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@timbungg @AO156 @ModernNavy @MercoPressNews Hawaii belongs to the US? Or is it actually Japanese - or part of the Marshall Islands, based on the “whoever is nearest owns it” doctrine?

@AO156 @ModernNavy @MercoPressNews USA speaks English. It doesn't mean USA belongs to England.

Argentine President, Javier Milei reaffirms his country's claim over the Falklands Islands, warned of a response to British oil exploration, and announces funding plans to purchase weapons and equipment for the armed forces @MercoPressNews @ModernNavy en.mercopress.com/2026/04/02/mil…

@timbungg @NicolasLDavout @ModernNavy @MercoPressNews I’ve always thought France and Ireland, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway belonged to Britain because they’re near to us, so I think he might be into something. Does Argentina also own Chile too using this “logic”.

@NicolasLDavout @ModernNavy @MercoPressNews Your 2nd point is right. 1st one is perfect illustration of pathetic colonial mentality.

@Nerdrotics @ChrissieMayr Look forward to it every week. Congratulations to you all.

We just past our 400th episode of Friday Night Tights. How did we make it to 400 episodes? No idea. I started doing a Friday night show around 8 years ago. Why? At the time no one was really streaming on Friday night. I figured we can review the latest movie and recap the week in pop-culture entertainment with a focus on genre. Niche of the niche. In reality it was just an excuse to hang out with my friends and shoot the shit. There were no expectations beyond that. 6 or 7 years ago we started calling it Friday Night Tights, a name that someone in the chat came up with. Then we started adding guests and hosts. No planning, no effort, no organization, and no real idea what we were doing. Nothing has changed. Sure, there might have been some controversy over the years. Nothing we really need to TACO BOUT now. Somehow we have managed to stay together, have fun, and never miss a show. I've streamed from France, Peru, and Egypt. We've had brilliant guests including Superman, Shazam, Cara Dune, Alex Jones, a former Presidential candidate, and a guy who whipped out his micro penis. Okay, that one wasn't really that brilliant. None of this would have been possible without your support. Averaging 16K-17K across YouTube and Rumble every Friday is really inexplicable, but we are grateful. It is an honor and privilege to be retarded in front of thousands of people with the full understanding that you are laughing at us, not with us. As long as you are laughing, that is all that counts. Thank YOU🙏 - The FNT crew

@Sargon_of_Akkad @BretWeinstein The first president since the world allowed the Islamic republic to occur to the world’s detriment, to grab this snake whilst all the others pretend it’ll just go away or that they are not bent on destroying us.

@BretWeinstein I don't think any of us expected this full-throated neocon turn, given Trump's consistent anti-war rhetoric, right up until early 2025.

Trump, who I advocated for in 2024, has gone full "mad king." In considering my responsibility, I'd ask you to remember: The case I made rested on the fact that Biden/Harris were figureheads, shielding a cabal that couldn't be held to account, whereas Trump could. And we must.

@benbrownuk @danielbarkeley @afneil Maybe I should cancel my solar and battery installation and industries and data centres should all come back then because cheap/cheaper energy is but three years away? Phew! I was just about to invest too.

@LaindonAndy @danielbarkeley @afneil If Spain have already done it why would it be impossible we do it by 2030?

All that’s impressive is that your energy policies — supported by all major parties — have decimated our energy-intensive industries, thanks to giving us the most expensive industrial energy costs in the world. Well done. Quite an achievement.

@benbrownuk @danielbarkeley @afneil Impossible. Completely impossible. Not even 2050, because gas will still define the ultimate price paid because of the mechanism.

@LaindonAndy @danielbarkeley @afneil We have and we will. That's literally the current policy. And the industry expects us to be at that point by around 2030. A bit later than Spain but solar is easier and cheaper to put up than wind.

@Sargon_of_Akkad Do you refer to the forever war running since the 70s?

I recall that there was a candidate who was against forever wars, actually. I wonder how we got here.

@danielbarkeley @afneil … and yet we haven’t and won’t. Which is why this experiment is so disastrous. Remember, renewables get great advantage using this scheme.

@LaindonAndy @afneil That's already not true. Spain has small amounts of gas on the grid - which is nessecary to support wind and solar. But the amount of gas is so small it doesn't set the retail price; they have the cheapest electricity in Europe. The UK needs to move to that model.

@danielbarkeley @afneil Gas will always be on the grid and, as such, will always define the price paid of all energy generation due to the suicidal way we pay for energy.

@afneil The UK has expensive electricity because - unlike Spain and Portugal - you haven't finished the job and gotten expensive gas off the grid. If you think the Iran War is an argument in favor of fossil dependency - you're delusional.

@Nerdrotics Always a good sign.

Finally! Some good Doctor Who with the extra selling point 'This story contains some discriminatory content'

@Empoweryorks @Feargal_Sharkey Sounds wonderful. A bit like Welsh Water. Or Scottish Water or NI Water. How are they doing? After the change, it’ll be the same people, the same facilities and same resources except there will be vastly less money.

