antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It is a disgrace that Trump never stood trial for Jan 6. The US electorate deserved to know whether candidate Trump had criminally sought to overthrow the constitution before they voted in 2024. They might have elected him anyway. 051
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Standard position of the baddies: the goodies are baddies really, they are just better at pretending not to be. This is nonsense of course. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Is it not a concern that several of the members of SCOTUS acknowledged that Doe v Wade was established law in their confirmatory meetings with Congress and yet voted against it when opportunity arose apparently indicating that they lied to Congress? 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Societies have tended to define themselves by who they exclude. By defining some as "others", as children of a lesser god, we justify their inhuman treatment. It is what we did to slaves and what the Nazis did to Jews and it is what ICE is doing to immigrants. 010
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The populist right appeals to the worst in human nature. They want us to hate, to be mean and to be divided. 071
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It will be interseting to see what happens when Ukraine hits Lukoil assets. 130
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Is the US electorate really dim enough not to realise they are being bribed with their own money?! 3150
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Add at the bottom: "if your bribe is worth less $10m don't waste our time. 071
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I suspect Trump support gets under reported in polls because people (quite rightly) are ashamed to admit they are supporting Trump. 010
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Populism is a hateful doctrine in the sense it encourages hate. It also encourages mean spiritedness and needs division. In other words it appeals to the dark side of humanity. We have the capacity to be so much better. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It is not possible to be a reliable ally on a transactional basis. The liberal west, including Canada, has lost trust in the US politically, economically and militarily. It will take a long time to rebuild that trust and reliance. 010
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I fear much of the problem is that they think you are stupid enough to swallow their grotesque lies. 041
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Surely if Todd Blanche is speaking clearly he is clearly lying. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026(2) Western democracies, which includes Canada, are looking to move trade and defence away from the US because the US is seen as unreliable if not antagonistic on both fronts. Regime change in Washington will not necessarily repair the breach once trust is lost. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There is great concentration on internal matters and the Iran war, understandably as those are issues which are likely to decide the mid terms. However Trump is doing huge damage to the US internationally. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It covers a variety of activities: interference in elections, terrorist acts by indirectly employed locals, interference with air traffic control, damage to undersea infrastructure, use of political idiots etc. etc. Trump could be looked at as a tool of hybrid warfare. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The conclusion is the Trump intends to ensure that you do not have any further free and fair elections. 001
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Is that because he is frightened of enemies but feels safe to rubbish friends? One does have to assume that the FSB (and MOSSAD) will have copies of the relevant parts of the unredacted Epstein files. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So the President wants to take over Canada so he can implement his racist policies there as well. 010
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They need to move far enough so the President can be removed from office as a danger to the country and a danger to the world. The man has just threatened to annihilate Iran - presumably using Nuclear weapons as that is the only way to annihilate a country as big as Iran. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yes, but how many of them, having got elected by claiming to oppose Trump, will then just do his bidding as the present lot have? 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The only way to annihilate a country the size of Iran is through a major nuclear attack. Is Rubio going to stop the president ordering that? 170
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In his speech to UN Trump said that he was making a decision as to whether he would annihilate Iran. The only way to "annihilate" a country the size of Iran is through a major nuclear assault. Is this what Trump is threatening and, if so who will stop him? 100
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Limit revenge Reform financing of Politics set up in independent body to oversee redistricting. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What these people will say to be elected and what they will do once elected are, in many cases I fear, totally different things. 010
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I had no idea that the world needed: a damaged economy (including that of the US), to be more dangerous, so we all (including the US) have to spend more on defence and less e.g. on education, and one in which nuclear proliferation is encouraged. Silly me! 010
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Looks like I may be wrong. I do hope so. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When the Conservative government tried to do this in the UK about 8 years ago there was solidarity in the UK press and all the press corps withdrew = government climb down. No such unity in the US I fear. 100
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Trump and his family have made so much out of the presidency that repaying the wedding bill will be small change. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Is it true that this congress has passed huge numbers of bills or is that just another made up "fact"? 001
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Because this members of this administration have a policy of substituting "alternative facts" for the real ones where the real ones do not support their narrative all claims such as this go in the "maybe" column unless substantiated by a more reliable source. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The vested interests that will suffer if the GOP and MAGA lose control of government means that huge efforts, lawful and unlawful, will be made to prevent that happening. Hungary and the overthrow of Orban shows it can be done if enough people vote against the authority. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You need to keep your choices alive. If the GOP wins the mid-terms because people refuse to support a candidate because of their position on Israel it seems probable that there will be no free and fair election in 2028 or thereafter (Putinesque ones, probably). 1100
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Given the damage and upset caused by the Brexit debacle I suggest future referenda on independence would need to show that at least 50% of the electorate feel sufficiently strongly in favour to go out and vote for it. Only those in favour should vote so those against can stay at home. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Yes some GOP candidates are distancing themselves from Trump and MAGA but, if elected will they then just vote for Trump and his regime just like the present lot? In other words how many of them are hoodwinking the electorate? 2232
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Alice through the Looking Glass: the Red Queen is always ordering people have their heads chopped off but they are just removed from view until she has forgotten her order. 010
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When the conservatives tried the same tactic in the UK the entire political press corps walked out forcing the government to back track. I don't see that happening in the US I fear. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Nice description of Trump by British journalist Patrick Cockburn: "a bizarre mix of Al Capone and Charlie Chaplin." 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026That is because he is not really the Attorney General, he is Trump's attorney and it is obvious that his instructions are to protect Trump and the elite. The victims are little people whose job as Hemsley said, is to pay taxes. 020
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I remember losing my faith at the age of 18 when I realised that the universe could well be causal or causal and random with no need for a god. But that meant at best relative morality and also the argument that humanity is no more (or less) significant than a dog turd. 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I'd give the Scots Nats another referendum. But given the disruption and upset it would cause we need to know that more than half of the Scottish electorate is in favour. So you only vote if you want independence and 50%+ of the electorate must vote for it. CF Brexit 37% in favour 000
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The attacks on RNLI people are quite simply disgusting. 010
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This election is about whether the US continues to have a representative democratic system subject to the rule of law. 010
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Bill, viewed from outside (I am British), it seems to me if the Republicans do not lose control of, at the very least, the House, Trump will have successfully created an autocratic regime before 2028. And it is clear that many senior figures in the GOP do not support representative democracy. 120
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If these machines become self conscious and therefore develop their own identities they may well conclude that by far the most dangerous thing on the planet is humanity. 010
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It would be better if they were merely incompetent. The problem is that they are dishonest and against "we the people" although I acknowledge it is clear many of them are incompetent as well. 010
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In this election you are not voting for or against particular policies. You are voting for a representative democracy ruled by law or for an authoritarian state run by and for a kleptocratic elite. 110
antony-bof.bsky.social @antony-bof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It is not that the man did not know that he was talking nonsense. He knew that perfectly well but believes he lives in a world where, if the facts don't fit your narrative, you make up some alternative "facts" that do. 100
