“Voters, donors, and staff alike are either fleeing the MAGA-fied Republican party or being chaotically forced out in a mass purge, casting a troubling shadow on the committee’s balance sheet and their prospects at the ballot box leading into a critical election year,” wrote DNC executive director Sam Cornale
I think the down ballot point is quite interesting. The combination of Trump and the chaos in the House as the result of the GOPs utter incompetence could lead to big problems for the Republicans across the ticket.
I have many rock-ribbed Republican friends who openly call Trump as fascist and will not come out for MAGA candidates. Could it be that, despite the apparently close polls, in fact the Republicans are facing the same debilitating disease as Tories in the UK? "I may be a conservative, but I am not with this Tory Party".
Squeezed for cash, chaotically managed, with a Presidential nominee who is a proven liar and a crook, one could easily see decent Republicans walking away, as they seem to have done in Georgia.
In which case, shouldn´t we be thinking more about a Dem landslide, rather than the return of Trump?
In the UK the unpopularity of the Tories is rejected in the opinion polls - they're averaging ~25%. If your hypothesis was true we would see it in the opinion polls. But we don't. Why?
Either because Biden is sufficiently unpopular to put potential switchers off, or most Republican voters are committed to Trump.
What may have an effect is the RNC machine being turned over to the MAGA types. They have a skills in fucking up.
American elections are quite dependent on the party machines for energising and getting their vote out.
Double disastrous for the Republicans, as Covid in 2020 held the Democrats back in their usual GOTV operations.
But it also allowed voting for what seemed like months beforehand.....
You can't steal an election overnight, you know...
This is a bit off-centre for here, but I'm rather interested in the fact that Trump himself is rather interested in UFO's.
He's made various threats to release various kinds of information, at various times, which might be possibly the only interesting thing about an another upcoming disastrous Trump Presidency, if that happens.
In that case Leon might explode which would also be marginally interesting.
Trouble is, it’s not true
Bizarrely, as far as I can tell from my research, Trump is the only living President who has NOT made suggestive or ambiguous remarks about UFOs
He came right out and said “it’s all a load of bollocks”
Make of that what you will
This is rather different what I read, a while back. Hasn't he made various threats to break the "seal" ?
As I understand it this is what the more far-right end of UFO circles, rather than the more respectable ones, mean when they refer to "the seal" and governmental secrecy on this particular topic.
That’s so incorrect on so many levels that I don’t think anyone would know how to reply - so it serves the purpose of the Tory party but destroys their reputation with other people on a long term basis.
Edit the community note points out how the cab rule system works - it’s just a shame that having already had it explained to them 25 times the Tory party is still too thick to understand it
Just confirms this was the wrong approach to deal with this.
Families of convicted postmasters said a law intended to overturn hundreds of convictions makes a “mockery” of justice because their loved ones will be excluded.
The government is introducing a bill to parliament on Wednesday to quash hundreds of criminal convictions, obtained using data from the Post Office’s flawed Horizon accounting system, at a single stroke.
Campaigners greeted the decision with delight when it was announced nine weeks ago. Ministers hope the law will pass by July, allowing about 700 victims to claim compensation starting at £600,000 by the end of the year.
But 13 cases have been excluded from the legislation because their convictions were upheld by the appeal courts or they were refused permission to appeal, leading families to urge MPs to expand the bill to include them.
Paul Cousins’s mother Wendy fought for years to prove she had been falsely convicted of stealing £13,000 from her own branch in 2005. She died in 2022.
“Voters, donors, and staff alike are either fleeing the MAGA-fied Republican party or being chaotically forced out in a mass purge, casting a troubling shadow on the committee’s balance sheet and their prospects at the ballot box leading into a critical election year,” wrote DNC executive director Sam Cornale
I think the down ballot point is quite interesting. The combination of Trump and the chaos in the House as the result of the GOPs utter incompetence could lead to big problems for the Republicans across the ticket.
I have many rock-ribbed Republican friends who openly call Trump as fascist and will not come out for MAGA candidates. Could it be that, despite the apparently close polls, in fact the Republicans are facing the same debilitating disease as Tories in the UK? "I may be a conservative, but I am not with this Tory Party".
Squeezed for cash, chaotically managed, with a Presidential nominee who is a proven liar and a crook, one could easily see decent Republicans walking away, as they seem to have done in Georgia.
In which case, shouldn´t we be thinking more about a Dem landslide, rather than the return of Trump?
In the UK the unpopularity of the Tories is rejected in the opinion polls - they're averaging ~25%. If your hypothesis was true we would see it in the opinion polls. But we don't. Why?
Either because Biden is sufficiently unpopular to put potential switchers off, or most Republican voters are committed to Trump.
What may have an effect is the RNC machine being turned over to the MAGA types. They have a skills in fucking up.
American elections are quite dependent on the party machines for energising and getting their vote out.
Double disastrous for the Republicans, as Covid in 2020 held the Democrats back in their usual GOTV operations.
But it also allowed voting for what seemed like months beforehand.....
American voting policies seem bonkers to us Brits.
Can you imagine being at a count in the UK and the returning officer tells us this is a provisional result as votes can be received weeks after election day.
I agree that voting methods in the US are bonkers. The fact that some primaries are held after the candidates are known must be very frustrtating if you live in one of those states.
However allowing postal/absentee votes to be posted on the day of the election happens in other countries too, for example in Australia, there are usually a couplle of contituencies that are too close to call until a week or so later.
