternoon/evening. Pain in the ass area. Lot more vibe down in West London. Not that you'll exactly have time for cafe seating for vibes after the game if you have to scoot off to Brentford!!
Thank f.uck for that. Otherwise there’s a decent chance you’d have been tainted and returned to us tainted, full of ridiculous excuses.
The past week has been hard on us. I think the group needs a Texas story. A good old fella from West Texas got in the habit of putting a heaping spoonful of gunpowder in his coffee every morning, having heard this practice would aid his health and produce a long life. Apparently it worked. He died in his sleep at the age of 106 leaving four children, 12 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren and a 20 foot crater where the crematorium used to be.
One of the common themes worldwide for the Lumpy types is that their country is full, can’t take any more immigrants, etc. Farage in the UK, Orban in Hungary, Meloni in Italy and so on. Ireland is one of the most prosperous countries in Europe so it has attracted a fair number of immigrants and the rise of the Lumpy/Farage types. But here’s an interesting graphic from Twitter.
In many ways, those figures, and what from I’ve seen elsewhere, are a huge triumph for Putin. The US has become a huge, unpaid, right wing troll factory. Actively looking to subvert the world order and democracy. They probably don’t know they’re in league with Putin and his aims, unwittingly doing his bidding. But there you go.
PM of Albania had a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.
the stable genius, Nobel Peace Prize wannabe winner, President of The United States of America has a message for everyone .... https://xcancel.com/spencerhakimian/status/1973994459999179086?s=46&t=q3w4iokRYJyz_JobJRZQfw ... and the RW morons had the fukking audacity to question Biden's mental heath!!
One guy on these boards seems blithely unaware of the outcome of feeding a dog's dinner of mostly mendacious or just illogical philosophy to the mass of the stupider (or/and just angrily aggressive) sections of society.....
Now this is interesting and while unverified, is entirely plausible. Therefore possibly true, not actually true. Hegseth’s hokey-cokey? Where he made all senior armed forces officers leave their posts and journey from all over the world to listen to him tell them how to be Hegseth-brave? And was then joined by Lumpy who sped past Alice down the rabbit hole by the end of his first paragraph? The itch that many cannot scratch is why did they have to attend in person for what was essentially an email or at a stretch a zoom call? Well here’s one (unverified) theory. Facial recognition technology (FRT) works best in real life, not through a screen. And when you ally FRT with AI in real life and in real time, with a camera on each face, you can, supposedly, easily enough judge correctly people’s actual reactions to what is being said. Who’s with us and who’s agin us? Come the revolution, who’s first against the wall and who’s first to be given the authority to offer a blindfold? Friend, foe, unknown, who are ya? That’s what the Hegseth hokey-cokey was all about out.
from King Fascist himself.... Stephen Miller is a stain on humanity. We all know he was mocked, ridiculed, and beat up often as kid for a being an obnoxious better-than-you snob. What a shame ********faces like him are able to rise up in this world.
Put his thoughts together with Trump and his "enemy within" comments to the Generals and things are looking very ominous.
Miller and Russ Vought are doing a lot of dirty work behind the scenes. Miller has ordered multiple strikes on Venezuelan boats. Vought is running roughshod over the federal government. They're both fascists. Trump seems to be a fascist figurehead at this point.
after he showed that he has no limits on Jan 6th, they all came out from the shadows to pump his head with ideas. he doesn't give a rat's ass what the ideas are, he just wants to get his face on tv or online 24/7. instability? chaos? fascism? kill democracy? kill civil rights? talk utter bullshit nonsense every day? he doesn't give the tiniest shit. someone else's problem. just keep him in the headlines every day. ETTD and he has now hold of the US in the tightest dictator grip ever seen, and it'll only get worse.
