Does anyone on here think Kanye West ought to be allowed to perform in the UK?
Yes. But I'm also fine with most hate preachers being allowed in for a bit of the old hate preaching (as long as they're going to go back). Very strong on free speech, me.
There's a secondary thing with him (that doesn't apply to the hate preachers) that many artists and great thinkers are some combination of barking mad and mentally ill. I wouldn't have wanted Diogenes the Cynic arrested for indecent exposure, either. There are some limits, I'd probably have wanted Caravaggio arrested at the time he was getting stabby, but thank heavens for posterity he escaped.
"NOW - Trump says that his frustrations with NATO "all began with, if you want to know the truth, Greenland. We want Greenland. They don't want to give it to us, and I said, 'bye bye!'""
OK I think he really does have this fronto-temporal dementia
I mean, he's clearly insane. I'm baffled that thry don't appear, institutionally, to have noticed this. We had Liz Truss and she was, by these standards, only mildly eccentric, and she was removed in about a month.
Guess what? The American Constitution is simply not fit for purpose. Who'd have guessed?
Back in the day, when The West Wing etc was all the rage, I knew a fair few folk who would bang on endlessly about how great the US system of government and all its checks and balances etc were. I was never convinced. Seems I was right, and they had all been sucked in by a TV representation of a left liberal dream.
President Bartlet was quite keen on assassinating unwanted foreigners and bombing the Middle East. Of course, he was an LSE man, like Jim Hacker.
I think one of the real legacies of the second Trump term will be more and more countries will get nuclear weapons as America is no longer seen as a reliable ally.
Trump: “We have 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect us from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well, as you know. Do you notice he said very nice things about me? He used to call Joe Biden a mentally retarded person... He was so nasty to Biden”
There is nothing to Trump outside of his narcissism. And his followers have swallowed the nonsense whole.
He said this just a few days ago.
They said, what do you mean you have regime change? My friend, great show. I love this guy. He's so nice to me every time I watch and I -- you know, we're not supposed to be seduced that way, right? But I am. When somebody is nice to me, I love that person. [Laughter] Even if they're bad people I couldn't care less.
If you listen to the clip, he's clearly not hallucinating but just trying to take the credit for pointing out that Osama Bin Laden was a threat after the first WTC bombing.
Yes. Ironically, it used to be supporters of Trump who would post links to material they'd obviously not read or listened to themselves.
Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme.
The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality.
This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme.
We've already seen "The Simpsons" episode featuring a President Trump turn from a piss-take into a prophecy.
But now his foreign policy is being conducted in the form of a sequel to "Team America: World Police", only this time substituting the destruction of Iran for that of Cairo.
I think one of the real legacies of the second Trump term will be more and more countries will get nuclear weapons as America is no longer seen as a reliable ally.
Trump: “We have 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect us from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well, as you know. Do you notice he said very nice things about me? He used to call Joe Biden a mentally retarded person... He was so nasty to Biden”
There is nothing to Trump outside of his narcissism. And his followers have swallowed the nonsense whole.
He said this just a few days ago.
They said, what do you mean you have regime change? My friend, great show. I love this guy. He's so nice to me every time I watch and I -- you know, we're not supposed to be seduced that way, right? But I am. When somebody is nice to me, I love that person. [Laughter] Even if they're bad people I couldn't care less.
If you listen to the clip, he's clearly not hallucinating but just trying to take the credit for pointing out that Osama Bin Laden was a threat after the first WTC bombing.
Yes. Ironically, it used to be supporters of Trump who would post links to material they'd obviously not read or listened to themselves.
And this is the third time I point out that Trump never did warn about Bin Laden as he claimed here.
I think one of the real legacies of the second Trump term will be more and more countries will get nuclear weapons as America is no longer seen as a reliable ally.
Trump: “We have 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect us from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well, as you know. Do you notice he said very nice things about me? He used to call Joe Biden a mentally retarded person... He was so nasty to Biden”
There is nothing to Trump outside of his narcissism. And his followers have swallowed the nonsense whole.
He said this just a few days ago.
They said, what do you mean you have regime change? My friend, great show. I love this guy. He's so nice to me every time I watch and I -- you know, we're not supposed to be seduced that way, right? But I am. When somebody is nice to me, I love that person. [Laughter] Even if they're bad people I couldn't care less.
If you listen to the clip, he's clearly not hallucinating but just trying to take the credit for pointing out that Osama Bin Laden was a threat after the first WTC bombing.
Yes. Ironically, it used to be supporters of Trump who would post links to material they'd obviously not read or listened to themselves.
And this is the third time I point out that Trump never did warn about Bin Laden as he claimed here.
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There's a secondary thing with him (that doesn't apply to the hate preachers) that many artists and great thinkers are some combination of barking mad and mentally ill. I wouldn't have wanted Diogenes the Cynic arrested for indecent exposure, either. There are some limits, I'd probably have wanted Caravaggio arrested at the time he was getting stabby, but thank heavens for posterity he escaped.
Trump on Iran: "They're very good bullshit artists. For 47 years they've been bullshitting other presidents."
The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality.
This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme.
A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.
https://x.com/narendramodi/status/2041187159655305350
Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY
"Mr President, you didn't specify whether go was Washington or Tel Aviv time. Oooops, eh?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_America_We_Deserve