It’s preposterous

Wot no moose

The last 2.5 years of Bluesky were a steady build up to "criticism of Jeffrey Epstein's writing ability is ableist." Congrats everyone, we did it.

“Now. Let’s find out. Whose slipper. It is”

Haha, yes I feel much the same

My general feeling is - and that’s all this is - is that nothing in politics lasts forever. I don’t know what the trigger point is here, and it might simply be something we haven’t anticipated, but I suspect strongly it will come

Yes possibly. But I guess the key difference here is politics and whether those around him see value at a certain point of stabbing him in the back

I was going to use Aberfan as a metaphor but that struck me as rather tasteless

My general feeling is that the vast heap of terrible stuff - Jon Stewart’s “bullshit mountain” - that Trump has generated will reach terminal mass and just collapse either in a spectacular catastrophe or just tawdry ignominy

I had a Madness video compilation many years ago and it culminated with footage of the boys doing exactly that

Okay, I’m going to have to read it again aren’t I!

I haven’t read that for YEARS. If you know it well, maybe you can confirm a theory I have. IIRC it contains references to a “stone rose” and I’m fairly certain there’s a line about “weighing up the fool’s gold” - you can see where I’m going with this

Same! It was a mildly unpleasant surprise