How it happened
So it looks like the USA has elected a mad orange rapist convicted of 34 felonies who could yet be in jail by the time of his inauguration. (He would remain President even if that happened, which would be really funny.) And we can’t even blame them for it, because the alternative they were offered was, remarkably and stupendously, worse.
Wings called it like we called Trump’s first victory (and most other things). We tweeted this last year when thinking about the upcoming election. It’s a variant on something we wrote about on Wings eight and a half years ago. We’re posting it again now in the desperate hope that one day, maybe, far in the future, someone will actually listen.
But, y’know, we’re not holding our breath or anything.
Well done, lads.
Just all of the well done.
So John Swinney has backed the wrong horse again. Arise Sir Numpty. Stay out of other people’s elections and sort oot yer ain pairty!!
Starmer’s lot sent people over to campaign for Harris ?
Starmer got into bother about that … so why did Swinney jump in with both feet a day or so later. Totally unnecessary and ill-judged. Bullied by the woke members of his inner circle?
Because he’s a Brit plant just like his predecessor?
“backed the wrong horse”??
Are you saying he should have backed the other one? Really?
That’s a loose loose bet, best avoided.
Band Of Horses: Everything All The Time: The Funeral:
“I’m coming up only to hold you under
And coming up only to show you wrong
And to know you is hard, we wonder
To know you all wrong, we won
Ooh
Ooh
Really too late to call so we wait for
Morning to wake you is all we got
But to know me as hardly golden
Is to know me all wrong, they won…”:
link to tinyurl.com
No you stay fucking quiet and keep out of other people’s business especially when your own party is up to it’s neck in shit and crashing in elections.
People have the right to voice their conscience and should do so and it is their duty if they feel strongly enough about it but why would anyone do so solely because group-think decides that it is evil and needs opposed?
I bet if you asked John Swinney why he made that decision you wouldn’t get a coherent answer, never mind a genuine one.
In a couple of days time, nobody is going to care if Trump was elected or not so why would a politician who will get no long term political capital out of it, do so for a couple of hours publicity?
Better he had backed no one and left the US to get on with it.
Swinney is a big part of the problem. He will never remove the transcult from the nuSNP.
Possibly, because he’s too busy trying to cover things up, keep Sturgeon’s skeletons in the closet, keeping Dotty Bain onside, and trying to stop Scotland finding out about him and the rest of the plotters.
The Spectator: SNP members slam Swinney’s support of Kamala:
“…now the SNP leader has found out he backed the wrong horse at the US election.
Talk about a bad bet! Last month, Swinney lent his support to Kamala, telling Scottish voters:
“People in the United States of America should vote for Kamala Harris…”
A senior SNP figure also told the Times that Swinney’s endorsement was ‘f***ing stupid’…
…while another Nat remarked to Mr S: ‘The First Minister should focus on his own country before he looks anywhere else!’…”:
link to archive.ph
Yep, once again you’ve hit the nail squarely on the peg.
Eh?
i knew he’d win, but it still felt shocking to wake up to that cheese slice face with hair grinning at his win. The sleazy voice, which quite frankly sounds tired, promising the world, but likely only to deliver unrest, crypto currency, and inflation. jeeezo….. we just wait with baited breath for whatever madness comes now.
So the only question now is
Will Trump go quietlyin four years time
Or will he insist he is entitled to stand for a third term?
FDR died during his 4th. term April 1945.
Look at wikipedia for the 22nd amendment, which became part of the US constitution in 1951 after FDR had served four terms. Trump has only one term left.
What can be amended once can be amended once again. It’s a high bar to reach (2/3 of Congress and Senate then sent to individual states) or a constitutional convention of the states – which has not occurred before – but in theory any amendment can be modified or annulled. Ironically the President has no role in amendments though can of course endorse or not.
An A for the theory but an F for the history. The 21st amendment was ratified by state ratifying conventions.
Phil, you and Panda Paws are talking about two different things. Panda Paws is talking about the national convention that is an alternative to a vote of two-thirds of each congressional chamber. You are talking about the ratifying conventions in each state that is an alternative to approval or otherwise by state legislatures.
Thanks Skip – It though the “or” in my sentence made it clear that was an alternative route to amending the constitution and the “it hadn’t happened before” indicated that, well, it hadn’t previously occurred but was still a future potential route.
Unless they passed another Amendment, of course. But he wouldn’t want a third term: he’ll be 84 in 2028.
I expect the ticket in 2028 will be Vance and Gabbard.
There is zero evidence that Trump would attempt a third term unlike Obama who did that by proxy. He has an excellent VP who will carry the banner and allow him to retire at 82 (unlike the poor sick Biden who was forced to lurch on.
You are being gaslit, or attempting to gaslight others. The last 4 years? Stable? Civil? Inclusive? Nonsense. All the issues you raise, the Democrats weaponised and used sgainst their own people.
If he’s tired, it’s hardly surprising. He’s 80 years old, had done 700 election rallies and been shot through the ear to boot. How many rallies did that gibbering idiot Harris manage?
The mass of cynical smears and trumped-up charges against Trump have about as much foundation in fact as those on and against Alex Salmond – another inconvenient outsider the crooks in office wanted rid of.
Relax. By comparison with the four years of the Biden junta, Trump’s second term will bring a welcome return to rationality.
are you going to be on the panel with Jack Dee for ‘Sorry, I haven’t a clue’?
Yip, voted Tory myself for the first time, aged 62. Met my Tory MSP who engaged with me over women’s rights. I like her.
Stu, regarding your first sentence, after the Scottish experience, it’s probably not wise to hurl accusations of rape about.
Seems lawfare in USA is good but lawfare in Scotland bad.
“Lawfare against non-Leftists is good.
Lawfare against Leftists is bad. …”
Says the Left in Scotland, in the US, everywhere
Campbell Clansman, Who you are quoting? Please let us know. Thanks.
My Leftists friends in both countries. They say it with a chuckle.
ref. Campbell Clansman. Thank you for response. My friends (poliyics not classified) in both countries have no time for lawfare whoever the target may be.
Scotland has outrageous examples with Craig Murray and Mark Hirst, no doubt others.
i am struggling to assess your politics, what does ‘leftist’ mean nowdays?
Typo. Alert: politics.
Well, that’s the question, isn’t it?
The whole problem with mainstream ‘leftism’ today is that it’s Wall Street leftism: nothing to do with public welfare, a better deal for working people, a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work, the leftism of Attlee and Bevan. Instead, sinceabout 2008 the official left stands for NUSNPae globalist loonery. The result is that the Dems are now the party of Palo Alto billionaires and radical student twits, and the party of the blue collar worker is now the Republicans. See also Labour/ SNPie vs Reform/ Alba.
The terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ have, largely, been a source of confusion for many decades. Using terminology from 18th century French politics always has been troublesome.