@Feargal_Sharkey It would work better by region. A regional government could better serve local water needs, aligning operations with local priorities, enhancing accountability through direct democratic oversight, and reinvesting profits regionally rather than to distant shareholders. #devolution

Proof if ever it were needed. In the last 2 years investigating officers at the Environment Agency have recommended that fat cat water industry bosses should be prosecuted on 5 separate occasions. On each and every occasion senior management at the EA overrode that decision. 👇👇👇 Really, what is the point?

@lmcall102 @clareevans50 @nicksortor Not everyone in the UK. But you have to understand what we are told and how the UK has and is being changed. One indication is how we don’t have a viable military - but that’s not the fault of the people or the solders as we get the same bullshit policies no matter how we vote.

@clareevans50 @nicksortor Okay UK, I mean your country is over run by these people so I would guess YOU are one of them. UK is shit now.

🚨 BREAKING: Despite President Trump’s threats, the Iranian regime has REJECTED all US demands, and is refusing to show up to meet with US officials in Islamabad for peace talks, per WSJ and Bloomberg That’s a mistake. President Trump isn’t going to be happy.

@jsn_schmitz @lmcall102 @nicksortor Yes. Whatever it takes. Nuclear munitions to eliminate the tunnels - whatever it takes. Or we consign ourselves to another 50 years of this scourge.

@lmcall102 @nicksortor What are going to do about it? Commit war crimes and level Iran like Israel did to Gaza and are doing to southern Lebanon?

@lmcall102 @nicksortor They have their chance, as was given to the Afghans. If they don’t take it, like the Afghans didn’t - f*ck ‘em. For once, get the job done!

@nicksortor What do they think they're going to do? They can't win this they have to know that. They have nothing left. I feel bad for the citizens who are on our side. Who's making these calls?

@Nina7Infinity @nicksortor Did you thank Israel and by extension the US for eliminating the Iraqi nuclear ambitions when it did? Or did you sit on your hands and just hoped it would all just go away? Which it didn’t. But then I forgot - any and everything Israel, or more precisely Jews, do is evil, yes?

@nicksortor The mistake was the War of Choice by Trump. Iran has the right to defend itself.

@jonnieonion1 @v_j_freeman @Mimita_P0 @ejwwest Ooh! You swore. Did it give you a funny feeling down below?

As someone with many years involvement in the physical movement of natural gas around Europe from field to end customer the ignorance in this post physically pains me.

@LoftusSteve That clearly isn’t true. Yes, the government have stolen to money, but that’s not my fault or yours. A earned pension obligation is just that.

@polarbear1066 They don't pay for their bloody pension. Nobody paid in for anything other than roads, schools, defense, NHS, etc

A super easy place to start with pension reform. If you get a public sector pension above £20,000 per annum you lose your state pension. This is easy for the Gov to track and should be phased in gradually so it's £20k for 2040.

@LoftusSteve @FUDdaily That would be disastrous for anyone. To lose that percentage would be outrageous.

@Sargon_of_Akkad Perhaps, when a country is under continual existential threat, they don’t want to over commit or perhaps they don’t have the capacity. Or maybe is some kind of Jewish conspiracy, Carl.

Why has Israel refused to help the Americans and deploy ground troops, Eli?

@afneil @TimesRadio Where is it written that the US has to bankroll Europes defence? Where is it worn it has to be our closest ally? Why the hell should it be?

My monologue on The Times at One with Andrew Neil on @TimesRadio on Trump’s War: Donald Trump woke up this morning to tell Britain to open the Strait of Hormuz without US help and to ‘start learning how to fight’ for ourselves because America ‘won’t be there to help you.’   Well, we learned how to do that in 1940, Mr President, when your country was nowhere to be seen and only Britain stood with its Commonwealth allies to defend civilisation against the greatest evil the world has ever seen.  For those of you wondering if the Atlantic Alliance still has a future, you can stop wondering. As long as Trump is in the White House clearly it doesn’t.  Meanwhile Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio is impatient with media criticism that the aims of Trump’s War are confusing and uncertain. So yesterday on American TV he helpfully listed them. Write them down, he advised, implying this was the definitive list. So I did: 1. The destruction of Iran’s air force 2. The destruction of their navy 3. The severe diminishing of their missile launching capability 4. The destruction of their factories Which is clear enough — except that it’s not the list with which President Trump started the war. That list clearly included regime change and the end of Iran’s ability to develop nukes.  They didn’t make Secretary Rubio’s list. Nor did the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.  There is further cause for concern. IF Rubio’s list is now the definitive one, then Trump could claim war aims achieved, victory declared even with Iran still in control of the Strait of Hormuz, still able to develop a nuclear arsenal.  Not quite the victory anybody envisaged.  Yet that may well be the route we’re now going down. Late last night in Washington we discovered that Mr Trump was telling aides he WAS prepared to end the war even if the Strait of Hormuz was still closed.  That opening it would prolong the war beyond his deadline. That it was up to the Europeans and the Gulf States to take the lead in opening it because they needed it more than America.  Well, thanks a lot Donald. You start a war without consulting your allies, you change your war aims more often than Keir Starmer performs U-turns and now you talk of ending it, leaving us to hold the baby. Just great.  This matters. Because the longer the Strait of Hormuz is closed the more the global economy faces something close to catastrophe. 1/2