Mike Smithson has often criticised postal voting in the UK as making a choice without the full information being available to those sending in their ballots a couple of weeks in advance compared to voting on the day.
When a Colombian cab driver apparently says “I’m going to try an experimental new route” what he actually means is “I’m going to try the same route as always but I’m going to experiment by driving it at 320kph”
That’s so incorrect on so many levels that I don’t think anyone would know how to reply - so it serves the purpose of the Tory party but destroys their reputation with other people on a long term basis.
Edit the community note points out how the cab rule system works - it’s just a shame that having already had it explained to them 25 times the Tory party is still too thick to understand it
Even if the cab rank rule didn't exist, would it really be a desirable outcome that people or organisations that the government doesn't like aren't entitled to legal representation?
This is a bit off-centre for here, but I'm rather interested in the fact that Trump himself is rather interested in UFO's.
He's made various threats to release various kinds of information, at various times, which might be possibly the only interesting thing about an another upcoming disastrous Trump Presidency, if that happens.
In that case Leon might explode which would also be marginally interesting.
Trouble is, it’s not true
Bizarrely, as far as I can tell from my research, Trump is the only living President who has NOT made suggestive or ambiguous remarks about UFOs
He came right out and said “it’s all a load of bollocks”
Make of that what you will
This is rather different what I read, a while back. Hasn't he made various threats to break the "seal" ?
As I understand it this is what the more far-right end of UFO circles, rather than the more respectable ones, mean when they refer to "the seal" and governmental secrecy on this particular topic.
No, he was directly asked about UFOs (IIRC) - on camera - and he said “I’ve looked into it and it’s all nonsense”
Or words to that effect. So maybe he’s actually the only SANE President?
In which, case it’s just one more compelling reason to vote
Looking objectively at the 10M Pound tory donation row, it is better that the Conservative party rather than a obnoxious extreme racist make use of that money.
… when you look at the words afterwards it seems like they are kinda jumping up and down. As if the very letters are on a kind of rollercoaster of joy and excitement as they anticipate the return of the Donald
That’s so incorrect on so many levels that I don’t think anyone would know how to reply - so it serves the purpose of the Tory party but destroys their reputation with other people on a long term basis.
Edit the community note points out how the cab rule system works - it’s just a shame that having already had it explained to them 25 times the Tory party is still too thick to understand it
The Tory Party understands it perfectly. That’s what makes it more pathetic.
This is a bit off-centre for here, but I'm rather interested in the fact that Trump himself is rather interested in UFO's.
He's made various threats to release various kinds of information, at various times, which might be possibly the only interesting thing about an another upcoming disastrous Trump Presidency, if that happens.
In that case Leon might explode which would also be marginally interesting.
Trouble is, it’s not true
Bizarrely, as far as I can tell from my research, Trump is the only living President who has NOT made suggestive or ambiguous remarks about UFOs
He came right out and said “it’s all a load of bollocks”
Make of that what you will
This is rather different what I read, a while back. Hasn't he made various threats to break the "seal" ?
As I understand it this is what the more far-right end of UFO circles, rather than the more respectable ones, mean when they refer to "the seal" and governmental secrecy on this particular topic.
No, he was directly asked about UFOs (IIRC) - on camera - and he said “I’ve looked into it and it’s all nonsense”
Or words to that effect. So maybe he’s actually the only SANE President?
In which, case it’s just one more compelling reason to vote
… when you look at the words afterwards it seems like they are kinda jumping up and down. As if the very letters are on a kind of rollercoaster of joy and excitement as they anticipate the return of the Donald
There is a general feeling here that things cannot get worse for the Cons. Are you not watching? Have you not noticed the performance levels of Mr Sunak and his No 10 team? Have you not spotted how poor the levels of ability in the Cabinet are?
These folk can do worse and probably will. Their floundering about trying to find a viable attack line is deeply unattractive and generally counter-productive. Does noone remember the lacuna between Johnson getting handed his jotters and his actually leaving No 10. Do we not recall how the Cons lost ground over that summer? Well this year looks like all that and on steroids.
… when you look at the words afterwards it seems like they are kinda jumping up and down. As if the very letters are on a kind of rollercoaster of joy and excitement as they anticipate the return of the Donald
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
@Leon the spam trap doesn’t like repetitive posting such as posting Trump over and over again, so you can either desist or become friends with the spam trap, your call.
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
@Leon the spam trap doesn’t like repetitive posting such as posting Trump over and over again, so you can either desist or become friends with the spam trap, your call.
I shall desist as I believe I have made my point and crushed the doubters into dust
Bet Sunak is bloody seething about Hunt's wild promise to get rid of NI.
Labour can hammer this all the way until Jan 2025.
The irony of this is that it’s a good policy: NI & income tax should be merged.
The fact that neither party can advocate for this without people going nuts is the real problem.
This is one of several areas where radical change is only possible if both main parties agree on it.
Indeed. Co-operating on the right thing for the country is obvious, but the temptation to “default” for a short term political gotcha (on both sides of parliament) is clearly overwhelming on almost every question facing the country.
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
Having listened to PMQ, I think the most interesting question wsa perhaps the last - Mark Francois.
There seems to suddenly be a bit of momentum around this call to increase defence spending.
Had these backbenchers been led to believe that there'd be an increase in the budget ? Or are they just really bad at timing their lobbying efforts?
The government had previously talked about gradually increasing defence spending to 2.5%, but in the budget they added a caveat which I think was new. They would aim to increase defence spending to 2.5% when economic circumstances allowed.