Decades ago there was a radio discussion between Enoch Powell and Tony Benn (who is old enough to remember?) and extensive agreement emerged despite conflicting Party affiliation and public perception of a political spectrum.
My concerns are with matters such as deforestation, pollution, authoritarian threats to liberty, re-development of serfdom, gen…..0 cide, psychopathy of politicians and much more.
The US Democrat party is a liability to the world but not as dangerous as Trump Republicans.
Tony Shwartz wrote Trump’s famous book, maybe you would view/hear Shwartz address to the Oxford Union. I am behind schedule to read Mary Trump’s book but already reckon Trump to be a seriously dangerous personality, unsuitable for public office.
Please do let us know your further-considered assessment of the prospects for the next US Presidency. Please excuse my somewhat confrontational style, I do not share your ‘laid back’ view, Rev. Stu sounds more realistic.
Have you ever contributed to WoS under another name? When did you first comment here? I am a new-comer.
Alf Baird,Fanon and Memmi.
Troll alert.
Click the link.
I did that Stu and that EJC stuff has the real whiff of “lawfare” about it, you know like some of the stuff you talked about in the Scottish situation.
Trump wasn’t accused of rape, he was found liable in court for rape.
Ah, the infallible US justice system where there are no Soros prosecutors to be seen.
What is the conspiracy nut obsession with Soros?
Meanwhile JD Vance was hand picked by Peter Thiel, Elon Musk is bribing voters and Trump has made millions through pump and dump of his own joke stock.
Pull your head out your arse.
No, AIUI it the NY jury rejected the ‘rape’ claim but settled for sexual assault. Though if Ms Carroll – as they logically must have concluded – was lying about the former, it’s hard to see how they could consider her reliable witness over the latter.
That case – and the subsequent ‘defamation’ award – are both currently under appeal. I wouldn’t bet heavily on them being upheld when they get up to a Court outside of New York.
Title IX drove voters to Trump. The stupid law demonstrated the deranged views of the Dems.
No, it was the economy, I think. The Blue Wall is about to turn red. I made my peace with this about 10pm Eastern Time last night when it became clear that Harris was not doing as well as she needed to in North Carolina’s major conurbations. She got fewer votes there than Biden got in areas where she needed to really hammer Trump.
Basically the Democrats got blamed for Democrats and Republicans handing out money to everyone during COVID, which stoked inflation.
Yep, it had nothing to to with the inflation reduction act which did the complete opposite.
I had to look that one up.
link to en.wikipedia.org
Roguesir, It appears most likely that the 1972 USA legislation has been favourably regarded by many males, and especially females, in USA. Quick research by online searches is likely to confirm that.
By contrast, there seems to be a major problem with recent ‘Regulations’ which have undermined the original protections for women.
Please clarify whether you object to the original US legislation and its purpose.
I still have not met anyone who denies the biological, genetic facts that define males and females allowing also for the extreme rarity of ‘intersex’ individuals.
The incompetence of the US Democratic party is broader than the ‘Transexual’ issue.
“The incompetence of the US Democratic party is broader than the ‘Transexual’ issue.”
Precisely.
The trans/woke issue (whose definition & whose doing the counting etc) is but one issue among many and right now, in the present context, was unlikely to necessarily be the top priority for a statistically significant number of voters but one amongst many.
Which includes this issue, as observed here by Australian journalist Caitlin Johnson:
link to caitlinjohnstone.com.au
“Turns out campaigning on the promise of continuing a genocide while courting endorsements from war criminals like Dick Cheney is not a great way to get progressives to vote for you.”
Or regular human beings for that matter.
Who would’ve thought?
“To be clear, this is not a good result. A good result was not possible this election. The warmongering Zionist genocide monster lost, which means the other warmongering Zionist genocide monster won.”
An observation underlined by Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib who won a seat in Congress for a fourth time in the Michigan 12th congressional district election with 69.4% of the vote, almost three times the tally of Republican Richard Hooper in second place – go figure.
As noted prior to yesterday’s election
link to theintercept.com
This was a major issue for many who normally voted democrat.
And we have not even touched on the fact that the ‘Democrats’ fielded an empty vacuous empty vessel of a candidate who could not, and did not even bother to, win a single primary.
The Trump win is the Democrats fault. Not for a single reason – as though it’s possible to divide reality into single issue stovepipes within rigid self-contained borders with no systemic overlap (because reality does not operate on such reductionist terms) – but for a variety of complex reasons.
Johnson and Tlaib are absolutely right.
After running the USSA the way they did for four years, and then having the nerve to put up a gabbling, dead-eyed meat-puppet like Harris for President, the Democrats have got what they deserved.
Who cares for theDemocrats? What about everyone and everything liable to suffer?
What’s “Big Mike” got to do with it?
Where is the mistake? Ican find no ref. to “Big Mike” in my comments.
Spot-on , Stu . Personally , I wasn’t sure Trump would be * allowed * to win – and I suppose we still have to wait to see if his opponents will persist in their attempt to prevent him assuming the role of POTUS – via Lawfare . But the ( likely ) margin of his victory should – at least – remove any doubt or attempted denial of the clear majority of the U.S Electorate’s choice .
*Woke * just got it’s marching orders ; Hurrah !
If he does the right thing , ie gets rid of the Permanent State ghouls & Warmongers , and follows – through on his pre-election pledges to give good , decent people like RFK Jnr & Tulsi Gabbard free reign to do the right thing/s ( in this respect , he would be wise to bring in the calm rationality and insight of Col Doug MacGregor ) the U.S may once again embrace sanity .
It was again a truly abysmal choice presented to the U.S Electorate : they made the right choice nonetheless
Robert, The Handmaid’s Tale is about to become real. I am no fan of Harris or the Democrats but it was the least worst choice.
1st : hope you were/are ok after the awful devastation of the Carolinas . Yes , well , let’s hope the * inevitable * backlash against the demented * Woke * idiocy doesn’t result in an embrace of eye-for-an-eye revenge by the * religious * Right . I think – paradoxically – that Handmaid’s Tale analogy had more validity when applied to the * Left’s * attempt to suppress any criticism of * Progressive * dogma , inc it’s lunatic * Transgenderism * manifestation . As I said earlier ……if he’s smart , Trump will give RFK Jnr & Tulsi Gabbard ( just 2 of the many former Dems so sickened by the degeneration of that Party , they aligned with Trump ) the opportunity to do the things they’ve said the would , ie in RFK Jnrs case ” Make America Healthy Again ” , by tackling the enormously detrimental Food Industry ; and in Gabbard’s case addressing the indoctrination & subsequent mutilation of children via * Gender * Ideological * affirmation * of childhood fantasies
as you probably knew ….I meant the ” devastation ” caused by the storms ; not any Political storm .
Yes, I knew exactly what you meant. We got some heavy rain but nothing we couldn’t handle. The disaster in the west of the state was as bad as anything I have seen in this country.
