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@biancoresearch Bianco is taking a weird position on the Powell vs Trump saga. Everything Trump is doing is corrupt and self-serving, especially his lawfare against Fed officials, yet Bianco is out there arguing that Powell is being “political” in staying on. He should be thanking Powell.

@BladeoftheS The irony being that Farage is the only UK politician who appears ever to have been openly genuinely anti-Semitic, with his Jewish schoolmates recalling his support for hitler and the hissing noises he would make to remind them of gas chambers.

Crazy isn't it Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party had an 'antisemitism crisis' and now Zack Polanski's Green Party does. While Nigel Farage's Reform party, with Nigel Farage and loads of Nazi lovers, doesn't. It's like it's some kind of scam used against Left Wing parties.

@Nigel_Farage Please no, not in my town. Here, have £5m Nigel, is that what you want?

If you vote Reform you will not have an illegal migrant deportation facility in your area. We will hold migrants awaiting deportation in constituencies that vote Green instead. You get what you vote for.

@covie_93 Go to jail

What will Republicans do after trump is gone???

@jjcharlesworth_ @unherd Rise of the Green Party is different and I’m all for it. Reform is the problem - that’s the true party of the elites.

@DuvallPierre @unherd No, it's ordinary people looking for alternatives to the decaying status quo. Unless you're saying that the rise of the green party is just astroturfing.

‘Britain’s most boring street-art propagandist has struck again.’ @jjcharlesworth_ asks: what’s the point of Banksy? 👇 buff.ly/4FznjEe

@jjcharlesworth_ @unherd Is that “real” populism funded by Thai-based crypto billionaires? Or do you prefer the populism of Epstein and Bannon? Or the CPAC populism of Putin and Orban? It’s all just racism and tax cuts for the rich.

@DuvallPierre @unherd I'm all for real populism, which elite regime artist Bansky loathes.

@techbudsolution The problem is that he wasn’t a billionaire, in fact he was probably broke.

I was fooled, really thought he had the edge to not feel the need for more money and less corruption. Little did I know he would just enrich himself and his family. My bad.

@JesseCohenInv It’s called the “Scott Bessent”

What do you call this chart pattern?

@xmuse_ ChatGPT

Banksy didn’t just blind the man with the flag. He gave him the confidence to stride anyway. This isn’t the usual 'patriotism makes you stupid' jab everyone keeps repeating. Look at the suit, the plinth, the imperial corridor of Waterloo Place... this is the modern power suit, the bureaucrat, CEO, politician, stepping off the very pedestal society built for him. The flag doesn’t slow him. It gives him momentum he never questions. Banksy’s point is quieter: we don’t fall because we’re blind. We fall because we’ve convinced ourselves the flag is our eyes. Every empire, every movement, every 'greater cause' started exactly like this with faceless momentum. The sculpture isn’t mocking the marcher. It’s mourning the moment he mistook the wind for wisdom.

@WWILES4TRUMP4X @Gianl1974 You are a cunt.

@Gianl1974 These Two IDIOTS Put themselves into Immigration Ops, Assaulting I.C.E. Officers doing Their Job. It's Their Fault NO ONE to Point the Finger at but Themselves. The People whom they do this for are in U.S.A. in ILLEGALLY, so, OUT THEY GO ! PERIOD ! PARAGRAPH ! END of STORY !

Please do not forget about us! 💕

@Ole_S_Hansen Nothing about gold’s price action in the last 2 years makes sense. I suspect it (and other PMs) became a target for aggressive leveraged longs chasing momentum. So it could decline 30-40% from here as hot money bleeds out and the macro case would be unaffected.

#Gold trades higher - stemming a three-day decline - as the risk of renewed US military action in Iran has allowed bullion to rise alongside oil, marking a shift from recent price action where higher energy prices reinforced inflation risks and a higher-for-longer rate outlook. It is also worth noting that gold has attracted fresh demand despite rising bond yields and a firmer dollar following Wednesday’s FOMC meeting, where rates were left unchanged, but several members signalled a desire to remove the easing bias as the Iran war continues to cloud the economic outlook.

@BethRigby But that sounds like a good episode of Game of Thrones.

Gloves off at #PMQs as Badenoch goes in on Starmer "This government is like a bad episode of Game of Thrones. His own people have turned against him and all the while, the Prime Minister is holed up in his castle, wetting himself about a visit from the King in the north" And this "I think the whole country is sick of this man's tone deaf, pompous, moralising. Last week, we all saw him punch the Speaker's Chair. This is not a man who is in control. Since the last King's Speech, it's been one disaster after another: Cronyism, jobs for friends of convicted paedophiles; peerages for other friends of convicted paedophiles; Broken promises on taxes; U-turn after U-turn after U-turn...How much longer do we all have to put up with his shambles

@Nigelgd1 Except the King’s speeches were written by the same people writing speeches for British politicians.

King Charles’ speeches in Washington are so vastly better, and more skilfully delivered, than those of any recent British politician. It is a different world. There’s a piece to be written about how they were conceived and crafted.

