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Trump derangement syndrome is real – politicalbetting.com
Trump derangement syndrome is real – politicalbetting.com
Even after ICE arrested his wife, this Trump supporter refuses to take down his MAGA flags and says he doesn’t regret voting for Trump:“Trump is not trying to do anything bad. He wants the best for the country.”pic.twitter.com/42I2tbAN8x
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The irony is that the world needs far fewer people. Unless and until we can go to other planets we need to put less pressure on Planet Earth, we need to get our present 9 billion down to 1-2 billion
The problem is how do you get there without societal collapse. Gaia may, in her own way, be doing it for us
Most of their victims never want to admit (to themselves, let alone anyone else) that they did something stupid/greedy/dishonest.
The thing that's a bit different here is that the conman isn't doing a runner, because he doesn't need to.
So, as ever, swings and roundabouts
England to win today? Quick burst of wickets then Crawley knocks em off one handed??
And i spotted two proposed names for the dried fruit party yesterday - Collective and Arise. Oh dear. A dreadful 'charity single group' or Breakfast telly?
Out of my wider circle of friends (rather than acquaintances) of six chaps there are another two who have no children.
None of us didn’t have children for financial reasons as everyone has great careers and/or family wealth.
Two of us just never settle in relationships and other reasons are that their partners don’t want children or met current partners when partners are past wanting more children.
I think we are a relatively unusual group in the lack of children for men in their forties but not sure.
Will the whole house of cards collapse without the great conman ?
It’s from a scientist who studied the effects of overpopulation on rats. He made rats live at varying levels of overpopulation - from moderate to severe. Each scenario was termed a “universe”
In “universe 25” - extreme overpopulation - the rats suddenly reacted very strangely. Female rats refused to have sex and became more aggressive and masculinised. Male rats became more feminised and sperm counts plummeted. Anxiety and self harm proliferated and the rats got more and more atomised - interacting less, isolating more
Eventually all the rats in Universe 25 died out. The rodent baby bust could not be fixed
Are we in the human equivalent of Universe 25?
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That's a good point; but 'feeling' and 'being' safer are two different things.
Anecdotally, the 60s, 70s and 80s were not exactly safe times for women on Britain's streets.
Thanks for mansplaining to me what it was like to be a female in the 80s, as a student nurse and then a staff nurse back then on nights out in Aberdeen and Edinburgh, we were always even back then making sure we all got home safely from nights out as that was really important to us and we had to have great safe guards in place even then. I could dine out on the amount of times that groups of drunk men would spot and single out a lone female thinking they were being helpful when they were being anything but and causing them real distress when they were traveling on public transport or standing in taxi line!
All those 1.5 millions plots that the developers are "sitting on" cost someone real money - probably the developer spent £50-£100k per plot buying the land off a lucky farmer once it was in a local plan, and then spent another £20k a plot getting detailed planning. Then in addition to building the house, there's probably another £25k of section 106 commitments, and they will make you sell a third of the site under market rate as "affordable housing". All those costs end up in the final price.
Housing is really expensive because we have made it really expensive to build houses.
Don't get me wrong, most developers are scumbags, but they are generally only following the market incentives successive governments have set.
Many of my childless friends (and like you I have a lot) seem to cycle. At certain points they are struck with sadness - something missing. At other points they relish the freedom and the lack of financial pressure
In terms of affordable housing, if we agree that housing is stifling the economy and harming us all, then we should fund medium-high density council housing as we have in the past. At the very least it could reduce the billions and billions we are shovelling to private landlords via housing benefit.
The bad news is the nagging fear that, whilst there will probably be elections in 2026/8, they might matter less than they used to.