You’re right that The Handmsid’s Tale can be applied to the Democrats. The difference is that they don’t have the competence to follow through.
Tulsi Gabbard is an opportunist. She wore the Democrat label because that’s how you get elected in Hawai’i. Now she has hitched her wagon to the Trump train. Smart in terms of self-promotion but, frankly, untrustworthy.
For those of us who lean slightly right of centre, it was a tough choice this time. Where a Libertarian was on the ballot I tended to vote for them but, in the 28 races on the ballot, I ended up voting for four parties.
I suppose – re Gabbard – it’s a case of whether or not one believes her defection to the Republicans was – as she claims – because of her disgust at what the Democratic Party has become – or mere political opportunism . I’m not in a position to judge either way ; but she’s certainly saying all the right things now ; and was the only candidate – from either side – who spoke about the desperate need to end the U.S’s promotion of war . Time will tell
I think she was always a Republican. Some will reasonably argue that she just didn’t realize it (Hawai’i generally sits on the moderate wing of the Democratic Party and is not afraid to elect moderate Republicans) and others will reasonably argue that she jumped ship when it was politically expedient.
It will be interesting to see how many advisers from his last term return. If there aren’t very many, that would cause me to question the political journeys of Gabbard and Vance.
If Gabbard was an opportunist, she’d remain a Democrat in heavily Democrat Hawaii.
Not necessarily. She is out of Hawai’i politics. She pretty much did that when running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.
In what alternate universe is Hawaii open to electing “moderate Republicans?”
The state senate is 23-2 Democrat. The state House is 44-6 Democrat. And the vastly outnumbered Republicans are from the left wing of the GOP.
The GOP’s senate candidate lost 2-1, to a Democrat who generally gets a 100% Leftist rating from the rating groups.
Hawaii last elected a Republican senator in 1970.
I said they are not afraid to elect a moderate Republican. That doesn’t mean that they do on a regular basis, although it is not that long since Linda Lingle was governor.
Yep. With her skin colour and ‘gender’, all she had to do was toe the DNC line and she’d have a Committee Chairman (and multi-millionnaire) by now.
Gabbard has beauty, brains, courage and and ‘tegridy. She’ll be President one day.
Trump was a Democrat for about three decades before switching. Oprah talked about running on a joint ticket with him back in the 90s, only half in jest. All the hags on The View loved him, right up to the point he won the Republican nomination to face off against Hillary.
Well, he was in New York City so it was in his commercial interests to be seen as a Democrat. As well as being commercially sensible, it gained him acceptance in the NYC elite.
When you strip it all away, I think he is a sad and lonely old man. He’s never held a proper job. He’s never been anything other than “The Boss,” so he’s never learned humility. He got sent to military school, as a young teen, to try and straighten him out. Obviously that failed.
I wonder just how badly the SNP will do in 2026?
Filthy commufascist SNP (NWO) Regime is an affront to Scotland, democracy and world civilisation –
And it (et al) won’t have any integrity left (guaranteed)…
Disgusting intro to your post.
Heard of Lawfare?
EJC had no corroboration, is batshit crazy and thinks rape is “sexy”.
Got her sexual fantasy played out in court with no evidence, supported by a corrupt judiciary. Believe all women? My arse. Only in DNC New York.
How you can see the Salmond conspiracy lies and smears, and the same for Julian Assange, but not this is astonishing. And hypocritical.
The DNC Neo-Con / Deep State War machine / Media & Big Pharma are a disgusting tyranny which must be destroyed, or there will be no more world to fight over.
Thank you American citizens for starting the fight-back.
“How you can see the Salmond conspiracy lies and smears, and the same for Julian Assange, but not this is astonishing. And hypocritical.”
Quite. It is an odd and highly selective and subjective opinion given what we know. Maybe this is because Trump is not considered as ‘articulate’, even by the more enlightened elements of the bourgeoisie, the latter still prone to socio-linguistic prejudice?
Hello Charles Hodgson, please let us know what you find disgusting in the intro to the post.
Which “EJC” do you have in mind?
Why do you think Trump will tackle any of the problem issues which you mention? I see the military-industrial complex, corrupt pharmaceutical industry and mainstream media plus much more, as being a massive threat to the world and that may well be similar to your worries. The Democrats are Neo-liberals rather than Neo-cons and all of them are bad.
Trump will promote all the worst of what you seem to condemn.
I hope you find this response and do more reading.
What Charles Hodgson is calling disgusting is Stu giving oxygen to what many call lawfare surrounding the EJC case Stu links to. Many called this stuff out when they saw it happen in Scotland.
Ms E Jane Carroll. Trump’s accuser. Do keep up.
Yes, already found that, Acronyms are not my specialist subject. I do not know Polari, either.
You are obviously clueless re the Executive Orders Trump put into place during his first term as President re corruption and child trafficking/abuse and treason etc re all of them and more. And funny how the FAKE Biden has never been at the actual White House during his term as President always being shown at a FAKE White House Set – the actual White House has been shut since Biden “won”. We will see what Trump does re everything that has been going on since the election was “stolen” from him last time. You have got to let the crooks commit their crimes before you can prosecute them for treason, genocide etc.
Salmond was found not guilty.
Trump wasn’t.
You either respect the rule of law and verdicts of courts or you don’t.
“Lawfare” pish. The man is a convicted fraudster and a rapist.
So, more or less, was Anwar Ibrahim. Until the corrupt, authoritarian regime of Malaysia fell and then it turned out he was nothing of the sort. You’re being very naiive. A picked jury in Trump-hating Manhattan, in a CIVIL case that was dodgy on at least four separate grounds (see my earlier post) REJECTED the plaintiff’s ‘rape’ claim – but, weirdly, still found Trump liable for ‘sexual assault’. The plaintiff was unable to say even in what YEAR the incident had occurred – though she did say that it happened in broad daylight in, of all places, a bookshop.
The case is currently under appeal. As soon as it is out from under the auspices of the NY DA – who was elected on a manifesto to ‘get Trump’ – and in the hands of an honest Court, I expect the accusations will likely be dismissed and Trump exonerated.
The ‘falsifying business records’ ‘felony’ (!) case is even more of a nonsense – as spurious and malicious as Craig Murray’s jailing for ‘contempt’ for ‘jigsaw identification’. It’ll be overturned on appeal.
In any case, the Democrats can thank their smear tactics for Trump’s astounding resurgence: to ordinary Americans, they revealed themselves as shameless, dirty, dangerous crooks who, to crush their opponents, were willing to turn the USA into a police state. It’s a good thing the US people didn’t let them get away with it.
