This bet makes me disgusted in myself – politicalbetting.com
This bet makes me disgusted in myself – politicalbetting.com
Tucker Carlson as the next president is something I didn’t expect to write even in these fevered times but I can see the logic. One of the principles behind MAGA was no more foreign wars and with DonaldTrump resiling from that Tucker Carlson might harness those disappointed by the invents in the Middle East.
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EXCLUSIVE: Tory ex-Home Secretary Priti Patel BLOCKED the FBI from quizzing Andrew over Epstein
Priti Patel prevented the FBI from questioning Andrew about his links to the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, despite officers having 'documentary evidence suggesting he knew about sex trafficking'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-ex-home-secretary-priti-36901236
As a means to grift millions, he might run. But it will have to be as an independent outside of the Republican Party. Either Trump screws the pooch so badly that the brand is toxic and the Dems walk the next; or else there is still some value in the Trump brand and one of the offspring gets pitched in to carry thename forward.
Which is why Carlson won't run, still less he won't win.
... and you've missed the shoes joke.
- Elizabethtown (after the Queen)
- Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline)
- Attleeton (after ex-PM)
- Athelstan (first King of England)
- Seacole (after nurse Mary)
https://www.thetimes.com/article/ea09d6e1-85bc-4c2f-b24f-8999ef9b9006?shareToken=d69d8a19030b64732d1ebcaeee4c5a6e
"Asked which words came to mind when thinking of such new towns, the most common responses included boring, bland, concrete, depressing, ugly, and soulless. The most popular response was simply “roundabouts”."
It will be like Putin, not being told the true state of the armed forces because bad news get rewarded with falling out a window.
He would have got away with keeping the Straits of Hormuz open, if it weren't for those pesky Iranian kids...
I'm starting to think that whoever is the Democratic nominee in 2028, they are going to ride a landslide win based on bringing Biblical retribution upon everybody involved with this Adminisration. Ezekial 25:17 shit. Including the promise of show trials, very long jail terms and seizure of ALL the wealth garnered from the grift. America will demand it; the incoming President will need to offer it to the world by way of an apology.
Anything less will be deemed cowardice.
Emmeline Pankhurst was a terrorist. Æthelstan (successfully) invaded Scotland, which might not go down well.
I suggest Petaton, named after Peta, the No 10 cat in the sixties and seventies.
Most people formed a view of him as a conservative journalist and commentator over three decades - until about two years ago. Modern Tucker is someone quite different to the Fox News guy.
Can I see him running, possibly, but in recent months his show has turned into the same sort of antisemetic conspiracy theory usually associated with the likes of Candace Owens.
He recently ‘bought’ a house in Qatar, and let’s not forget his trip last year to Moscow to give Putin a soft-soap interview in the middle of the Ukraine war, featuring added bonus content walking around the fancy part of town and saying how much better it is than America.
My money for ‘28 GOP nomination is on Rubio so far.
Attleeton and Athelstan are a little pretentious.
Pankhurst and Seacole work (although the latter should be far inland just to confuse future generations)
Pankhurst sounds like Parkhurst. Seacole like Sick-hole. Soon to be Shit-hole. Athelstan - like, aren't their already enough ungovernable Stans in the world?
Nicholas Brendon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor, dies at 54
Family says actor, who played Xander in hit TV series, died on Friday ‘in his sleep of natural causes’
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/20/nicholas-brendon-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-actor-dies
I think this bet is terrible, btw. Three weeks into the war, still fighting, yet 100% won, the US doesn't use Hormuz, yet gas prices are up, easy to keep it open, but the US can't do it alone. Even despite all of these massive contradictions Trump is able to keep the overwhelming support of his MAGA base.
I know I've been surprised that the war is still going, but it's clear that Trump is desperate for it to end (100% won is a tell) so I just can't see it dragging on for long enough for his base to finally recognise they've been had.
Much easier to name new towns after local landmarks or features. The only person worthy of it is probably the late Queen Elizabeth II
F1: rather surprised Wheatley's leaving Audi. Their performance is better than expected (high DNS rate, but others have that or DNFs too).
Likely off to Aston Martin, but that team was so much better run when it had a shoestring budget.
Beckham ??
To be built somewhere in the Fens, for comedy value.
So it's a weird combination of being completely normal, and sounding really odd and lame.
Or Parthenope, after Florence Nightingale’s sister.
George VI was a Duke of York and he led us through the war.
Shows how clever he is...
Your regular reminder that the Trump Administration is composed of absolute loons.
“Raynerwick”
Waterloo, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Mers-el-Kébir* etc.
*It is clear French Algiers was European.
But naming stuff after people who haven’t been dead for about 200 years gets you into the whole controversy-finds-you thing.
Not an impediment - there are plenty of repeated place names in England. Bradford (Devon) used to confuse a popular dating site a couple of decades ago, making a bunch of confused people in West Yorkshire match with people in Exeter instead of those in Leeds.
Maybe we should come at this the other way. Instead of commemorating anyone, get AI to generate 100 things that sound like British place names, focus group them to find the least obtrusive three, and then make up a story about them.
Sort of like Lymeswold.
Just sayin'.
In the US there’s at least a couple of dozen Springvilles.
Much clearer and ideologically pure. Bang on trend for modern Britain. Means we can build more with no need for spending money on naming committees.
West Wycombe is another example - a village West of Wycombe.
There are maps where Middlesbrough is called Port Darlington so that would work especially if the stream is suitably small
So my approach would be take a town on a different motorway and add New, east or west to the name and see what happens. The place near Peterborough could be East (or West) Bath
I think that, with a bit of effort, you could generate a new place name by simulating the process many of our existing place names have gone through.
So, take Æthelstan as an example. I'm sure if you asked an expert on Anglo-Saxon place names they could tell you that "Æthelstan's town" would probably have been something like "Æthelstan's burgh", which through centuries of usage would have been shortened to the more easily pronounced "Stanborough" or "Athelsbury". Job done.
So what to do? I can’t cope with having two personalities. Shall I stop typing ‘Yep’ or shall I adopt ‘Yep’ in day to day conversation. And other phrases commonly used by the late, great Deputy Dawg? It’s a cotton-picking problem.
Which seems to sum up his premiership !
Although at least with Telford there was some logic given its links to industry and his own links to Shropshire.
David Woodman's recent 'The First King of England' (Princeton UP) highly recommended.
Back came the reply, 'Appen was near t'railway.'
Indeed just name the town for the W3W address of its centre. This also has the advantage that sozzled travel hacks can navigate there easily.
He promised "defensive" support.
This is defensive support is it not?
IF it assists in opening up Strait Of Hormuz - it'll b a win win and definitely a win for UK fuel prices.
It's not as if the RAF are involved and we are talking Fairford and Chagos!
PRITTI PATEL PULLS ALL THE STRINGS !
If Kemi hasn't sacked Pritti Patel and Timothy Nick by Monday she is showling gutless cowadice!
It looks like an expansion even if it really isn’t .