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Tom Mitchell

@evolutionplants

Biologist, banker. Love friends, family, travel, good food, science, plants. Bemused European, watching US politics #SlavaUkraini #TrumpIsWeird #ExitBrexit

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Tom Mitchell
Tom Mitchell@evolutionplants·
I left this hell site because Elon Musk fucked it up. I returned, reluctantly, because Trump must lose, Ukraine must win, Russia must end, NATO must persist, Brexit must be reversed, Israel must be allowed to defend itself, women's rights must be paramount.
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@ReallyAmerican1 You need to explain why shares in companies vulnerable to high inflation have not crashed since Trump won the election.
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max tempers@maxtempers·
Tony Blair recounts a ridiculous tie design procurement process for an EU summit (featuring an Italian accent). Not sure any frontline UK politician today could carry a story like that.
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J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling·
I wrote the words below in April, about the UK left, and I'm retweeting them today for the benefit of some of the numbskulls in my mentions. Women like me, and there are a lot of us, aren't and never have been far-right. We simply want the left to wake the hell up, because we're watching it do its utmost to alienate people it used to represent. I'm not saying Trump's win was down to the gender stuff - I'm not an American voter, so can't judge. In any case, the Labour Party won the last UK election and they've embraced gender identity ideology whole-heartedly (although they won against a Tory government so enfeebled and unpopular it would have been miraculous if they hadn't, and their popularity since gaining office has plummeted.) What I do know is that millions of women in the UK and across the developed world are extremely angry about men in women's sport, men in women's jails and the erosion of single-sex spaces. Parents are angry at being demonised because they don't want their troubled kids to undergo irreversible medical treatments of extremely questionable benefit. People are sick to the back teeth of being bullied and threatened for refusing to embrace an elitist, academia-generated ideology that's having severe real world consequences. Large swathes of the left continue to be threatening and abusive to anybody who resists their attempts to impose ideological language or bully them out of wrongthink. Leftist activists jeer and sneer at erstwhile female allies for the crime of believing biological sex is real and matters. And leftist leaders still appear more interested in sucking up to gender activists than - to take a topical example in the UK - female nurses whose crime is not wanting to undress in front of a fully intact male. So to those screaming 'bigot' and 'fascist' at me, you should know two things. Firstly, I'm completely indifferent to your disapproval, as I'd have thought you'd have realised by now. Secondly, and far more importantly, the only thing more harmful to your cause than your pseudo-religious belief in gender identities is your astounding, self-righteous arrogance.
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officialhambly she/they@officialhambly·
A few years back in Yosemite there was a problem with bears getting into trash cans and ppl said ‘why not make the cans more complex?’ And a ranger said ‘bc there is significant overlap between the smartest bear and dumbest human’ and this election feels like that quote to me
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@WajahatAli Something that you Democrats need to grasp real quick is that Trump voters will never experience buyer’s remorse. No matter how bad it gets, they will always blame someone else, never themselves or Trump.
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Emmanuel Macron@EmmanuelMacron·
Donald Trump was elected by Americans to defend the interests of Americans. The question we, as Europeans, must ask ourselves is, are we ready to defend the interests of Europeans?
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Mark my words: these buyers will never admit they were wrong. When inflation rises it will be someone else’s fault. We saw this in the UK with Brexit. Most Brexit supporters still think it was the right thing to do, despite the catastrophic economic, diplomatic and security costs.
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Jon Cooper 🇺🇸@joncoopertweets·
MARK MY WORDS: If Trump moves forward with imposing 20% across-the-board tariffs (60% for Chinese goods!), consumer prices will rise immediately. Americans will instantly feel the inflationary impact, and Trump’s approval numbers will plummet. Buyer’s remorse will set in fast.
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@alexhallhall You lived through Brexit. You know perfectly well they'll find someone else to blame.
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Something I'm trying to get across to my American friends, having gone through Brexit, is that the awakening you are expecting will never happen. When Project 2025 and Trump's tariffs ruin his voters' lives, they will blame the Dems for obstructing him. They will never take responsibility or blame Trump.
