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Mad that we were getting G1 reissues from Tamara as early as 2001, and this is the first time Sunstreaker been reissued (albeit in modified form). Guess the moulding was that difficult to rebuild from scratch…

These tariffs are going to trigger a global recession. The Great Recession of 2008/9 will potentially be nothing in comparison. Either Trump blinks before enacting such ludicrously harmless economic incompetence like he did with Colombia or… Well, we’re all in for a deeply unpleasant time.

Trump on Mount Rushmore? Even more so than Trump 1.0, this all feels like we’re all living in a terrible dystopian ‘comedy’ film.

Good. Let’s hope it ends what’s left of his broadcasting ‘career’ as a conservative talking head.

https://bsky.app/profile/rightwingwatch.bsky.social/post/3lgvoqwtlcc2a So this man, whom most British broadcasters use as the go-to “priest with political opinions” in their news discussion programmes, throws a Nazi salute at some Christian right event over in the States. I think this is all...

He’s the man whose economics theories underpinned Reaganomics (or Thatcherism, as it’s equivalent is called over here).

I mean, not just over your side of the lake, but all over the world. Everything is interconnected. A global recession (at minimum) seems inevitable this year.

Honestly, I’m very dubious about that stuff on RedNote. Remember China is an actual dictatorship. Most of their population are sub-Saharan Africa poor, basic workers’ rights are nonexistent, and no, they don’t have universal healthcare. All these posts from Chinese people reassuring westerners...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/trump-resumes-sending-2000-pound-bombs-to-israel-undoing-biden-pause The “Leftwingers for Trump, because Palestine” brigade really are among the most gullible and stupid individuals on the planet.

(Reminder that the AfD want to ban Holocaust memorials in Germany, and would literally call themselves the Nazi Party and use the swastika as a logo if the postwar German constitution didn’t criminalise it.)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/elon-musk-tells-far-right-afd-rally-theres-too-much-focus-on-past-guilt-in-germany/ Not ominous at all, no.

Watching that episode of The Simpson where Homer has a heart attack but can’t afford surgery was in retrospect one of the biggest influences on my political views for the rest of my life.* I remember my dad explaining, “oh they don’t have an NHS in America, people are hot money there have to go...

There’s no mutual self-defence pact in the Commonwealth like NATO and the EU each have. So I wouldn’t count on that, unfortunately. I suspect worst comes to the worst, most western countries won’t want to be in any conflict with a totalitarian USA.

https://bsky.app/profile/chadbourn.bsky.social/post/3lggm35tsr22p White Power presidency.

Just a random thought here, but if America survives Trump 2.0 as an nation intact, it’s going to need a Second Republic, a whole new constitution and framework, to avoid a Trump every happening again. That’s if the US doesn’t collapse completely, of course.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-german-ambassador-warns-trump-230455588.html "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3lft5lq7fpl2u Would I be correct in assuming that Kindly Uncle Joe couldn’t get any of these goals achieved when in office as he led what in Britain would be called minority government?

Oh FFS, that's exactly like Brexit – "vote to leave the EU and they'll bring back manufacturing jobs!" (Yes, and how's that working out now there are trade frictions and tariffs and reams of extra paperwork to trade with Britain's largest export market?) It's the same scam, different country.

It’s basically exactly what the leaks revealed, including the system logo.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/13/uk-low-middle-income-families-poorer-oecd-counterparts-study-western-europe Cheerful news about living standards here on Poverty Island.