Stephen Miller has been calling judges terrorists when they rule against Trump. Judge Goodstein did. Today her house was burned to the ground and three people were injured.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/06/supreme-court-donald-trump Why does the supreme court keep bending the knee to Trump? Two of the world’s best-known authoritarian leaders – Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s president – have each had at least 15 years at their country’s helm to pack the courts with loyalists and to pressure and intimidate judges. And no surprise, judges in those countries have repeatedly done what Orbán and Erdoğan want. Donald Trump has not had the opportunity to pack the US supreme court to nearly the same degree. Nor has he, despite his brash, bullying ways, done much to pressure or browbeat the court’s nine justices. Nevertheless, the court’s conservative supermajority has ruled time after time in favor of Trump since he returned to office. The six conservative justices have fallen into line much like Hungary’s and Turkey’s judges, even though the supreme court’s justices have life tenure to insulate them from political pressures. With the court’s new term beginning on Monday, many Americans are dismayed that the conservative justices have been so submissive to Trump, the most authoritarian-minded president in US history. Notwithstanding the US’s celebrated system of checks and balances, the justices have utterly failed to provide the checks on Trump that many legal scholars had expected. In ruling for Trump, the chief justice, John Roberts, and the other conservatives have let him gut the Department of Education, fire Federal Trade Commission and National Labor Relations Board members, and strip temporary protected status from hundreds of thousands of immigrants. The rightwing supermajority has also let Trump halt $4bn in foreign aid, fire tens of thousands of federal employees despite contractual protections and deport migrants to countries where they have no connection. In these and other cases, the supermajority has ceded huge power to Trump, for instance, by greatly reducing Congress’s constitutional power over spending as it let Trump unilaterally gut agencies and halt funding approved by Congress. What’s more, the court seems eager to snuff out independent, nonpartisan federal agencies by letting Trump fire agency chairs and commissioners without giving any reason, even though Congress approved laws explicitly saying those officials could only be dismissed for cause. (Pleasing corporate America, the court ordered last Wednesday that Lisa Cook can remain on the Federal Reserve Board, at least temporarily, while litigation proceeds over whether Trump can fire her as part of his effort to end the central bank’s independence.) “The chief justice is presiding over the end of the rule of law in America,” J Michael Luttig, a highly regarded conservative former federal appellate judge, said. The conservative justices have repeatedly done Trump’s bidding even though they don’t begin to face the intense pressures that Hungary’s and Turkey’s judges face. Erdoğan has sometimes purged and blackballed judges seen as insufficiently loyal, while Orbán’s high-ranking allies have berated less obedient judges as “traitors”. The US supreme court has ruled for Trump in a startlingly high percentage of cases this year. It has issued 24 decisions from its emergency docket (often without giving any reasons) and ruled in Trump’s favor about 90% of the time. In doing so, the court has repeatedly vacated injunctions that lower courts had issued after concluding that Trump, with his 209 executive orders, had egregiously broken the law. Adam Bonica, a Stanford political science professor, found that in Trump administration cases decided between 1 May and 23 June, federal district courts ruled against Trump 94.3% of the time (82 out of 87 cases), often after looking closely at the facts. In contrast, the supreme court ruled 93.7% of the time for Trump (15 out of 16 cases), often without taking a close look at the facts. “The supreme court has pulled the rug out from under the lower federal courts, and it has done so deliberately and knowingly,” Luttig said, adding that the court is “acquiescing in and accommodating the president’s lawlessness”. With the court siding so often with Trump, a new Gallup poll found that a record high 43% of Americans think the court is too conservative, higher than the 36% who think the court is “about right”. Moreover, the court’s overall approval rating has fallen to its lowest level since Gallup began measuring, dropping below 40% for the first time in August (before climbing slightly) – and down from nearly 60% in the early 2000s. Steven Levitsky, a political science professor at Harvard and co-author of How Democracies Die, voiced bewilderment that the court has been so obliging toward a president who he says is a clear threat to democracy. According to Levitsky, courts come under the thumb of authoritarian governments in several ways. One way is “ideological agreement.” He said the court’s most rightwing members, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, seem in fundamental agreement with Trump, but he said the other conservatives don’t love Trump even if they often rule for him. Levitsky suggested that those justices are so hostile toward liberals and liberal arguments that they gravitate towards Trump’s side in case after case. Court packing is another way courts fall under an