David Hall

@healyjforUC @MrsPatmore2022 @GovIE Neutral my ass

How big is the @GovIE alumina (aluminum ore) problem? Very: the Irish alumina scandal is enough to help create about 12,500 Shaheds with each shipment. These kill Ukrainians. Shameful. Won’t arm Ukraine, but will aid Russia. Neutral?

@OrevaZSN Is that Excel or Incel, that's insisting that everything is a date?

I don’t need Office Copilot, I need Excel to stop insisting everything is a date.

@SenRickScott This is what happens when you vote Republican.

This is concerning. Florida’s jobs numbers continue to get worse. Unemployment shot up to 4.7% — higher than the national average. Florida lost almost 38k jobs year over year in March.

@robggill Wtf is Ireland doing, helping Russia?

We will shout louder" about Irish exceptionalism (as if we are the only country that ever contributed to the UN), the triple lock and neutrality; tell Ukrainians to F**k off home and continue to send alumna to Russia, while relying on others to defend our skies and seas.

@keithdorejel @BeingJWood My mom is one of those. It's tiring.

This has to be my favorite trope. “I am a life long Democrat” and you scroll and it’s inevitably just an endless stream of right wing propaganda

@The_Davos_Man He sees which way the wind is blowing.

What happened to Robert Fico? Why is he suddenly so nice to Ukraine?

@BBCNewsNI She needs to resign.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has apologised after a video opposing reforms to the Legacy Act featuring footage of soldiers on Bloody Sunday was posted to her social media account. bbc.in/48D4Z2Z

@johnmfitzp @KemiBadenoch She should resign as head of the party.

The video should never have been made. It’s an absolute disgrace that it was put together in the first place. Deleting the video is simply not good enough. @KemiBadenoch should issue an apology. It shows a complete lack of understanding 1/

@CatholicArena @Artugal3 Isn't this glorification of terrorism?

🇬🇧 🇮🇪 Britain's Conservative Party has issued an apology for uploading a video glorifying the murders of 14 unarmed Catholics and calling for protection for their killers In a deranged video, Kemi Badenoch's monologue was accompanied by footage of Bloody Sunday in Derry

@KerryBurgess Why do you want trump to get what he wants?

President Trump is doing one hell of a lot of talking about considering withdrawing troops from Germany, Italy, Spain, etc. When is he going to stop talking and actually do it? No one in Europe is forcing or asking the US to stay, pack up your stuff, close the bases, and go home. It's that simple, and we all wish you the best.

@terrychristian Now do hereditary monarchy.

Idea of 'hereditary peers' in the 21st century is a laughable abomination.

@OrevaZSN Not everywhere. Hungary

I’m genuinely depressed about the state of the world right now. It feels like bad people are winning everywhere.

@DanielJHannan @DansBoucher Now end hereditary monarchy.

@Rep_Stansbury Imagine going back to 1776, and telling them about your time machine.

Imagine getting in a time machine and going back to 1776 and telling the Founding Fathers that the King would one day be reminding America about the importance of democracy and our checks and balances. That is the timeline we’re living in.

@CDoombeard @esrtweet You don't think trump would do it?

Popping Three Gorges at high water would wipe out a third or so of China's manufacturing base and kill tens of millions, possibly a hundred million. It would be possibly the worst humanitarian disaster in the history of the world. If war pops off with China, or if China begins to collapse into warring factions, the US is actually more likely to dedicate assets to DEFENDING the dam than to destroying it. Popping that cork is the kind of thing you do when your back is against the wall and the very existence of your nation is in question. It would be a single war-ending strike, perhaps the kind of thing you do in retribution for a nuclear attack. 3GD would be WORSE than nuking a city center. It's the escalation point AFTER a nuclear exchange, in my opinion. God, can you imagine?

