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Pence on what Trump wanted him to do in January 2021 – politicalbetting.com
Pence on what Trump wanted him to do in January 2021 – politicalbetting.com
Pence on CNN on whether Trump was asking him to pause certifying the election or overturn it: "But frankly, the day before January 6, if memory serves, they came back – his lawyers did – and said we want you to reject votes outright. They were asking me to overturn the election." pic.twitter.com/7Jdj2qnajb
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That’s atrocious if so. Bleak. Can our PB Scots confirm this is a representative photo?
So the RNC would still have time to change the rules if needed
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This is what Glasgow City Centre looks like under SNP control
https://twitter.com/JimWalk53012534/status/1688128244518723585?s=20
That said, that vista could easily be from loads of places in outer London.
#MomentsofHorror in #Glasgow: The best example of a ‘Glasgow Square’, Royal Exchange Square should be one of the finest urban spaces in our city and yet the southern side is blighted by vacancy, outcrops of Buddleja and water saturated stonework. The Square needs saving…👇😡🤯!
https://twitter.com/MurphyNiallGLA/status/1685564668490772480?s=20
I remember Glasgow being a surprisingly handsome city, and full of life and character. Lots of noble Georgian and Victorian buildings. Damn shame if it is rotting away
It's healthy for a part of every town or city to be like that in small areas. Buildings have lifespans; spaces can change use. If a building or space is no longer fulfilling a useful purpose, or cannot be altered to have a useful purpose, best for it to be replaced with something that does. This means that it's good for towns or cities to have *small areas* that are ready for redevelopment.
In Cambridge, it looks like the old shopping centre, the Grafton, may be totally repurposed. As might the Beehive Centre a short distance away, despite neither being empty.
https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/
news/how-the-beehive-centre-in-cambridge-could-be-transformed-int-9320529/
https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/developers-unveil-plans-for-overhaul-of-cambridge-s-the-graf-9306334/
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1688191801474076672
"Other day other rat or i should say rats but again more cuts are being placed upon cleansing workforce.
Sorry for the swearing in the video.
Stop the rot in Glasgow."
https://twitter.com/ChrisMGMB/status/1628773820315082755?s=20
Friday 28th July
An adult Lesser Black-backed Gull tucking into a roadkill Brown Rat. St Vincent St, Glasgow city centre
https://twitter.com/StablesDean/status/1684959834578296832?s=20
Cleansing workers have blamed the introduction of three-weekly bin collections for Glasgow’s rat problem. https://i.stv.tv/3DxKg0q
https://twitter.com/STVNews/status/1684532900706779136?s=20
What will solve this is INDY!!!
These rats are evil Tory English Rats. INDY!!!!
TL/DR The government knows Rwanda is bogus. They are neither processing asylum claims nor deporting anyone much who potentially could have a claim. They also know the combination of not processing and not deporting is unworkable, hence they have no intention of binding themselves to any requirements in their new legislation.
https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1688192949031493632
And the cycling road race is currently on BBC One from he city, and it does not look bad at all, even in the rain. The Botanical Gardens looked beautiful.
Does this grow? Does a Republican civil war have downstream effects on House and Senate contests too? Are there betting opportunities there?
Outside, as in somewhere between Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy (who might actually have a shot).
To think...Trump calls 6 January "that beautiful day" - the day when he whipped up a mob who sought to murder his elected deputy, and whose actions cause several deaths. What a scumbag Trump is.
Unless of course you're hanging out with a bunch of neo-Nazis or such like.
Just about the only ones who would a) get the "joke"; and b) find it funnier than a rubber crutch.
"Why did Hulu’s ‘The Bear’ refer to arson caused by ‘Jewish lightning’?
While the term itself is an offensive Jewish stereotype, the show uses it as part of a story arc on restaurant’s staff no longer using pejorative language"
https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-did-hulus-the-bear-refer-to-arson-caused-by-jewish-lightning/
The first comedian did an extended riff on his two twin sons, Robert and Adolph, and how it is OK for his second son to be called Adolph, because he is half-Danish and named after his Danish great-grandfather, and the name has absolutely NOTHING to do with Hitler. The comedian did admit that the name causes some problems with people, but he said when the name is explained - the Danish inheritance, zero Nazi connection - people understand, and calm down
He then added
"Of course we don't have any problems with Robert. As it happens, we named him after Robert Mugabe"
Which I thought was a truly excellent joke
The commentator was saying how the leader doesn't make mistakes due to his off-road experience... when he slides off.
Still leading, though.
I was actually intrigued to see how many PBers might understand the phrase. That's why I used it
The miniature furore over THE BEAR using it has revealed that almost no one these days has encountered it, even Jewish people. Which I find surprising. I guess that is a good thing? It IS a slur, albeit very mild
In THE BEAR half the characters don't get it, and it has to be explained to them, as well
Social security paid by employer
Finland: Social security tax 23% (average)
(UK 13.8% above tax free allowance)
Social security paid by employee
Finland: Social security Pension and unemployment contribution 8.65% (Average)
(UK 12% up to £50k).
tax
Taxed progressively through a complex tax code, but
Finland: combined tax on a £50k equivalent salary
= £11600 (UK taxpayer pays £7500)
Finland: combined tax on a £25k equivalent salary
= £2693 (UK taxpayer pays £2500)
Note - there is no Council tax payable as municipal tax is taken from the deduction above.
