Notices by Linda (lassielmr@mastodon.scot)

@darnell my money is he’ll be out by Monday

@HistoPol @GreenFire @GottaLaff have to admit I totally agree with you and most of us outside the USA would broadly agree. You’ve articulated it much less clumsy that I do. It is now estimated Trump has a 66% chance of being elected. Trump has a low approval rating, but to counter him it does seem illogical that the Dems have renominated someone with an equally low approval rating. Every gaff Biden makes now will cast doubts in soft Dem voters.

@jacklaridian @WhippoorwillSong Anne Applebaum has written a good article on this in the Atlantic. She too is in favour of replacing and has a credible plan on how to do it.

@CloudyMrs found it ‘For example, a toolmaker might make the part of a machine that fills a chocolate mould”
So not only is Starmer a tool, he’s as useful as chocolate ashtray 😎

@CloudyMrs @peterbrown I hope it’s not the Tories. What is becoming evident though is Starmer is going to be in trouble once the honeymoon period is over. He’s pretty weak and anyone with a sharp mind will run circles around him.

@CloudyMrs half expecting Starmer to borrow Ian Murray’s Union Flag suit for the next debate

@CloudyMrs 🤣😎😎

@CloudyMrs the danger is if he wins Clacton he will have a bigger platform and you can see Reform getting greater traction in England. Just need to look at Le Pen and Wilders in France & the Netherlands. Been a slow burn but they do have considerable support. Add to that the influence from the far right in the USA which will only increase if Trump is sucessful.

@CloudyMrs tend not to think the majority adore him, but there is still this section in society who still think like colonialists and of England ruling the world and are racist towards anyone not white English. If they were in the USA they’d be the MAGA mob. The less educated wear it on their sleeve, the politically aware hide it behind closed doors. He manipulates the former and the latter fund him. Sadly the BBC platform him - something I’ve never understood.

@zleap @anathema_device only eejits and Zionist zealots think that way. I’m Jewish. I am pro Palestine. I detest the actions of Hamas. I detest Israel. The Israeli Gov have been reposible for heinous crimes towards Palestinians since 1948 - way before Hamas existed. Israel will never get rid of Hamas, esp now there are 10s of thousands of youth ready to take revenge because of the genocidal actions of Israel. And the USA is fully complicit

@CloudyMrs @AnthonyFStevens @Cyclist @soren no point in engaging him - clearly has zero knowledge in what he’s talking about.

@darnell Biden should be charged with war crimes. And there is every chance he will at some point.

@HistoPol @claralistensprechen3rd @TheEconomist @GreenFire you mean England🤣 UK didn’t exist back then

@WarnerCrocker You have two authoritarian candidates. Everyone knows Trump’s deranged, but Biden’s just a different flavour - two cheeks of the same ass pretending the other is the lesser of two evils. Biden’s unconditional support of Israel, funding, arming and complicity in genocide and calling student protests anti-semitism is not normal. The US is not remotely a functioning democracy. Politicians controlled by the Lobby, incl AIPAC, have abandoned any pretence of democracy

@HistoPol @melanie @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @djm_black oh he was groomed from an early age to become one of the elite. His parents came from East Africa - all East Africans of Indian heritage were the higher classes who used to run Kenya and Tanganyika on behalf of the British. Nobody gets sent to Winchester to be anything but. The icing on the cake was marrying into one of the richest families in the world.

@vfrmedia @HistoPol @philip_cardella @CarlG eh? Police Scotland retention levels are actually very high. Remember there is not one Police Force across Britain. And figures quoted by the SPF have consistent been proven to be lies.

@HistoPol @dominiksteiger are you forgetting Israel started this? I hold no love for Iran but they too have a right to protect themselves. If Israel responds expect Iran, Yeman, Lebanon and Syria to attack and much more heavily than last night. And only eejits believe a world coming from the IDF or OSINT

@CloudyMrs @ScepticalScot1 do have I.

@DaWoDerPfeffer @thomasfuchs @cswalker21 @QasimRashid but we’re not social countries, we’re capitalist like you. The difference is most developed nations know preventative medicine is cheaper than sick patients. That a healthy person is better for the economy than a sick one. The USA monetarises everything and puts business before people. Income and wealth inequality is higher in the USA than in almost any other developed country

@CloudyMrs me too.