A very, very impressive amount of pretending not to understand things we do understand very well, today. And the intensity! Very well done.
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The belief trusting, hardworking Britons are being cruelly repressed, fleeced and stomped on by an all-powerful left wing elite is probably the cornerstone of newspaper analysis in this country and as a 45-year-old, it is wild when to consider that alongside who’s been in charge.
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Well, she’s two days of retirement with the holiday of a lifetime planned, and an irresolvable falling out with her sister to resolve. The writer is more than skilled enough to know how to wrong-foot an audience, I guess, but she does know her TV tropes too.
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This is all true. But it's not sufficient. The qn is how someone like Truss could ever get near to being PM. The answer discredits the entire political (& media) system.
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Liz Truss: an utterly dismal prime minister. Insanely arrogant. Dangerously ideological. Wildly irresponsible. And startlingly delusional.
And now the tragic Torygraph prints her 4000 word whingefest about what’s to blame for her failure. Apparently, it’s not her.
Just fuck off.
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I’m afraid a) they just can’t help themselves and b) there’s pretty much nothing the right kind of insider can do that will see them kicked out of the club.
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And Iraq was the salad days of reason and civility, by comparison. You could say the war was idiocy and the US up to no good and retain your career here, as opposed to now, where aspirational TV presenters will scream about treason if you suggest schools feed kids in the holidays
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I wrongly assumed during the Iraq drivel that this was some exceptional state of affairs, for everyone to just repeat whatever horseshit they were told as if it was fact. I was a whole lot older before I realised it’s always kind of like this, and it just gets brazen in a crisis.
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It’s maybe hard to communicate, but the atmosphere at the time was deeply disorienting: all the important people on TV repeating things that were obviously false or deeply bullshitty, explaining how urgent & very real the obvious bullshit was. Not as bad as 2019 but still jarring
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I recall watching this one. It was so heavily trailed that they had me believing he was about to shock everyone with some horrifying revelations. In reality, it was hard to avoid laughing. Cut back to the studio to presenter and guests who said it was all proven beyond doubt now.
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Again, I would simply not give any backing to people who openly hate me and keep telling their tame journalists they do.
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You assholes have the option to just ignore all of them any time you want, a thing you’ve repeatedly shown you’re all very good at when you want to apply yourselves to the task.
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Is it a flickbook
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Don’t go imagining British reactionaries are less horrific than this, by the way. They’re just as bad, they’re just slightly smarter and not as bold.
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Anyway, we might ask why articulating anything so obviously true - plainly correct to the point of comedy, the kind of stuff MPs who have retired are quite open about - will get public figures hounded by MPs and press working together. Goodness me, whatever could that be about.
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Bear in mind we have a senior lawyer’s report into a squillion emails and interviews, which aligns very precisely with what I’m saying here, and everyone has quite pointedly ignored it because they do not care to hear it.
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Does this seem wildly unlikely to you, well beyond the bounds of possibility.
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I’d add here that the only things required for my crazy tinfoil conspiracy theory to be possible are 1) the Labour right being poisonously vicious cynics who only care about themselves and 2) the press being mostly dumb, easily led, incurious and enthusiastic for bullying.
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Yes, look: the Labour right woke up on the morning of 9 June 2017 urgently aware they needed to offer the press something - anything - that would convince a million stupid liberals and a million Brexit grandpas to basically sit out the next election. This is what they found.
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Important to understand not just because it means our democracy is a bit of a sick joke but because all this - diamond hard Brexit, plummeting living standards, the NHS on fire - was not a dumb accident: it was the most acceptable option our political/media class chose for us all
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This is what that Al Jazeera documentary gets over very well: a situation where politicians and staff were willing to do and say absolutely anything, no matter how wild and insane it was, and journalists could not wait to stampede whatever they were given onto the front page.
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Like, there is a reason why the big push ever since has been “anyone who even quibbles with what I say is an extremist who must be crushed” and the reason is, everyone understands very well how badly the Labour right and the press behaved, together.
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We might say - but weren’t there proven incidents of people behaving horrendously? And the answer is yes, but these are just details *to them*, never mind you. The big picture is: they needed a big stick, they found at least two, and now nobody can ever admit what happened.
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Yes, look: the Labour right woke up on the morning of 9 June 2017 urgently aware they needed to offer the press something - anything - that would convince a million stupid liberals and a million Brexit grandpas to basically sit out the next election. This is what they found.
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She’s tapping into the repeatedly demonstrated willingness of the British press, particularly senior TV commentators, to repeat anything they’re told like a fucking mynah bird, no matter how absurd and reckless it might be.
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Everyone gets it, but nobody cares.
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Stuff like this can only happen so many times before we have to admit it’s not an aberration or a quirk, and that screaming idiotic dangerous horseshit at the public is the entire purpose of the industry, the thing that pays everyone’s wages.
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Wow. Bond traders, currency speculators and bankers are now the ‘left-wing economic establishment’. You really can have it all!
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If the only tool you have is a hammer then everything - everything notably left wing, specifically - is going to look like a nail.
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I’d underline that these people are not only offering you nothing, but they are absolutely delighted to have the public over a barrel with no other options. Could not be happier with the way things are going, where they can offer dogshit and succeed, they are in hog heaven.
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I am hearing that horrendously cynical politicians and the press regularly unite and work together to frighten the public about snarks and grumpkins, very worrying if true, especially coming from this MP, one of the very worst for exactly this behaviour.
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The idea that Raab is facing “trial by digital mob” is a straightforward insult to your intelligence, just waving a dick in your face while giving you the finger with both hands, and behaviour like this should - but does not - carry a heavy social penalty.
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All I’ll say here is that HR, Security and Comms are paid by management to handle their concerns, not yours, and while they might also assist you in moments of crisis, that is incidental to their overall purpose.
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I’d add here that I feel like a total rube, an absolute bumpkin, for having taken Berger’s word as obviously true, because why would any reasonable person ever bullshit the public about something so grave. But no, she was diddling the public for personal gain and she isn’t sorry.
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They tried debating the issues as a means to win back control of their party, by which I mean “screaming at the hacks”, which is the only tool they have. And it didn’t work, because they are terrible people, so they went looking for weaponry to deploy and this is what they found.
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All I can say is: people like Stella do not behave as horrendously as they do because they *don’t* understand what happened here. They behave this badly because they understand it very well, and because they know how badly it would go for them if the public understood it too.
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I think that might have been the point where I realised almost nobody was acting in good faith and there was no difference between the shittiest Sun hack and actual MPs, all of whom had one aim in mind, acting together, which was not at all the purpose they said it was.
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I took Berger at face value, because what decent person would not, and then I watched her deliberately and repeatedly elide horrific abuse she’d got from a Nazi who was sent to jail for sending it to her with Labour members, over and over, until it could no longer be an accident.
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The thing about Posie Parker is that she used to be a pariah in the broader GC movement because of her open embrace of the far right, but things have gotten so bad that the Scottish Tories and much of the Scottish media will back her.
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“Thou shalt not kill” is now the law. But it applies only to individuals — not yet to nations. To slay your neighbor is murder — unless you are in uniform.
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This does helpfully illustrate that nothing is real, except whatever helps The Lads today, and really who gives a fuck who The Lads are so long as they’re well connected
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