The Fuzzy Duck

“America First”
“No Foreign Wars”

When the nightmare of Trump is over, the court cases bringing these goons to justice will take years.

ICE denies using excessive force in Broadview, Illinois.

Never mind the videos…

I didn’t say anything about incarceration. I’m talking about political tactics. You can’t win that cohort over with reason. Ken Clarke called it feeding buns to crocodiles. Eventually you run out of buns and the crocodiles eat you. Starmer is currently feeding them buns.

Smart politicians don’t pander to the morons, they manipulate them. I know that’s cynical, but those shouting at hotels and going on about small boats are idiots. Making policy based on their opinions is daft.

Ken Clarke said the problem with feeding buns to the crocodile is that eventually you run out of buns and it eats you.

Agreed, but the media loves populists. Gets them clicks and no-one notices the oligarchs picking their pockets while they’re all worked up about ‘illegals’ in hotels and ‘no-go’ area cities.

They're just copying the Trump MAGA playbook from 2016 onwards. By definition, half the people are thicker than average and that's all you need to win an election in an age of unregulated social media.

Doesn't help that the Labour government are utterly inept at strategy and communications.

The US media has me in mind of veteran UK politician Kenneth Clarke who said, "the problem with feeding buns to the crocodile is that eventually you run out of buns and it eats you."

The difference is that Trump started eating the MSM years ago, but they still feed him buns in the hope he'll stop.

Dolly Parton remains one of the world's best humans.

Maxwell is being offered better conditions in return for her silence once they have edited out anything that will implicate Trump and his backers.
We will never get the truth. Never.

Once it’s been edited to the point of implicating no one remotely associated with the administration, the GOP, or any of its donors, you might see a heavily redacted version.

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.

My whole business model is based on bucking the trend. We hire people to solve customer issues and make processes smooth. We have adequate cover for absences of all kinds. Works great.

Here’s what’s happening.
- The Epstein Files damn Trump and many others. Neither admin has wanted to release.
- Trump knows he has to falsify the record but Maxwell could call foul.
- DoJ gets Maxwell better digs in return for her silence.

Sordid af

None of the Epstein/Maxwell survivors were notified of Maxwell’s transfer to the minimum security facility.

Gestapo. On the streets. With the support of most people, it seems, given that the GOP now controls every element of public life.

All the village idiots have access to the same social media.

For 15 years it worked really well. The water authorities were fecking awful before. Shite drinking water, dead rivers, turd strewn beaches and managed by bloated old-boys clubs. It was a corrupt shambles. Sadly, in the last 15 years, it’s come back full circle.

-someone there through it all

Trump’s Gestapo will forever be a stain on America’s reputation.

This shouldn’t even be a topic of debate. Everyone is entitled to due process under the constitution, whether you think they’re a criminal or not. This includes crimes relating to immigration.

I saw that. Closed the app immediately. Silly arses.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

US healthcare is both the worst and the most expensive in the developed world.

It’s that way because you’ve allowed politics to be utterly corrupted by the private sector.

Nothing will change until that is fixed.

The US will not defeat fascism until regulation prevents Fox News from spoon feeding propaganda to an apathetic populace.

Fine. Fuck Trump. He has less than 18 months before becoming a lame duck. In the mean time, the world will wean itself off the US.

Jesus fucking Christ

It was hard to cancel my NY Times subscription but, boy, was it worth it