Strikes me there are TWO existential processes at work in the world, right now. As in: unprecedented challenges for humankind
One I cannot mention, so I won’t
The other is the collapse in fertility. This is having enormous second order effects all around the world, often going unnoticed
eg it can be argued that Trump is a consequence of the baby bust. American demographics are bad. Not as bad as east Asia, but bad. Below replacement and ageing fast
The answer then is immigration - but that means white people very quickly becoming a minority in the USA, and of all the white populations in the world it is Americans who are most likely to fight back against this (violently, if needs be). So we have Trump - a more-or-less openly white supremacist
president
Different versions of this dynamic are playing out around the planet
Before looking, guess which party pushed hardest for this change in the law?
As a bonus, on what date did the Act receive Royal Assent?
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2024-05-17/debates/BED674EC-3E54-4CDA-8836-35E0A6A8D034/BritishNationality(IrishCitizens)Bill
I regret allowing my parents stopping me from joining the army - they threatened to defund me if I took up my place at Sandhurst before university and so I put the idea off until after uni then after four years in London I was too booze and drug addled! That to me is my regret that haunts me but not the children issue.
I’m fine with it, I have nephews and nieces who fulfil certain elements of younger family for me and I don’t have to worry about my child’s safety, health, happiness.
However his overall approval rating of 40% is not enough for the GOP to hold Congress next year or the Presidency in 2028
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/07/04/trump-rating-tracker-majority-dont-want-us-involved-in-israel-iran-conflict/
I’m a bit like you. If I regret one big thing it’s overdoing the drugs. I stopped at 30 and started having a great time (and making money). But then I went back on them - deeply damaging my life and relationships - and only finally quitting at 37. What a twat I was
I’ve been blessed with a lucky if not wonderful career since then, also kids I love, but I always wonder what I might have done if I hadn’t wasted those precious years in my 30s
Oh well. No one lives a life without regret
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c628zy2584no
Are they questioned by scientists? Serious query - I might write about them
I was lucky, my company DC I transferred at the right time and I have been drip feeding it back in since I moved to ii (with Malcs assistance).
It's another one where the individual was entitled to be in the USA< and was following the track to citizenship -she had a small conviction 15 years ago and was working her way back (that's also a problem with the USA's crazed legal system). Trump broke the policy and went straight to a "anything at all wrong with them, get 'em out and f*ck the consequences" route in defiance of the rule of law.
The guy still believes that Trump's regime will follow due process, and that she is in just for questioning, and that he will get her back. His loyalty to Trump holds.
The question is how widely and how severely that will be broken. How tenacious are the different segments of Trumpists?
There was a fascist (Mussolini, then later Hitler) sympathetic radio priest in the 1930s called Father Charles Edward Coughlin who reached a weekly audience of 30 million from 120 million population. There's a strong analogy to the siloed interpretation of current events being put out by Fox News, News Max, Twitter and so on.
One question is is what will it take to wake up people like this guy.
Trump's BBB will be taking 10-15 million people off Medicaid, and rural hospitals are already closing or reducing services.
So there's more to come.
I'm 50, so at a stage where in any group of contemporaries breeding is almost certainly finished. And in almost any group of contemporaries I select, we are well beow replacement levels. The number of people for whom - for reasons similar to those you describe - it just didn't happen is sadly large.
There are all sorts of reasons for not breeding: medical, financial, just-not-wanting-that-life - but the not-meeting-the-right-woman-at-the-right-time is the most tragic. Because in theory, with all the women in the world available at the touch of a button, that reason should have gone. In practice, the availability of *everyone* seems to have made finding the right partner much, much harder than when it was simply a matter of selecting one from the 40 or so realistically available.
Millions of women may be willing to meet you, but many of them are doing so while looking over your shoulder to see if anyone better might be available.
Mainstream Dems are generally rather conservative. They are not Jeremy Corbyn clones. Even AOC and Bernie, by our standards would be relatively New Labour.
Fertility rate has fallen from 6.1 to 4.8 in just over a decade
So Africa is sorting itself out, especially as it is exporting plenty of young men to Europe.
https://www.mercatornet.com/to_the_surprise_of_demographers_african_fertility_is_falling
Only most Reform voters here backed Trump over Harris in polls last year
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/05/no-10-regrets-cabinet-secretary-chris-wormald
There would have been positives but also negatives. For one I’d still be working.