Give the demographic and other pressures on the budget that's tantamount to saying never. I think that's why the issue has gained some extra prominence.
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
Not very interesting as with minimal searching I've just found several pics of young Brigitte, including of her first wedding. How does RedpillDrifter explain her three kids?
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
Not very interesting as with minimal searching I've just found several pics of young Brigitte, including of her first wedding. How does RedpillDrifter explain her three kids?
They were from the basement of a pizza restaurant.
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
Not very interesting as with minimal searching I've just found several pics of young Brigitte, including of her first wedding. How does RedpillDrifter explain her three kids?
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
Not very interesting as with minimal searching I've just found several pics of young Brigitte, including of her first wedding. How does RedpillDrifter explain her three kids?
Well you know you cant trust pictures nowadays. Who knows what is true and what isnt true. We live in chaotic times.
I withdraw my critique of my Colombian taxi driver. Yes he drove at 430kph but he did it THROUGH THE JUNGLE and he has in fact brought me on time to the estacion autobus
Just got out from watching PMQs from the public gallery. Interesting experience - good robust knockabout stuff. Sunak did as well as could be expected given he seems determined to hang on to Hester’s £10m. Diane Abbot was clearly desperate to speak - jumping up at every pause - but surprisingly not called by the Speaker.
Oh, so that explains the shocked noises when the speaker called the final question - the cameras had cut to her a couple of times during earlier questions, but she seemed to be sitting pretty impassively on both occasions. One of the benefits of being in the chamber!
Judging from the live feed, it was another generally subdued performance from the Speaker - I wouldn't at all be surprised if he were to announce that he was stepping down at the end of the parliament.
Abbott stood up at least 10 times by my reckoning. I am not a fan but it beggars belief she wasn’t called.
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
Interesting? is that some new meaning of the word, as in it is total and utter drivel. I really do think that cretins who post this and similar idiocy should be shunned, on the grounds that they reduce the IQ of every room they walk into.
Provably untrue rubbish is not interesting, unless you are a specialist in mental health.
The Hester affair is everything wrong with the Tory party. Overt racism. Questionable contracts. Dripping arrogance. And they have managed to directly contradict their own positions of a week ago so that so many MPs are sent out defending the indefensible. Which is so absurd politically they are bound to uturn soon.
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
Bet Sunak is bloody seething about Hunt's wild promise to get rid of NI.
Labour can hammer this all the way until Jan 2025.
The irony of this is that it’s a good policy: NI & income tax should be merged.
The fact that neither party can advocate for this without people going nuts is the real problem.
It isn't, NI should be for the state pension and contributory JSA we don't need even more welfare dependency
Has something gone wrong with the Matrix? @HYUFD is opposing Tory party policy.
No, you have it the wrong way round: the current Cabinet is opposing party policy as interpreted by HYUFD. Which is that the pensioners and the bequests to their children must be protected. Probably a rational analysis of the situation in Epping from his point of view. Though it comes close to being a fetish (in two meanings of the word, though not the third).
Bet Sunak is bloody seething about Hunt's wild promise to get rid of NI.
Labour can hammer this all the way until Jan 2025.
The irony of this is that it’s a good policy: NI & income tax should be merged.
The fact that neither party can advocate for this without people going nuts is the real problem.
This is one of several areas where radical change is only possible if both main parties agree on it.
Indeed. Co-operating on the right thing for the country is obvious, but the temptation to “default” for a short term political gotcha (on both sides of parliament) is clearly overwhelming on almost every question facing the country.
This is where Britain used to use something like a Royal Commission to create a consensus on a difficult problem, but that has failed recently.
Other countries have used citizen assemblies, with the advantage that it's normal citizens making the decisions, and so the general public may feel that the proposed solutions are their ideas, rather than those of the politicians.
American tv openly talking about Prince William having an affair.
THE PRINCE WILLIAM AFFAIR RUMOURS!!!!
The TEA is being spilt in the continent of America that Prince William and Kate Middleton have in the last four years had a huge interest in impressing and becoming popular in (because Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan live there and W&K have this one sided competition with them).
But now jokes are being made on American TV about their marriage and Prince William having an affair with Ross Handbury. Yikes! #princewilliamaffair #KateGate
Bet Sunak is bloody seething about Hunt's wild promise to get rid of NI.
Labour can hammer this all the way until Jan 2025.
The irony of this is that it’s a good policy: NI & income tax should be merged.
The fact that neither party can advocate for this without people going nuts is the real problem.
This is one of several areas where radical change is only possible if both main parties agree on it.
Indeed. Co-operating on the right thing for the country is obvious, but the temptation to “default” for a short term political gotcha (on both sides of parliament) is clearly overwhelming on almost every question facing the country.
This is where Britain used to use something like a Royal Commission to create a consensus on a difficult problem, but that has failed recently.
Other countries have used citizen assemblies, with the advantage that it's normal citizens making the decisions, and so the general public may feel that the proposed solutions are their ideas, rather than those of the politicians.
Scotland too, though it seems to have gone quiet of late.
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
American tv openly talking about Prince William having an affair.
THE PRINCE WILLIAM AFFAIR RUMOURS!!!!
The TEA is being spilt in the continent of America that Prince William and Kate Middleton have in the last four years had a huge interest in impressing and becoming popular in (because Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan live there and W&K have this one sided competition with them).
