Can you imagine this happening if Angela Merkel had been on the line? Or one of Trump’s kids? Or his mother’s aimless, forlorn hungry ghost? Or Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies? (Well, that one might perk him up, come to think of it.) But Trump misses a call from Vladimir Putin and he throws a shit…
Category: UK
“It's nothing short of a disgrace!” Labour loses in the UK
A cautionary tale for US Democrats if only because of negative media framing of Jeremy Corbyn. Labour’s worst defeat since the 1930s. Disinformation, racism, Islamophobia, and fascist rhetoric — aided and amplified by the world’s largest social media platform, Facebook — just swung another election. Pay attention to this one, America. #UKElection — Caroline Orr…
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: “Rail, mail, water, and energy into public ownership”-The UK Labour Manifesto
The BBC identified 12 key issues for the Labour party’s manifesto in preparation for the December General Election. Not wishing to take anything away from NY Brit Expat’s cogent analyses, I wanted to reflect on one item, the potential for re-nationalizing of key sectors in the US 2020 election context, since progressive Democratic candidates have…
Leaked cables from UK ambassador describe Trump as 'inept,' 'insecure,' 'incompetent'
Breaking news! The U.K. ambassador to the United States has eyes! And they’re attached to his brain! Which functions as it should! CNN: Cables sent from the United Kingdom's Ambassador to the United States to the British Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) describe President Donald Trump as “inept,” “insecure” and “incompetent,” a UK government official confirms…
Oh no! Crazy MAGA Brit pops beloved baby Trump blimp
The most beloved version of Donald Trump in the entire galaxy has fallen. A woman stabbed one of the U.K.’s famous baby Trump blimps today after saying, “I’m going in. I’m gonna pop the bloody thing.” After doing the deed, she exclaimed, “Did it! That’s a disgrace! It’s a national disgrace! The president of the…
Mayor of London: 'This is the sort of behavior I'd expect from an 11-year-old'
After Donald Trump described London Mayor Sadiq Khan as a “stone cold loser” in yet another petulant tweet on Monday, the mayor hit back — if you can call dispassionately stating the glaringly obvious “hitting back.” In a taped interview that may or may not have actually happened, depending on whether you accept consensus reality (that’s not…
Melania still doesn't want to hold her husband's gross hand
Is this too petty, too picayune, too piddling an issue to make light of, even though it slings some well-deserved muck on the ocher abomination? Um … of course it isn’t. After all, this is the same guy who can’t stand to look at John McCain’s name and embarrasses a proud nation of 300 million souls…
Trump visits one of Britain's most revered cultural landmarks, asks what the flooring is made of
Today, Trump visited Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner, a renowned cultural landmark where literary giants such as William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, the Bronte sisters, Geoffrey Chaucer, Jane Austen, and Lord Byron are either buried or memorialized. Oh, it went a little something like this: From: Rob Crilly Date: June 3, 2019 at 4:07:17 PM GMT+1 Subject: Supplemental…
Scotland will be ready to protest the Cheeto-faced sh*tgibbon if he visits
The tiny-fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret-wearing shitgibbon is returning to the UK, and should he alight on Scotland’s verdant hilltops, they’ll be ready for him. Trump is scheduled to embarrass us all in front of the Queen again from June 3-5, and as of yet he has no official plans to visit Scotland. But since he owns…
