Matthew Walton

If Twitter dies, something that could have been - that was - incredible dies. Because one man had too much money and no clue. Let this be a lesson to future generations on how not to behave when you take over a company. @mathw@hachyderm.io @mattwaltonprintmaker on Instagram

@TiceRichard Voters may be delighted that Starmer hasn't dragged us into a pointless and unjustifiable attack. I certainly am.

World’s most evil regime is on brink & Britain has nothing to do with it Starmer & Labour betrayed the US, our closest allies, in critical hour of need. They are traitors to Britain Voters will not forgive them Nor will the US forget their cowardice telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026/0…

@TheNorfolkLion @campbellclaret @Nigel_Farage If Farage had been doing the negotiations we'd have had a no deal exit and things would be even worse. He's got not the slightest diplomatic ability nor the knowledge to handle anything remotely that complex.

@campbellclaret @Nigel_Farage Nigel Farage wasn’t in government when Brexit was implemented. He wasn’t behind any of the deals or negotiations, maybe if he was Brexit would of been a success

@rpg_haven @ImSpartacus18 @gabithelibra Well it does depend what you spend the taxes on. But Harris wasn't going to raise taxes for people on lower incomes anyway.

@ImSpartacus18 @gabithelibra A lot of Democrats claim they do. I've spoken to them, and they've told me how paying more in taxes is good because it helps poor people. I'm not joking.

the gag is if you can afford to go on a four year cruise, you probably aren't in the bracket of people directly affected by his reelection

@actonblue @WinstonOBo9274 @larrylemonmaths @ShippersUnbound Great track record they've got haven't they. Johnson, Truss and Badenoch. Woooooo. Not that they're getting great options, they really need to pick better MPs if they want a decent leader.

@WinstonOBo9274 @larrylemonmaths @ShippersUnbound Apart from the Tory members who voted for her.

NEW: Cabinet Secretary Simon Case thought Liz Truss’s mini budget “economically illiterate” and her “completely mad”. Her aides thought her “psychologically unfit to be PM”. Read the extract from OUT published this week: thetimes.com/article/cdf8ec…

@larrylemonmaths @ShippersUnbound Realising growth is everything, Truss attempted a load of policies which anybody with a passing knowledge of economics could have told her wouldn't promote growth. That's what the markets react to, because tax cuts for the rich and rampant borrowing to fund it never worked.

@larrylemonmaths @ShippersUnbound She also completely failed to offer any policies which would promote growth, as the market reactions show. And before you dismiss them as establishment forces again, let's be clear - the markets are how that economic growth happens and they must believe in you to do it.

@I9Form85331 @stengel And that is why we all hate the government - at many points in history it's not the one the majority of us voted for. We voted for three or four different ones we didn't get. A government which respects this can win people over. Trump of course won't even bother to try.

@I9Form85331 @stengel We had it in the UK where Boris Johnson took the Conservatives to a massive majority in Parliament despite winning just over 40% of the vote overall, because they won so many seats by a narrow margin. Then Labour did it right back earlier this year.

Trump has fallen below 50% in the popular vote. His margin of victory (pop vote + electoral college) is the third smallest since 1888. (Only JFK in '60 and Nixon in '68 were smaller.) If 238k votes in the blue wall states had been different, he would have lost. Not a mandate.

@Legion_Cool @JohnJCrace I thought RFK Jr was an absolute moron who doesn't have the faintest acquaintance with simple concepts like "evidence" and wants to abolish vaccines. Sure, he'll raise food standards while he's killing children, absolutely.

@JohnJCrace The UK does NOT need to choose. It has a trade deal with the EU, it can ALSO have a trade deal with the US. How those agreements should evolve should be decided by the market. For starters RFK JRs plans could mean the US will be making food to higher standards, so why not.

Let me think. Our biggest trading partner or Donald Trump UK must choose between EU and Trump, trade experts warn theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

@cop_ish Excellent. I'm just gathering up some alternate platforms for people I like following here and then I'm gone.

@SMHonk1983 @Plandemic3Movie Such a suppressed positive message Trump himself only spoke hate. Or maybe it was the bits where he degenerated into incoherence? How can you celebrate that man? How can you look at him and say yes, he should be President? He's already shown he's not good at the job once.

@Plandemic3Movie Donald Trump was at a serious disadvantage with campaign cash, endorsements and censorship of his positive message. The under dog was Trump!