But now jokes are being made on American TV about their marriage and Prince William having an affair with Ross Handbury. Yikes! #princewilliamaffair #KateGate
Just got out from watching PMQs from the public gallery. Interesting experience - good robust knockabout stuff. Sunak did as well as could be expected given he seems determined to hang on to Hester’s £10m. Diane Abbot was clearly desperate to speak - jumping up at every pause - but surprisingly not called by the Speaker.
Oh, so that explains the shocked noises when the speaker called the final question - the cameras had cut to her a couple of times during earlier questions, but she seemed to be sitting pretty impassively on both occasions. One of the benefits of being in the chamber!
Judging from the live feed, it was another generally subdued performance from the Speaker - I wouldn't at all be surprised if he were to announce that he was stepping down at the end of the parliament.
Abbott stood up at least 10 times by my reckoning. I am not a fan but it beggars belief she wasn’t called.
So Q1 was Labour, then because Q2 and Q3 were both opposition as well, Hoyle jumps to Q4 Ellwood. Then Starmer so time for another government backbencher, Q6 Graham. Then Flynn and Q7 Quince, Davey and Q8 Cates. Now it's just go down the order, Q2 Daby but Hoyle's already run out of Tories on the list so calls Jenkyns. After that it was Q3 Saville Roberts and Chope, Q5 De Cordova and Baldwin, Q9 Grady and Leigh, Q10 Olney and Elphicke. Q11 Maskell and Mackrory, Q12 Dyke and Francois.
Time's up with 3 Labour on the PMQ list still uncalled so it's not like Abbott had a hope of getting called. It's technically the right application of the rules, but a good Speaker would know that he should have called Abbott or at least allowed her to give a statement to the House. It's just not good optics to call Christopher Chope, the biggest dinosaur in the chamber and not allow Diane Abbott to speak.
Bet Sunak is bloody seething about Hunt's wild promise to get rid of NI.
Labour can hammer this all the way until Jan 2025.
The irony of this is that it’s a good policy: NI & income tax should be merged.
The fact that neither party can advocate for this without people going nuts is the real problem.
This is one of several areas where radical change is only possible if both main parties agree on it.
Indeed. Co-operating on the right thing for the country is obvious, but the temptation to “default” for a short term political gotcha (on both sides of parliament) is clearly overwhelming on almost every question facing the country.
This is where Britain used to use something like a Royal Commission to create a consensus on a difficult problem, but that has failed recently.
Other countries have used citizen assemblies, with the advantage that it's normal citizens making the decisions, and so the general public may feel that the proposed solutions are their ideas, rather than those of the politicians.
A royal commission on changing the name of a tax?
I think we are getting things out of proportion. And nobody seems to have noticed that if we abolish NI we have to invent a new tax on employers as well, without the fig leaf that it is a contribution toward benefits that their employees receive, which is supposedly what Employers NI is all about.
Abolishing NI is a pipe dream, there are far more important things for the government to be doing.
American tv openly talking about Prince William having an affair.
THE PRINCE WILLIAM AFFAIR RUMOURS!!!!
The TEA is being spilt in the continent of America that Prince William and Kate Middleton have in the last four years had a huge interest in impressing and becoming popular in (because Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan live there and W&K have this one sided competition with them).
But now jokes are being made on American TV about their marriage and Prince William having an affair with Ross Handbury. Yikes! #princewilliamaffair #KateGate
"Ross Handbury"? I know him he lives in Droitwich. No wonder the press are in a feeding frenzy. An extra marital affair is one thing, but alleging an affair with someone called Ross...
Republican Congressman Mike Buck steps down with immediate effect.
He's Colorado 4th District, to where Lauren Boebert currently Colorado 3rd District has planned a Chicken Run. Boebert is the one of the even more-deranged-than-all-the-others MAGA-ites, iirc caught groping her boyfriend in a public theatre amongst other things.
So she has to step down early to run for District 4, or hang on and maybe lose the opportunity. Which could cause an election in District 3 too.
A small bomb placed under the narrow majority, especially if two elections are held and Republicans lose both.
There is a general feeling here that things cannot get worse for the Cons. Are you not watching? Have you not noticed the performance levels of Mr Sunak and his No 10 team? Have you not spotted how poor the levels of ability in the Cabinet are?
These folk can do worse and probably will. Their floundering about trying to find a viable attack line is deeply unattractive and generally counter-productive. Does noone remember the lacuna between Johnson getting handed his jotters and his actually leaving No 10. Do we not recall how the Cons lost ground over that summer? Well this year looks like all that and on steroids.
Things most definitely can get worse for them
I think Sunak, though he is poor, has a floor. He will not hit below 25% on polling day, imo. His inadequacies are already out there to see and are part of current polling.
Original sin is the Tories' existential enemy. The extent to which Badenoch, ANOther or, especially, Mordaunt, could be found out either by a month or two in office or a GE campaign and exposing yet another different, perhaps more colourful, set of inadequacies could lower the floor again.
I'm exactly thinking Canada 1993 in which a new leader polling bounce crumbled to dust in the last weeks of a GE campaign.
American tv openly talking about Prince William having an affair.
THE PRINCE WILLIAM AFFAIR RUMOURS!!!!
The TEA is being spilt in the continent of America that Prince William and Kate Middleton have in the last four years had a huge interest in impressing and becoming popular in (because Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan live there and W&K have this one sided competition with them).