And if Salmond had been found guilty via the lies you would have been saying the exact same thing then? You are obviously clueless about what has been going on in the US and wait and see what they will try next to sabotage his Presidency – Lockdown 2 is coming soon via the WHO and UN and it is going to be much worst than last time with everyone being locked up and forced into taking many of the highly toxic vaccines. Is Trump going to go along with this time or is he going to start to arrest these people – why do you think that our corrupt governments have handed over power to call and control future FAKE pandemics to the WHO.
No. It was painfully obvious that Mr. Salmond was being stitched up. The orange gibbon is a disgusting waste of oxygen who totally believes that he can have anything and anyone that he wants without any consent or any consequences.
The man is a convicted fraudster and a rapist
“Data from the UK Ministry of Justice shows that 27% of working-age adults have a criminal conviction. This increases to 33% when just looking at men.”
In the UK, the crims are everywhere, Greg.
In fact, if you have two brothers, then statistically, one of you is going to be a crim, maybe a fraudster, or even a rapist!
Makes you think, eh?
If it’s not you, maybe get together with two of your male family members for a quiet blether – get it all out into the open.
Aye, crazy is as crazy does.
Who knew that political parties going way off piste embracing all manner of lunacy that’s contrary to the actual wants and needs of their electorates would end well. Empires fall…
In a Scottish context, there should be a lot going on at this time due to #TheThickening of the NuSNP caused by an influx of stupid grifting Bisto addicts.
If genuine supporters of returning Scotland to self-governance continue to choose to do nothing then Reform will make inroads.
Helpful analysis Rev, which also in part explains why folks vote for Farage after giving up on woke parties who oppress the masses. Farage is England’s national liberator in waiting. His difficulty here is he thinks he also speaks for Scots on the question of national identity, but that only works for the more assimilated Scot who still falls for the Anglo-Brit cultural illusion.
History tells us that national identity, which is based on a peoples language and culture, is the only bulwark against colonialism. Which explains why ‘an independence movement depends on the solidarity of the oppressed ethnic group’ (Hechter), the Scots in oor case.
Scots also arguably need a Trump tae harness national solidarity an drain oor colonial swamp. Swinney’s woke colonial administrators winna dae it because thay’re aw bocht an selt an noo pairt o the colonial racket.
Swinney’s woke neo-colonialists hate Trump because he is a liberator o fowk, same as Alex Salmond wis, an Farage is for the English primarily.
Which suggests oor fae is colonialism, nae maitter whit kintra we’re fae, an oor anely sauviour is oor naitional identity.
Alf, “England’s national liberator” is doing pretty well in Scotland too. Some would say better than Alba.
Reform got 167,000 votes in Scotland.
Alba got 11,000.
Aye, a lot of Scots indy supporters also voted for Farage who offered a sensible manifesto on raising VAT threshold, stopping immigration, and binning the gender nonsense etc. Hence a world of difference from the woke parties. But Reform’s main ‘market’ here seems to be Tory/Labour voters.
Alf you may be right there. Reform UK has the possibility of uniting the Tory/Labour unionist vote. Same in Wales. Will be interesting to see the leap in Reform membership after the welsh Conference in the next week or so.
Ah, BritNat central.
Just what we need, more fcucking Tories.
Wonder how many ‘incomers’ were part of those 167,000 votes?
Reform stood a candidate in every constituency, Alba in a minority of the constituencies.
Not exactly an endorsement of Alba’s popularity, when the Reform Party was able to field candidates and Alba was not.
And in constituencies where candidates of both ran (e.g., Alloa), Reform far outpolled Alba. In Alloa the reform candidate received 6 times as many votes as the Alba candidate.
I will certainly vote ALBA in the next Scottish election if i am alive.
Alf, I agree with most of what you say. However, Trump did not drain the swamp last time and he won’t do it this time. He IS the swamp.
No global warmongering as far as I recall, big tick there from many folks. Yes, Trump did not quite manage to clear out Washington’s bad apples last time, but this time will surely be different, he knows precisely who they are.
Similar applied with Alex Salmond ‘taking power’ in 2007 and 2011; he should have insisted on creating a new ‘Scottish Civil Service’ wae a new set o heid bummers appointed to run the sub-state, maybe including some Scots even! Instead colonial foxes were left inside the chicken coop…..
Alf, Trump didn’t even attempt to clear out the bad apples last time. He just brought in his own people to enjoy the trappings of power. Why do you think this time will be different? I am surprised that numerous people on this thread think Trump’s victory is a good thing.
It is true that Trump did not warmonger directly. He just let Russia do what it wanted in the Middle East. Trump’s victory is a disaster for the Middle East and the wider world.
I wrote a lengthy reply to this, Alf, but it disappeared. I did mention the country that made up a large part of the team that Scotland beat 3-0 in the European Championships in 1992. I wonder if that is a banned word on here.
In brief, he didn’t clear any bad apples without bringing in his own. As for warmongering, he simply let another country do what it wanted in the general area of the eastern Mediterranean. The situation there is going to spread much wider after January 20th.
President Trump has already proven he is not a warmonger. He has proven he is a businessman and deal-maker, happy to speak to national leaders that the msm seek to vilify. He has proven he is not a machine politician, bought and sold. President Trump loves Scotland and loves golf. President Trump is a breath of fresh air in a cesspit of deceit.
That’s why most Americans have voted for Trump, and you should have too.
This cannot possibly be the same Alf Baird that spoke at the Alba International LACU meeting last week. Either that or you’re taking the piss.
Why not address the points I make:
“President Trump has already proven he is not a warmonger. He has proven he is a businessman and deal-maker, happy to speak to national leaders that the msm seek to vilify. He has proven he is not a machine politician, bought and sold. President Trump loves Scotland and loves golf. President Trump is a breath of fresh air in a cesspit of deceit.
That’s why most Americans have voted for Trump, and you should have too.”
Trump is a warmonger. He just doesn’t get his hands dirty. Witness the incursion by another country into Syria when he was last in office. Just wait and see what he does in the Middle East. Yes he will end the war in the country that knocked us out of the 2018 World Cup. He e we I’ll do that by letting the aggressor walk in and take over. You don’t have to supply weapons or soldiers to be a warmonger.
Trump is bought and paid for by the people who lend (well, give really) the vast sums of money he needs to maintain his lifestyle. As anyone who has paid attention to such matters will know, he is a serial bankrupt. His casino (a f***ing casino , for Christ’s sake) went bankrupt. He has been at this crap since the 1980s at least. That was when he issued zero-coupon bonds that pay no interest but you get more than what you lent when they mature.
Trump only loves anyone for as long as they are useful to him. He does not love Scotland, only what he can extract from it. Surely, we have realized that by now?
