Simon James

Too busy whacking puppies to watch.

I want to do a 🧵 about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's *extremely* revealing & educational.

First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.

Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.

EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR by Our Apocalypse Staff HELENA HANDCART THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode. It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services, not to mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed). Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

Mass incitement to violence within the UK media yet no one in the government even mentions it.

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

He's likely apologised already to Kemi for helping her say stupid stuff in that interview.

Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled

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This reads as brilliant satire. Unfortunately, it's likely real.

Like watching a chimpanzee with an abacus

People just don’t get it. If trump was really angry at Putin and wanted to sanction Russia, he could do that right now. He has that power. Yet time and again he delays, and says he will do it in “weeks”.
The only rational conclusion is that he doesn’t want to sanction Putin.

If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.

“I’ve Always Gotten Along with President Putin” | Trump’s TED Talk on War and Friendship

Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s

This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.

Here's why.

BBC Vitaly: "Art of the Deal" guy not much good at negotiating. #wato

President TACO is dithering on imposing sanctions on Russia, but slammed in additional tariffs for Brazil and India without any ultimatum. Seems an rather important distinction, #wato.

Was that a BBC lox pop? #wato

He that shall not be named, is doing quite well with far-right voters, then.

Perhaps Boris is thinking of some kind of AI commode - that this week's Mail column sorted, anyway.

If I lived in Bourton-on-the-Water, I'd be getting quite nervous now.

Almost the definition of outclassed.

She's also a prime exhibit for today's top story on dodgy plastic surgery.

Trump-necrotising fasciitis has spread throughout BBCNews now - Webb is merely Patient Zero. #r4today

A graph of the timeline for Trump’s 2nd term tariffs

Good morning. It is now 12:01 AM, which means tariffs have increased on $1.6T in US imports from more than 90 countries. Those increases go from as small as 5% for goods from the EU & Japan to as high as 31% on Syrian goods, driving the overall tariff rate up more than 2%.

They're always looking to exploit any opportunity to start a fire.

Gonna start using that Douglas Adams line about "we may only be 10% of the market, but it's the top 10%"

Not the first person to make this point, but Labour have got a healthy voter base that most social democratic western European parties would kill for, and they pine for the voter base they had in the 20th century which a, doesn't exist anymore, and b, was when they lost by default

The comparison to how Brazil is immediately hit with higher tariffs because it had the temerity to arrest Bolsanaro, to Trump's approach to Russia, is telling.

If someone informs Kennedy that this might kill white people, maybe he'd reconsider.

An historian wouldve better suited that slot.

It's the same drip-drip as the anti-European propaganda that led to Brexit, only sped up because Farage is 61 and looks like shit, so he's in a hurry.