Best Of

.

Interesting commentary from CNN:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/03/25/cnns_enten_trump_is_more_popular_than_ever_americans_who_think_were_on_the_right_track_through_the_roof.html

Shows that despite the European backlash against Trump so far his popularity is holding up in America. Also suggest why the Dems have been going after Musk instead.

Don't confuse the Centrist Dads with FACTS

You’re only pretending to be supportive of Trump for trolling purposes. Like Just WilliamGlenn. It just happens to suit the mood this evening.

I am not supportive of Trump; I do see why he appeals to many Americans, and I very definitely see why a lot of Americans prefer him - for all his enormous flaws, even now - to the utter clownshow of lying, hypocritical Woke that is the Democrats

And that is the choice American voters had: it was him or Kamala Harris, who was only on the ballot because the Dems consciously lied about Biden's dementia to the entire country

Despite the Dems’ best efforts to hobble themselves in the last term, and despite their incumbency handicap, they weren’t far off in the popular vote or congress. So I expect and hope the prospect of Trump squatting like a toad over American politics will vanish as quickly as it did for Boris.

However, you are right that a lot of Americans - tens, maybe hundreds of millions of them - will continue to prefer him until the end. He slays their enemies. And their enemies are not the Russians, or the Chinese. Or even the EU. Their enemies are the libs.

The thing is, they really are

Just as the Woke Blob really IS the enemy in the UK, now. Far worse than Putin. They are destroying us through legal and illegal migration, through a corrupted and perverse judiciary, through evil undermining of natural patriotism, through leftoid Marxist nonsense taught in schools, and multiple other ways. They are destroying the country

If I didn't have a nice life and kids I might take up arms against them, if I could find them. Americans have arms, and they are allowed to own and use them, the Founding Fathers were right to enshrine that in the Constitution, along with Free Speech

Spend less time on X.
It's driving you potty.

@MZanona
NEW DETAILS about Stefanik's nomination being withdrawn:

In his convos with ppl today, Trump expressed frustration w/ Mike Waltz, per multiple sources.

The frustration is two-fold: Trump not only angry about group chat-gate, but ALSO annoyed that the race to replace Waltz in Florida is now tighter than it should be for GOP.

Rs confident they'll win, but Trump still doesn't like the optics/narrative.

It all has Trump spooked about the prospect of yet another special election for Stefanik's seat, even as NRCC says: “We’d win this seat in a special election and we’ll win it in a general election."

BOTTOM LINE: Trump realizing how much of a headache it was to pull ppl from House for his admin... exactly as he was warned.

https://x.com/MZanona/status/1905364430033944985

Boo:

That dramatically reduces the chances that the Dems take the House before the midterms. (Unless, of course, Waltz's district were to flip, which would be extraordinary.)

Presumably all the people warning about Trump becoming a fascist dictator will stand down after realising that he respects normal electoral politics?

He proved he doesn't respect normal electoral politics in 2020.

Evening all from the country's most overlooked city.
Bradford is less than 50 miles from my house. And I have been pretty much everywhere in the North. But actually I'd be exaggerating only a little to say that in my almost 50 years on the planet, I've never been.. Actually, I have been here a couple of times: I came on the train to go to the science and media museum; and I've driven through it a couple of times; and I've been to Ilkley and a couple of other villages in the northern fringes of the district. But I've never been to the city centre before.
It's a very handsome city. You can tell it's on its arse financially - it's no Leeds or Manchester. But arguably it has a more handsome city centre than either. And the hills add drama. Over the last decade the city council has been knocking down the ugly buildings to improve the views of the handsome works and offer some public space, and its worked very well indeed. The hills and the colour and the warreniness gives a feeling of the old town of Edinburgh, albeit an old town of Edinburgh full of poundshops.
But there's a future in which this becomes quite a desirable place to live.

I'm here because the wife and daughters have gone to see a show at the Alhambra, and I volunteered to drive them, driving in the dark/on motorways/in unfamiliar cities being no great problem for me but a source of stress for her. And it gave me an opportunity to inspect Bradford. After a pleasant mooch around the city centre, I've arrived in a little pub called the City Vaults which is like a microcosm of the city: beautiful but shabby, and remarkably cheap. Sadly my noble gesture means I can't spend the next two and a half hours drinking solidly (and cheaply). But a pleasure to be at large in a new city.


I've also seen a sign advertising a company called 'Brown Muff & Co.' Hurr Hurr Hurr.

Right now the Guardian website has four stories at the top, all different versions of “Rachel Reeves is a cruel, lying, incompetent clown”

Unbelievable hostility to a Labour Chancellor. I wonder if Labour’s polling might dip below 20

Unfair on Reeves because she's doing the right thing and no-one likes it.

If I may politely disagree. The function of the Labour Party is to increase the wealth and opportunities of the working class and the poor. To do this it increases equality by taxing the rich and spreading that wealth to the poor. But the belief has spread that one cannot tax the rich (because they leave) so the only tool Labour have left is to impoverish and immiserate the poor and/or working class, therefore obviating the entire point of the Labour movement.

If things keep going this way the South Wales Valleys will go Reform in 2029, which is Olympus has fallen for Labour. Starmer flirts unthinking with the destruction of his party, which as a metropolitan elite lawyer he failks to understand or even intuit.

You do have to think that a Labour Government taking a quarter of a million more into poverty has a fundamental problem.

But then, all Labour Governments leave office with fewer employed than they inherited.

At some point, voters WILL realise their business model is shite.

Employment in April 1997: 26.5mn
Employment in April 2010: 29.5mn

Employment rate in April 1997: 58.1%
Employment rate in April 2010: 58.2%

UK population rise between 1997 and 2010: 4.45m

That doesn't affect the rate though does it.

