John Socks

@guideforlovers Casual threesomes aren't inherently unsafe health-wise. You might be prudes about it and think that's not what she should choose to do, but she should be fine if she's been given good sex education.

University and college are where good girls go to get ruined

@SenatorWicker Thank you for saying this, but you stand with your own country's enemy of the people. Since you claim to believe in democracy, the rule of law, and the Western alliance, you cannot also vote the party-line and reject impeachment.

The freedom-loving people of Hungary have voted decisively in favor of democracy and the rule of law. I congratulate them and Peter Magyar, the next prime minister of Hungary. They've rejected the malign influence of Vladimir Putin, the world's most malicious dictator, and decided their own future. I look forward to an even stronger friendship between the United States and our other NATO allies.

@residentadviser Exactly, there are a lot of left-wing people who hate Keir Starmer, as long as Labour doesn't fill the space they'll vote Green. Where else would left-wingers or people who care about Palestine go, Reform?!

The problem with these takes - and Sensible Greens - is it just denies reality. They’re ignoring the fact that there’s a constituency that wants exactly what Polanski is selling. Doesn’t matter if you agree with it. It’s true.

@spectator Nonsense, there are a lot of left-wing people who hate Keir Starmer, as long as Labour doesn't fill the space they'll vote Green.

It was bound to happen sooner or later, but coming at the beginning of a local election campaign in which his party is expected to make a huge breakthrough, it is pretty much the worst time for Zack Polanski. The nice, middle-class Greens who joined the party because they care deeply about the climate, bunnies and hedgehogs are rebelling against Polanski’s efforts to turn it into a far-left party obsessed with trans issues and Palestine. ✍️ Ross Clark Article | spectator.com/article/zack-p…

@ettingermentum Trump pretty much disproved the idea that low personal favorability would be more important than economic trust. Obviously 2000 wasn't exactly the same as the 2020s, but there's no way that Clinton being a scoundrel would've been worth not letting him keep on juicing the stocks.

The 2000 election it Bill Clinton was allowed to run for a third term

@allegedlyterra Zyuganov wouldn't have been allowed to win, if they needed to stuff ballots or stage a coup they'd have done so. The army and the elite still stood behind Yeltsin, or at least against anyone not in the pockets of the oligarchs, as they did in 1993.

what happens in the word where Zguyanov wins this

@JulianWaller Fidesz have enough backup plans that they just need to keep more than a third of Parliament and the mess could be too big for Magyar to clean up with the limited power he'd have, and they can be back in 2030 or earlier in Trump/Netanyahu fashion. Not inevitable but plausible.

Everyone is talking about the upcoming 🇭🇺 Hungarian elections rn (D-Day: Sunday!), so here's a Hungary regime primer. I'll even throw in a low confidence prediction, even tho [SPOILER] I think the election is basically a coin toss on likely outcome, if not seat distribution.

@KILLTOPARTY She's very attractive and confident, you've got to make some tradeoffs to pull that.

SHE SAID TWENTY🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

@grahamformaine He's got quite the voice, it's giving alpha vibes.

They actually think filling our mailboxes with this garbage (instead of actually talking to voters) wins elections.

@KILLTOPARTY It seems like she's good at sex and is actually giving it, so might as well keep having it until/if she does something wrong.

Got bad news for ya, pal

@LibertyCappy This mostly seems to be based on when the first, second and third world were political terms meaning capitalist, communist and non-aligned blocs, which of course aren't meaningful ways to view the world since 1989.

Bro WHAT Japan and South Korea first world but Taiwan and Singapore third world? North Korea 2nd world? In what universe is Turkey and Greece 1st world but not Hungary and Czech Republic? Latvia / Estonia 2nd world really? South Africa first world? LOL What an abomination

@ed_dems If that map somehow happened, it'd have been 57 Senate seats at least, 4 of them were under 2.5% wins by Dems (while only PA was a similarly close GOP win). Maybe even more if Republicans could expand the map to states like VA.

I kid you not, this would’ve been the map with maybe 55-57 Senate seats

@SimeonBrownMP You've left us on our own in the crisis, unlike what Labour did in Covid when they protected us from harm. You should start by focusing on your day job, the health system is collapsing and patients are clogging up EDs not being seen.

The world feels uncertain right now. Conflict in the Middle East, volatile oil markets, global supply chains under pressure. Right here in New Zealand, you feel it every time you pull into a petrol station. It’s real, it’s tough, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. 🧵

@StatisticUrban people don't like being told that warren harding was the biggest winner of all time

The only metric by which you can truly judge the scale/size of a US Presidential election victory is the margin in the tipping point state. This breaks many brains. People desperately want to use the popular vote, or the overall electoral vote. But no, none of this matters.

@th333aaa 168 seats is about what they got when blown out by Blair, a parliament in which that is close to first is one where everyone does terribly by UK standards.

The concept of voting for the Conservative Party after the absolute mess they got our country in is so bewildering

@thechosenberg That's a valid objection, she should just tell him, it's not his fault if he doesn't know.

Sounds like a healthy marriage

@thereallgame Your ex isn't all women. You just weren't loveable enough to be worth anything for your personality, unlike me to the women I know.

I'll never forget one of the most eye-opening experiences of this happening Was with one of my long term exes for about a year at this point Up and until this moment, took her on 5+ vacations around the world, helped her leave her dogshit city, paid for basically everything, etc. I decided to launch my first biz and had to invest a lot into product and other things Thinking she was a decent/loyal human being, I had her start splitting more trivial things with me Ex: a round of drinks The day I told her to do that she started complaining, bringing up her friends relationships where the guy pays for everything, and quite literally forgot every single thing I did for her She apologized but I left shortly after Women will forget every single thing you've done if their immediate emotional needs aren't where they want them to be And you can't even take this personal - women are intuitively 100x more selfish for survival purposes, but of course at their own demise Which also means by default they can't future predict or think long term, which always hurts them

@LukeTryl @thetimes @lara_spirit 'Sticks to their promises' being the most negative and 'honest' being the most positive aren't consistent, if you don't stick to your promises you aren't honest. Maybe voters have a meaningless view of honesty, but I wouldn't re-hire a flake myself.

In today’s @thetimes @lara_spirit looks at our new polling on leadership attributes. 🌹The PM is underwater on almost all metrics. But positive on honesty. 🌳Badenoch does better than the PM on most and bests Farage on “honesty”, “respecting the public”, “cares about the country” and “saying what she really thinks”. ➡️Farage comes out on top on key attributes of “leader” and “strong” and “wants to change things quickly” 🆕But it’s Andy Burnham who comes out on top of those 3 across most of the leadership attributes tested across the board.

@conorsen The thing you don't get, you piece of shit, is that the system is rigged and the elite are out to screw everyone else over. So you have to work from those premises. Trump wasn't the change agent but candidates will be required to prove they are.

By 2027-28 anti-elite populist politics at the presidential level will be 12 years old. Has it delivered for voters? Are people happier? At some point people might start looking for something else.

@NicholasTyrone Theresa May had 327 seats with the support of the DUP, if she had 321 seats or less then she could not have won either, and who knows what would have happened from there.

Corbyn didn’t “almost win”. He won 262 seats at the 2017 general election, which is a very long way away from winning.