Bill Nagel

Uh-oh, sounds like the jig is up

I'm going to have to lower that assessment by 500%.

Mine too 😤

Ah, thus the high VVD score. At least they're out of the house; the 52% overlap with the SGP means that there's an even chance that your wife has to stay at home

Actually, that clustering between 40-60% is a classic mushy-middle (aka centrist) outcome. My results were as expected: mid/high 90s for some parties, under 20% for others. Moral clarity FTW :)

OK, so clearly not a centrist. Are you sure you even have children?

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Me: ??
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Wrong, try again

Well, of course--a minority cabinet is the perfect vehicle for getting absolutely nothing done while blaming everyone else for it

truly baffling that a culture obsessed with machismo and swimming in semi-automatics would struggle with gun violence

Sounds like the time is ripe for someone to try to entice Louis van Gaal into politics

Put your money on it now: Trump's going to win the 2026 Cy Young Award! In both leagues!

It's how he allows himself to pretend that he's a "rational moderate"

Volgens mij zegt hij iets meer in de richting van 'als ik Moskou en Leningrad [sic] gratis erbij zou krijgen'. Ook knettergek natuurlijk, maar op een andere (en volgens mij nog meer sinistere) manier

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Nou ja, na vier jaar onder president Thierry Baudet was vd Plas dan misschien wel een opluchting.

Uiteraard alleen maar witte bolletjes op en aan tafel...

He'll only accept the long-form death certificate.

Kan best hoor, de NYT slaat de plank vaak mis, maar die zou je niet zo makkelijk kunnen afdoen als een 'charlatan' (dat vond ik écht OTT)

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Heeft ook 125 jaar geduurd, dus meer om uit te kiezen 😉

Give that man a Harley with a sticky throttle and don't tell him about the Pittsburgh Left

Schoof can appeal to tradition or otherwise press a resignation, but I think that's it.

But thanks for the chuckle at the idea that Schoof has (had) any real authority at all in this horrorkabinet.

Not true that they necessarily need the backing of a coalition party -- otherwise how do you explain Martin van Rijn? Ministers are supported by a majority of the 2e Kamer and appointed by W-A; their party leader can't force them to leave.

Bontenbal wil blijkbaar de huisarts van Nederland worden. Kan prima algemeen leefstijladvies geven maar alleen doorverwijzen naar een specialist als een echt probleem opgelost moet worden. En dan helemaal niet als het iets gaat kosten.

Mildly interested as to whether any PVV ministers (e.g., Coenradie) decide to stay on in the cabinet; they're not obliged to quit just because Wilders says so. Wonder if any of them have political prospects outside of the bubble or if they all owe their careers solely to the Great White Hope.

@herring1967.bsky.social Gutted to learn that the 'King of the Herrings' is not who I thought it was

A study from a decade ago or so found that LGBT acceptance among PVV voters was the lowest among the nonreligious parties; the obvious caveats aside, I rather doubt that this has changed much in the interim. He'll lose the 2 Henks from Venlo and the 2 Ingrids from Kerkrade and that'll be about it.

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