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@annmarie

American Eagle shares are up 13% today

In never kiss a Tory news, Sydney Sweeney is apparently a registered Republican.

Yes. I wonder now many “never kiss a republican” types would overcome their scruples if confronted by an eager Sydney sweeney - or her male equivalent

I see that the spectator article on this theme is now the most read on the spectator website

Nah, she's all yours mate!

You would not turn down Sydney Sweeney (absent some trivial moral reason like you’re married and faithful or whatever)

Yeah, I would. Looks aren't everything, and she seems like she'd be rather high maintenance.

I was lucky in getting a beautiful lady who is genuinely highly intelligent and can design a mean circuit. Best of all, she puts up with me...

@annmarie

American Eagle shares are up 13% today

In never kiss a Tory news, Sydney Sweeney is apparently a registered Republican.

Yes. I wonder now many “never kiss a republican” types would overcome their scruples if confronted by an eager Sydney sweeney - or her male equivalent

I see that the spectator article on this theme is now the most read on the spectator website

Nah, she's all yours mate!

You would not turn down Sydney Sweeney (absent some trivial moral reason like you’re married and faithful or whatever)

Doesn't float my boat.

I have a colleague who is W-A-Y hotter...

For most of the population I expect the best advice is never kiss a member of a political party.

Which reminds me that I indirectly triggered the second worst row of some friends’ marriage when I persuaded the man to join the Lib Dems and his wife was upset that he’d done something so momentous based on a random conversation with a school dad without consulting her first (I think she’s Labour).

In my youth I briefly attended a Young Conservative meeting in the hope of converting some nubile young woman.

There weren't any I fancied, so I made an excuse and left!

Before the internet, the local Con Club was half a political party and half a dating service for the adult children of the members!

I believe that back in the day the Young Chelsea Bridge Club was quite a meeting place.

@annmarie

American Eagle shares are up 13% today

That’s such a funny story.

A few dozen crazed leftists on TikTok decided that a jeans/genes pun made an attractive young actress a literal Nazi, the US mainstream media picked up the ‘backlash’ and ran with it hard, including showing the ad dozens of times, and now American Eagle has had hundreds of millions of dollars in free publicity and hundreds of millions more in increased market cap.

It’s Bud Light in reverse. Get woke, go broke.

Edit: even funnier, with some internet digging it turns out that this young lady’s family lives on a rural farm, she can drive a car with a ‘stick’ and even change the oil. She now lives in Florida and is apparently a registered Republican.

The US mainstream media didn't run with it hard. Fox News and other right-leaning sources ran with it hard, desperate for anything to talk about other than Epstein.

Wouldn't be a huge surprise if a good proportion of the "crazed leftists" were bots amplifying the story for just that reason.

@annmarie

American Eagle shares are up 13% today

In never kiss a Tory news, Sydney Sweeney is apparently a registered Republican.

Yes. I wonder now many “never kiss a republican” types would overcome their scruples if confronted by an eager Sydney sweeney - or her male equivalent

I see that the spectator article on this theme is now the most read on the spectator website

Nah, she's all yours mate!

You would not turn down Sydney Sweeney (absent some trivial moral reason like you’re married and faithful or whatever)

Doesn't float my boat.

I have a colleague who is W-A-Y hotter...

Of course you do. Why every woman that every PB-er knows is far hotter than Sydney Sweeney. Of course they are.

Not every woman. But this one just is more attractive. Better body. Better hair. Husky voiced. Whip smart. Great sense of humour.

If only she weren't somewhere between the age of my daughter and grand-daughter.

And gay.

Part of the marketing push around Sydney Sweeney is that in addition to her "assets" that she isn't a super model stick thin unique looker, she is actually an attractive woman that is perhaps somebody you might see around. The "girl next door" vibe as they used to say or in her case they lean into being a more outdoorsy type who likes shooting guns.

Whoever is managing her career is absolutely smashing it.

@annmarie

American Eagle shares are up 13% today

In never kiss a Tory news, Sydney Sweeney is apparently a registered Republican.

Yes. I wonder now many “never kiss a republican” types would overcome their scruples if confronted by an eager Sydney sweeney - or her male equivalent

I see that the spectator article on this theme is now the most read on the spectator website

Nah, she's all yours mate!

You would not turn down Sydney Sweeney (absent some trivial moral reason like you’re married and faithful or whatever)

“Trival moral reason like you’re married…” Umm, that’s not trivial, it’s rather fundamental.

Sadly for her some of us are married, and therefore totally out of Miss Sweeney’s league!

Whoever runs American Eagle’s marketing campaign has earned their bonus this week though, a thousand times over.

They found the perfect model, in a good-looking young actress who comes across as the girl next door (rather than the recent trend for excessive surgery and makeup in role models) who you’d happily invite to meet your parents.

Kemi is right, she is proposing big spending cuts in order to be able to reverse Labour's tax rises.

Truss' problem was she proposed big tax cuts without the spending cuts to fund them

The spending cuts were always part of the plan and key to the underlying ideology - Truss and Kwarteng just made a conscious decision to do the tax cutting bit first on the basis that it /should/ lead to short-term popularity and *might* result in really impressive stimulus and growth. An 'events offset' is how I might describe it, were I trying to pitch the idea.

The problem was that they didn't get sufficient buy-in from the institutions that matter and who had the power to scupper their every move. They were caught out by the ruthless lack of hesitancy and clearly lacked salesmanship and spin doctory

I still maintain that if the Truss administration had been given a couple of years to do their thing, the country would likely be in a far, far better place now.

In Liz we failed to Truss. That was the problem. I'd expect the British 'sense of fair play' to kick in at some point, but it never did. Not only is Liz now unreasonably castigated and villified for something she literally didn't (get to) do, but she's become a convenient scapegoat for all manner of other irrelevant St Judean lost causes.

An excellent post.

/scans for sarcasm/

/scans for sarcasm again/

Thank you?

@annmarie

American Eagle shares are up 13% today

In never kiss a Tory news, Sydney Sweeney is apparently a registered Republican.

Yes. I wonder now many “never kiss a republican” types would overcome their scruples if confronted by an eager Sydney sweeney - or her male equivalent

I see that the spectator article on this theme is now the most read on the spectator website

Nah, she's all yours mate!

You would not turn down Sydney Sweeney (absent some trivial moral reason like you’re married and faithful or whatever)

Doesn't float my boat.

I have a colleague who is W-A-Y hotter...

Of course you do. Why every woman that every PB-er knows is far hotter than Sydney Sweeney. Of course they are.

Not every woman. But this one just is more attractive. Better body. Better hair. Husky voiced. Whip smart. Great sense of humour.

If only she weren't somewhere between the age of my daughter and grand-daughter.

And gay.

What a waste!

He didn't mention that part of her.