politics
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
politics as usual in britain i see. reform party leader. decided to surrender his mp seat, to trigger a publicity election, and everyone saw what he was doing so no one will run against him other than count binface. this could be so embarrassing lol https://youtu.be/aGOmzQbRT_E
Trump needs to teach farage to just not give a shit about the media
he (somehow) still had the old-school British pride and can't just let random hitpieces roll off him
so he's going to spend the next 90 days getting distracted by protecting his pride
when the same thing could be accomplished by making one Trumpian tweet about SkyNews being losers
And for those not following, they wrote a hitpiece on him not disclosing that in 2022 while not in office, he received a large crypto donation from a supporter
which he is supposed to disclose or something when he did run for office within the next 365 days
not a tax thing, not a foreign influence thing (donator was British), just some broadly ignored campaign finance thing
I genuinely think no one cares other than Farage
The first hitpiece sorta just spiraled into general AI slop articles about "did you know Farage is rich"
which I also think bother him for some reason
idk why
maybe because he's normal "rich" not super billionaire rich
no they are, and with Farage it's because while he did his larp thing in EU parliament for 20 years, he had a real job too
I think most MPs have real jobs as well, unlike hte US where it's supposed to be a "full-time" thing
originally, but it definitely is now
and I looked it up ~50% of UK MPs have real jobs
this law pretty much banned real honest jobs
so now all they can do on the outside are insider trading or other underhand pay4play
if you're in congress, you can only earn a maxium of $30k/year from non-federal sources
God, news people are so low IQ
you can tell when they go off script because they have no idea what point they're even trying to make
just read the teleprompter FFS
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 Trump needs to teach farage to just not give a shit about the media
He has to teach him to care about market number go down and to nakedly manipulate it w/ the powers of national policy and his voice instead
Thursday, July 9, 2026
I was wrong, I assumed this was a "they already passed it and were trying to un-pass it"
because otherwise this made no sense
it turns out, no, they did in fact just decide it had been passed without taking a vote on the 7th
and then members rushed back from recess to try to get it overturned today, and failed, despite voting in the majority
I.... sorta assume they can just vote again when they are all back from recess, because it's sorta weird that bills can get auto-passed without a vote, and then this happens
this chat control thing has been dead for years (since 2021), because it's wildly unpopular, it's insane that 276 people voted for it at all
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131
democracy is a perfectly balanced system with no exploits