Democrats are claiming that Elon Musk’s support of Donald Trump gave him an unfair advantage, when Kamala Harris only had the support of: Google, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, The New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Hill, NBC News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, ABC News, PBS NewsHour, BBC News, CNBC, NPR, The View, Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B, Eminem, Billie Eilish, Demi Lovato, Katy Perry, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, John Legend, Neil Young, Stevie Nicks, Usher, Magic Johnson, Willie Nelson Common, Bruce Springsteen, Lizzo, Rihanna, Samuel L. Jackson, Tyler Perry, Kerry Washington, Angela Bassett, Alyssa Milano, Jennifer Aniston, Howard Stern, Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, George Clooney, Tony Goldwyn, Eva Longoria, Jamie Lee Curtis, Wanda Sykes, Barbra Streisand, Cher, Drew Barrymore, Oprah Winfrey, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Will Farrell, Jeff Bridges, Chris Rock, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, and the list goes on…

@Ravenzbug @wideawake_media But who's going to save people from RFK Jr and his bullshit? He offers nothing but a return to children dying of measles and polio and tuberculosis and smallpox. Well, hopefully not the latter because we eliminated that one WITH VACCINES.

@wideawake_media Now I know what RFK Jr's pissed off face looks like. Here he is trying to save people from themselves - and they are desperately trying to stick their heads back in the sand.

MIC DROP: RFK Jr. shuts down smug journalist's fallacious appeal to authority. 🔥 Journalist: "You're a lawyer and an activist. You're not a doctor or a scientist." RFK Jr: "Trusting the experts is a function of religion and totalitarianism... In democracy, we question everybody."

@AHBrooks2 @imcoolchristian @wideawake_media Bigger yes, more delusional also yes, more dangerous absolutely yes. The world shifted when he was re-elected and almost nobody is going to enjoy where it goes. Especially his supporters, when they figure out how much his policies will hurt them.

@quantizor @CollinRugg They don't know or care, just like they don't know anything about trans people they've just got the stories they made up to scare their supporters and give them something to rally around. And protecting the kids sells well even when it's Trump the kids need protecting from.

@CollinRugg Intersex people exist, it's biologically a thing.

Donald Trump's plan to stop the chemical, physical and emotional mutilation of America's youth. 1. "Revoke Joe Biden's cruel policies on so-called gender-affirming care." 2. "Sign a new executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of s*x and gender transition at any age." 3. "Ask Congress to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these procedures and pass a law prohibiting child s*xual mutilation in all 50 states." 4. "Declare that any hospital or healthcare provider that participates in the chemical or physical mutilation of minor youth will no longer meet federal health and safety standards for Medicaid and Medicare and will be terminated from the program immediately." 5. "Support the creation of a private right of action for victims to sue doctors who have unforgivably performed these procedures on minor children." 6. "The DOJ will investigate big pharma and the big hospital networks to determine whether they have deliberately covered up horrific long-term side effects of s*x transitions in order to get rich at the expense of vulnerable patients." 7. "Investigate whether big pharma or others have illegally marketed hormones and puberty blockers, which are in no way licensed or approved for this use." 8. "Inform states and school districts that if any teacher or school official suggests to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body, they will be faced with severe consequences." 9. "Promote positive education about the nuclear family, the roles of mothers and fathers, and celebrating rather than erasing the things that make men and women different and unique." 10. "Ask Congress to pass a bill establishing that the only genders recognized by the United States government are male and female, and they are assigned at birth." 11. "Protect the rights of parents from being forced to allow their minor child to assume a gender which is new and an identity without the parent's consent."

@mrjamesob Starmer should seek to rejoin the customs union. Yes he previously ruled it out, but the USA electing a narcissistic self-obsessed asshole changes the situation significantly and requires a different response.

Further fracturing European stability is obviously a Putin dream & a long-term tragedy but what should Starmer do in the short term if it enhances the U.K.’s position? I wish more of our media was mature enough to understand & explore this stuff. There will be a lot more of it.

@MikeTho04795078 @lionelbarber We are but we're still far ahead of the capabilities of every single one of the idiots you mentioned.

@lionelbarber Maybe Trump, Vance, RFK, Gabbard, Ramaswamy etc Might agree to run the UK on the side? Why is the UK plagued with such mediocrity?

I can confirm from a Trump source that a special US deal for UK is under consideration. Trump feels that neither Tory nor Labour governments have made anything of Brexit. No Singapore in the Atlantic etc. So he will set a test, pulling UK further from EU alignment. Over to you, Keir!

@Sabrina25211 @drodvik52 @MarkHamill If you want to be able to afford cat food I would suggest you'd be better off under Harris than Trump.

@drodvik52 @MarkHamill You don’t know me so that’s harsh. I would have no problem sitting down with you over a cup of tea or coffee and talk kitty cats. They say maga are the ones trying to separate the country. I just wanna be able to afford cat food and gain a cat friend. 🤷‍♀️🙄

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@DRJO1965 @IanDunt If they want to stand a chance of winning that's about their only option.

@IanDunt Four years is a very, very long time Surely, it's far more likely that an "unknown" will emerge? As opposed to someone from the existing draft of the has-beens & rejected? A "new" Cameron or May, rather than legacy candidate

I'm not a betting man, but if I was I'd put money on James Cleverly leading the Conservative party into the next election.