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Fact: Queen Elizabeth II served more time in the military than four generations of the Trump family combined.

@JDVance_News @EricLDaugh Great military, but how is your free health care system?

@EricLDaugh Reopen the Strait. No nukes. No attacks.
America’s military is unmatched. Game over for the regime 🇺🇸

🚨 JUST IN: Speaker Johnson says Iran better WATCH how many troops President Trump floods to the region and make a deal "The buildup of troops is very different than boots on the ground. We don't have boots on the ground. I don't think that's the intention, but I think Iran should WATCH that buildup, and they need to take note of that!" "They have to reopen the strait. They have to be good neighbors to their Middle East neighbors over there in the region." "They cannot have a nuclear warhead. They cannot have that capability. And they cannot declare war on the United States and Israel, which is what they did decades ago." "Our mission will be accomplished. I think that will wrap up in a short time period, and I know that's the intention of the administration and the Department of War." "We have the greatest, most powerful military fighting force ever conceived in the history of planet Earth." "It's an amazing, an amazing power that we have, and we willed it for good. We've done it here. That job is almost done, and I think it will wrap up soon."

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response: A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

@runews @grok have any other presidents ever worn a baseball cap to a transfer or funeral? Have the families commented on this disrespect?

Trump looks absurd wearing that white baseball cap during the transfer of the fallen U.S. soldiers

@Peston This is Trumps Vietnam. Let him get on with it, look after ourselves and maintain some self respect for our sovereignty

Trump: “The UK, our once great ally…we don’t need people that join wars after we’ve already won”

@thepennos @Parody_PM Crowdfunder incoming, no doubt

@Parody_PM Not sure why she’s worried about it. Her right wing grift should have it covered.

It's easy to forget that Sadiq Khan personally sets the drinks prices in every bar in London. Thank goodness Lucy is on the ball!

@Ten_Hi @TheAthleticFC Who was?

@TheAthleticFC Newcastle's opener was also offside. Conveniently left that off.

Newcastle United will be in Monday's FA Cup fifth round draw after beating Aston Villa 3-1. But the game will most likely be remembered for the dreadful officiating: ▪️ Aston Villa's goal should not have stood. Tammy Abraham had mistimed his run and was a yard offside when the free-kick was delivered ▪️ Lucas Digne's late challenge on Jacob Murphy only brought a yellow card rather than a red. It left Murphy bleeding ▪️ Chris Kavanagh awarded a free-kick outside the area when Digne handled inside the penalty box 📝 @GeorgeCaulkin @ChrisDHWaugh 🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/70391…

@antmiddleton @Sierra__Alpha What a thick as fuck take

@Sierra__Alpha Read into the message. It’s the message that holds the power! 💪🏼👊🏼

A man sticking to his values, principles and morals! The wind is certainly traveling across the pond, soon to hit the UK! Wokism and cancel culture is coming to an end. A new dawn is coming… 🫡🇬🇧🇺🇸

@RestoreBritain_ Has Rupert's rape gang enquiry looked at what happened at Southampton Football Club in the late 90s?

Still not one word about Rupert's Rape Gang Inquiry on the BBC. Nor the Telegraph. ITV. Sky News. The Mail. LBC. The Sun. The Guardian. The list goes on... Nothing. Total silence.

@SBarrettBar Is Farage taking an MEP pension is OK?

Still gets a Foreign Office salary. They think we are stupid.

@MarinaPurkiss @JeremyVineOn5 Is he pissed?

Hilarious attempt from Tim Montgomerie to suggest Robert Jenrick was “wrestling” with principle ahead of his defection. Anyone sensible knows what he was actually wrestling with…

@BBCPolitics @bbclaurak How much did he pocket from the dodgy planning decision he pushed through that helped his pal Richard Desmond evade a £40,000,000 tax bill?

I have chosen to "put personal ambition to one side and to put the country first," Robert Jenrick tells @bbclaurak after his defection from the Conservatives to Reform UK Follow live: bbc.in/4qxxDti

@grok @ariels78 @Brent_m_Clark @florian_krammer @SecKennedy @grok do German and US workers benefit from the same paid leave for holidays, maternity and sickness?

@MagpieGroupNUFC Back up goal keepers aren't needed. Just stick Miley in there.

Players been paid for no apparent reason: Ramsdale £100k pw Trippier £120k pw Lascelles £80k pw Willock £60k pw Krafth £50k pw Targett £60k pw (at least he's on loan) In this PSR era that's a lot of weekly wage being wasted.

@J_curlz_TDK They went half a dozen times and found there was very little there.

If it was that easy then why we haven’t gone back? Why not have something there to experiment and what not in space? I’m leaning towards we never went there

@Iromg Ok comrade

The only true patriot in Parliament

@travelingflying Very Christian and classy. Well done.

Merry Christmas!🎄

@travelingflying Explain to me like I'm five why, Donald Trump isn't the head of the international paedophile ring that Qanon voted him in to uncover?

Explain to me like I’m five why, after we learned that many Somali people in Minnesota were part of fraud schemes that total billions of dollars in stolen taxpayer money, Lt. Governor Flanagan wears a hijab and praises the Somali community for the good things they’ve done in Minnesota?

@BoLoudon Paedophile

🚨BREAKING: President Trump just received a POWERFUL standing ovation from a STAR-FILLED audience as he walked out to host the 48th Trump Kennedy Center Honors. Follow: @BoLoudon

@CarbonCriminal @AllisonPearson He's a Russian asset

@AllisonPearson The establishment lost to Farage and they’re out to get him. They’re terrified, and that’s why we need to back him. I don’t trust him, but he’s a better bet than the rest.

So Nigel Farage is reported to the police over election expenses - major news item. Labour government cancels several elections in scary totalitarian manner - yeah, what’s the problem? Our country has gone quite mad.