So if I say “billionaires should not have this much money,” I’m declaring Class War but if the billionaires say I should be replaced by robots, that’s just good business?

The Canadian embassy in DC has just removed its friendly banners… just in time for the presidential motorcade to pass. Coincidence? See below, before and after

Donald would flip his wig if he saw it.

What is being woke? It now seems to boil down to “believing that people who are not straight white men may be good at stuff too”

Trump is an extremely dangerous man--stupid, vindictive, fixated on payback for his enemies. This country will be lucky to survive him.

Well well, Donald Trump says, without evidence, that plane helicopter collision probably happened because air traffic control has some people in it who are not white men - yeah yeah , just normal politics - I imagine he dreams of strange fruit at night as he smiles

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Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.

A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

there’s an academic debate about whether Trump is a fascist, and a big sticking point was that he didn’t espouse any grand imperial ambitions. very kind of him to fully resolve that tension by talking about annexing half the western hemisphere.

Word of the day is ‘pavonise’ (19th century): to strut about like a peacock, all puffed up with conceit.

Cologne Xmas market

Two words for certain types of people, should you need them:

microlipet: one who gets all worked up over nothing.

struthonian: the person who buries their head in the sand and says ‘Problem? What problem?’.

This is pretty funny.

Important context here:

● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)

● "a big farm" is 217 acres.

Now let's see who's angry:

● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres
● Dyson owns 36,000 acres