So why did I and tens of millions of others vote for Harris? For me, it was an anti-Trump vote. As someone with cerebral palsy and epilepsy I was furious at the shameful way they treated Biden after the June debate. Verbal slips that could be explained by his lifelong stutter that he has worked incredibly hard to control, were presented as evidence he was unfit to lead the USA. (Yes he had a bad night but it really wasn’t as bad as folk made out. My wife is a post-masters registered nurse with training and experience in neurological conditions and she felt he was treated poorly)
So, why vote against Trump? Every single action he took last time was for his own benefit. The much-lauded 2017 tax reform handed him enormous benefits and threw the rest of us scraps from the table. His tax returns are public knowledge, thanks to an Internal Revenue Service contractor who disclosed them to the NYT. As a Federally Authorized Tax Practitioner I am quite capable of reading a return and understanding the consequences of certain law changes.
However, there is something much more sinister. Last time around he was happy to “other” any group of people if he felt like it. We know he has no appreciation for his Scots heritage. With nutcases like Stephen Miller waiting in the wings to return to government, those of us who complied with US immigration law when entering the country and who have subsequently taken US citizenship have a legitimate fear of losing rights. Suddenly, my imminent passport renewal has become much more urgent. People like Miller are impotent without a figurehead like Trump. With him, they become potent and they will have learned what not to do over the last four years.
I disagree with many things Biden did but he is an honourable man who calls it as he sees it. I was not thrilled by the prospect of a Harris presidency but, given the foregoing, it would have been preferable to the nightmare that will be visited upon us from January 20th. That is why I did what I deemed to be best when I cast my vote for Harris – best for the USA and best for the world. I will never apologize for keeping myself informed on current affairs and exercising my constitutional right – my duty – to vote
After what the past four years of Biden/Harris and Blinken/Nuland has yielded, you voted for more of the same? Were you expecting a different outcome?
That’s as daft as voting SNP and thinking its a vote for independence.
link to dearscotland.substack.com
It’s before 6am here and I haven’t decided whether your latest reply is borne of ignorance or is just downright offensive. Either way, I am not going to dignify it with any further response.
Skip NC,
As you say, Trump did not “drain the swamp”.
Unfortunately, Charles Hodgson (contribution earlier) might not be the only one who thinks that Trump will remedy problems.
Wonder whether they might re-assess the situation.
Hello Alf,
Some English people do recognise and support Scottish nationhood and national liberation. Do you really think Farage is one of them?
Most likely that some English people would view with disgust your suggestion that Farage has a role as national liberator and regard it as insulting as your colonisers suggesting that Sturgeon is the greatest Scots woman.
I see Farage as a neo-con/neo-liberal who would sell any national natural resources to corporate interests, privatise anything.
Maybe I will read some Fanon oneday. Best regards.
Well said.
Yes, Farage would seem an unlikely liberator of Scots. However, if given the choice I suspect he would not be dissatisfied with an independent England.
And yes, his cultural-political ideology is essentially one of private ownership/profit driven, i.e. Anglo Saxon; but this is the dominant ideology that has been forced upon Scotland, the latter being mair a common good, public ownership, equality focused culture, as per Claim of Right. It is these two cultures that are incompatible in the UK ‘Union’ hoax, much as we saw in the different policy approaches taken in Holyrood during the Salmond era in particular.
Fanon indicated that whilst ‘the colonizer on the left may be sympathetic’ to the cause of an oppressed native group, he also maintained that: ‘his independence is a matter only for the colonized’. It is also well established that people coming from rest-UK have the highest propensity of all ethnic groups to vote against Scottish independence, i.e. almost twice as high as that of Scots. Hence Hechter’s statement that ‘an independence movement depends on the solidarity of the oppressed ethnic group’.
Alf, a fundamental difference between English and Scottish history, concerning where sovereignity lies (of which i have learned through this website and Salvo) could indicate that in England there is a deeply rooted structure for imposition of the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ economic model to which you refer, whether the English people like it or no.
In English history i encountered reference to ‘the Norman Bastard and his armed banditti’.
Cannot give a source but maybe ‘The Making of the English Working Class’, EP. Thompson.
There is the implication that the effects of conquest could have been far-reaching, maybe you can tell us whether that is where the ‘sovereignity-in-crown’ originates in England.
It is clear enough that Scotland has a problem of non-Scots moving in. Principled Leftists should be expected to respect a Scottish National movement (struggle!) even if they be English. Have you any evidence that Farage would defer to Scottish assertion of Independence?
Some in England might arrive at the border pleading for Scots nationality if there were to be a Farage regime in England.
We know of the sovereignty in England of Westminster and hence its MPs due to various legal decisions, not least the Cherry case.
We know, from previous legal decisions and from parliamentary debates that, in Scotland, sovereignty rests with the people.
We know from Scotland’s enforced EU exit, from successive referendum mandates being ignored, from the forgotten ‘Vow’ promises made in 2014, and from numerous other instances, that the sovereignty of the Scottish people is never respected by Westminster and its MPs.
And we know from postcolonial theory that, in a colony, it is ‘only the values of the colonizer that are sovereign’ (Memmi), and the colonized are ‘out of the game’.
History indicates what the colonizer may do whenever the colonized assert their right to self-determination/independence. Which is why postcolonial theory considers ‘the root of colonialism to be fascism’ (Cesaire).
“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”
(Julius Caesar)
Can you provide me with a link to a single judicial decision to support your assertion that in Scotland “sovereignty lies with the people”, and not with the U.K. parliament? Or that post the act of union, sovereignty has a different form north and south of the England/Scotland border.
The fundamental difference in the meaning of sovereignty between Scotland is well established, and well-known, in Scotland at least. The proposed Scottish Independence Bill of 2014 is one of many such references which states that:
“In Scotland, the people are sovereign.”
link to consult.gov.scot
..and that, referring to Lord President Cooper in the legal case of MacCormick v Lord Advocate2 when he said:
“The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law. It derives its origin from Coke and Blackstone, and was widely popularised during the nineteenth century by Bagehot and Dicey. Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament, I have difficulty in seeing why it should be supposed that the new parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament, as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England. That is not what was done.3”
In other words any notion of England’s parliament holding constitutional sovereignty over the Scottish people/nation is a myth, and a colonial hoax, albeit quite an effective one to date.
Okay, so firstly the Scottish Independence Bill of 2014 wasn’t passed, so isn’t law. Secondly, nowhere in MacCormick is there a positive statement that sovereignty lies with the people, there is just a question over whether unlimited sovereignty can apply into Scotlands constitutional law. Even if we agreed that point, it doesn’t mean that sovereignty rests with the people. That’s putting aside the normal issues raised, that the statement was made obiter (and therefore is not authoritative) without specific submissions being made on that point, and also that the Lord Advocate by his own admission had no power to determine that issue.
If we want a conclusive answer to this question, the UNCRC Bill Reference case provides the following at paragraph 7: “And Parliament has an unlimited power to make laws for Scotland”
The Claim of Right, in which sovereignty of the people of Scotland is enshrined, is a fundamental constitutional document and held to be so by the Westminster Parliament. It was recall not a provision of the Treaty of Union but a precondition. The fact that it is systematically flouted by England-as-UK does not make it any less valid and forceful. The Anglostate parliament has had the opportunity to vote down its applicability and has chosen not to do so rather than bring down the entire pack of cards.