Because of the changing age pyramid in the country that expansion of the population is almost entirely of the retired. The working age population is pretty much unchanged. Without immigration taxes would be higher or pensions would be less, or both. This is the debate on immigration that we never have. Do we want to be pure but poor?

We need to increase our birthrate, on that Musk is right

We need to learn to live with a lower birth rate. Constantly trying to grow the population to maintain growth and create youngsters to provide for an ever increasing ageing population just leads water shortages, food shortages, migration, wars and climate warming.

We need alternative solutions, whatever they may be, but which does not mean Logan's run.

Do you appreciate how good robots are, now?

They are this good. This is not fake, this is not speeded up, this is real. They can, also, now do fine motor tasks - they can stack dishwashers and peel apples, they will be able to do nursing, tiling and plumbing


https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/1903092199287578763

Why do you think China is pouring trillions into robotics (Unitree is a Chinese company)? This is the answer to falling birth rates

Well good. Problem solved then. Let's not keep trying to force people to have babies. We cannot keep increasing the planet's population and a decrease would be good for the planet.

A rare moment of complete agreement. There are, simply, far too many people on the planet. I see it on my travels. We are trashing our home and destroying nature. We need to get the human population down to about 2bn, which it was as recently as 1950

All the nasty jobs can be done by the Chinese robots

I like to think we agree more, I just don't go into hyperbole (he says having predicted the end of the world) unlike yourself so it just doesn't get noticed. I say this bearing in mind I am a liberal in the very sense of personal freedoms.

So because of the hyperbole I push back on stuff that if put more moderately I might be agreeing with you on.

The reasons that birth rates are falling across the world are fascinating. One of my theories is that birth rate is falling because there are simply too many people on the planet: excess people leads to excess demand for housing, which drives up housing costs, which drives down the amount of money we have for everything else (e.g. babies). Having children in the modern world is ruinously expensive. This is true anywhere in the world with an urban population (and it is only places late to urbanise like Niger that still have high birth rates.) Why are birth rates falling? Because there are too many people.

I have toyed with writing a thread on birth rates. I find it fascinating that such a profound change is going on and has only recently started to attract a bit of attention. I find it even more fascinating that there is no consensus to why it happens.

I think that it's quite simple. Most women quite like the idea of having a baby, or possibly two, but the actual process is traumatic and indeed potentially life threatening, so as soon as they have the technology to limit their families they do so.
Sex is fun, but actually having babies isn't!

My wife said the pregnancy, the birth and the morning sickness she could go through. But conception, she said, never again.

Ukraine's F-16s start targeting ground objects in combat missions

The jets are involved in defending the skies from Russian drones, jamming radars, aerial reconnaissance, and now, precision bombing.
https://x.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1905192571422310465

Also:

Ukraine's general staff claims that last week's drone strike on Russia's Engels-2 bomber airbase destroyed nearly 100 air-launched cruise missiles.

Independent imagery confirmed that the strike leveled a Russian ammunition depot on the base.

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1905137479230832978?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1905137479230832978|twgr^6a7f099db8b8e1c52779c5c6214453f80e8dd372|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/03/27/nearly-100-russian-cruise-missiles-lost-in-strike-on-engels-2/

We're seeing a slow but steady increase in Ukrainian military capabilities alongside declining Russian capabilities.

If only POTUS election had been this November and not last. Russia war machine might not last another full year.

Or if the idiots in the Biden government hadn't continually delayed the supply of weapons.

The degradation of Russian military capabilities is part of the reason the MAGA crowd are so desperate for a ceasefire.

The GOP in the House delayed taking decisions on Ukrainian supply as much as they could.

Ukraine's F-16s start targeting ground objects in combat missions

The jets are involved in defending the skies from Russian drones, jamming radars, aerial reconnaissance, and now, precision bombing.
https://x.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1905192571422310465

Also:

Ukraine's general staff claims that last week's drone strike on Russia's Engels-2 bomber airbase destroyed nearly 100 air-launched cruise missiles.

Independent imagery confirmed that the strike leveled a Russian ammunition depot on the base.

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1905137479230832978?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1905137479230832978|twgr^6a7f099db8b8e1c52779c5c6214453f80e8dd372|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/03/27/nearly-100-russian-cruise-missiles-lost-in-strike-on-engels-2/

We're seeing a slow but steady increase in Ukrainian military capabilities alongside declining Russian capabilities.

Which is why it's important that we do not allow sanctions to be dropped. We need to continue hollowing out the Russian economy until they have no more capacity both keep the people fed and wage war. The Russian people need to be made to face the choice of true hardship as the price of continuing the war.

(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
·
13s
Question. If Trump continues to impose tariffs. If he continues to support Putin. If he continues to threaten our allies and NATO partners. Does he still get rewarded with his state visit. Or does he actually have to do something for us, to earn it.

Even for Hodges, this is obtuse. Fwiw, I thought it ill-advised to invite President Trump but state visits are not doled out to nice children. Hodges has confused the King with Father Christmas.

The way it's going the police might have something to say.

Short of a horse drawn carriage driving down the Mall with Axel Rudakubana it's difficult to imagine a less easily controlled event

I'll be out shaking my fist if it goes ahead. In fact I hope it does because I'll enjoy that.

I would hope that if it goes ahead there isn't serious disorder.
Controlling that, especially in those circumstances, would lower the reputation of the police even further.

Everyone turning their backs as Trump passes would be better.

Great idea. Shaking fists shows anger whereas that is more a sign of bottomless contempt, hence more powerful. It's the equivalent of when Trump comes on tv not shouting at the screen, or throwing things at it, but just casually turning it off or switching to a sports channel or a soap.

Waving Ukranian, Canadian and Greenland flags is the way to go.