Facebook just presented me with this - Carole King, Aretha Franklin and the elegant, sophisticated Obamas compared to the crude, greedy lout in charge now. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1860916141427719 See the comment below it, from someone who has to live with it (though given the power of the US, we all do).

ttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-uk-state-visit-parliament-mps-peers-b2736679.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb

MPs and peers call for Trump to be blocked from addressing parliament during UK visit?

Why?

As champions of democracy surely we can have no objection to Trump addressing Parliament.

All our MPs could watch, and say nothing.
Perhaps add in a few shots of our peerage fast asleep...

Your thoughts?

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdYpoC2E/

January 6th offenders

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/07/jan-6-rioters-pardoned-criminal-records-sex-crimes-death

Sieg Heil mein Führer !

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/al-gore-compares-trump-administration-to-nazi-germany-in-scathing-analysis/ar-AA1Dnime?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=a86d66d7c0c9405f9261382dd3248ff2&ei=51

The nationalities of criminals will be published in future. [ BBC News ]
Never understood why there was any objection to this up till now?

Trumpski is scheduled to visit our wonderful country, meet the King, PM and address our democratic Parliament. It would be much more in the realms of sanity to invite Vladimir Putin, a man of great experience, power and intelligence, than that dictatorial, nutty, vandalising old tosspot. IMO its disgusting.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/mps-are-trying-to-block-donald-trump-from-addressing-parliament/ar-AA1DjOcP?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=7011156b9cb744758b21d08db710b214&ei=45

Trumpski is scheduled to visit our wonderful country, meet the King, PM and address our democratic Parliament. It would be much more in the realms of sanity to invite Vladimir Putin, a man of great experience, power and intelligence, than that dictatorial, nutty, vandalising old tosspot. IMO its disgusting.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/mps-are-trying-to-block-donald-trump-from-addressing-parliament/ar-AA1DjOcP?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=7011156b9cb744758b21d08db710b214&ei=45

When Zelenskyy visited Washington, he was berated by Vance for being disrespectful for not wearing a suit, as was being worn by Trump, Vance et al.

When Vance is in India, meeting the Indian Prime Minister Modi, will he (Vance) be wearing a khadi kurta so that he doesn't appear disrespectful to the Indian peoples?

Strange but [truly] exciting?

https://www.postalley.org/2025/04/20/gentler-time-when-a-rookie-teacher-was-tossed-into-a-brooklyn-school/

The US is lawless

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdYUMpLJ/

On the 23rd of March, 15 people - paramedics, civil defence workers and a UN official were killed by the Israeli military because the vehicles could not be identified as they had their lights off.

See for yourself what IDF truth is...

Promising and hopefully progressive.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/impeach-remove-us-gripped-by-mass-protests-against-trump/ar-AA1DgcSS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=5ca711eeb5cc403db991631796af4cad&ei=9

That Trump cheated to win the election


https://youtu.be/SwJu7toxzKg?si=rLmHYCYUYF-OAFD9

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr7l123zy5o

So tell me this is not a genocide. And we can’t claim we didn’t know.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/breaking-vladimir-putin-orders-russia-to-stop-fighting-in-ukraine-in-bombshell-move-from-kremlin/ar-AA1DeopT?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=cd3b35e162754a719331fa6c394b55b4&ei=7

Should the price of eggs and milk decide who runs a country?

I have not seen any signs of Clive for several months now, he must have either left the forum or is sadly no longer with us.

https://animalequality.org.uk/campaign/ban-force-feeding/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=paid&utm_content=LG+-+Image+2+-+goose&utm_campaign=01%2F08%2F24_GH_AEUK_Acquisizione+%28Leads%29&utm_id=120209366310810358&utm_term=120216324271520358&fbclid=IwY2xjawJvt05leHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqxgcLam_hgEeycHxlZFU3S6oh5btig_RlIA-Xa3PpWJgIKVkecaLrGpds7Zp3RaJs7Aim2A_aem_UY0C-zr6nf8jOV6rPXntCA

https://www.adoptionuk.org/news/significant-cut-in-government-funding-for-adopted-and-kinship-children

How heartless and how wrong.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20250411-why-icelanders-are-happier-than-ever

In the 20th century, the youngest person executed in the United States was George Stinney Jr. At just 14 years old, he was executed in the electric chair. From the day of his trial until his execution, the young man held a Bible in his hands, constantly proclaiming his innocence.

Stinney was charged with murdering two white girls. One victim was 11-year-old Betty and the other was 7-year-old Mary. Their bodies were found near their own homes. During the trial, all the jurors were white and the proceedings lasted only two hours. Just 10 minutes into the trial, the death sentence was handed down. Stinney's parents were threatened with death and were not allowed to give their son any comfort in the courtroom. They were subsequently forced to leave their town.

George Stinney spent 81 days in prison before his death and was never allowed to see his parents during that time. He was held in solitary confinement about 50 miles from his hometown. His execution was carried out by applying 5,380 volts of electricity.

Seventy years after his death, a South Carolina judge has proven George Stinney innocent. The two girls had been killed by a beam weighing more than 40 pounds, which would have been impossible for 14-year-old Stinney to lift, let alone use to inflict lethal blows. The entire case against him was fabricated, and Stinney was targeted simply because he was black.

This tragic story later inspired Stephen King to write his novel "The Green Mile." It is often said that people in the past were more humane, but that is a blatant lie. People were cruel then, just as they are now. The only difference is that before, cruelty was hidden, whereas now it is exposed for everyone to see.

(This article has been copied from Quora)

Trump says U.S. might have to ‘take a pass’ on Ukraine-Russia peace talks.

