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@thecoastguy Those are very obviously not what they're represented as.

Hmmm

Iran signed a ceasefire last night and broke it before most Americans finished breakfast. But that’s not the story. The story is what Trump did while everyone was staring at the missiles. The sequence: Iran signs ceasefire. Iran releases fake version claiming total victory. CNN runs fake version as real news. Trump calls it fraud. Iran launches missiles at Israel, Kuwait, UAE, and Bahrain. Ceasefire lasts fewer hours than a domestic flight. Everyone is asking the wrong question. The question isn’t “why did Iran break the ceasefire.” The answer to that is obvious. Iran has a political wing that wants to negotiate and a military wing that wants to die fighting. The IRGC operates 32 independent regional commands. The politicians signed the paper. The generals launched the missiles. Iran is a country negotiating with itself at gunpoint. Trump already knows this. This morning he posted that Iran has gone through “a very productive regime change.” He’s not angry about the broken ceasefire. He’s looking past the IRGC and talking directly to the political faction that’s still alive and desperate. Then, minutes later, he posted a 50 percent tariff on any country supplying weapons to Iran. He didn’t name China. He didn’t have to. Five Iranian ships left a Chinese port carrying sodium perchlorate, the chemical you need to make the solid rocket fuel inside every missile that just hit Kuwait. China trades $500 billion a year with the US. Russia trades under $500 million. The tariff isn’t about Russia. So: one hand offers Iran reconstruction money and sanctions relief. The other hand prices China out of the Iranian weapons pipeline. Two posts, two targets, one table. Meanwhile there’s a conservative commentator somewhere reading the CNN version of Iranian propaganda and telling you Trump surrendered. My brother in Christ, he just set the opening bid for a meeting with Xi Jinping. Are you paying attention?

@Gasperoni27 @IAMRoadSmart Or done like me at 70 on an empty motorway at 7am on a Sunday where they've dropped the speed limit to 60 for "reasons".

@IAMRoadSmart Yeah, most of them are doing 28 in a fucking 20. Let’s not dress this up to be high speeds.

PRESS RELEASE 🚨 Speeding on the Rise 🚗The number of drivers caught speeding in England, Scotland and Wales is at its highest in four years. 📊Data from the DVLA shows a 32 percent increase in the number of people receiving points on their licence. The faster a vehicle is travelling, the longer it takes to stop, and the greater the risk of a crash. Speed limits are there for a reason. #IAMRoadSmart #FatalFive #Speeding media.iamroadsmart.com/pressreleases/…

Rhiannon Skye White. Wayne Broadhurst. Gurvinder Johal. The victims of terrible evil. But do you know their names? Do your friends? We mustn’t become desensitised. We must fight to keep society civilised.

As cars get safer, braking times shorter, better fuel efficiency we should be increasing motorway speed limits, not lowering them.

@LanceForman @Roslyn_6780 @KemiBadenoch @thetimes This is a common opinion ... amongst Tories.

@Roslyn_6780 @chrisf1874 @KemiBadenoch @thetimes They made a huge mistake taking Jenrick. Nice guy, BUT he is instinctively a centrist. This country needs radical change. Centrists won’t do it.

Love this article by ⁦@KemiBadenoch⁩ in ⁦@thetimes⁩ today. The only leader to talk about the over reach of the State. Glad she has set out her philosophy and belief in the free market and in people. This is the leadership we need.

This may be the most disgusting thing Starmer has ever done 👇

@SpencerGuard They're not Xperts. They're Xpropagandists for anything that is against Israel and especially anything against Israel an President Trump.

For serious people that want to know more. Check the U.S. military Law of War manual: ogc.osd.mil/Portals/99/Law… 6/6

Yes, despite all the Xperts on the law of armed conflict, targeting bridges, power plants, oil and gas facilities, airfields, and other dual-use infrastructure like factories, communications nodes, and rail lines that serve both civilian and military needs may be lawful. The law does not decide targets just by calling something civilian infrastructure. It looks at what the object actually does. An object counts as a military objective when by its nature, location, purpose, or use makes an effective contribution to military action and its total or partial destruction, capture, or disabling offers a definite military advantage in the circumstances at the time. 🧵1/6

@Roslyn_6780 @LanceForman @KemiBadenoch @thetimes So we can believe them this time then? I don't think so.

@chrisf1874 @LanceForman @KemiBadenoch @thetimes She has told them they have to sign up to the manifesto, or they won’t be in the party.