Tom didn't explain his second assertion, but it's important so I'm going to do it. China is in the worst strategic position of any great power in history because it is critically dependent on resources it has to import, and it doesn't have control of the sea lanes over which it imports them. China is neither food nor energy self-sufficient. It needs to import pork from the United States, grain from Africa, coal from Australia, and oil from the Middle East to keep its population fed and its factories running. Naval blockades at about three critical chokepoints (Hormuz, Malacca, Sunda) would cripple the Chinese economy within months, possibly within weeks. China does not have the blue-water navy required to contrast control of those chokepoints. The moment any first-rate naval power or even a second-rate like India decides China needs to be stopped, it's pretty much game over. As a completely separate issue thanks to the one-child policy, Chinese population probably peaked in 2006 and has been declining ever since. Every year in the foreseeable future they will have fewer military-age males than they do now. Most of those males are only sons; their deaths would wipe out entire family lines, giving the Chinese people an extremely low tolerance for war casualties. Then there's the glass jaw. The Three Gorges Dam. Which is already in some peril even without a war - you can compare photographs over time and see that it's sagging. If anyone gets annoyed enough to pop that dam thing with a bunker-buster or a pony nuke, the resulting floods will kill millions and wipe out the strip of central China that is by far the country's most industrially and agriculturally productive region. The Chinese haven't fought a war since 1971. They lost. Against Vietnam. The institutional knowledge that could potentially fit their army for doing anything more ambitious than suppressing regional warlordism does not exist. I could go on. But I think I've made Tom's statements sufficiently understandable already.

@joni_askola Now if the US can do the same in November.

The collapse of Fidesz is accelerating. Just weeks after Orbán’s historic defeat, TISZA has surged to a 40 point lead in the polls. This shows a nation that has finally realized how much it lost under autocracy. Hungary is moving forward and there is no looking back

@VeryBrexitProbs The British pulled out of their illegal forts in US territory and stopped government military aid to hostile tribes. This was definitely one of our war aims.

Americans love banging on about the War of Independence. They’re quieter on the War of 1812. Here’s why. In 1812, America declared war on Britain. The plan was to march into Canada and annex it. Thomas Jefferson said it would be “a mere matter of marching.” It wasn’t. The Canadians sent them packing. Two years later, the British sailed up the Potomac. American forces collapsed at Bladensburg in what’s still called “the Bladensburg Races” because of how fast they ran. President Madison had already fled to Maryland. The British walked into Washington unopposed. They sat down in the White House, ate the dinner Dolley Madison had laid out for forty guests, used the President’s silver, then set fire to the building. Then they burned the Capitol, the Treasury and the Navy Yard. A freak thunderstorm put the fires out the next day. The British left when they were ready. It’s still the only time a foreign army has captured the US capital. You can see why it doesn’t come up much.

@glenn_tunes Don't worry, we don't understand either.

NO ONE OUTSIDE OF AMERICA UNDERSTANDS HOW 39% STILL SUPPORTS TRUMP 🤷 HE'S A DEMENTED DELUSIONAL NARSISSISTISK SOSIOPAT WHO'S ALSO A PEDO TRAITOR 🤷 HE HAS DONE NOTHING FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND 39% STILL SUPPORTS HIM 🙄🤦 WOW🤦THIS IS WHY WE SAY AMERICA HAS THE DUMBEST POPULATION IN THE WORLD 🤷

@Jenny_1884 Abolish the monarchy then.

I’m not sure if anyone else feels the same but I don’t like it when Camilla is called Queen. Our Queen died. She’s not the Queen

@irish_news Why does the SDLP still exist?

SDLP leader Claire Hanna has criticised the fallout over a row concerning a statue of Bobby Sands as an attempt to “delegitimise anti-sectarian constitutional nationalism”. The South Belfast MP slammed a “sham fight” between the DUP and Sinn Fein at Belfast City Council over the issue, and an ensuing “pile-on” on members of her party who abstained in the vote last week. Read more: tinyurl.com/yrp8z7sb