Have you read the Claim of Right Act 1689?
The two biggest obstacles to Scottish Independence are 1) the corrupt and inept SNP, whose actions would embarrass any cause, and 2) the Salvo moonhowlers.
The “Claim of Right” was NOT passed by parliament, it is NOT a “constitution” (nor was it meant to be), it’s NOT been “recognized as such” by the UK Parliament, and it’s mostly an anti-Catholic rant. Among other items, it bans Catholics from holding public office. The moonhowlers worship of the CoR reveals their divorce from reality.
And here’s another yin.
“The “Claim of Right” was NOT passed by parliament”
You mean the Claim of Right ‘Act’ 1689 passed by the Scottish ‘Parliament of Conventione of Estates’?
link to legislation.gov.uk
It was voted on by the Convention of Estates—NOT parliament.
The “Conventione” [sic] was not, BTW, an elected body.
It’s this kind of deliberate historical ignorance (lying?) that makes people laugh at the two dozen moonhowlers who proclaim themselves “Liberation Scotland.”
Last night, using the Legislation website, I read the Claim of Right Act 1689. I lack legal education/training and its implications and effects for Scottish sovereignity and independence are not clear to me. I wish it were clear, and more so, that Sovereignity inhereing to the people (not the Crown) be confirmed.
Aidan, perhaps you have a namessake, it looks as if you have serious legal expertise.
Sure – happy to, I think I can say two things;
Firstly, in law more recent legislation takes precedence over older legislation as a general rule, so whilst judges might summarise the history of an area of law to aid an understanding of a significant judgement, legal precedent does get set by the interpretation or reinterpretation of statutes that are 300+ years at the expense of the intervening jurisprudence.
Secondly, judges do not like to create huge changes in legal understanding in a single blow. So even if they had sympathy with arguments around the Claim of Right and the qualifications to the Treaty of Union, senior judges will not upend hundreds of years of constitutional law upon which our democratic structures rest, even if they believe that the foundational law isn’t perhaps sounds.
I don’t see why that makes me a ‘Yoon’. This whole Salvo thing is a complete dead end, for reasons that I’ve set out at length and for which there hasn’t been any kind of serious answer to. Surely people who are serious about Scottish independence want serious and robust discussion about the route for achieving it, and want to avoid the kind of diversions that so often derail campaigns like this. Whilst I’m sure Alf and others are perfectly nice people, the sense I get is that this is a hobby for the mad and the bored, not a serious political objective.
C’mon Aidan, ffs it’s Friday evening, mix it up a little from all this dry legal shizzle.
We’re currently in the Union so let’s hear some of the top ten reasons why Scotland should continue in the Union.
Hit us with some superslick Swiss Tony stylée stuff.
Like “It’s fucking great having so much of our energy generation infrastructure sold off and owned by foreign interests with little to no benefit to ourselves because…”.
Maybe get in how to save Chas’ golf course from being flooded out by bastarding beaver antics.
If this Union is so fucking great it really shouldn’t be a hard sell to convince us pesky plebs to stay.
Welcome to Unionism kidz, embrace and support the fuckers that ran down and sold off so many of our industries (both in England and Scotland). The free at point of need health service will go the same way.
NB. It isn’t free, you pay for it through your taxes. But good luck paying for private health care or health insurance premiums for your family on shitey UK wages.
Anyone still promoting the supposed benefits of the Union to Scots is a totes wanker.
link to youtube.com
Scots law or English law? One doesn’t overrule the other because it’s ‘newer’.
They are different legal systems.
For a reason. Go figure.
James,
Surely, “For a reason. Go figure” is not going to work as legal arguement, is it? We need to know how to separate the 2 legal systems.
If you are a lawyer then you might be able to advise on the matter of separation. It may be that political action as well as legal arguement is needed to achieve the Constitutional objective.
If political action is needed then the terms of your reply are an object lesson for what NOT to do. All I have read of Alex Salmond implies that he would show a completely different manner.
I hope that you are capable of taking good advice.
Troll alert.
This bollocks has been debunked on here over and over again. ‘Aidan’ is a Yoon troll. Ignore.
Aidan maybe is a Unionist (at present, I have no idea)but to ignore him, and/or what he writes, could be counter-productive for Scottish Independence.
Westminster’s power to legislate for Scotland is ‘conditional’: (1) on Scottish representation at Westminster, and; (2) on the requirement for all such laws to comply with the Articles of Union inclusive of the Claim of Right Act as fundamental ‘conditions’ of Union.
There has been a great many violations which should have brought an end to the Union arrangement. That it has not been ended is due in the main to a complicit native elite in Scotland, including elected Scottish representatives.
a complicit native elite in Scotland, including elected Scottish representatives
I’m very happy indeed to concede you have that right, Alf.
But then you have to concede that ordinary Scots, knowing of the “great many violations which should have brought an end to the Union arrangement”, including many of the regulars on here, are also complicit.
There’s nothing in the world stopping these ordinary Scots from arising from aff their flabby erses, standing for office, becoming our new elected Scottish representatives, and thus taking the complicit native elite out of the equation, once and for all.
Is there?
There have been a number of cases heard in the Supreme Court recently specifically concerning the ability of the U.K. Parliament to legislate in Scotland, including the one I quoted above which describes the power as “unlimited”. In none of them has any qualification conditional on the “claim of right” ever even been mentioned, let alone approved. We know definitely therefore that what you are saying is outright false, unless we believe that judgements of the Supreme Court are not authority on constitutional law in the United Kingdom, but the Salvo website somehow is authority on that subject.
Aidan, Alf’s blathering on the “Claim of Right” alleged constitutional “conditions” to the Act/Treaty of Union is just that–blathering.
Even a cursory reading of the Acts of Union sees the text only mention the “Claim of Right” in the context of religion. Nowhere in the Acts does it say that the UK, under the Treaty, is obligated under any other provisions of the CofR.
Alf and the other moonhowlers are wrong on the history, wrong on what the CofR actually says, wrong on how the CofR relates to the Union, and wrong on the law. They’re probably wrong on other things as well, but this will do for the moment.
Yes – it’s a total repudiation of reality, which is why this is never going to get near a court room, it’ll get struck out in a week and then they won’t be able to do any more fundraising. Or maybe they’ll accuse the judges of being corrupt, I wonder which
They’ll accuse the “judges” not just of corruption but also of being a part of one of their tin-foil hat conspiracies.
Yes, the colonial hoax and its associated mindset is well established as “a total repudiation of reality”.
The key role of the colonizer is ‘always to make any prospect of liberation for the native seem impossible’ (Memmi), even to the extent of claiming ‘the moon is made of cheese’ (Cesaire). The only moonhowler here is the colonizer, perpetuating the myth and always instilling fear in a people suffering ‘dependency complex’.
