So according to the Independent it’s not Orban’s assault on democracy or his love of Putin that Trump admires but his tough stance on immigration and his Christian nationalism www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
16.02.2026 21:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@cpdickenson.bsky.social
Ancient historian/archaeologist. British. Live in the Netherlands. Hobbies: reading (obviously!), writing fiction, music (pop/Classical), painting miniatures. Tentatively getting back into blogging: https://thefourthsophistic.wordpress.com
So according to the Independent it’s not Orban’s assault on democracy or his love of Putin that Trump admires but his tough stance on immigration and his Christian nationalism www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
16.02.2026 21:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against Nixon which all were approved on bipartisan votes.
🎯Obstructing justice & mounting a cover-up
🎯Defying congressional subpoenas
🎯Interfering with and misusing the FBI/DOJ
Trump is outdoing Nixon by far.
Matt Goodwin said in a post on X: “Welcome to the UK. Where you go to prison for 18 months for anti-immigration tweets. This is insane.”
No. What is insane is shrugging off incitement to racial murder.
Put this man in the bin, not the House of Commons.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
As if we needed more proof of how thankful the country should be that her premiership was mercifully short lived www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
16.02.2026 06:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Are we ready??? Senate and Congress seem to be losing…..
14.02.2026 14:15 — 👍 1340 🔁 420 💬 105 📌 33Political polls aren’t just for gathering opinion but also steering it. Imagine if the UK had polls with the questions: do you approve of Donald Trump’s assault on US democracy? is Trump a friend to the UK? How likely are you to vote for a Trump supporting party like the Tories or Reform?
15.02.2026 08:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please be careful in London. I have spent 25 years there, but I have never heard a story as frightening as this one from today in which nothing at all happened.
14.02.2026 12:07 — 👍 3717 🔁 708 💬 531 📌 118He should have said “was unparalleled”.
14.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission 👏
Especially on defending democracy. And we need to be very clear where the threats are coming from. There has been an international effort to destroy democracy the last decade or so. The current US government is now fully signed up to that agenda.
14.02.2026 13:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Especially on defending democracy. And we need to be very clear where the threats are coming from. There has been an international effort to destroy democracy the last decade or so. The current US government is now fully signed up to that agenda.
14.02.2026 13:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Europe and the UK should come closer together – on security, on economy or on defending our democracies.
Ten years on from Brexit, our futures are as bound as ever.
So, it is in our common interest to be ambitious about our partnership.
I prefer it when ‘Traitors’ describes the TV program, not the people potentially electing the next government.
14.02.2026 11:14 — 👍 1165 🔁 266 💬 64 📌 9Caretakers of managed decline?!!! The only decline is the one they are deliberately trying to inflict. The decline into authoritarianism and rampant corruption www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
14.02.2026 09:05 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Pure Donald Trump delusional insanity amplifying his mental state.
13.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 1458 🔁 276 💬 318 📌 61These people are unbearable, their ideas are toxic, we have to defeat them and stump them into the ground.
14.02.2026 09:07 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Caretakers of managed decline?!!! The only decline is the one they are deliberately trying to inflict. The decline into authoritarianism and rampant corruption www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
14.02.2026 09:05 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2The Democratic Party and the Anti-democracy Party
14.02.2026 08:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
13.02.2026 17:50 — 👍 24189 🔁 7277 💬 691 📌 595Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.
13.02.2026 20:20 — 👍 18320 🔁 5787 💬 497 📌 243When a person who tried to steal an election with an orchestrated insurrection tells you he’s going to protect future elections, you’re fucked. The time to deal with him is now America. The rest of us are doing our part. Your turn.
Sincerely,
The Free World
You can fight Reform without talking about their ties to the global antidemocratic project. You can’t do that without saying “look what Trump is doing in the US”.
14.02.2026 07:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sounds like good stuff www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
14.02.2026 07:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
12.02.2026 19:46 — 👍 27317 🔁 11630 💬 2069 📌 1005“Mark Rutte [has] said maintaining Trump’s goodwill is indispensable for European security”. What goodwill? His intention is wholly malign. He’s working to spread his antidemocratic agenda here and in Ukraine he wants a Putin victory www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
13.02.2026 08:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0People’s judgement of character is clearly not as bad as I thought. If only they’d trust that in choosing which party to vote for. Politics doesn’t have to be complicated—voting for the worst people is never going to be good for a country. Just look at the US.
12.02.2026 10:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0People’s judgement of character is clearly not as bad as I thought. If only they’d trust that in choosing which party to vote for. Politics doesn’t have to be complicated—voting for the worst people is never going to be good for a country. Just look at the US.
12.02.2026 10:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Billionaires couldn’t care less about immigration really. What they care about is getting people riled up about immigration so as they’ll vote for the far right who’ll implement an agenda that protects their wealth
12.02.2026 10:33 — 👍 23 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0I know I shouldn’t have looked but this poll in the Sun is as depressing as it gets.
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