What a difference 13 months makes – politicalbetting.com
What a difference 13 months makes – politicalbetting.com
From promising to reduce prices and no more (Middle East) wars no wonder so many of Trump voters are unhappy with the delivery of the second Trump presidency.
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Peter.
I saw an interview where a MAGA guy was going to lose his business because of the tariffs and yet he still blamed everyone else but Trump .
It’s an illness an extreme case of sunk cost fallacy .
If you’ve spent years making support for Trump part of your personal identity, admitting he was wrong isn’t just changing your mind about tariffs. It means admitting that people you’ve dismissed, argued with and voted against might have been right all along.
Most people will absorb a surprising amount of personal pain before they’ll accept that kind of psychological hit. So if the business fails, it becomes Biden’s fault, China’s fault, immigrants’ fault, the media’s fault, the “deep state’s” fault, anyone’s fault except the bloke they built their identity around.
This was from court last week.
A YouTuber who murdered his pregnant girlfriend and falsely claimed he was live-streaming a video game as an alibi has been jailed for life with a minimum of 31 years.
Stephen McCullagh, 36, was convicted by a jury at Belfast Crown Court in March of killing Natalie McNally, 32, who was 15 weeks pregnant with their child.
During the attack, at her home in Lurgan on 18 December 2022, she suffered stab wounds, strangulation and blows to the hand.
McCullagh concocted an alibi that he had been live-streaming himself playing computer games on his channel when Ms McNally was murdered.
https://news.sky.com/story/youtuber-jailed-for-murdering-pregnant-girlfriend-13544222
Basically the IDF can just kill anyone they like and whenever they like and make up a pile of bullshit to justify it . The car was told to slow down and did and they decided they wanted their kill bonus .
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/10/palestinian-baby-shot-dead-israeli-troops-occupied-west-bank-new-footage
I’m anti the death penalty but think sentences are too soft for murders .
If Israel is going to save itself it needs to find a way to defend itself without occupying foreign territory.
I know it is a bit [edited typo] “what-about-ery” to call out racists for only caring about crimes by non-whites, but it is also necessary.
Because someone scanned the bar code on your carton of milk.
https://x.com/realashlar/status/2047990299817881825?s=61
I know, when they have lunch at Stormont, no pudding.
Still. We know someone will be chuffed.
‘ BREAKING: President Trump says that the US Military will "hit Iran hard today."
"We are going to hit Iran hard today in case you don't turn on your TV," Trump says.
The US stock market falls to a new low of the day.’
https://x.com/kobeissiletter/status/2064737830241280115?s=61
I can’t wait to get to Boston for the World Cup next week purely to rattle Americans when I refuse to tip anyone for anything.
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https://x.com/Yesitsrobharvey/status/2061911734084882836
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Girl injured in Parnell Square stabbing now non-verbal and in a wheelchair, mother tells court
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/06/10/woman-whose-daughter-suffered-severe-brain-damage-in-parnell-square-stabbing-wept-while-giving-evidence/
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The poor child has suffered so badly as a result - her brain was without oxygen for 40 minutes.
I thought that the below was an interesting point to consider in the context of Eleanor Donaldson being declared unfit to stand trial.
"Bouchaker [the alleged attacker] previously suffered from a benign brain tumour, and required brain surgery in 2021. During the intervention by members the public at Parnell Square, he suffered a further head injury and required hospitalisation for about a month, after which he was arrested, counsel said.
As a result of his existing injury, and the one suffered at Parnell Square, he has an acquired brain injury affecting his ability to sustain attention and concentration, counsel said.
Bouchaker has been found by the judge fit to stand trial"
I guess the Republic applies a different threshold to this test than Northern Ireland.
The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has warned that two long term savings funds, established by the Government to retain some of the corporation tax paid by multinationals, will have to be part-funded by borrowing.
The development occurred because the Coalition plans to spend the bulk of the corporation tax it receives from multinationals.