authoritarian’s sway. Orbán, Erdoğan and their legislative allies have appointed the overwhelming majority of their countries’ judges, while Trump has appointed three of the nine justices. With life tenure, the justices should in theory feel free from political pressure and able to rule against Trump. In the past, many justices have ruled against the presidents and parties that appointed them. Levitsky sees another phenomenon at work: abdication. Pointing to both Congress and the supreme court, he said: “The major institutions that have the authority and responsibility to stand up and stop an authoritarian have declined to do so.” In his view, the conservative justices may have made a major miscalculation. “They are overconfident about the strength of our institutions,” Levitsky said. “They don’t really think our democracy is in danger. They don’t think it can really happen here. I really think a majority of members of the US establishment are in that camp.” The conservative justices have increasingly embraced the unitary executive theory, a once-fringe, four-decade-old notion that the president has sole, unlimited authority over the executive branch and should, for instance, be free to fire members of independent agencies along with hundreds of thousands of federal employees. “If they really believed that Trump was a threat to democracy, they wouldn’t be giving him so much power,” Levitsky said. The court’s conservatives, Levitsky and many legal scholars say, are also engaged in appeasement. Roberts and the conservatives are “scared out of their minds that they will have to play chicken with Trump,” Levitsky said. “The worst thing for them is if the government ignores them and they don’t have any authority. They’re just terrified that Trump will trample on them and undermine their authority. Trump is not someone you want to play chicken with. They’re terrified of a big, high-profile fight with Trump.” In other words, the conservative justices are so eager to save face and avoid confrontation that they have often given a green light to what lower courts have seen as Trump’s lawlessness. Meanwhile, the three liberal justices – Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson – have written repeated, often angry dissents that chastise the supermajority for acquiescing to Trump’s lawlessness and steamrolling over parts of the constitution. One theory is that the conservative justices are deliberately giving Trump small victories – vacating lower courts’ injunctions and letting the president’s executive orders proceed and do their damage – as the justices wait for those cases to return to the supreme court, perhaps in a year or two. At that point, those cases would be fully briefed and argued, and the court would issue formal, longer rulings. Legal scholars hope, but are not optimistic, that the thus far compliant court will be more willing to defy Trump when the cases are fully briefed and argued, with the birthright citizenship and tariff cases most often mentioned. “What they’re doing,” Levitsky said, “is giving Trump small victories in an effort to placate him or preserve as much political capital for when the big fights come. It’s appeasement. Appeasement usually doesn’t work when you cede power to an authoritarian executive. It sends signals to society that no one is going to stop the guy. Ceding power to someone like Trump is really dangerous.” After Jair Bolsonaro, a rightwing Trump ally, was elected Brazil’s president in 2019, Alexandre de Moraes, a prominent member of Brazil’s supreme court, feared what he saw as Bolsonaro’s authoritarian tendencies. De Moraes cracked down on Bolsonaro’s efforts to spread disinformation on social media to undermine his opponents. When a mob of Bolsonaro’s allies stormed government buildings in January 2023, pushing for a coup d’etat, de Moraes led efforts to prosecute Bolsonaro. (Last month, Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison after being convicted of plotting a coup.) “When Bolsonaro got elected, de Moraes realized that he’s a threat to democracy,” Levitsky said. “He thought that the Brazilian supreme court could be Chamberlain or Churchill.” (Neville Chamberlain, a British prime minister, agreed to let Hitler take over a German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia in 1938, as part of the Munich agreement, infamously declaring that the agreement would assure “peace for our time”.) “The [US] supreme court hasn’t wanted to be Churchill.” Levitsky said. “John Roberts has been Chamberlain. I think that is incredible destructive behavior.”
I don't like how that article is trying to state that they're just trying to appease Trump. That might be the case generally, but there's a level of corruption here that is more than evident. Kavanagh, Thomas and Alito are three of the most corrupt judges around. Alito might just be a straight up racist, and Clarence Thomas is clearly anti-Black people for his uncle Thomas reasons. Barrett every so often seems to have a sliver of humanity. Gorsuch - i'm not quite sure about. Roberts is a spineless ********ing tool.
yeah the article was pretty milquetoast. wording closer to yours would have been far preferable (that sounds sarcastic but absolutely is not). the point about "keeping their powder dry for a showdown" is one that might have some weight .... but ceding ground to him on hundreds of little things isn't helping the country and may well be viewed in years to come as the thin edge of a fukking country-breaking wedge.