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Jamie Redknapp is literally the worst pundit ever.

“He had to cut back inside onto his left, because he literally hasn’t got a right foot.’’

“Gareth Bale’s literally got three Lungs.’’

“The ball literally gave him a haircut.”

“These balls now – they literally explode off your feet.’’

“In his youth, Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.”

“He literally chopped him in half in that challenge.’’

“He’s literally just eaten the fourth official.’’

“Arsenal have literally passed the ball to death.’’

“He’s literally sold the defender a dummy there.’’

“Scholes has such a great footballing brain. He’ll see a picture in his head and literally paint it in front of you.’’

https://thefootballfaithful.com/jaime-redknapp-top-10-stupid-quotes/

To me these are all unintentionally, or maybe intentionally, humorous. Either way, Redknapp seems good value, as football punditry usually literally bores me to death.

My favourite was when he said Peter Schmeichel was a father figure to Kasper Schmeichel.

I am recalling the worst thing about the Trump 2016 era - it wasn't anything Trump actually did - it was that awful, awful screaming of the Libs.

Taking the knee was more sinister than a seditious coup to overthrow a democratic election?

It’s desperate false equivalence . I didn’t see the so called woke brigade trying to overturn an election or a danger to democracy .

A reasonable question

@IAmSophiaNelson

Why did the entire press corps attack #JoeBiden daily for gaffes, age, a bad debate, and misspeaking. But not a F’in word ever on 78 year old Trump’s daily bullshit of “I don’t know”—“I didn’t sign it”—“I have no idea”—on national security, dead soldiers, #SignalGate, etc.

The answer of course being "the press corp were not concerned about being lynched for accurately reporting Biden"

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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

This is a bit like you inventing that people predicting a Trump victory were bullied off PB. I don't think anyone has denied Trump's magnetic qualities on here - indeed, it's part of the reason why Centrist Dads are in so much anguish.

Of much more concern though is the impotence of the American Left (or indeed centre and centre-right). Trump is smashing through red lines at pace and no one is remotely close to keeping up with him, to putting up any sort of resistance. Trump is unpopular, relative to his predecessors - but that doesn't matter much if it cannot crystalise into something tangible like an election result or serious protests.

Remember that your views are highly unusual. Centrist Dads are, well, central. The UK population detests Trump, Musk and Vance.

The UK population seems to care a good deal less about foreign affairs than PB's centrist Dad contingent, judging by the non-arrival of Starmer’s world statesman bounce and the imperviousness of Reform polling to 'being Trump arselickers'.

Probably worth a look at what actually matters to voters:

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/trackers/the-most-important-issues-facing-the-country?period=5yrs

Do you think if JD Vance walked around Glasgow tomorrow everyone would just ignore him?

I don't think they'd have the faintest idea who he was, by and large.

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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.