The council expects Ireland's national debt will increase from €220 billion to €250 billion by the end of the decade as the Government borrows money to finance payments for the savings funds.
"This departs from the original purpose of those funds, which was to save, rather than spend, risky corporation tax receipts," the council said.
It will mean the State will have to pay interest on the borrowings, which will go to finance the payments to the savings funds.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0610/1577650-fiscal-advisory-council-savings-funds/
Can’t see what it adds to a crowded field.
https://x.com/zeteouk/status/2064226191305805851?s=61
The desperation of the crew might be a factor in making such a course of action more acceptable to them.
The former are a much lower risk than the latter.
"We have many migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country. We depend on them to make our country work. We do not want this terrible tragedy to be used to divide people"
https://x.com/politlcsuk/status/2064684341947437163?s=61
There are strong rumours that the Government are going to produce their defence investment plan on Friday. That would be an utter disgrace and an utter kick in the face to Members of this House. I say to Downing Street that, under the ministerial code, it is the Government’s responsibility to ensure that major announcements are made here. This may be speculation, and I am sure it will be corrected, but I will be appalled if it is done on a Friday, given that Members have been waiting so long.
This affects all parties who have a great interest in the defence investment plan, including Members on the Government Benches. We all have jobs, and we all have people who serve in the armed forces. We must end the speculation and treat this House with the respect that elected Members deserve. Once again, it seems to me that we are becoming second-class citizens under this Government. I do not want that to be the case, and I hope that I am going to be proved wrong.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-06-10/debates/DA392024-5FAF-486E-9EC1-508DB9AF8B57/DefenceInvestmentPlan
Unless you live a life of monastic solitude at some level you have to choose someone to trust to let inside your life, and there's always a risk of that person betraying that trust. Whereas the threat from a someone you have not let inside your life feels like one that it should be possible to stop.
In the same way that there will always be people within the native population who do evil things, but it feels like it ought to be possible to deport foreigners at the first sign of trouble.
https://x.com/owenjonesjourno/status/2064334644074418626
Jason Gideon: You know what program did the most harm to this country, in terms of crimes like this? Child abduction?
Det. Charlotte Russet: No.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Stranger danger.
Jason Gideon: Flooded the schools with it.
Dr. Spencer Reid: I remember them coming to my classroom. It was Officer Friendly with stranger danger coloring books.
Jason Gideon: Taught a whole generation about a scary man in a trench coat, hiding behind a tree. Then we learned that strangers are only a... fraction of the offenders out there. Most are people you see every day - your family, your neighbors, schoolteachers. You know the rest. Prepared our children for 1% of the danger, made them more vulnerable to 99%. So we've been wrong before. All we can do is learn from it, and hopefully be better next time.
Criminal Minds, episode "What Fresh Hell", season 2.
Trump (about an hour ago):
"No, I love it. I love the inflation."
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No, it's OK, don't all thank me at once...Fetterman seems to believe that Platner sent photos of himself to women, calling him “Captain Dick pic.”
“Have we become the pro-dick party?” he adds
“Did he send a dick pic?” asks
@ArthurDelaneyHP
“He hasn't denied that, but he could clear it up and show it,” Fetterman says
https://x.com/igorbobic/status/2064729652501839894
It's a shame the Speaker cared not a flying fuck when Cameron, May, Boris, Truss reduced defence spending from 2.5% of GDP to under 2% and commissioned Ships that leak, un drivable Army vehicles and completely stripped the RAF of Planes and Pilots
They're simply unable to work out WTF they're doing on defence funding.
Thats what they did to Nazi Holocaust perpetrators, this is Genocide pure and simple.
We'll no doubt hear from the Lord Haw Haw of UK Israeli propaganda
Quite frankly I am completely bored with the fiction that we still live in a world where major announcements are made in the House. Hoyle may well be legitimately angry, he may be very reasonably angry, but this kind of reaction is performative and it's just silly that we keep pretending that major policy decisions are not or should not be trailed in the press or even flat out announced elsewhere.