But now jokes are being made on American TV about their marriage and Prince William having an affair with Ross Handbury. Yikes! #princewilliamaffair #KateGate
Just got out from watching PMQs from the public gallery. Interesting experience - good robust knockabout stuff. Sunak did as well as could be expected given he seems determined to hang on to Hester’s £10m. Diane Abbot was clearly desperate to speak - jumping up at every pause - but surprisingly not called by the Speaker.
Oh, so that explains the shocked noises when the speaker called the final question - the cameras had cut to her a couple of times during earlier questions, but she seemed to be sitting pretty impassively on both occasions. One of the benefits of being in the chamber!
Judging from the live feed, it was another generally subdued performance from the Speaker - I wouldn't at all be surprised if he were to announce that he was stepping down at the end of the parliament.
Abbott stood up at least 10 times by my reckoning. I am not a fan but it beggars belief she wasn’t called.
So Q1 was Labour, then because Q2 and Q3 were both opposition as well, Hoyle jumps to Q4 Ellwood. Then Starmer so time for another government backbencher, Q6 Graham. Then Flynn and Q7 Quince, Davey and Q8 Cates. Now it's just go down the order, Q2 Daby but Hoyle's already run out of Tories on the list so calls Jenkyns. After that it was Q3 Saville Roberts and Chope, Q5 De Cordova and Baldwin, Q9 Grady and Leigh, Q10 Olney and Elphicke. Q11 Maskell and Mackrory, Q12 Dyke and Francois.
Time's up with 3 Labour on the PMQ list still uncalled so it's not like Abbott had a hope of getting called. It's technically the right application of the rules, but a good Speaker would know that he should have called Abbott or at least allowed her to give a statement to the House. It's just not good optics to call Christopher Chope, the biggest dinosaur in the chamber and not allow Diane Abbott to speak.
Interesting points.From the public gallery It’s actually quite hard to follow who's being called so that protocol was lost on us. The Speaker no doubt being ultra careful not to be accused of bias.
Cynically it plays well for Starmer to keep this issue live for as long as possible.
Republican Congressman Mike Buck steps down with immediate effect.
He's Colorado 4th District, to where Lauren Boebert currently Colorado 3rd District has planned a Chicken Run. Boebert is the one the more deranged MAGA-ites, iirc caught groping her boyfriend in a public theatre and various other things.
So she has to step down early to run for District 4, or hang on and maybe lose the opportunity. Which causes an election in District 3 too.
A small bomb placed under the narrow majority, especially if two elections are held and Republicans lose both.
How does the US system handle that? Would Boebart have to resign CO-3 before running for the GOP nomination in CO-4, only if she gets the nomination or only if she wins?
American tv openly talking about Prince William having an affair.
THE PRINCE WILLIAM AFFAIR RUMOURS!!!!
The TEA is being spilt in the continent of America that Prince William and Kate Middleton have in the last four years had a huge interest in impressing and becoming popular in (because Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan live there and W&K have this one sided competition with them).
But now jokes are being made on American TV about their marriage and Prince William having an affair with Ross Handbury. Yikes! #princewilliamaffair #KateGate
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
Interesting? is that some new meaning of the word, as in it is total and utter drivel. I really do think that cretins who post this and similar idiocy should be shunned, on the grounds that they reduce the IQ of every room they walk into.
Provably untrue rubbish is not interesting, unless you are a specialist in mental health.
Just got out from watching PMQs from the public gallery. Interesting experience - good robust knockabout stuff. Sunak did as well as could be expected given he seems determined to hang on to Hester’s £10m. Diane Abbot was clearly desperate to speak - jumping up at every pause - but surprisingly not called by the Speaker.
Oh, so that explains the shocked noises when the speaker called the final question - the cameras had cut to her a couple of times during earlier questions, but she seemed to be sitting pretty impassively on both occasions. One of the benefits of being in the chamber!
Judging from the live feed, it was another generally subdued performance from the Speaker - I wouldn't at all be surprised if he were to announce that he was stepping down at the end of the parliament.
Abbott stood up at least 10 times by my reckoning. I am not a fan but it beggars belief she wasn’t called.
So Q1 was Labour, then because Q2 and Q3 were both opposition as well, Hoyle jumps to Q4 Ellwood. Then Starmer so time for another government backbencher, Q6 Graham. Then Flynn and Q7 Quince, Davey and Q8 Cates. Now it's just go down the order, Q2 Daby but Hoyle's already run out of Tories on the list so calls Jenkyns. After that it was Q3 Saville Roberts and Chope, Q5 De Cordova and Baldwin, Q9 Grady and Leigh, Q10 Olney and Elphicke. Q11 Maskell and Mackrory, Q12 Dyke and Francois.
Time's up with 3 Labour on the PMQ list still uncalled so it's not like Abbott had a hope of getting called. It's technically the right application of the rules, but a good Speaker would know that he should have called Abbott or at least allowed her to give a statement to the House. It's just not good optics to call Christopher Chope, the biggest dinosaur in the chamber and not allow Diane Abbott to speak.
Interesting points.From the public gallery It’s actually quite hard to follow who's being called so that protocol was lost on us. The Speaker no doubt being ultra careful not to be accused of bias.
Cynically it plays well for Starmer to keep this issue live for as long as possible.
Absolutely, I was sure that Hoyle had done it wrong because this week's PMQs got through a lot of questions (30 in 34 minutes) and there's only 24 preordered (15 randomly drawn + 6 LotO, +2 SNP +1 Lib Dem) but it was only by plotting it out showed that he hadn't and judging from the sound in the chamber it seemed like a lot of the House lost track too.