@Roslyn_6780 @LanceForman @KemiBadenoch @thetimes Liz Truss tried bucking the party line and see where that ended. It doesn't matter who leads them the result is the same.

@chrisf1874 @LanceForman @KemiBadenoch @thetimes She wasn’t in charge.

@PaulEmbery ... again. You're going to run out of superlatives.

Utterly insane. This depraved individual is debasing the office of president of the United States more and more with each passing day. Is this not now 25th amendment territory? These are not the words of a stable human being.

@kelvmackenzie Absolute rubbish. There's a few OAPs like Kelvin still supporting the Tories. That's why Reform announced the triple lock this week. Win most of those over. Then they're done. Finished. We won't be fooled again!!

My bet is that come May 6 Reform does better than the 21% Lord Ashcroft’s poll predicts ( a new low for Farage) and that the Tories do worse than 21%. Nevertheless, Nigel should show he’s the bigger man and open talks with Kemi after next month’s election. Unite the Right.

@boriquagato The great majority in the UK is simply politically deranged. I tried rational discussion with my in-laws at my house over lunch today. The moment I countered "Trump is suppressing incriminating Epstein files" I was shut down with "change the subject". No discussion. Deranged.

i am finding this whole line of reasoning around "almost failed" and "why did they put more lives and equipment at risk to save one person?" baffling. do people really not understand that this is what drives a whole military and makes it work, what gives it confidence and morale? one day, it might be you. and we will not leave you behind. we will come for you. we do not count costs, we get our people back. and everyone in the service knows this. do people not understand why that's important, how it keeps us coherent and brave and unified? that seems a wild and egregious lapse in comprehension. it also seems like a weirdly situational cricicism. we routinely applaud 8 firefighters entering a burning house to save one person. we do not fret about it or cry about damage to a firetruck. we laud the bravery and the nobility of the action. we take comfort that if it were ever us, someone would come. "firefighter lives needlessly endangered saving kitten from tree" would be a churlish and bereft headline yet it seems to be a popular one here. and i really don't get it. it's either some deep, fundamental failure of comprehension or it's just such political derangement that people are forgetting that one can oppose a war or a president and not need to invert every single issue every single time even and especially when it makes one immoral and wrong. if you want to oppose a war, oppose a war, but to cast soldiers rescuing their own as some sort of ill-conceived notion is simply base.

@KemiBadenoch Blah blah ... Cameron's Big Society ... blah blah. We stopped listening a long time ago.

We’re all in a toxic relationship with government. It creates problems, then sells us solutions. We’ve stopped asking ‘Can I do this?’ and started asking ‘Why hasn’t government done it?’
 ➡️Britain isn’t broken. Big Government is killing the dream. And it’s time to break up. My piece in the Sunday Times below👇

@AndrewOrlowski They really are extraordinarily good. They smashed the Turing test so hard that we're having to find ways to trick them what ... three years in? They're obviously not perfect but they are incredibly useful if you know how.

"All you had to do is not laugh" is great, too @huskistaken/video/7578985212680457503" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tiktok.com/@huskistaken/v…

This just gets better and better.

@DeBarsham Very cool. I was doing my paper round listening to The Look of Love on my walkman though it was an Akai. You're still miles off on the best songs but each to their own.

@chrisf1874 Simon (le Bon) was a great friend and drinking partner and my girlfriend Lisa Vanderpump was in the ABC video for Poison Arrow so no, I didn’t miss it. But I will post them soon.

Second only to Kashmir, this is my favourite ever song. I was lucky enough to have sung this with Tony at a bonkers private party. We both gave thanks to Jack for that. youtu.be/RsKPz94tKdM?si…

@DeBarsham Sorry Jules but it seems you missed Duran Duran, ABC and Heaven 17 who all released much better songs than that drivel from Spandau.

@chrisf1874 Yeah right. I’ve only listened to about 4 million.

@LeeAndersonMP_ @reformparty_uk We've got loads of really expensive ill thought out cycle lanes thanks to the geniuses @GreaterCambs Meanwhile, you could park a bus in some of the potholes round here. Sadly I fear we're going to get more LibDems in power in Cambridgeshire in May.

Newsflash. @reformparty_uk led councils are already purchasing these machines. Two more arriving in Nottinghamshire in 3 weeks time. And btw 4 years ago under the previous Tory administration we had the chance to buy a couple for 200k each but the Tory councillors said they were a waste of money and instead spent 500k on a cycle lane in Ashfield that runs for 50 yards. People do not have short memories. No one believes you.