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There’s Enough Upper Class Twit Of The Year To Go Around
In a speech conceding the biggest electoral defeat in the history of the Conservative Party, soon-to-be former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said, “I have heard your anger, your disappointment, and I take responsibility for this loss.”
Former Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss responded to losing her seat in the election with the observation: “We should never have chosen the weaselly little shit as the Party leader. Of course he was responsible for the loss! He and he alone!”
The Conservative Prime Minister before her, Boris Johnson, responded to the election results by saying: “Rishi would not have been my first pick for Party leader. Or my twelfth. Or…or…or even my seventh. After my solid stewardship of the nation’s fortunes, I could have predicted that he would lead the country into a ditch. A ravine. A deep, dark chasm, even. Wait a second. I just realized – has someone made off with the Scotch?”
Meanwhile, Regress UK Party darling Nigel Farage, a key architect of Brexit who won a seat in Parliament for the first time after seven losses, said, “Is this a great country, or what?”
SOURCE: The Smarmian
[http://www.thesmarmian.com/world/2024/jul/05/poison-sunak]
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Take It From A Fabulous Furry Freak Who’s Been There
SOURCE: The Amazing Chocolate Yummies Blog
[http://www.chocoyummies.net/]
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Sigh. So Many War Crimes, So Little Space To Defend Them
So, the judge presiding over the case of the student encampment at the University of Toronto has ruled that the campers did not engage in antisemitism. All that proves is that antisemitism has been more thoroughly integrated into this society than even I feared!
I don’t need a judge to tell me what antisemitism is – I know it when I see it. Okay, I never went to the encampment, so I didn’t actually see it. But I saw people complain about it on the internet, and that’s good enough for me. I know antisemitism when I see people complain about it on the internet.
I did not see any Jews at the encampment. Not in what I saw online, in any case. Okay, some Jews claimed to have been there, so I guess they might have been. If so, they were…not antisemitic. That’s not how it works. They were clearly self-hating Jews. That’s how it works. They clearly don’t deserve to be Jews. As a proud Italian-Canadian, I can say that.
SOURCE: Toronto Startle
[http://www.thestartle.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestartle/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=
1088591831813&call_pageid=968335278492&col=968666972154]
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Citizens For Free Speech Opposes The Law
The Fact That It’s A Coalition Of Advertising Agencies Could Be Part Of The Problem…
The government of Wales has passed a motion making it against the law for a politician to lie to Parliament. The government promised to pass the legislation before the next scheduled election in 2026.
But can we be sure they were telling the truth?
SOURCE: Daily Semaphore
[http://www.news.semaphore.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=M5UF23LWOLFFPRFIRMFSM5WAVCBQ0JVC?nextPage=/DuereDE/wXeR.WzvwF?7wF~/DuereDE/s119/Os/14/JD141O.7wF!2qZiiv~/DueReDR/s119/Os/
14/e7DUeReDR.ZvwF!2iG3gimmygi2Z~vg3i&resize=null&_requestid=31213]
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This Story Could Use A Rewrite
If Only The Best Person For The Job Hadn’t Just Passed Away
Screenwriter Robert Towne has died at the age of 89. Forget it, Jake, it’s Hollywoodland.
SOURCE: Obits ‘R Us
[http://www.king.ids.net/~bdlm/obits_r_us.html]
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So Much Angst, So Much Wasted Emotion
If Biden Wins, Trump Will Challenge The Victory Up To The Supreme Court, Which Will Hand Him The Presidency
Democrats Can’t Win No Matter Who They Run, So They Really Need To Chill
Democratic National Conceders
@OSayCanYouDNC
WE’RE GONNA LOSE! WE’RE GONNA LOSE!! WE’RE GONNA LOSE!!! OMG, WE’RE GONNA LOSE!!!! WE’RE GONNA LOSE TO A CONVICTED FELON, AN ADJUDICATED RAPIST AND A GUY WHO LED AN INSURRECTION! WE’RE GONNA LOSE TO A GUY WHO LIED 37 TIMES IN THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES OF THE DEBATE! WE HAVE TO REPLACE BIDEN! THAT’S THE ONLY WAY WE’RE GONNA WIN!!!! WE HAVE TO RUN KAMALA HARRIS! NO – SHE’S TOO BLACK! WE HAVE TO RUN GAVIN NEWSOM!! NO, HE’S TOO LIBERAL!! WE HAVE TO RUN…MARCO RUBIO! YES, MARCO RUBIO!! HE’LL GET US THE SWING VOTERS WE NEED TO WIN THE ELECTION!!!!!!!!!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN, I’M PANICKING? I’M NOT PANICKING! YOU’RE PANICKING!!
SOURCE: Ending Trending Web Site
[http://endingtrending.blurgh/theyre-shocked-shocked-i-say-to-discover-how-old-biden-is/]
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Don’t You Just Love To See Callback Wales?
Trump ally Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred in New York State after a court fund he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss.
Standing in front of the Waldorf Car Wash, Giuliani defiantly responded, “What is this? Wales?”
SOURCE: The New York Crimes
[https://www.nycrimes.com/live/2024/07/07/newyork/giuliani-disbarred-waldorf-wales]
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