The kiss of death… I knoooow!

  • @[email protected]M
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    301 year ago

    The ‘world was safer’ argument is an especially bizarre one to make this week, of all weeks, when the Middle East is ‘on the cusp’ of a wider conflict that was partly caused by Donald Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from a treaty with Iran. And Trump also inflamed tensions in that same region by moving the US’ Israeli Embassy to Jersualem. As to conflict in ‘the West’ specifically, he also endorsed and continues to endorse the very people pushing the West towards conflict, and himself caused violent conflict in the US, which was part of ‘the West’ last time I checked.

    • Jaysyn
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      1 year ago

      Don’t forget about freeing the 5000+ ISIS fighters & handing Afghanistan back over to them.

      • @[email protected]M
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        11 year ago

        There are just so many counter examples! I honestly cannot think of a major political figure who’s made such an utterly bizarre argument.

    • DdCno1
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      101 year ago

      Not just the withdrawal, but also the assassination of a Revolutionary Guards general, which Iran themselves said was why they staged October 7 as an act of revenge.

    • Echo Dot
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      71 year ago

      Truss was damaging the economy. This one’s just utterly useless and keeps putting his foot in it. But he hasn’t crashed the economy so that’s a plus.

      But he just bows down to the hard right, so even if he himself isn’t hard right. So he is still pretty awful.

      There is a reason no one likes him. He’s completely useless so both the right and the left get irritated by him.

  • Th4tGuyII
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    81 year ago

    Considering how her month long stint as PM went, I fully welcome her endorsement of Trump

  • Jaffa
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    291 year ago

    You think you know how dumb someone is, but they can always surprise you.

    • Echo Dot
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      81 year ago

      Her endorsement is meaningless because she’s a political irrelevancy with less political foresight than a tin of sardines.

  • Leraje
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    401 year ago

    Why on earth are we still paying attention to this idiot and treating her opinions as if they are worthy of consideration?

    • @[email protected]
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      161 year ago

      Because she was UK pm. It is a reminder of what kind of standards, or rather lack thereof, the office has.

    • UKFilmNerd
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      41 year ago

      She’s doing the media rounds because her book about her 49 days as PM is released. Apparently almost everything, including causing everyone’s mortgage to sharply rise, wasn’t her fault.

  • nohaybanda [he/him]
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    91 year ago

    Can someone please pull the brits aside and explain nobody cares what they think? This is getting embarassing

    • @[email protected]OP
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      171 year ago

      I love it! That internet assuredness. Ahh, it’s magical.

      Nobody cares what Liz Truss thinks. But you’re on a UK community, reading a UK news outlet, continuing to talk about UK matters. Ooof, that’s embarrassing for you.

      • GreatAlbatrossM
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        41 year ago

        I think people sometimes forget that the UK is still 1/8th of the core anglosphere.

          • @[email protected]
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            Oh yeah??? Well we Americans don’t get into embarrassing situations, we get into WARS!!! /s

            Hey, can y’all explain the lettuce thing to me? I think I recall it being something about when she was possibly going to be next in power that people started saying that lettuce had a longer shelf-life than she potentially did? We had a lot going on over here during that time and I never fully grasped the nuance of the lettuce joke and always kinda regretted that.

          • Galli [comrade/them]
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            121 year ago

            oh no I have been owned, congrats you have restored the british empire to it’s former place as world super power

    • Echo Dot
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      131 year ago

      You’re on a UK sub what did you expect it to be about?

    • FatLegTed
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      31 year ago

      And the name of this sub is …? And it’s hosted on…?

  • Baggins
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    71 year ago

    and the West is “on the cusp” of conflict.> Partly because the orange idiot sucked up to them.

    I know it’s not a black and white case but he certainly didn’t help, and still isn’t.