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Supporting Reform UK is huge dating ‘ick’, poll finds

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/lifestyle/supporting-reform-uk-is-dating-ick-poll-finds-401771/

“According to a poll by Wisp, the dating app that prioritises getting singletons meeting face-to-face, Reform UK voters have officially been crowned the number one political ‘ick’ among British singles.

“Almost three-quarters (72%) of respondents said they’d be “put off” if they found out a match on a dating app was a Reform supporter.

“In a survey of 1,000 Wisp users aged 25-40, political affiliation (39%) ranked higher than smoking (22%), poor hygiene (17%), bad manners (12%), or even living with parents (10%) when it came to dating red flags.”

Voodoo poll.

New York’s communist experiment: Day 1

Mamdani: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism”

https://x.com/acyn/status/2006817240851820580

Inauguration party: supporters at huge street event disappointed to find no food or toilets.

https://x.com/nypost/status/2006835628407755057

I pity New Yorkers: they were left with the choice of a deluded lune or a crook.

…or a Republican, but NYers were incapable of doing that even when presented with a commie and a crook standing against him.

Good news for Florida and Texas, as is California’s mooted “Billionaire Tax”

If Trump hadn't dumped the Republican candidate, he might have stood a better chance: but he told Republicans to vote for Cuomo.

New York’s communist experiment: Day 1

Mamdani: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism”

https://x.com/acyn/status/2006817240851820580

Inauguration party: supporters at huge street event disappointed to find no food or toilets.

https://x.com/nypost/status/2006835628407755057

I pity New Yorkers: they were left with the choice of a deluded lune or a crook.

…or a Republican, but NYers were incapable of doing that even when presented with a commie and a crook standing against him.

Good news for Florida and Texas, as is California’s mooted “Billionaire Tax”

They need the money for the reparations for slavery currently passed into law, without any money to fund it 😂

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2006779007275327878?s=61

There is another excellent long article for SMO enthusiasts in the NYT this morning - available via the paywall busting technology of your choice.



It's doesn't tell much that seasoned observers of matters in the Donyetskiy Bassein didn't already know but it's well written and entertaining.

- Hegseth is a craven fucking bootlicker who just wants to please Trump even when it's not apparent what exactly would please Trump.
- Kellog is a cold war dinosaur who should have been pensioned off and let nowhere near the SMO. I didn't know the Russians had tried to assassinate him at an embassy dinner with a lethal injection. Fucking LOL.
- Zelenskiy, as we already know, doesn't listen to anybody and sporadically fucks himself and by extension Ukraine by not doing so.
- All of Trump's court eunuchs (Lutnick, that lanky cum stain Jared, etc.) run independent and competing foreign policies.
- Trump is Trump.
- The only person who seems to have a clear eyed strategy in the whole farrago is Just Dance. He thinks aiding Ukraine only helps Europe and is a complete misallocation of resources that should be going to the Pacific. He's probably right in strictly instrumental terms.

Is the JD view correct? Because right now, the only winner from the Ukraine war is China, which is increasingly reducing Russia to vassal status

JD Vance is not correct. His policy on Ukraine, Russia and Europe generally serves no purpose except he takes pleasure in humiliating Europeans. At least Trump is transactional. He and his family expect to make a lot of money out of Russia.

I wouldn't say the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a win for China. It wasn't what they wanted but they have so far avoided being dragged into it.

Yes, Vance has a real hillbilly sized chip on his shoulder when dealing with Europeans. He is jealous of a class above him, which may be why he got on so well with Lammy. Vance doesn't see Lammy as part of that European elite, and I think Lammy has a similar chip on his shoulder.

Vance is a chameleon in human form, a sort of Talented Mr Ripley. I think he is even more susceptible to flattery than Trump. Getting him onside is probably mostly a matter of getting him some red carpet type treatment next time he comes here.

Damn stupid to have removed David Lammy from the Foreign Office where he'd struck up useful relationships (not just with Washington; remember Lammy also got Starmer front and centre at the D-Day celebrations after Rishi unaccountably bailed) and replaced him with that serial non-entity Yvette Cooper. I do wonder if Lammy had been caught up in a credit war with Lord Mandelson, our US Ambassador, and lost. A crying shame if so because, of course, Mandelson was next out of the door.