Nothing alters the fact that the mankit ToU was only ever a corrupt colonial corset placed around Scotland and which continues to limit the socio-economic development of our people and nation.
As a matter of law you should be aware where and how the international law of self-determination for peoples and nations is usually settled, and to which even the imperial powers are signed up; such matters are no longer decided by colonial parliaments or judges.
I don’t even get what the substance of your argument is here, you quote the same passages and lines about colonialism daily (sometimes more than daily) in response to a whole range of subjects, so I highly doubt they provide us with much insight here.
Let’s be clear, your assertions that the judgements of the Supreme Court are not law, but that a diatribe on the Salvo website is authority on law, is a denial of reality. This Salvo doctrine (if we can call it that) is not used anywhere by anybody to define the relationship between the individual and the state, to govern the operation of the state, to resolve civil disputes, or to support any other function that the law carry’s out. It is not therefore law, and has no more authority than me writing on here that everyone who reads this owes me £10. Even if you viewed the U.K. legal system as colonial and illegitimate, that still wouldn’t entitle you, as a private citizen, to invent and assert your own legal doctrines and principles.
Salvo has been going for apparently two years now, perhaps you could provide an update on what has been achieved in that time, other than an encyclopaedia of comments on this blog. I was personally amazed when 30 people reading out the “Edinburgh Declaration” in a square somewhere didn’t magically bring the union to an end, perhaps someone pronounced one of the words incorrectly?
Tick tock…..
You wish, Tory Boy.
If the Parliament in Westminster has unlimited power to legislate in Scotland then there could be little else as better reason to achieve Scottish independence.
England, too, is in need of strong defences against ‘elective dictatorship’. The spirit of the Dunning Resolution might be a reasonable starting point.
What say you, Aidan?
Correction: Dunning Motion not Resolution
That isn’t just an argument, I would say that is the core driving force behind Scottish independence. Whilst the people of Scotland can express a degree of autonomy directly through devolution, the broad framework and parameters that guide that autonomous expression will always be defined by a Parliament in which the majority of MP’s are elected outwith Scotland.
Aidan,
Thank you for your reply. It confirms my concern that Salvo, Alf, and others, all must adjust their course. It is to be hoped that Alf and others will take heed of your comments rather than dismiss them as ‘yoon troll’ attack. I regard your comments as being akin to first rate pro bono advice, not an attack.
I hope that youwill not be deterred from making comments in future. Any of us are at risk of not knowing how lucky we are.
Your earlier reference to ‘succession’ in legislation strengthens my hope for a victory for common sense at the UK Supreme Court, later this month. The matter itself is not germane, here, so it would be preferable to make no further comment.
best regards
Thank you – I admire your optimism, but you’ll see the downvotes starting to role in already. I think campaign fatigue will eventually kill off Salvo.
“the broad framework and parameters that guide that autonomous expression will always be defined by a Parliament in which the majority of MP’s are elected outwith Scotland.”
And there’s the entire problem with the Union’s parliament and its governance!
The Westminster Parliament contains TWO bodies of MPs, not one. They are not identical in numbers, and they are not identical in who and what they formally represent. Treating them as identical for the purposes of a flat vote to determine the outcome of debates between the two bodies -in effect between the two sovereign kingdoms because that is precisely why they are there in the first place- is NOT a formally agreed requirement of the Treaty of Union, nor of its two ratifying Acts.
One of those bodies are the sole formal representatives of the entire English sovereign half of the Union, while the other body are the sole formal representatives of the entire Scottish sovereign half of the Union.
Despite the vast difference in their numbers, the authorities those two bodies wield on behalf of their respective parent kingdoms are exactly equal, because both bodies stand in loco parentis for the two equally sovereign kingdoms that negotiated, agreed, signed and ratified the Treaty of Union. Both being sovereign in their own territories, neither can be obliged to defer to the other on any matter of governance of their territories from their SHARED UNION parliament, and that applies to their MP representatives, too.
There is literally nothing in any of the formal founding documents of the Union that obliges Scotland and her formal representatives to defer to England on ANY matter of governance. As important, there is nothing in those documents that obliges the use of a flat voting system within the new Union parliament for determining outcomes of debates on any matter of the joint governance of the Union.
England’s MPs thus have NO legitimate authority to overrule Scotland’s MPs on any matter of Union governance, because neither Scotland nor the Treaty and/or Acts of Union gave them any.
If you wish to argue otherwise, then please quote the relevant formal agreements from those founding documents that set out Scotland’s obligation to subjugate itself to England and her MPs. It is only Scotland’s MPs who provide Westminster with any governance authority over Scotland at all, and absent them, Westminster’s authority over Scotland and the Union vanishes completely.
As for Scotland’s constitution, its 1689 Claim of Right did not create Scotland’s constitution any more than the 1309 Declaration of the Clergy at St. Andrews did, nor the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath. It merely cited a number of its already existing elements, doing so for the sole purpose of demonstrating the validity of its authority to depose King James VII for heinously breaching many of those elements. And he was neither the first monarch nor the last to feel its teeth on his arse.
The Tony Blair-invented ‘Supreme Court’ you mean?
LOL. Away and lie in yer water.
Hello James.
I admire your skepticism of the works of that Blair but it is almost guaranteed that dismissing comments from Aidan is a major mistake, counter-productive for Scotland’s cause.
Another day in the world of politricks. The wokes will be preparing themselves for ritual suicide. I like the President of the United States of America his very name brings fear and loathing to the BBC. In fact I declare today a holiday.
This is a good outcome. Trump has won the Electoral College and the popular vote (as things stand). A worse result would be Trump taking the Electoral College, but not the popular vote. In that scenario, the Democrats would be able to tell themselves that they are fundamentally on the correct path, they just need to … (fill in the blank).
A good old trouncing in the Electoral College, the popular vote and the Senate should prompt some existential introspection. It won’t!
In these circumstances, financial donations actually increase, as the Dems left standing play the “resistance” grift. That, and they market Pussy Hats like they did the last time.
Mit der Dummheit kamfen Gotter selbst vergebens.
Vivian Oblivion, many insightful and well-informed contributions from you have NOT prepared me for your statement that “This is a good outcome”.
Is your assessment founded on the expectation that the US Democratic party, as it presently exists, will, as a consequence of defeat, be transformed into an organisation with policies beneficial for humanity and the more natural world?
The consequences of Trump victory will almost certainly be far more human misery and death, environmental destruction and extinctions than otherwise and, through years ahead, warfare (escalating to armed force) across all of Europe.
Trump only pretends to ‘drain the swamp’. What chance do you think there is of him tackling the abuses of power in the USA (eg CIA)? That would not be certain even if he Pardoned Julian Assange.
Scotland’s independence is unlikely to be delivered by Trump.
