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Trump asked the people to vote as if he were on the ballot. THEY DID. Thank you Americans from coast to coast.
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders:
We must cut off all funding for the genocidal government in Israel. And we must substantially reduce military spending.
Instead of pouring $1.1 trillion into a bloated Pentagon and never-ending wars, a Democratic Congress must build the best public education system in the world with no teacher earning less than $60,000 a year.
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Farage is basically wrong about everything, always. He will end up on exactly the same political scrap heap.
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🚨 NEW: The leader of Reform UK in Hampshire has been charged with 35 offences, including 12 counts of rape and making indecent images of a child
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The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the poorest 34 *million* people.
The problem is not a pensioner or a young person looking for a job - the problem is wealth inequality.
We need a wealth tax. Now.
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This seems like a great time to reshare my favourite Sir Patrick Stewart performance, ‘What has the ECHR ever done for us?’ It’s just perfect in every possible way … including the ending 😂😂😂 RIP.
🎥 The Guardian
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Three down. Three left.
The people have spoken. We have had enough of the chaos, the hatred, the corruption, and the authoritarian idiots who think the world belongs to them.
Orbán, Bolsonaro and Vučić have all been rejected by voters.
Today, Netanyahu could be next. And Trump looks increasingly likely to earn his own big red cross in the midterms.
That leaves Putin.
The rest of us must make sure Moscow gets its red cross too, by giving Ukraine everything it needs to defeat Russia’s imperial ambitions.
The age of «strongmen» is looking a little less strong. And that is a beautiful thing.
Remember when you could wake up in the morning without wondering which country was being threatened, which ally had been insulted, or which international crisis had been manufactured overnight by a man with an oversized ego?
When politics was often boring, diplomacy happened behind closed doors, and world leaders generally tried to solve problems instead of creating three new ones before breakfast?
It wasn’t a perfect world. Far from it. But there was a certain peace in not having to listen to angry old men demanding the world’s attention every single day.
Imagine getting that peace back. Imagine a world where the morning news is about progress, discoveries and possibilities, rather than the latest threats, lies and tantrums.
We deserve that world again.
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This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Credit to: Jim Keller
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Today’s historic meeting in Iran sends a CLEAR SIGNAL to the world.
After decades of calling for regional security led by regional nations, Iran is moving toward a new framework alongside Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan.
The message is CLEAR: Regional peace and security must be built FROM WITHIN the region, by the nations of the region themselves.
In 5,225 Years of History, Iran Is More Powerful Than EVER. Today’s meeting on the eve of Israel’s elections is a SIGNAL to Netanyahu: Your Fall is Near Bibi. Jail awaits you.
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British manufacturing lost 20% of its capacity between 1979 and 1983, due to her aggressive monetarist policies. Steel and chemical plants, energy sector, automotive, electronics, not just coal mines. Unemployment went from 1.5m to 3.2m in 4 years. The oil windfall paid for it.
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The usual twisting of the truth by desperate right wing swamp donkeys.
Thatcher implemented the milk withdrawal & did not vote against it.
Labour did close more pits, through negotiated closure & alternative jobs, she killed communities with hers.
Utilities…you’re joking?
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Thatcher ruined this country,first time 3 million unemployed, started mass homelessness selling off council houses,sold off North sea oil British gas electric water rail, started privatisation in the NHS,stopped free school milk for kids,poll tax riots
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I view Boris JOHNSON as a criminal. He knew what he was doing and did it gleefully. He should have been locked up by now. This is what is wrong with this country. A fascist, sociopathic and psychopathic RULING ELITE who don't think the rules apply to them.
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I always said Reform couldn’t run a bath – seems I was wrong.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/s…
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Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day
Claims to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at £1.2m four-bedroom pad.
Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/s…