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It looks like BoJo has recorded an interview with the Triggernometry guys. Planning a comeback?

https://x.com/triggerpod/status/1899810971561910507

Probably not the best place to begin your manoeuvres. Weren't they the clowns who left Fraser Nelson speechless when they said Rishi Sunak could never be English?

I don't know about the other dude, but Kisin is inching his way to Magahood every day. He reversed ferreted when they didn't like his initial take on the Zelensky White House clash and laughably tried to act as though he didn't, now he is in the tricky position of supporting Ukraine (family connections among other reasons) but a lot of his new audience despising them.

My understanding was that he thought Zelensky was wrong over the Oval Office incident. At the same time he's corrected a lot of the lies about the war. Disappointing if he sells out for the $$$.

It's not dollars.

It's that people respond to stimuli.

If you have thousands of followers, and they yell at you being wrong, then you will try and correct your behaviour to maintain your standing with your followers.

That feedback loop - which social media encourages and amplifies - is why people find themselves going down crazy rabbit holes.

Take JK Rowling. She had some perfectly sensible, considered remarks about trans people back in 2020. But that attracted a lot of followers who were virulently anti-trans, and so she found that comments and tweets she made that were anti-trans got lots of likes. And those which had nuance, did not. She did more of the things that got likes.

And she ended up in a situation where she's yelling at a poor Algerian boxer who is definitely not trans.

I'm not sure that explains her position. The reality is that anyone who put their head above the parapet on that issue got a massive amount of abuse for it. I suspect that is more likely to have changed her. She hardly needs the fame or popularity.

'Poor Algerian boxer' who shouldn't be competing in the female category. That's the fault of the boxing authorities though. I'm sure JK may have overstepped the mark on occasion but compared to the vitriolic abuse she got? No contest.

It looks like BoJo has recorded an interview with the Triggernometry guys. Planning a comeback?

https://x.com/triggerpod/status/1899810971561910507

Probably not the best place to begin your manoeuvres. Weren't they the clowns who left Fraser Nelson speechless when they said Rishi Sunak could never be English?

I don't know about the other dude, but Kisin is inching his way to Magahood every day. He reversed ferreted when they didn't like his initial take on the Zelensky White House clash and laughably tried to act as though he didn't, now he is in the tricky position of supporting Ukraine (family connections among other reasons) but a lot of his new audience despising them.

My understanding was that he thought Zelensky was wrong over the Oval Office incident. At the same time he's corrected a lot of the lies about the war. Disappointing if he sells out for the $$$.

It's not dollars.

It's that people respond to stimuli.

If you have thousands of followers, and they yell at you being wrong, then you will try and correct your behaviour to maintain your standing with your followers.

That feedback loop - which social media encourages and amplifies - is why people find themselves going down crazy rabbit holes.

Take JK Rowling. She had some perfectly sensible, considered remarks about trans people back in 2020. But that attracted a lot of followers who were virulently anti-trans, and so she found that comments and tweets she made that were anti-trans got lots of likes. And those which had nuance, did not. She did more of the things that got likes.

And she ended up in a situation where she's yelling at a poor Algerian boxer who is definitely not trans.

The latest Canadian poll from Leger shows a tie between the CPC and LPC at 37 %.

This was conducted after Carney won the leadership contest .

The previous poll had the CPC leading by 13 points 43 to 30. The poll before had them ahead by 38 to 35.

The polls seem very volatile but it still seems likely that Carney will call an early election as his best chance is if the tariff issue remains at the forefront of the news and not on more domestic matters .

So he has a magic polling tree as well?

It's the Trump dividend.

IF GOVERNOR Carney DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY allocate 10% of his polling to me, I will be forced to implement a new 25% tariff on all his future ratings.

PERFECT call with the BEAUTIFUL President Sheinbaum of Mexico. We discovered that we both love delicious CARNE ASADA TACOS. Such a succulent Meal, especially for BREAKFAST. If you're listening Governor Carney, you're not invited, but you MAY be on the Menu.

It’s become impossible to tell what’s an actual Trump post, from the made up stuff.

The latest Canadian poll from Leger shows a tie between the CPC and LPC at 37 %.

This was conducted after Carney won the leadership contest .

The previous poll had the CPC leading by 13 points 43 to 30. The poll before had them ahead by 38 to 35.

The polls seem very volatile but it still seems likely that Carney will call an early election as his best chance is if the tariff issue remains at the forefront of the news and not on more domestic matters .

So he has a magic polling tree as well?

It's the Trump dividend.

IF GOVERNOR Carney DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY allocate 10% of his polling to me, I will be forced to implement a new 25% tariff on all his future ratings.

PERFECT call with the BEAUTIFUL President Sheinbaum of Mexico. We discovered that we both love delicious CARNE ASADA TACOS. Such a succulent Meal, especially for BREAKFAST. If you're listening Governor Carney, you're not invited, but you MAY be on the Menu.

Trump is such a twat. What has become of America?

For the avoidance of doubt, that was my parody, not a real tweet.

We have passed the point where one can tell parody from reality when it comes to Trump.

Sobering assessment of the current situation from Ryan McBeth. The TL:DR is that a lot of the problems were caused by the Biden administration in its cackhanded withdrawal from Afghanistan and abandonment of its Afghan allies, and that America is entirely right to focus on Pacific and insist Europe pay much more for its defence. But he also points out that if America gets a rep for acting pragmatically instead of morally, and leaving its allies in the lurch, then its allies will drift away to the detriment of all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuNHJGozE6U (11 mins)

Yes - he has some very good points, and is pithy. Especially he gets into the unnecessary self-inflicted harm that the current administration is doing to the USA itself, including in international rep and loss of trust. He is good at opening other possibilities I had not considered on a couple of things.

He is superficial on some other things imo, which may be a result of lack of time and rushing to video - an example is the statement that he does not think Europe has built any new munitions plants. Anyone who follows Perun can probably find a list - we have 2 in this country which are new or expanded. Across Europe it is probably 15 or 20, depending on categories.

I don't agree with him on the Biden administration being responsible for the mess in Afghanistan; he inherited a dog's breakfast process that was already 2/3-3/4 through.

AFAICS it was Trump doing exactly what he had done in Ukraine - the Great Dealmaker had ignored everyone (allies, US army, Iran, Afghan Government) and gone straight to the enemy, and been taken to the cleaners making an impossible agreement. In Afghanistan Trump had Qasem Soleimani, head of 1/5 of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the Taliban's backers, killed a few weeks before talking to the Taliban so there was a bounty on US soldiers' heads, and when he had his agreement in place the US Army did not even know what was in it.

Essentially he sold the farm, then ran away like the reckless incompetent he is - leaving other people to clear up the mess at a cost he did not give a toss about.

I'm pleased that in Ukraine the UK / De and Fr have managed to get a cease fire agreement proposal in place that includes for example prisoners and stolen children. Even if it is rejected, the agenda is now far more realistic, and Trump can't throw Ukr under the bus quite so easily.