The world has changed, and it is not going back, after 30 years of it happening (at least), I'm sick of it.
Rightwing outlets are far more informative, earnest and comedic (although contributors are often themselves devoid of a sense of self awareness and humour).
African Warlords, East Europeans, the odd president. Send them down.
You’ll never see a US or U.K. or Israeli politician or army dude on trial for their actions
As for Tory defence cuts, the Prime Minister did at last get round to listing some at PMQs.
What did the Conservatives do on defence spending? They took it from 2.5% and cut it to 2.3%. We will take no lectures from them. They sat at the heart of a Government that failed our armed services. They cut frigates and destroyers by 25%. They cut minehunters by 50%. They cut the Army from 100,000 down to 72,000. They missed Army recruitment targets every single year for 14 years, and they left morale in the armed forces at an all-time low, so we will take no lectures from them on the defence and security of our country.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-06-10/debates/3219CC50-6B6A-4F88-8661-9E71FDEDF276/Engagements
There are no doubt the odd good bits in the MoD's spend, but the French lending us the Bayeux tapestries surely could be a hint.
Duckett would probably be a better captain than Brook, but actually both of them would be unfortunate choices under these circumstances. I wonder if they might ask Root to fill in for a couple of Tests?
https://x.com/ScottGShore/status/2064473884003356802
They’re growing in frequency too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prisoners_with_whole_life_orders
Longer term there's great uncertainty over America's direction which is perhaps a justifiable reason for some uncertainty about ours. You wouldn't want to commit to big expensive decisions based on deeply questionable assumptions. Not that this precludes incompetence, but it might be a factor.
Someone suggested that after the war the western allies had had enough bloodshed.
As to the speaker, parliament does not belong to government and it is supreme. If the speaker wanted to be serious about this he should think about taking much more drastic action like suspending the sitting, naming ministers and requiring them to leave the house, refusing to allow the PM an audience until it is sorted and so on.
* Bankrupt
* Non-compliant social media influencer according to the ASA
* Charged by the Financial Conduct Authority, alongside other influencers, in relation to promotions of unauthorised investments.
* Axed as a cast member in 2018 after being pictured snorting a suspicious substance
But his mother loves him. (Should add - allegedly)
He was on Geordie Shore, the same show that gave us Charlotte Crosby and Chloe Ferry.
That’s no endorsement, is it !!
Look on the bright side. In Wales you werent treated to incessant ‘news’ articles about them in your local rag. Probably planted by their agent.
Although Vicky Pattison/Pattinson seems to be fine.
The second may or may not have been true but the first was clearly a load of bollocks. Even Gitta Sereny (who was singularly credulous in her interviews with him) didn't swallow that.
Airey Neave thought it was probably as much as anything else because of the air of solid middle-class respectability he gave off which endeared him to the Western judges.
And apparently Jodl was hanged (rather than shot) to as a deal to stop them complaining about the ones who were imprisoned rather than hanged.
"In February 2015, the ECtHR upheld the lawfulness of whole-life orders, on the ground that they can be reviewed in exceptional circumstances"
Secondly, why is it that every other member of NATO is doing more than Britain to rearm? Why are we uniquely in a state of confusion about future warfare?
I think the answer is simply that the Cabinet cannot agree how the required extra spending is to be funded.
Starmer cannot make a decision
Starmer cannot make a decision
Starmer cannot make a decision
Starmer cannot make a decision
But only when it comes to shovelling it to client base.
Whenever it comes to something worthwhile, all of a sudden they don't have any money.
And, weirdly, they don't seem to connect the fact that they've shafted the private sector throughout their whole term of office with the fact that that's no spare cash.
In other words, they're a classic Labour government.
Politicians only have themselves to blame for the Belfast riots
This is what happens when, election after election, people vote for proper control of our borders and MPs keep ignoring them"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/10/politicians-themselves-blame-riots/