I like our lifestyle. We’re not massively wealthy but we have enough and enjoy ourselves.
The Beautiful Ones were narcissistic, passive mice who groomed constantly - but refused to interact. No sex no babies
Don’t they feel hauntingly familiar? Think of:
Influencer culture
Rising loneliness in an online world
The phenomenon of beautiful Onlyfans virgins…
Spooky
Meanwhile most western nations well below replacement fertility rate meaning ever higher taxes on the working population to fund an ever ageing population.
While most western voters want their navies to send back the migrant boats where they came from
On topic... Maganauts will rationalise that any diminution in their personal circumstances is not Trump's fault and is the fault of somebody else. Democrats, Soros, 'Woke', etc.
86% of LDs, 83% of Labour voters and 57% of Conservative voters though wanted Harris to win
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/50752-who-did-britons-want-to-win-the-2024-us-presidential-election
They'll set us 500 In just under 4 sessions i think is the most likely outcome
‘The UN now projects that Nigeria will have 342 million people by 2060, 200 million less than they forecasted ten years ago. Will even these estimates hold up?’
What voters want is irrelevant. It’s what the political class wants and they want more. Hell, your party happily hoovered up tens of thousands, with their economically inactive fiscal liability relatives, to wipe old peoples arses.
Exodus, movement of the people. Saint Bob.
And I've heard similar stories from my own mum, and others of her generation, of what things were like in much earlier decades. Including one where a man followed my mum (also a nurse at the time) back to the nurse's accommodation and tried to follow her through the door. An anecdote I've said on here before.
In the past I've said that a female friend of ours refuses to run in the dark, even in our safeish town, and that it's terrible that she feels (reasonably so) unsafe doing something I feel perfectly safe in doing - running in the dark. So I'm not exactly anti-women on this, and I want women to feel safer on our streets.
As for 'Mansplaining': your saying that in no way invalidates what I said.
Immigration fell on the latest figures thanks to the tighter immigration restrictions Sunak brought in
I would be unsurprised if some people were alerting ICE to their spouse's immigration status, because it might be easier (monetarily and/or socially) than either divorce or murder...
Both groups are LGBT sceptic and believe in traditional gender roles and that women should focus on raising families above all.
The collapse in fertility rates is most acute amongst atheists, especially in the West, so by 2050 the world will be more Muslim and evangelical Christian than it is now and that may see a return to more social conservatism in much of the world and hence a reversal of declining fertility rates in many nations
There's also. primarily, more job opportunities.
I suspect this period of western equivocation is shortly coming to an abrupt end. As actual Islamist parties arise in western politics - so will much more intolerant, countervailing forces
Opening tor the Netherlands are players with the long established Dutch names of Edwards and O'Dowd.
Must be some migration going on!
And Good Morning one and all!
Then there's the financial factors; not just about benefits, but about opportunities. Wages can be higher over here, but so are living costs. But corruption is also generally less endemic, which means getting a job can be fairer if you have skills and do not have the contacts. And IMO we have let the black market in jobs go far too unhindered.
There's also the advantage that English is a global language, and if you know or learn it, there are many more countries you can move to - including the and of riches, America.
There are many push and pull factors for immigration; a mix of personal, social and economic that will vary from immigrant to immigrant.
But seriously, the sheer idiocy of the things you say is getting so extreme it's almost inspiring.
Russia: despite traditional values and massive incentives has a birth rate comfortably below UK levels.
Syria, I grant you, is above replacement. As are Gaza and Israel.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cly8qwx5e4lo
Wi' jam in.
(Curtesy of Peter Kay).
Until recently, a lot of people thought of Putin as a 3-D chess player (and the MAGA's and tankies still admire him), but what could be more stupid than launching a war of choice that leaves you weaker than when you started?
Russia's vast oil revenues could have been used to transform the lives of its population, *and* to build up its armed forces.
Why won't they follow the same path beat by the West, the East, and even countries like Bangladesh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate