Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Everyone should say it: The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile. 856273416555
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 21/05/2025It will not. And it will cost three times what is estimated. 000
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 08/05/2025You do realise what the US government will blame is XX has an accident... 000
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 30/04/2025If you don't like that then don't calculate the dirty fuel burn of commercial shipping, or the fact that superyachts can only carry 12 passengers, any more and they have to align to commercial standards. Work out the fuel burn per nm per pax.... 010
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 30/04/2025So, as 737 burns about 3 tonnes per hour. Take that as a low average. Simple maths, 3x21,000=63,000 tonnes of dino juice per hour. I'll be sure to recycle... 100
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/04/2025The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024. This isn't due to luck or skill. Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption. 795283999116
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 06/04/2025I was this many years old when I discovered that the name of the town that the guy on the radio is from has an "r" in it. The Brits have weirder pronounced names for their town than we do in Ireland! 000
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/04/2025I wondered for a while why Trump was so excited by Brexit, even to the point of getting Farage to fluff him. It was simple, really: proof that, with the support of enough bent media, bad people selling bigotry & lies really could persuade people to vote to punch themselves in the face forever. 1303135626
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 04/04/2025He'll never pay it and they'll still have him over shaking your King's hand. 010
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 03/04/2025How much US money supported the UK leaving the EU? How much US money flowed into Irleand to support anti-abortion in 2018? 030
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 03/04/2025This explanation seems horrific but sound. 10%tariffs if your balance of trade is roughly equal. It’s a shakedown & a protection racket. He’ll lift them by domestic sector and even maybe individual companies, as well as perhaps the occasional nation, as a reward for pledges of blind allegiance. 63848231
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 02/04/2025In 72 days, Donold has taken 14 days off and spent $26 million of taxpayer money at his golf clubs. 29868002030
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 29/03/2025they should invent transcripts for audiobooks 2725012414
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Naturally… 1031847305
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 09/03/2025As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”. The man is a fraud. 10540411715
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/03/2025The last *seven days*? What *we* have *always feared*? What an irredeemable fraud he is. Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’. And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’. Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.” 33055121023
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Another scenario. EU starts to arm itself, won't buy American due EULA and ITARS. US gets annoyed. EU deploys a small force in Ukraine, behind front lines. RU uses a tactical nuke. US condemns RU, but blames EU for causing RU to attack. 010
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Why was a university receiving $400 million from the government not free for students? 000
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 01/03/2025Pretty much sums it up 22994332971
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 01/03/2025I think that you'll be waiting a long time. 000
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 01/03/2025The leader of the UK went to Washington to appease Trump. Willing to bend over backwards to avoid any economic pain for the UK. Offering trinkets. Shameful. 010
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 24/02/2025As a European, watching the leaders of Europe fret about the actions of the Trump govt. is infuriating. Understand that the US and Russia align perfectly in their need to keep Europe weak and destabilised. 000
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 15/02/2025I'm just waiting for the blackmail to begin with these platforms. "Do what we say, or we withhold all support." Many countries in Europe would be in serious trouble. F35, Nuclear deterrent, Poseidon P8, M270 and many more. Then, if EU decides to buy local, the the real monster will come out. 100
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 15/02/2025You may want to check where your nuclear weapons come from, and you have a lot of very expensive military systems, such as the F35, which the US controls. Hopefully this will make Europe buy European weapons systems. Enough of being blackmailed into buying American kit. 100
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Wow, "pulling the fire alarm", that sounds serious. A bit late though. The alarm they're pulling is set to call who exactly? Possibly a bit late. Calling out a fire service which is now controlled by the mob? 010
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 04/02/2025So tired of this idea that billionaires are our "betters" whose opinion is super important because they have a lot of money. It's bullshit. They're mostly greedy sociopaths who have no problem destroying people who get in their way. That doesn't make your opinion one to be valued, in my opinion. 373117782206
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 25/01/2025Mexico denied a US military plane from landing with deported immigrants today, foiling Donold’s plans. 1464428515803
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialTheEnder @theender.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I TOOK A PICTURE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS TO SHOW WHAT THE GAS PRICES WERE BEFORE TRUMPNOMICS. 011
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/01/2025Airbus chief urges closer ties between Europe’s rival fighter jet projects www.ft.com/content/fc50fe7d-4e4f-42…ft.comAirbus chief urges closer ties between Europe’s rival fighter jet projectsGuillaume Faury says potential areas of synergies amid budgetary constraints include development of drones and sensors 4265
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialEmma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Has everyone forgot the story about Trump telling Netanyahu not to make a peace deal until he could claim it was down to him? Because it’s like broadcasters have collective amnesia. 1036889
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/01/2025How Kemi Badenoch's spokesman responded today when I asked which of the communities living in the UK she was referring to when she described them as "peasants" 1791675603
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I wonder if the Douglas Carswell who supports "remigration" is related to "Douglas Carswell" who is an immigrant "by choice" and who lives in Jackson, Mississipi. 761017247
Reposted by @macker139.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 11/01/2025Trump 1.0: Alternative facts. Trump 2.0: The end of fact checking. 773847581
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 08/01/2025We're now in the oligarch stage. When plutocrats started to exert pressure on Putin many years ago, what did he do? What did Mohd. Bin Salman do with the Princes, what did Xi do in China? They all saw the threat. Yet, in the west the rich can now control democracies. 030
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Biggest socialists in the US, the US military. 000
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Interesting time frame. A decade delay. Has anyone got an estimate of how long it will take Russia to rebuild its damaged military after this war? 030
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I went to a school in Ireland in the 80s, and all the kids knew that bad things were going on. The adults could not have been unaware. There were teachers we were warned about, places not to go alone... All I hear now is how surprised they all are that it was happening... 020
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 24/11/2024I don't want to cause trouble, but isn't that a little like socialism?😀 000
macker139.bsky.social @macker139.bsky.social · 17/11/2024The irony of criticising overseas territories...City of London? www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...theguardian.comWe must stop UK territories laundering money, say politiciansMargaret Hodge and Andrew Mitchell criticise ‘dither and delay’ that they say protects corruption and conflict 011
