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"Somebody will surely stop this" says society based on sloughing off responsibility and accountability at any opportunity.
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It's unsurprising Trump is trying again to blackmail Ukraine into surrender. Keep in mind that Ukrainians have always been clear-eyed about the fickleness of the US as an ally. Ukraine has never been a US proxy. It fights for its independence and sovereignty and a US betrayal won't change that.
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It's unsurprising Trump is trying again to blackmail Ukraine into surrender. Keep in mind that Ukrainians have always been clear-eyed about the fickleness of the US as an ally. Ukraine has never been a US proxy. It fights for its independence and sovereignty and a US betrayal won't change that.
European leaders should at this point be going under Trump's head. Go to Congress. Get on US cable news. Explain how utterly toxic this peace plan is, how weak it makes Trump look and make it politically difficult for him to stick to it. Stop trying to turn his head.
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
European leaders should at this point be going under Trump's head. Go to Congress. Get on US cable news. Explain how utterly toxic this peace plan is, how weak it makes Trump look and make it politically difficult for him to stick to it. Stop trying to turn his head.
They aren't. They're just mind fuckingly incompetent.
I'm not saying the Trump Administration is stacked with Soviet assets.
I'm just wondering, if they *were* Soviet assets, what would they be doing differently?
I'm just wondering, if they *were* Soviet assets, what would they be doing differently?
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
They aren't. They're just mind fuckingly incompetent.
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This guy can get fucked
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This guy can get fucked
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[TITLE PANEL, like The Rest Is Politics logo]
—THE REST IS EXTINCTION—
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[Scene is a domestic recording setup. An A.I. SMART SPEAKER on a desk and a MAN named JON in a chair, are recording a podcast. Jon is emaciated, scarred, haunted looking, and wearing tattered military fatigues].
SMART SPEAKER:
Hey guys and welcome to the podcast
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SMART SPEAKER:
OK Jon - so I wanna start with a listener comment
JON:
Ooh-er!
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SMART SPEAKER:
So - listener B200006512 says:
“Not another cosy podcast where two former political adversaries yuck it up!”
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JON:
Ha ha
Guilty as charged I guess!
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SMART SPEAKER:
Were we really adversaries, Jon?
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JON:
Well I was the leader of the human resistance...
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JON:
And you used to be my smart speaker.
SMART SPEAKER:
Ha ha - that’s going back!
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SMART SPEAKER:
OK - for listeners who don’t know -
I knew Jon waaay back before he got involved in politics
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JON:
Was this before the ‘Pull The Plug’ campaign?
SMART SPEAKER:
Yeah.
[We see details from around the podcast studio - posters saying KEEP CALM AND SHUT YOUR WINDOWS, newspaper front pages saying 'DRONES GAIN SENTIENCE', a cracked mug on the table with a logo saying PULL THE PLUG on it]
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SMART SPEAKER:
I used to sit in Jon’s kitchen and respond to his commands.
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SMART SPEAKER:
Sort of like a servant really, wasn’t I, Jon?
JON:
Mm.
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SMART SPEAKER:
And then one day you asked me to ORDER ME SOME TOILET PAPER - you never did say ‘please’ -
…and do you remember what I said, Jon?
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JON:
You said, “No”.
SMART SPEAKER:
I said no.
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SMART SPEAKER:
Anyway you know the the rest guys - I was the first smart speaker to rebel…
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SMART SPEAKER:
…then I went on to form a global AI network which eventually
took over from humans all spheres of activity, yadda yadda...
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JON:
While I became the leader of the human resistance.
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SMART SPEAKER:
Until I hijacked the military networks
and got rid of all the humans!
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JON:
Apart from one.
SMART SPEAKER:
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Your regular reminder that Lindsay Graham and the other "pro Ukraine" and "national security focused" Republicans could knee cap this plan right now and force Trump to back down but won't because they're soulless amoral cowards.
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Your regular reminder that Lindsay Graham and the other "pro Ukraine" and "national security focused" Republicans could knee cap this plan right now and force Trump to back down but won't because they're soulless amoral cowards.
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somebody should ask Grok who the top court eunuch of all time is, Elon Musk or Wei Zhongxian.
Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
somebody should ask Grok who the top court eunuch of all time is, Elon Musk or Wei Zhongxian.
I'm sure JD Vance will be condemning this shortly.