This small amount of extra tax however gets you the following.
1. A pension as a percentage proportion of your lifetime earnings similar to a defined benefit employer pension. Whereas in the UK you get the state pension at about £900 per month, which would nearly always be much lower than what you would get in finland.
2. Unemployment benefit starting at 13468 euros per year. (about £11,700)
3. Accessible Council housing and large scale subsidised housing programmes, meaning that high quality housing is effectively always affordable.
4. very high quality subsidised swimming pools, lido's, gyms.
5. Seperate cycle paths on nearly all roads in urban areas. Public transport running everywhere at (on average) 15 minute intervals. Roads that are well maintained and generally not very congested.
6. Vast areas of well maintained public footpaths, beaches designed for swimming etc.
7. One of the best public school systems in the world, high quality childcare at negligible cost.
8. Free university education.
I have been thinking about this a lot, and I think that almost every basic rate taxpayer in the UK would be objectively better off in the Finnish social security system.
Are there any advantages of the British system? Personally I am struggling to think of any. Having low taxes on wealth should be generating growth but that doesn't seem to be happening lately.
Serious question: did you gather much info on how many PBers understood the phrase? PB is like the rest of the internet, in that many people encounter something for the first time, look it up using Google or Wikipedia, and then act as if they've been familiar with it for ages.
Developer's Lightning
Not quite as pithy (just doesn't roll off the tongue in the same way) but exactly the same meaning
Apparently there have been lots of Developer's Lightning strikes in the West Midlands, especially on pubs like the Crooked House, and also in Glasgow on almost anything
Which nearly ties two of our themes together
That Crooked House fire is a scandal. EXTREMELY suspicious. Especially the way the only access road was "accidentally" blocked so that the fire could not be easily extinguished. I hope the coppers go hard on this case, and if they get a conviction, people should go to prison. Wilful destruction of precious history. GRRRR
https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1688113922409111552?t=TOx78XLo7bt0OWa2oFNClw&s=19
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jew down
"Sorry to hear your shop burned down"
"No, the fire's not till next week"
"Jewish Lightning" is very much an anti-semetic slur.
'Posting on TikTok, Hannah Harmelin said the prime minister joined her 7am SoulCycle class on Friday, saying: "I think I just had the biggest heart attack of my life.
"So I walk into my Taylor Swift-themed 7am SoulCycle class in Santa Monica, and there's Secret Service everywhere in the studio, they're lined up on the sidewalk, they're inside, they're in every corner..."So the class ends, and I'm looking around trying to see where she is.
"They're like, standing there with their earpieces, and they're all serious and there's just security everywhere.
"I'm like, 'What is going on?'"....
"Turns out it was the prime minister of the UK - apparently he's a Swifty."
https://news.sky.com/story/rishi-sunak-takes-part-in-taylor-swift-themed-fitness-class-in-los-angeles-tiktoker-claims-12934255
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJv-zqVUGAw
"Moishe and Mendel meet on the street. Mendel says, "I heard about the fire. It's terrible!"
Moishe says, "Shhhh! Thursday!" "
Boils my nut, TBH. Hate these people: put them in prison. History is memory. Memory is identity. With every loss, we lose a bit of our identity
"Developers bought the iconic Black Country pub The Crooked House (building built in 1765) and it mysteriously burnt down last night. This happens every single time a pub is bought across Birmingham. Starting to feel like ‘housing developer’ is code for ‘arsonist’."
https://twitter.com/drhingram/status/1688088987523862528?s=20
The main issue is whether the crew know/can get off in time. Bit suspicious when they are neatly lined up for the lifeboat with their suitcases packed ...
This is not as easy as it looks. the uninitiated think all the evidence goes up in flames, but the boffins can look at a gutted building and tell you it was started in the north east corner of the ground floor with newspapers, and Old Spice aftershave as an accelerant.
Also, never trust a man who knows the technical term accelerant in this context.
We all remember what happened over Gaddafi and I've been recently following the thoughts of Economics professor Keyu Jin, who seems to be using her position to make a positive case for China, blame its tensions with the US on misunderstandings (only on the US side) and ignore anything inconvenient. Not easy when your father is the head of the AIIB I guess but can a professor really do their job if they can't think and speak freely?
Her recent book The New China Playbook got a rather icy review in the Guardian from Isabel Hilton.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/31/the-new-china-playbook-by-keyu-jin-review-the-bright-side-of-beijing
Not quite the maritime equivalent of Glaswegian urban improvement, however.
Only temporarily? There must be other terms for permanent accommodation for "asylum seekers". He'll be telling us next he doesn't want to shoot them all, or make them clean the streets.
The Labour party under Starmer deserves to lose the election. Starmer is easily as bad as the Tories-in-all-but-name Blair and Brown, mutatis mutandis. I won't vote for any party that promises to lock refugees up on prison ships. I don't care WTF else they promise.
