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The War of 1812 was a bit of a score draw: We got a good away win by burning down the White House and did well in the north saving Canada (Yeah!) but we did lose quite badly at the Battle of New Orleans which took place a fortnight AFTER the peace treaty to end the war had been signed in Ghent (?) ( doh!)
Such unfortunate incidents occur in the best of families. In many ways, the fact that we haven’t fought a war with the USA for 200+ years shows how little we “move in the same circles”. You might not like your distant relatives, but it’s your neighbours / housemates / immediate family whom you squabble with - at least until some kind of outside threat throws you all into the same boat, at which point the hatchet gets reluctantly buried.
I get the attraction of family analogies when it comes to international relations but I must confess I think they can be overused much like comparing a nation states economics to those of the household budget can be overused.
I think that boat sailed quite some time ago. The more conspiracy-minded members of the MAGA coalition would have believed it before but aren't likely to accept it now.
Stand by for some kind of “Wag the Dog” stunt.
Corroborative evidence that will convince people who don’t want to be convinced will be hard to find. However, if the dam breaks I would not want to be in Trump’s shoes (well, I wouldn’t anyway…). Vance would have to spot which way the wind was blowing (sorry, mixed metaphor) almost before it started to avoid being collateral damage.
Maxwell knows who these people were, and she, to save her own neck will cut a deal, assuming that there is evidence she actually assisted in procuring minors, and was part of the crime, Murdock, He could very well be who collaborates Maxwells stories, along with what dirt he has personally on Trump,
Does it need a basement?
You mean he has a concept of a basement?
They're looking into the question of a basement very strongly. The basement will be announced in two weeks.
Oh, come on, you can't call him an Great Orange Perv, He never knew Epstein, nor Maxwell, Never went to the island, it was someone else, Or at least that will be his next move, all those pictures are fakes, put there by Obama, I wonder why he hates him so? did Ivanka say She fancied him or something,
The extreme right-wing Christians that make up much of his base, might have a come to God moment, if it were established that Trump was indeed on that list, and was a frequent visitor to Epstein's island, but to be honest the clues are already there, but they just don't want to admit it, I'm waiting for Maxwell to be given a deal, if she tells alll, to implicate the bigger fish, I think it will shock a lot of people how the rich, and famous like to play, Actors have said about how seedy Hollywood really is, how when they were young, child actors how , some producers were like vultures, boys as well as girls, found themselves receiving advances from people in the industry,
That's one of the interesting things of the recent furore, there's not any real new information coming to light! Nearly everything that's been causing him such issues has been in the public domain for a quite a long time. It's just that suddenly the MAGA base and various acolytes have woken up and smelled the covfefe.
it's impressive to see how the right wing is so similar on both sides of the atlantic.
Despite the inevitable lack of resulting personal consequences (they just..don't happen to him), it is interesting to note even some of his most ardent online supporters have been repulsed by the latest round of distractions and denials. Most obviously Redditors that inhabit /r/Conservative, a sub that has moved so far right since 2023-24 it's hard not to believe the comments aren't wholly generated by a bot farm. Now there's actual dissent in the ranks.
I believe Baroness Hale has some free time at the mo if the Americans need a hand dealing with legislatures being shutdown by rogue leaders?