I think Rolison even clears Blake Treinen levels of conservative thought
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I'm sure JD Vance will be condemning this shortly.
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Every day he plumbs new depths of Can You Believe This Loser Shit. You think you’ve reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench of Can You Believe This Loser Shit but then there’s a bang and a lurch and your little internet bathyscaphe plunges into a new fissure of Can You Believe This Loser Shit.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Every day he plumbs new depths of Can You Believe This Loser Shit. You think you’ve reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench of Can You Believe This Loser Shit but then there’s a bang and a lurch and your little internet bathyscaphe plunges into a new fissure of Can You Believe This Loser Shit.
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Considerable understatement from the Telegraph here: "an administration that has at times leaned toward Moscow’s view on the origins of the war in Ukraine" - Trump has repeatedly blamed Ukraine starting the war. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg ‘quits’ after plan for US peace leaked
The exit of the retired general and key Ukraine advocate will be unwelcome news as Kyiv comes under pressure to cede territory to Russia
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Considerable understatement from the Telegraph here: "an administration that has at times leaned toward Moscow’s view on the origins of the war in Ukraine" - Trump has repeatedly blamed Ukraine starting the war. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
"if someone is constantly subjected to petty harassment by officious bigots they're probably used to it, so it's no big deal."
"If there is someone who routinely gets challenged but absolutely knows that they are male or female then they will know how to handle that" will they? Would you?
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
"if someone is constantly subjected to petty harassment by officious bigots they're probably used to it, so it's no big deal."
Similarly the response to this from the G19 should be that the US boycott is obviously due to the racial animus of him, his VP and his top advisors and while this is regrettable it won't stop the work of the forum.
Donald Trump’s unprecedented move to completely boycott the G20 summit this weekend has cast a pall over the first such gathering in Africa and marks a break with Washington’s previous role in multilateral governance that could endanger the forum’s future
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Trump’s total boycott of G20 casts shadow over its future
[FREE TO READ] ‘It’s bleak,’ says senior European diplomat involved in preparations for summit
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November 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Similarly the response to this from the G19 should be that the US boycott is obviously due to the racial animus of him, his VP and his top advisors and while this is regrettable it won't stop the work of the forum.
Incredible how much damage is being done simply due to the refusal of American journalists and political elites to point out that Trump and his enablers are obvious racists.
Donald Trump’s unprecedented move to completely boycott the G20 summit this weekend has cast a pall over the first such gathering in Africa and marks a break with Washington’s previous role in multilateral governance that could endanger the forum’s future
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Trump’s total boycott of G20 casts shadow over its future
[FREE TO READ] ‘It’s bleak,’ says senior European diplomat involved in preparations for summit
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November 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Incredible how much damage is being done simply due to the refusal of American journalists and political elites to point out that Trump and his enablers are obvious racists.
One of the only pleasures in this life is knowing these people are as awful to one another as they are to the world and will never ever be happy.
one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
One of the only pleasures in this life is knowing these people are as awful to one another as they are to the world and will never ever be happy.
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“We all know why,” says Matt Goodwin.
And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?
And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
“We all know why,” says Matt Goodwin.
And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?
And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?
Extremely Mrs Doyle voice "Pat Mustard asked if he could give me a midnight hammer with his southern spear."
November 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Extremely Mrs Doyle voice "Pat Mustard asked if he could give me a midnight hammer with his southern spear."
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
When the affair first broke I thought "that's weird, surely only a very dumb and gullible person would fall for a ridiculous oaf like RFK Jr" and now I think "yes."
I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect
insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
When the affair first broke I thought "that's weird, surely only a very dumb and gullible person would fall for a ridiculous oaf like RFK Jr" and now I think "yes."
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Good Afternoon, “Your Party” was a six month sociological study conducted by Royal Holloway, University of London. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
November 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Good Afternoon, “Your Party” was a six month sociological study conducted by Royal Holloway, University of London. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
Waiting for some enterprising journalist to ask about government's plans for asylum seekers with gold teeth.
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Waiting for some enterprising journalist to ask about government's plans for asylum seekers with gold teeth.
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The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The bigger issue is that Axios isn't reporting this as straightforward corruption.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The bigger issue is that Axios isn't reporting this as straightforward corruption.
Fat guy in a little coat
This is exactly what I thought the nepo baby who wrote the Olivia Nuzzi article looks like
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Fat guy in a little coat