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Ellen Barkin@EllenBarkin·
I think we can all understand billionaire maga but damn, working class maga are in for a brutal awakening. They are the big losers here
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Jakub Janda 楊雅嚳@_JakubJanda·
Europe cannot send Scholz and Macron to be its main ambassadors to Trump. That would be a horrible mistakes, seeing how they failed on Russia and China policy. Send Donald Tusk, the obvious leader of defense of Europe.
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Richard Dawkins@RichardDawkins·
Others have been elected in spite of being obnoxious. It’s quite a feat to get elected BECAUSE you’re obnoxious. But there’s another, better reason. Voters fed up with being told they must be racist just because they’re white. And patronised if they deny women can have penises.
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@Osint613 Fuck you Arab Americans. You deserve everything that Trump now enables Netanyahu to visit on your Palestinian and Lebanese friends.
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Open Source Intel@Osint613·
Trump on Israel war: “I will support Israel's right to win its war on terror. You have to support that. Gotta win. Gotta finish it off. And instead of pandering to the jihad sympathizers and America hating radicals, we will deport them. We will deport them very quickly. We have no choice.”
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Mark Rutte
Mark Rutte@SecGenNATO·
North Korean troops on European soil is historic for all the wrong reasons. This is a dangerous expansion of the conflict in #Ukraine, escalating the war and demonstrating that our security is not regional, it is global. Read my oped for @POLITICOEurope: politi.co/3YQd27T
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Tom Mitchell@evolutionplants·
@Heccles94 The left need to get humble and recognize that what they are selling a majority of people aren’t buying and no amount of organizing will change that.
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Harry Eccles
Harry Eccles@Heccles94·
Do not presume we in Britain are immune from this. Do not underestimate the risks of right-wing populism. The left need to get organised.
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J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling·
Ooh, let me guess. Emotive longform pieces from Owen Jones complaining that American taxi drivers aren't reading enough Judith Butler?
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@tommysantos14 You need to understand two things: (a) tens of millions of Americans know all this and want it and (b) no matter how bad it gets, they will never admit they were wrong.
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Tom Santos
Tom Santos@tommysantos14·
So when Trump fires all non-partisan career professionals in government, replaces them with radical loyalists within every nook and cranny of the US government, and adds radical judges everywhere. And every one of you that voted for him finally wake up from your fucked up fantasy just like the folks that woke up after 4 years of the last shit show, only to realize it’s much much worse, and much more permanent, this time. When the cancer you caused has infected every bit of the American system and it can’t be unwound for a lifetime. What then? Do you beg this country for forgiveness for choosing fascism because you were conned into believing your eggs are too expensive because of Joe Biden? You just put Steve Bannon in charge of American policy. You just put Michael Flynn in charge of our military. You just put Alex Jones in charge of media and propaganda. You just put Stephen Miller in charge of immigration policy. You just put batshit crazy RFK Jr. in charge of health policy. You just killed free public education and privatized schools, which you will have to pay for. You just sealed the deal on a national abortion ban, because you’re demented if you think it’s not coming. You just radicalized the Supreme Court for a generation. You just made women less safe and less free. You just made this country an oligarchy with the billionaires quite literally in charge now. You just put in office the one person that believes a president is a king, with the fucking Supreme Court ruling to prove it in his back pocket! You just ushered in Fascism. Because your cereal costs more. Congratulations.
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Tom Mitchell@evolutionplants·
@johnpavlovitz Take it from those of us who lived through Brexit and its disastrous fallout that these people will *never* admit they were wrong. They will always blame you.
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John Pavlovitz
John Pavlovitz@johnpavlovitz·
Right now, MAGAs are pumping out their chests because they think they and Trump defeated us. It’s when they can’t pay their mortgages or afford groceries or get health insurance that they’ll realize Trump was the singular enemy all along, and that we were fighting for them, too. And by then it will be too late.
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