Bet Sunak is bloody seething about Hunt's wild promise to get rid of NI.
Labour can hammer this all the way until Jan 2025.
The irony of this is that it’s a good policy: NI & income tax should be merged.
The fact that neither party can advocate for this without people going nuts is the real problem.
This is one of several areas where radical change is only possible if both main parties agree on it.
Indeed. Co-operating on the right thing for the country is obvious, but the temptation to “default” for a short term political gotcha (on both sides of parliament) is clearly overwhelming on almost every question facing the country.
This is where Britain used to use something like a Royal Commission to create a consensus on a difficult problem, but that has failed recently.
Other countries have used citizen assemblies, with the advantage that it's normal citizens making the decisions, and so the general public may feel that the proposed solutions are their ideas, rather than those of the politicians.
The problem with citizen assemblies is that pop up shop assembly decision making has the luxury of taking one issue at a time. I can solve any problem in the UK, and pay for it, on condition that it is the only problem I have to solve, and pay for, and don't have to take account of or responsibility for the other effects of what I do or other issues.
The awful truth is that we have a citizen assembly and it is called the House of Commons. Yes, it should do better, but also it's the best one we are going to have.
“Would you take £15,000 from a racist just so that you can fly around in a helicopter? Multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak would”
The Tories really need to stop referring to the comments as being "alleged" or "unverified". The donor hasn't denied using the words, and has apologised for his rudeness.
So why does the PM insist on quibbling over this?
I realise it probably comes from his "well, actually" tetchiness, but in this case it just makes him look insincere.
American tv openly talking about Prince William having an affair.
THE PRINCE WILLIAM AFFAIR RUMOURS!!!!
The TEA is being spilt in the continent of America that Prince William and Kate Middleton have in the last four years had a huge interest in impressing and becoming popular in (because Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan live there and W&K have this one sided competition with them).
But now jokes are being made on American TV about their marriage and Prince William having an affair with Ross Handbury. Yikes! #princewilliamaffair #KateGate
American tv openly talking about Prince William having an affair.
THE PRINCE WILLIAM AFFAIR RUMOURS!!!!
The TEA is being spilt in the continent of America that Prince William and Kate Middleton have in the last four years had a huge interest in impressing and becoming popular in (because Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan live there and W&K have this one sided competition with them).
But now jokes are being made on American TV about their marriage and Prince William having an affair with Ross Handbury. Yikes! #princewilliamaffair #KateGate
If there was a betting market for "will the conservatives give back the £10mill" I would bet yes.... sunak is going to U-turn. That Hester guy is going down for hate speech and that money will be tainted.
Can Fact to File silence the doubters? That include myself.
Love Fay’s colour coded cheek pieces matching the coat.
Answer yes. Doubters silenced.
Bookies getting hammered.
I’ve yet to get off the mark for Day 2 - two letdowns so far, sorry.
If I didn't know this was about The Festival, I would think you were a spy passing code words lol.
I’d be a rubbish spy.
I’m not even a passable festival tipster this year.
On a different topic, I wondered if you had enjoyed the Disney+ MCU series “Moon Knight” and/or the Disney+ Marvel kids series “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur”?
American tv openly talking about Prince William having an affair.
THE PRINCE WILLIAM AFFAIR RUMOURS!!!!
The TEA is being spilt in the continent of America that Prince William and Kate Middleton have in the last four years had a huge interest in impressing and becoming popular in (because Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan live there and W&K have this one sided competition with them).
But now jokes are being made on American TV about their marriage and Prince William having an affair with Ross Handbury. Yikes! #princewilliamaffair #KateGate
When will AI be clever enough reliably and regularly to make large and risk free profits betting on horses? Who will be the first major bookmaker to go bust because of it?
Bet Sunak is bloody seething about Hunt's wild promise to get rid of NI.
Labour can hammer this all the way until Jan 2025.
The irony of this is that it’s a good policy: NI & income tax should be merged.
The fact that neither party can advocate for this without people going nuts is the real problem.
It isn't, NI should be for the state pension and contributory JSA we don't need even more welfare dependency
Has something gone wrong with the Matrix? @HYUFD is opposing Tory party policy.
No, you have it the wrong way round: the current Cabinet is opposing party policy as interpreted by HYUFD. Which is that the pensioners and the bequests to their children must be protected. Probably a rational analysis of the situation in Epping from his point of view. Though it comes close to being a fetish (in two meanings of the word, though not the third).
Support for contributory welfare is a conservative principle, not just dependence on UC, as is support for inherited wealth not just letting the taxman take all your estate when you die
Bet Sunak is bloody seething about Hunt's wild promise to get rid of NI.
Labour can hammer this all the way until Jan 2025.
The irony of this is that it’s a good policy: NI & income tax should be merged.
The fact that neither party can advocate for this without people going nuts is the real problem.
This is one of several areas where radical change is only possible if both main parties agree on it.
Indeed. Co-operating on the right thing for the country is obvious, but the temptation to “default” for a short term political gotcha (on both sides of parliament) is clearly overwhelming on almost every question facing the country.
This is where Britain used to use something like a Royal Commission to create a consensus on a difficult problem, but that has failed recently.
Other countries have used citizen assemblies, with the advantage that it's normal citizens making the decisions, and so the general public may feel that the proposed solutions are their ideas, rather than those of the politicians.
