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Scott Bessent must have got under Gavin Newsom's skin for him to post something like this:

https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/2014741470335664605

Isn’t his press office account always more spicy?

Bessent, an American, being sniffy about Swiss/German cuisine was pretty funny. These gimps really do have zero self awareness.

https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/2014864277329363257?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q

Swiss-German/German food is dreadful, tho

But significantly less dreadful than..

That he likes McDonalds is, hopefully, the only characteristic I share with Donald Trump.

@Sandpit you are one of the posters on here I most enjoy reading - we view the political world through very different lenses but you are articulate and thoughtful and often challenge my thinking (and I am pigheaded enough that not many people manage to do this). I was thoroughly disappointed when you were persuaded to leave this forum for a period of time because of some quite unpleasant posts directed at you.

So I hope I might be permitted to challenge your thinking on this latest Minnesota shooting without this being perceived as another one of those posts - it isn't meant that way.

You clearly sincerely believe that the anti-immigration stance Trump is taking in the USA is a good thing, and that Walz is doing the wrong thing in resisting it. I don't know enough to escape my own prejudices to have an informed and balanced opinion on this.

But look at that latest video again with fresh eyes, knowing what we now know about the victim. A band of masked, non-uniformed men have just very incompetently attempted to apprehend, and then kill, a man who appears to be entirely innocent.

This isn't okay, it is criminal, and trying to divert from that to Walz's immigration policy is the worst form of political whataboutery.

I think you’re both right

ICE just executed a man in Minnesota. Not quite in cold blood, but certainly not - AFAICS - with any real justification. This is because a hard nasty USG wants to impose its will, with violence if necessary, against a Left which it sees as imperilling America’s future

But the American Left IS a threat to America. It’s the Left that does the assassinations - Kirk. It’s the Left that really did flood America with millions of migrants to ramp up Democrat votes and debauch American democracy (and defraud America via fraud - Walz really is a snake)

I’m reading a book about Weimar Germany right now. The parallels are intense. Both sides get more and more polarised and are equally unsympathetic. The Nazis won, and it was a catastrophe - would it have been better for Germany or the world if the commies had won and allied with Stalin?

A grim moment

Don't be daft.
The Democrats are not Stalin.

Nor is Trump Hitler. But you guys constantly use this language - “Republicans are Nazis, Trump = Hitler” etc

In the end it might be self-fulfilling

I don't think I've ever said Trump is Hitler. He's a narcissist; he's certainly obsessed with power; he is devoid of empathy. And he's increasingly senile.

But as I've noted, his administration is increasingly adopting the tactics of fascism.
And I'll readily admit to comparing Miller with Goebbels.

If you haven't noticed the efforts of the MAGA Republicans to concentrate all political power in the hands of the President, then you haven't been paying attention to US politics.

It should be noted that Florida and Texas have ten to fifteen times the number of immigrants that are in Minnesota.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2015106317464096911

The sheer numbers sent in to the state seem remarkable. Even in the USA they're not used to that level of armed personnel out and about.

Controversial opinion I know, but why can’t Minnesota do what every other state does and hand over illegals to the Feds straight from the state prison?

I’m not quite sure the point you’re making here. Surely you don’t think that’s why ICE is concentrating on Minnesota?

Yes that’s exactly why there’s the confrontations in Minnesota.

In every other state, illegals are handed off to ICE at the prison for deportation. In Tim Walz’s state, they are released from the prison into the community, because sanctuary and loveliness, so the Feds have to send in the heavies to find the criminal aliens.

keep chugging the koolaid

Voting intention by education level:

-- Low --
➡️Ref: 42% (+19)
🔵Con: 21% (-10)
🔴Lab: 12% (-16)
🟠LD: 10% (+1)
🟢Grn: 9% (+5)

-- High --
🔴Lab: 25% (-17)
🟢Grn: 21% (+12)
🟠LD: 18% (+5)
🔵Con: 16% (-2)
➡️Ref: 13% (+5)

Via
@YouGov
, 14 Dec - 9 Jan (+/- vs GE24)
https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/2015162217415455193?s=20

Went to University, got stupid.

Though Labour leading amongst the rich is more of a change, even Corbyn won graduates but the Tories still won the rich in 2017 and 2019 and Corbyn won the poor in 2017. The biggest swing since 2017 and 2019 has been amongst the rich from Tory to Starmer Labour or LD and amongst the poor from Labour to Reform and from Boris voters in 2019 to Reform