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Cuchulainn
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Re: What is Sunakism?

October 28th, 2022, 9:12 pm

As Joe Biden says "Rashi Sanuk"
 
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Re: What is Sunakism?

October 29th, 2022, 12:41 am

If a Republican had said that the media would have been all over it saying “racist.”
 
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Re: What is Sunakism?

October 29th, 2022, 1:29 am

Since most Republicans are racists, that’s the proper Bayesian reaction.
 
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Re: What is Sunakism?

October 29th, 2022, 8:10 am

Since most Republicans are racists, that’s the proper Bayesian reaction.
Possibly a true statement. 
 
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Re: What is Sunakism?

October 29th, 2022, 1:59 pm

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil -- Charles Krauthammer
 
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Re: What is Sunakism?

October 29th, 2022, 7:14 pm

If a Republican had said that the media would have been all over it saying “racist.”
It coud happen to a bishop.
A wingnut might get to the fourth letter.

Larry Lawrence Maybe you know what a Zombie is.
Geoff Montgomery When a person dies and is buried, it seems there are certain voodoo priests who have the power to bring him back to life.
Mary Carter How horrible!
Geoff Montgomery It's worse than horrible because a Zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.
Larry Lawrence You mean, like Democrats?
 
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Re: What is Sunakism?

October 30th, 2022, 1:44 am

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil -- Charles Krauthammer
A deep insight. And one of them are right!
 
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Re: What is Sunakism?

October 30th, 2022, 1:54 am

But the depth of evilness has dramatically changed since the innocent times in which he was writing. Incidentally, we should probably make a distinction between garden variety conservatives and Trump/McConnell Republicans. There is no excuse for the latter.
 
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Re: What is Sunakism?

October 30th, 2022, 11:40 am

Similar in the UK.

Labour think Conservatives are evil.
Conservatives think Labour are manipulative.
Labour think Lib Dems are useful idiots.
Conservatives think Lib Dems are naive.
Lib Dems don’t think.
 
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Re: What is Sunakism?

October 31st, 2022, 12:30 pm

"The Republican Party is constructed as a machine: Into one end are fed the atavistic fears of the white working class as grist, and out the other end pops The Wall Street Journal editorial-page agenda as the finished product." -- Jonathan Chait
I think that relationship has broken down in the last several years, though: the holders of the "atavistic fears of the white working class," who were supposed to show up and vote Republican based on vague assurances that never amounted to very much, have recognized that while the Wall Street Journal editorial-page agenda was ALWAYS served by the Party, their concerns always seemed to run into some insurmountable barrier that kept them from being addressed.
So now the atavistic fears of the white working class are the central platform of the Trumpublican Party, and while the Wall Street Journal editorial-page agenda STILL gets served as faithfully as possible, it's done much more quietly than previously.
 
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Re: What is Sunakism?

December 24th, 2022, 5:14 pm

British PM asks homeless man if he 'works in business'

https://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2022/1224/13 ... eless-man/


 
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Re: What is Sunakism?

December 25th, 2022, 4:57 pm

He seemed slightly concerned that Sunak would try to get him a job - OUT OF LONDON! Without the statutory 8 months for giving it a thought, free dinners and accommodation!! Effing good-doer.
Some people are like dung balls without a beetle: they won’t do anything about their life and not even notice how they roll down. Dung balls are happy in a way. They just don’t need much. (I have nothing against dung balls, just worried there’s not enough beetles.)
 
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Re: What is Sunakism?

December 25th, 2022, 7:48 pm

Slow news day?
 
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Re: What is Sunakism?

December 25th, 2022, 9:27 pm

In fairness to the PM, there is no rule saying that you can’t work in business if you are homeless, or vice versa.
 
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Re: What is Sunakism?

December 26th, 2022, 11:26 am

In fairness to the PM, there is no rule saying that you can’t work in business if you are homeless, or vice versa.
That would be an Ecumenical matter!

But Rishi said more jobs outside London than in London, reminds one of Orwell's Down and out in London and in Paris, what?

In Amsterdam he is fondly remembered.

Interessant: premier Sunak was dus een van de mensen achter TCI. Die had 1% in ABN Amro en dwong de bank om op te splitsen. En hij hield er fors geld aan over.

(Overheden moesten banken redden).
 
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