The problem with citizen assemblies is that pop up shop assembly decision making has the luxury of taking one issue at a time. I can solve any problem in the UK, and pay for it, on condition that it is the only problem I have to solve, and pay for, and don't have to take account of or responsibility for the other effects of what I do or other issues.
The awful truth is that we have a citizen assembly and it is called the House of Commons. Yes, it should do better, but also it's the best one we are going to have.
I think that the ordinary people who have participated in citizens assemblies have shown a surprising willingness to compromise and deal with awkward tradeoffs, that they would be a useful addition.
My preference would be to replace the House of Lords with a chamber populated by the jury system, so you bring ordinary people right into the legislature at random. We need to do something to break out of the cynicism doom loop and improve public debate between politicians and the public. I think citizens assemblies could be a useful tool, and they'd hopefully encourage a better standard of debate on the Commons too.
https://x.com/iapolls2022/status/1767747527707615306 "williamglenn" > Decision Desk HQ projects Donald Trump wins the Washington Republican Primary and has won enough delegates to secure the Republican Nomination for President
"Leon" > Let’s just pray he wins the presidency. Or the West is finished
When will AI be clever enough reliably and regularly to make large and risk free profits betting on horses? Who will be the first major bookmaker to go bust because of it?
This is actually a sound point. I’ve thought about it before
AI will make a better bettor than any human. It will learn all possible knowledge about horses, conditions, riders, odds. It will be able to make bets orders of magnitude cleverer than any human
A monolith, by definition, is made of stone. It cannot be made of steel
Only if you're being unnecessarily pedantic.
'Monolith' already has one other long established alternative meaning, so it's not unreasonable that a third has evolved to describe an object of that size and form.
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Had these backbenchers been led to believe that there'd be an increase in the budget ? Or are they just really bad at timing their lobbying efforts?
As I understand it this is what the more far-right end of UFO circles, rather than the more respectable ones, mean when they refer to "the seal" and governmental secrecy on this particular topic.
Edit the community note points out how the cab rule system works - it’s just a shame that having already had it explained to them 25 times the Tory party is still too thick to understand it
Families of convicted postmasters said a law intended to overturn hundreds of convictions makes a “mockery” of justice because their loved ones will be excluded.
The government is introducing a bill to parliament on Wednesday to quash hundreds of criminal convictions, obtained using data from the Post Office’s flawed Horizon accounting system, at a single stroke.
Campaigners greeted the decision with delight when it was announced nine weeks ago. Ministers hope the law will pass by July, allowing about 700 victims to claim compensation starting at £600,000 by the end of the year.
But 13 cases have been excluded from the legislation because their convictions were upheld by the appeal courts or they were refused permission to appeal, leading families to urge MPs to expand the bill to include them.
Paul Cousins’s mother Wendy fought for years to prove she had been falsely convicted of stealing £13,000 from her own branch in 2005. She died in 2022.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/post-office-scandal-convictions-new-bill-ndrkgg50v
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
TRUMP MUST WIN. TRUMP IS THE MAN
Don’t want @kinabalu to think I might be wavering
https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1767602623828373635
However allowing postal/absentee votes to be posted on the day of the election happens in other countries too, for example in Australia, there are usually a couplle of contituencies that are too close to call until a week or so later.
Mike Smithson has often criticised postal voting in the UK as making a choice without the full information being available to those sending in their ballots a couple of weeks in advance compared to voting on the day.
When a Colombian cab driver apparently says “I’m going to try an experimental new route” what he actually means is “I’m going to try the same route as always but I’m going to experiment by driving it at 320kph”
Or words to that effect. So maybe he’s actually the only SANE President?
In which, case it’s just one more compelling reason to vote
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
get over it, he should just give up and go back to having geriatric sex while he still can. He'll be happier.
https://youtu.be/_wkyTaSIotY
Most pics I've seen he looks pretty dour, tired and slightly jowly
When - like any right thinking pb-er - you type the words
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
… when you look at the words afterwards it seems like they are kinda jumping up and down. As if the very letters are on a kind of rollercoaster of joy and excitement as they anticipate the return of the Donald
Try it and see. Everyone should try it. Write out
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
Then sit back and watch
Everything about Trump is amazing and brilliant
These folk can do worse and probably will. Their floundering about trying to find a viable attack line is deeply unattractive and generally counter-productive. Does noone remember the lacuna between Johnson getting handed his jotters and his actually leaving No 10. Do we not recall how the Cons lost ground over that summer? Well this year looks like all that and on steroids.
Things most definitely can get worse for them
EMMANUEL MACRONS WIFE BRIGITTE IS A MAN
She is really Jean-Michel Trogneux (which is the name of Brigitte Macron’s supposed brother)
No pictures of Brigitte before her 30s have been produced, and no pictures or appearances of her brother have been seen since Brigitte Macron came on the scene
"The journalist Natacha Rey, who is the author, said she had firm evidence that the first lady was born Jean Michel Trogneux, a transgender male. Rey has been researching the shady past of Brigitte and the curious disappearance of her alleged “brother”."
https://x.com/RedpillDrifter/status/1767827338371498039?s=20
So I just want to say that’s a brilliant conspiracy theory. I am almost certain it’s nonsense but it is first class in its own terms
I shall desist as I believe I have made my point and crushed the doubters into dust
Give the demographic and other pressures on the budget that's tantamount to saying never. I think that's why the issue has gained some extra prominence.
Obvious, really.
Bravo
Love Fay’s colour coded cheek pieces matching the coat.