Edit: I first came across this idea in a British context in 2003 when it was reported that fascist landlord Nicholas van Hoogstraten was planning to run a prison ship housing 1000 "asylum seekers" off the coast of Margate:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2993682.stm
Was it ever proposed before then?
PS It's OK to call Hoogstraten a fascist because that's what he calls himself.
It was famously left wing once, but much less so now he says. Lots of foreign students even 40 years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/23/shop-owner-jailed-insurance-claim-blast-pascal-blasio-wirral
Chinese money has a presence in Cambridge too and doubtless most other British universities. Lots of Gulf and USA money swishing about too. They're not giving money away for nothing.
While Pence and Cheney deserve credit for personally standing up to Putinism-in-action in January 2023 and aftermath, this amounts to mitigation NOT absolution.
Speaking of the three I've cited individually
> Liz Cheney is to my mind the best of the trio, in that she's taken the most forthright stance, despite obvious jeopardy to her further political prospects, including losing her once safer-than-safe seat in Congress, inherited from her daddy. Unfortunately, every time she issues another blast against Trump, it just helps him more.
> Mike Pence has always been a "to be or not to be" kind of politico, for example his infamous flip-flopping when he was Governor of Indiana, on the burning question of transsexual use of whatever rest room they want to use. And note that reason he was picked at Trump's running mate in 2016, was to reassure evangelicals who might find DJT's overt paganism (with apologies to PB's Pagan) discouraging. However, this bloc has drunk deeply of the holy koolaid, and is now convinced that Trump is really 3rd-millennium King David!
> Chris Christie is rather interesting, in that his take on Trump appears to be almost totally centered on CC's personal political calculus. IF it looks like DJT and CC's interests align, then all is well and good with MAGA-mania. IF not, then Trump is a danger to the Republic. Plus the desire on Christie's part to retrieve the political career that HE shredded by, for example, sunning himself at the Jersey Shore in the midst of natural disaster affecting rest of New Jersey. (Very similar to what his fellow fat bastard Ted Cruz did a few years later.) As you may be able to tell, my regard for ex-gov Big Boy is rather limited. Though I applaud his support for Ukraine versus Russia, also think that (like Boris Johnson) his enthusiasm for the cause of freedom is HIGHLY conditioned by personal political machinations.
I have always thought it looked quite interesting, Oxbridge without the posh wankerdom.
The phrase "Welsh on a bet" has lasted a wee bit longer on this side of the Atlantic (and Pacific) but only because few Americans who might use it, connect it with Wales or Welsh people, the degree of anti-Cambrian prejudice being practically nil in USA, certainly compared with UK!
We know why they need to do it, but it is not a winning strategy either. Christie is most forthright and has a good turn of phrase, but had been on the Trump train before so we know what that's worth.
Pretty much everyone who works for Trump eventually finds a line even they cannot cross or a line they cannot excuse (not fully at any rate). But those still active in the game continue to find it safer to play along and hope this time will be different.
Michael Jackson used it on one of his later albums
"Jew me, sue me", was the lyric
Incidentally, Yankians should not use 'Scotch tape', given the origins of its name ...
Not sure of the point you're striving to make?
To paraphrase a notable Jewish American writer, crap is crap is crap is crap.
Unfortunately moving him to a safe seat would be an admission of defeat in Cheltenham which wouldn’t look good so sadly we are likely to lose someone who is actually good at what they do and seems to be empathetic and capable and a good public performer.
Moments after reiterating that he doesn't think Trump should be president because he rejected the constitution, Pence doesn't rule out supporting him again in 2024
https://nitter.net/atrupar/status/1688181506965921792#m
The verb, with or without 'down', is not to be used today, I would say.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3o0DDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA93&dq="jew+down"&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJsOW-usiAAxUOhu4BHQvLCgIQ6AF6BAgJEAI#v=onepage&q="jew down"&f=false
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Nk_RFL9LYg0C&pg=PA81&dq="jew+down"&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJsOW-usiAAxUOhu4BHQvLCgIQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&q="jew down"&f=false
It has always had a strong international student body
Chelteham won't get a better MP whatever their vote.
They are the future: black cabs are slowly reconciling with them
We then had a talk on maths by a mathematician from Paisley who was superb. "Do what interests you, you have the rest of your life to be bored" was one of his comments. It was genuinely inspirational.
My son got into Oxford but LSE was his second choice and I would have had absolutely no problem with that. Of the Open days we went to they were the best.
He’s venal, and not entirely competent, but compared to the rest of the current GOP shitshow, he’s a prince.
Jew me, sue me, everybody do me/
Kick me, kike me, don't you black or white me
When he was brought to task Jackson defended himself thus:
"It's not anti-Semitic because I'm not a racist person ... I could never be a racist. I love all races."
Hmmm. Not very impressive. However by then he was 70% mad and en route to 100% madness, so maybe that is the better excuse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Don't_Care_About_Us
I am a proud graduate of the Godless College of Gower Street: UCL
As I have menshed on here, we used to have barfights with our LSE rivals in their basement bar at Carr Saunders Hall, next to our own UCL Hall of Rez at Ramsay House. All in Fitzrovia. It was a privleged place to live and study. I loved my time at UCL