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Mushtaq

@mushtaq44.bsky.social
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Mostly letting off steam - steer clear if you want to avoid politics! But you can’t avoid it sadly, more now than ever 🙁 Also cricket, chess, interesting stuff from sane people… Support Ukraine. Buy shares in history professors. No DMs.

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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Starmer isn’t exactly popular and has made a number of mistakes in 2 years of Govt, but perhaps Labour crowning the most untested PM in modern UK political history, out of frontline politics for decade, with no clear differential policy agenda, might not turn out quite as well for them as they hope…
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
99% of the money is controlled by… individuals in the Epstein files.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The divide in America? Those who think the country should be a safe haven for those who seek freedom from oppression, and those who think the country should be a safe haven for those who seek freedom from the consequences of their actions.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Somewhat fitting really that the US republican came into existence as a result of a mad King, and will end up being destroyed by one as well.
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cyber_wench @cyberwench.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Congratulations to Ukraine, incredible. And in particular a gold medal board prize for Igor Kovalenko on a break from fighting at the front. Truly inspirational. s1.chess-results.com/tnr1263013.a...
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Chess-Results.com is a powerful and dedicated server only for chess-results. The tournament archive of chess-results.com contains more than 40.000 tournaments from around the world.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Thoughts and prayers to MAGAs when are genuinely only interested in starting wars within their own country.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Can’t believe these EU/UK politicians are taking this “2 week window cr*p” seriously and trying to “negotiate” with Iran. They’re just giving Trump cover to do whatever he wants when the “negotiations” inevitably fail.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The main difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2? When he says ‘why don’t they just shoot them (protesters)?’ It will happen. When he says ‘why not inject bleach?’ He will get endorsement. When he says ‘why don’t we nuke hurricanes?’….
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
‘Councils spending too much money et on consultants’ shouts Reform, as it brings forward plans to send “task forces” into councils to identify waste and save money…
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Absolute b*llsh*t reporting/framing across the UK MSM this morning, credulously reporting Russia’s “willingness” to reduce its territorial claims in Ukraine in return for “concessions”. Russia has no legitimate territorial claims to give up and the idea that this some sort of runner is contemptible.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Seeing the middle aged women celebrating/gloating outside the Supreme Court after the trans ruling made me want to puke. Regardless of legal merits of the ruling, the total lack of empathy for a class of people who will now feel considerably more vulnerable and scared belies their true motivations.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Imagine having pretensions to claiming to be a leader when you are prepared to wilfully place yourself in the minority of your own party - and not immediately resign when they won’t follow you.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Which he did. A day later. Starmer fresh from his “triumph” is now stuck as the only European leader yet to issue a strong statement backing Zelenskyy. Because having “got something” from Trump (promise of avoidance of tariffs etc) he’s know given Trump leverage.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Starmer needs to urgently cancel his meeting with Trump after today. No good will come of it and Trump will probably try to openly humiliate him.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Twitter deleted: check. Amazon: check. Facebook: check. Google and Google maps: check. Any more for any more?
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I dunno, it feels like maybe, just maybe, there’s just the embryo of a fightback emerging. Let’s hope this is one time when the Republican campaign against abortion prevails.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Have they let him into the Pentagon systems yet?
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
If they’ve got into Treasury payment mightn’t they have got into international banking? Even US debt payments? This isn’t a domestic US crisis. They could start breaking banks and countries. And the International Monetary system.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Those astronauts aren’t ever getting back, are they?
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Trump’s going to be so torn in a few short weeks when he has the choice between ignoring the Debt Ceiling and demonstrating his total neutering of Congress and defaulting on US debt which he’s been gagging to do for over 6 years. Could go either way.
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Stephanie Rhodes @rhodies.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
OMG I loved this! 🤠 Even had the soundtrack 😂 youtu.be/mNF8uiVsm0M
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YouTube video by Due South HD
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
One thing to note is that in most cases Trump is doing all this stuff across the board without even having nominees confirmed and in post. They are doing it anyway. Dems should be rejecting it anyway. But they are still doing it regardless. Because they are destroying the Civil Service from within.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Stop thinking that the mid-terms are the ‘opportunity’ to fight back on all this sh*t. America (and the World) can’t wait that long.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Incredible to think that the American aviation industry may collapse before Russia’s.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
For many years most in the rest of the Western world could be content with the idea that often America was wrong for the right reasons. That is no more. America is wrong. It is motivated by bad reasons. They must be resisted whatever the cost.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
And so, because it’s still (apparently) still a few weeks, maybe months a way (a lifetime in this current admin), the issue which consumed Washington for months a couple of years ago, and was said could destroy the global economy ie the DEBT CEILING, has been almost forgotten about…
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In a few short months (increasingly optimistic timeline) the US administration is going to speed run a global economic, health and political crises, and then use the (usually legitimate) “excuse” that they are a victim of International events to ensure that they do not receive domestic blame.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
On day one he signs an EO declaring ‘there are only two genders male and female’ - essentially denying the legal existence of transgenders. On day 7 he bans “that which does not legally exist” from the military.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Meanwhile whilst the sh*t is going on we are probably only a few months away from US defaulting its debts, nuking the $ and the world economy. Last time Trump wanted to do this but everyone around him warned him off. The vast majority of those advising him will be saying very different this time…
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Maybe his dementia is accelerating and deteriorating fast and the people around him realise that and feel they are in a race against time…
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
As somebody pointed out the other day: Trump/MAGA now controls the witness protection programme…
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The main problem with the “blanket pardons for non- existent crimes” to lift threat of Government persecution is that the pardon only applies to events pre Jan 2025. So if the Govt wants to persecute you for non-existent crimes then they can just do it with “crimes” post Jan 2025.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
National Socialism carried out, not with ruthless German efficiency but with Trumpism/MAGA incompetence. Could go either way.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
FIFA and IOC need to start drawing up emergency plans to move their flagship events I guess…
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Not that it matters probably, but are there not Republican Senators who are going to be a tiny bit p*ssed off about this supposed “saving” of TikTok? Bit difficult to believe that they all wanted it leveraging into the Ukraine/Israel funding bill just in the hope that it would make Dems look bad…
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The price that Trump is going to demand for ongoing support to Ukraine is going to be enormous. Difficult to believe, but they may be better off going it alone (with allies who actually have the interests of their country and people at heart).
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Facebook deleted.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Once a criminal enterprise controls a country at every level it becomes near impossible to remove it, because all those with any power to trigger change are complicit in the criminality, and will not be able to retain their own power in the event of real change.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Has Trump announced his intention to retain legal counsel to the Presidency? Seems like an obvious and easy saving given he can't actually do anything illegal as President and suffer any consequences.
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
‘Peace’ is just shorthand for ‘Out of sight out of mind’
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Random, but presumably not remotely original thought. Is JFK the movie that destroyed America?
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Et Tu Brute?
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Mushtaq @mushtaq44.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
That’s what you call a New Year’s resolution (although it took until September to finally cut the cord…)
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