Provably untrue rubbish is not interesting, unless you are a specialist in mental health.
"During prime minister’s questions, the speaker must select MPs from either side of the house on an alternating basis for fairness.
This takes place within a limited timeframe, with the chair prioritising members who are already listed on the order paper.
This week – as is often the case – there was not enough time to call all members who wanted to ask a question."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/mar/13/tory-donation-frank-hester-pmqs-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-uk-politics-live?page=with:block-65f1b3b68f0836980f1b00e9#block-65f1b3b68f0836980f1b00e9
A bit weak - PMQs often goes goes on until 1240, sometimes a few minutes later. Today it ended at 1234.
Other countries have used citizen assemblies, with the advantage that it's normal citizens making the decisions, and so the general public may feel that the proposed solutions are their ideas, rather than those of the politicians.
THE PRINCE WILLIAM AFFAIR RUMOURS!!!!
The TEA is being spilt in the continent of America that Prince William and Kate Middleton have in the last four years had a huge interest in impressing and becoming popular in (because Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan live there and W&K have this one sided competition with them).
But now jokes are being made on American TV about their marriage and Prince William having an affair with Ross Handbury. Yikes!
#princewilliamaffair #KateGate
https://x.com/GlowanneLee/status/1767825264589901955?s=20
Time's up with 3 Labour on the PMQ list still uncalled so it's not like Abbott had a hope of getting called. It's technically the right application of the rules, but a good Speaker would know that he should have called Abbott or at least allowed her to give a statement to the House. It's just not good optics to call Christopher Chope, the biggest dinosaur in the chamber and not allow Diane Abbott to speak.
The results will be interesting
I think we are getting things out of proportion. And nobody seems to have noticed that if we abolish NI we have to invent a new tax on employers as well, without the fig leaf that it is a contribution toward benefits that their employees receive, which is supposedly what Employers NI is all about.
Abolishing NI is a pipe dream, there are far more important things for the government to be doing.
"Ross Handbury"? I know him he lives in Droitwich. No wonder the press are in a feeding frenzy. An extra marital affair is one thing, but alleging an affair with someone called Ross...
He's Colorado 4th District, to where Lauren Boebert currently Colorado 3rd District has planned a Chicken Run. Boebert is the one of the even more-deranged-than-all-the-others MAGA-ites, iirc caught groping her boyfriend in a public theatre amongst other things.
So she has to step down early to run for District 4, or hang on and maybe lose the opportunity. Which could cause an election in District 3 too.
A small bomb placed under the narrow majority, especially if two elections are held and Republicans lose both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RESFK3N_iYg
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/us/politics/ken-buck-resignation-gop-smaller-majority.html
Original sin is the Tories' existential enemy. The extent to which Badenoch, ANOther or, especially, Mordaunt, could be found out either by a month or two in office or a GE campaign and exposing yet another different, perhaps more colourful, set of inadequacies could lower the floor again.
I'm exactly thinking Canada 1993 in which a new leader polling bounce crumbled to dust in the last weeks of a GE campaign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_1993_Canadian_federal_election?wprov=sfla1
Bookies getting hammered.
I’ve yet to get off the mark for Day 2 - two letdowns so far, sorry.
Cynically it plays well for Starmer to keep this issue live for as long as possible.
“Giant steel monolith appears on Welsh hillside”
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/giant-monolith-appears-top-welsh-28795875
A monolith, by definition, is made of stone. It cannot be made of steel
“Would you take £15,000 from a racist just so that you can fly around in a helicopter? Multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak would”
AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year. By 2029, AI is probably smarter than all humans combined.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1767738797276451090?s=20
The awful truth is that we have a citizen assembly and it is called the House of Commons. Yes, it should do better, but also it's the best one we are going to have.
So why does the PM insist on quibbling over this?
I realise it probably comes from his "well, actually" tetchiness, but in this case it just makes him look insincere.
I’m not even a passable festival tipster this year.
I haven’t obsessed about AI for about 40 minutes
*hops back down rabbithole*
I must admit, on reading it on here, I still didn't think it was actual news, but my definition of news probably requires it to be interesting
Mind the windows, Tru, no?
Moon's set it out pretty clearly here.
and risk free profits betting on horses? Who will be the first major bookmaker to go bust because of it?
AGI by next year. ASI by 2029
Does anyone on this forum understand how this will change the world? Probably not. I don’t. We just know that it will
This is it. I’m going to do it. We need it
BRACE
My preference would be to replace the House of Lords with a chamber populated by the jury system, so you bring ordinary people right into the legislature at random. We need to do something to break out of the cynicism doom loop and improve public debate between politicians and the public. I think citizens assemblies could be a useful tool, and they'd hopefully encourage a better standard of debate on the Commons too.
https://x.com/iapolls2022/status/1767747527707615306
"williamglenn" > Decision Desk HQ projects Donald Trump wins the Washington Republican Primary and has won enough delegates to secure the Republican Nomination for President
"Leon" > Let’s just pray he wins the presidency. Or the West is finished
AI will make a better bettor than any human. It will learn all possible knowledge about horses, conditions, riders, odds. It will be able to make bets orders of magnitude cleverer than any human
That ends bookmaking as a business
'Monolith' already has one other long established alternative meaning, so it's not unreasonable that a third has evolved to describe an object of that size and form.
You're a wordsmith, so you know that.
Also, the Greeks had no steel.
Oh dear. So complicated.