@TStandfield1789 @alexburghart @BBCr4today @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives Recognisable type - privileged, sense of entitlement. You see it when he’s on Question Time, talking down to the audience. He wakes up in the morning and cannot believe he’s not a government minister.

Who the fuck does Alex Burghart think he is? The fucking rude, arrogant, domineering prick. The hysterical, screaming Tory hypocrite who embarrasses Parliament every time he opens his mouth. @alexburghart @BBCr4today @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives

@80s_Kidz There was one called “Haunted Houses” or similar which had the most terrifying illustrations- the Walsingham Ghosts had a picture of a blue head (copied from Lon Chaney in Phantom of the Opera) which ruined my childhood.

Usborne Books World of the Unknown. I remember reading these at school. Which other books in the series do you remember?

@YourAnonCentral Instead of legislating for gun control to protect the king and his court while they are drinking champagne, they are demanding that taxpayers build them a big gold reinforced ballroom. School kids are just going to have to pay for their own bulletproof vests.

Lindsey Graham says that they are going to introduce legislation so that you, the tax payer, have to pay $400 million for Trump's ballroom, which, by the way, you won't be allowed to go inside because you are a poor peasant, it's for the lords and masters only.

@mehdirhasan Has Trump already embezzled the private donations maybe?

I feel like I’m losing my mind. This can’t be real. Is this real? Is it a movie? A dream? They’re all just obsessed… with straight faces.. about… a fucking ballroom?

@JamesTate121 Why do so many posts read like ChatGPT?

Whether this incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner turns out to be exactly what it appears to be, or something far more choreographed, the deeper rot is already exposed. The real tragedy isn’t just the gunfire, the chaos, or the spectacle, it’s the fact that millions of us, myself included, are now conditioned to question the authenticity of reality itself. That’s not paranoia. That’s pattern recognition born from years of watching a man like Donald Trump bend truth into whatever shape best serves him in the moment. So when I sat there watching the 60 Minutes interview with Norah O’Donnell tonight, I wasn’t looking for clarity, I was looking for cracks. And to her credit, she pushed. She didn’t lob softballs. She didn’t kneel. She did what journalism is supposed to do: she pressed. But what we got in return was the same tired performance, deflection, hostility, and that familiar need to dominate the exchange rather than participate in it. Particularly when that exchange involves a woman not subservient to him. And then came the moment that stopped me cold: when she referenced the shooter’s language,”rapist,” “pedophile,” and Trump, almost reflexively, pointed to himself. Not metaphorically. Not rhetorically. Instinctively. And she fired back: “Are you saying that this is about you?” That wasn’t just awkward television, that was a psychological tell slipping through the cracks of a man who lives in perpetual narrative defense mode. Now layer that over the broader situation. A gunman with a manifesto. Multiple weapons. A breach attempt at one of the most tightly secured events in Washington. A president who claims he “wasn’t worried,” who says he slowed down his own evacuation because he wanted to “see what was happening.” Think about that. Secret Service agents, trained for one purpose in that moment, are telling you to get on the ground, and your instinct is to… linger? Observe? Manage optics? That’s not bravery. That’s either delusion or performance. Possibly both. And this is where the unease creeps in, not because we know something was staged, but because nothing about the response feels grounded in normal human behavior. There’s no adrenaline. No visible shock. No processing. Just immediate framing. Immediate repositioning. Immediate narrative control. It feels less like a man who just experienced a potentially life-threatening event and more like a producer pivoting to the next act of a show already in progress. Again, I am not declaring this was staged. I’m saying the conditions that make people ask that question didn’t appear out of thin air. They were built. Brick by brick. Lie by lie. Performance by performance. When truth becomes optional long enough, suspicion becomes inevitable. And then there’s the larger insult baked into all of this: the White House Correspondents’ Dinner itself. A room full of journalists, people whose job is to hold power accountable, deciding to celebrate alongside a man who has spent years calling them “enemies of the people,” degrading them, especially women, and undermining the very foundation of a free press. That wasn’t unity. That was capitulation in formal wear. You don’t normalize someone who actively seeks to dismantle your role in a democracy. You don’t hand him a microphone and pretend it’s tradition. That’s not courage, that’s complicity. So here we are. An incident that may ultimately prove to be exactly what officials say it is. Or it may not. Time will tell. But the damage is already done in a far more profound way: we no longer trust the surface of events. We scan for angles. We listen for rehearsed tones. We watch for narrative pivots. Because we’ve been trained to. And that, to me, is the real collapse, not just of truth, but of trust itself. Maybe more will be revealed in the coming days. Maybe this all settles into a straightforward explanation. I hope it does. But I’ve been around long enough to know when something doesn’t sit right. And this one? This one sits like a bad note ringing too long after the rest of the band has already stopped playing. — Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

@dennisw5 MAGA cancel culture on display here. The US used to be the great liberal nation. Now descending into illiberalism, as often happens in history sadly. Civilisational erasure.

What a despicable piece. The President, his wife, and the thousands in that room do not deserve sympathy because a gun man with a rifle and handgun did not get close enough to take the shot? Grow up! You should be fired.