Might this suggest the war couldn't be resolved in 24 hours?

[ and recognition there wasn't any easy money in it for "deal" makers...]

https://youtube.com/shorts/3LglFtw5_5g?feature=shared

An answer to one of them

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdFwXa5h/

Or has he?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/17/trump-china-harvard-supreme-court

This made me laugh - I don’t think it was supposed to as most of it is a fact

https://youtube.com/shorts/CtIybHGX5MQ?si=zBRiLK2gnHq09WI6

After seeing that 705 illegals crossed the channel on Tuesday, I was wondering what happens to all those dinghies and outboard engines??.
Are they recycled, sent beck to France to be used again??.

Easter Egg Hunt

It's tit for tat between the USA and China - The tit has made the Chinese tat more expensive.

The days of trench warfare or the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava are long gone.
The nuclear age is one of total annihilation.
This is what happens when a Mouse throws its weight about.

https://www.ladbible.com/news/uk-news/putin-nuclear-targets-uk-leaked-world-war-3-warning-216481-20250416

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdFxdm7A/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgq9ejql39t

Lessons will be learnt

But they never are

Paedophile gang

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/how-did-one-of-britains-most-shocking-paedophile-rings-get-away-with-it-for-so-long-13344456

I know a little something that so many do not appreciate about Donald, but that those of us who worked with him in the financial services game have known for many

decades—LONG before he ever made a run at politics.

His stated motives rarely reveal his true agenda. His showmanship and charisma bedazzles the uninformed, which is exactly how he likes it.

He never signed a contract or met an agreement he wouldn’t violate or wriggle out of if it suited his hidden agenda. He never met an investor whose purse he didn’t consider his own in some strategic way. And he never met a human being he wouldn’t screw in order to advance or satisfy himself.

If you want to understand his beef with Panama, don’t look at the canal to which he now points. Look at Trump enterprises and their fraught financial and criminal relationship with Panama, and look to the Russian oligarchs who bought condos in his Panama Tower.

If you want to understand his fixation with Gaza, don’t look at the Palestinian or Israeli people; look at the real estate value he now perceives that Gaza holds, and he’d like to unlock.

If you want to understand his insane, obsessive beef with energy renewable windmills, don’t look at the wind energy aspect; look at his beef with Scotland over his golf course and the nearby windmills that damaged his idea of its aesthetics.

If you want to understand his irrational hatred of Obama, don’t look at the policies of the Obama administration; look to the annual press corp dinner where Obama poked fun at him and bruised his ego. If you want to understand his demonization of Democrats, look not to Democratic social policy, but to the fact they didn’t want him to run under color of their party.

If you want to understand his hatred of “immigrants” don’t look to the actual contributions and challenges related to immigration, but to his own germophobia and personal disgust for all things “dirty and brown.”

What he does SO masterfully, as many sociopaths do, is figure out how to align, however temporarily, his own personal agenda with the drives of those he can then USE to help him execute it. And the GOP fell right in line with that abusive strategy.

The GOP now looks much like a battered wife who would LOVE to quit Trump, but who also knows their financial security, personal comfort, and social status would collapse if they ran away. And they fear they won’t get much sympathy or support from the people who tried to warn them not to marry the dude—a serial, liar, cheater, thief, sadist, and a generally Bad Person.

Many of the GOP politicians today are busily masking their own abuse from the general public; at some point, however, as they watch their power continue to erode, their reputations get smashed, and themselves get blamed for the extensive abuse they now suffer, something’s gonna give.

I don’t know what it is, but every bone in my body FEELS an energetic convergence heading toward a massive, MASSIVE explosion—coming soon.

Author ~ Eilene Workman

Thanks to that vermin scumbag Trump.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/russian-rouble-crowned-world-s-best-performing-currency-as-dollar-declines/ar-AA1CYzSz?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=254f24ba5d29416d906b56bd1acf6dcf&ei=38

Worth every moment - this bloke is a joke

https://youtu.be/ucMgf7C-xsU?si=J0oOWhnvaLKiahrH

There is a case to be made for higher levies on imports.

America needs to rebuild its industrial base, it can’t always be reliant on its main geopolitical adversary for a vast range of tech and consumer goods, and it needs to bring production back onshore.

Former President Joe Biden was trying to do all that with his huge range of subsidies, especially for microchips, and now Trump is pursuing the same goals, but with tariffs as the main tool instead.

It has become the new consensus in American economic policy, and, whoever is in charge, it is likely to stay in place.

The rest of the world will just have to get used to it.

The trouble is, the tariffs have been poorly planned, and badly executed.

They should have been announced a long way in advance so that companies had the time to reconfigure their supply chains.

For example, iPhones.

If it will take Apple until 2028 to build the necessary manufacturing capacity in the US, why not wait until then before the tariff is introduced?

If it will triple the cost of an iPhone, why not phase the tariff in gradually so that the market has time to adjust?

Perhaps most of all, talk to industries first to figure out what the impact might be instead of raising the tariffs overnight, and then suspending them after some frantic lobbying from a series of bewildered chief executives.

It remains to be seen whether Apple can build the factories it will need in the US.

As an insurance policy, at least, it will have to try. It can’t risk going through another week with huge tariffs hanging over it.

VACANCY.

Horse whisperer needed for stable genius.

https://mashable.com/video/snl-cold-open-trump-tariffs-easter-jesus

Comedy or Tragedy?

https://youtu.be/ZaNdd-k_dHk?si=54knMsI8ffQkzzl-

Feel free to submit your title for this cartoon!!