” Scotland’s independence is unlikely to be delivered by Trump. ” . Of course it won’t , Jay , or any other POTUS . Scotland’s independence will / can only be delivered by the people who live in Scotland . But it wouldn’t do any harm to have a POTUS who was sympathetic to the cause . Worth bearing in mind it was an American President who more or less compelled Britain to accede to the Independence ( from Brit rule ) of India ; likewise after the Suez fiasco to pretty much end it’s colonial Empire .
Yes, Robert, I should have typed ‘promoted’ instead of “delivered”.
as Alf Baird might point out, it is for the colonised to assert themselves.
“coalainized tae assert thumsel” (Alfred<Anglo Saxon Baird)
Troll 3.
Yes Robert, and without US direct involvement the Belfast Treaty would have been unlikely either.
A savvy Scotland would be using its very strong and positive connections to this particular POTUS, a son of Scotland. That the SNP and msm behave in precisely the opposite way should tell us all we need to know.
I would be offering President Trump the vacant Scottis Croun in return fer oor leeberation, as is oor lang tradeetion! There’s far mair chance o The Donald leeberatin Scots than the Swinney-Sturgeon circus act.
Could you speak in English for those of us bored with your faux Scoatish
“Faux Scoatish” is thay Scots wha wad aye raither meemic anither fowk’s ‘superior’ langage.
Such people then become culturally assimilated and may even assume a different identity than their own (e.g. Breetish).
Whit as we aw ken is a cultural blaflum (i.e. illusion).
Oor langage is wha we are. Anither fowk’s langage is wha thay are.
Where did you get the idea that it might be “faux” Scottish and in what position are you to determine it is “faux” Scottish?
Can you even speak Scots at all?
I am willing to bet that the Scots language is not just a set of misspelt English words. Maybe you think abandoning literacy and grammar is some defiant act of rebellion against some imagined colonial oppression, but the reality is it just makes everything you write a bit of a headache to read.
You’re no Scots then, eh? What a surprise.
A set of misspelled “English” words you say.
Alf could also say to you the exact opposite: why don’t you stop boring us all with your faux Scots? Why don’t you stop speaking “a set of misspelled” Scots words? Because it all depends on the perspective you are looking at it from.
Now take a look at the languages Castilian (Spanish) and Portuguese. Both come from the Latin. They have many common words and many more words that are even closer than Scots and English words are. However, you would be classified as the most spectacular ignorant of the century if you dared claim that Portuguese is “a series of misspelt” Spanish words.
Now take a look at the languages Galician and Portuguese. They share a root (Latin) and geographic boundary between themselves and with Castile. All those boundaries are highly porous. Castilian, Galician and Portuguese are fully recognised as different languages. Portuguese and Galician are closer than Castilian and Portuguese or Galician and Castilian. In fact, a person speaking Galician can be understood by a Portuguese speaking person and vice versa. Claiming that Galician is “a series of misspelt” Portuguese words would be the kind of thing that only a supreme, self-centred ignorant, who things the world revolves around their own belly-button, would ever say. Mind you, that kind of self-centred superlative ignorant existed: Franco. He was the spectacularly illiterate and ignorant individual who attempted to suppress any language that was not his beloved Castilian to be spoken in the Iberian peninsula. And do you want to know what the worse part of it was? Franco’s native tongue was Galician, not Castilian. He used Galician to communicate with Portugal’s president Salazar. Franco represented the pinnacle of “the cringe”.
I believe the exact same applies to English and Scots. In fact, the separation between Scots seems, in some cases, far more evident than that between Spanish and Portuguese or between Galician and Portuguese. In my own opinion, only somebody who is completely ignorant about languages or somebody who has been wholly absorbed and blinded by a bout of Scottish cringe would ever claim that Scots is just misspelled English.
Right, but we are communicating in English here, else a significant majority of people would not be able to understand what’s being written, all that’s happening is a few English words are being misspelt (even if the spelling is correct in Scots) and incorporated into an English language phraseology.
Genuinely fascinating. Thank you.
On my reading, Aidan referred to “misspelled English words” in the negative.
Mia, it was ‘Sensible Chris’ who made derisive comment concerning mispelled English, Aidan suggested the contrary. It would be appropriate to rescind criticism of Aidan. Beyond that point, your comment was most interesting.
The linguistic and historical content of your comment was conveyed with impeccable clarity in English which implicitly validates the point made earlier, shown below, by Aidan.
Alf’s stalwart assertion of Scots language is a necessary part of the movement for Scottish Independence. That movement needs to be bi-lingual. Use of both languages is necessary because the contest will be conducted in the fields of law and politics, not armed conflict where modern miliary technology and surveillance methods give every advantage to ‘the British’.
There is already prima facie evidence of ‘dirty war’ in the political/legal sphere. The right and Just outcome requires expert use of language.
It would be helpful if Alf could find time and patience to deliver expositions in both Scots and English language.
I am still learning to use English and have no other language and find it to be promising as a tool to convey conceptual clarity.
For that reasons, I have reservations regarding Alf’s implication (above or below) of something like linguistic snobbery.
Aaaand… Troll 4.
No extra costs for repairs in the Capitol building this time. That is surely a good news !
“Mit der Dummheit kamfen Gotter selbst vergebens.”
A Irish rendition of this is given somewhere as:
“Gan fiú na déithe nach mbíonn ag streachailt in aisce leis an bhómantacht.”
But such double negatives always confuse me. Here is a more concise Scottish effort without them:
“Gu dìomhain nì na diathan fhìn strì ri baoghaltachd.”
Meanwhile, I just came across this short Irish saying and thought it particularly apt for today:
“Ní fiú trumpa gan teanga é.”
Ooo err, the wokeratis bogey man is back.
Trendies and the woke will be sewing up their gauged ear lobes as being the mark of The Donald.
“It’s the economy, stupid” – Jim Carville, strategist in Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign.
Americans looked at each candidate and picked the one which is most likely to deliver a “better” future. All the gender woo-woo makes for great headlines but the reality is that if Harris lost because the average voter looked at lots more regulation and concluded their lives wouldn’t be improved by it. Simples.
Now, the real message is that everybody on this side of the Atlantic who backed progressive policies is totally f****d because they cannot remotely deliver on making peoples’ lives easier but neither can the current “right”. The party that comes along and makes that promise will sweep the board.
UPDATE: The House and the Senate look like they will fall into the hands of the Republicans, so the progressives in Europe just lost their ideological mentors. I expect electorates across Europe to swing right in an attempt to clean out all the nonsense.
I’m glad Trump got in. The alternative doesn’ bear thinking about.
When STV2 was re-showing the Harry Potter films last week, I said to my wife that the shame of it was that the model for resisting Donald Trump when he’s elected was right there in the films, depicted as “Dumbledore’s Army”… the shame of it was that because JK Rowling had been cancelled, many young voters would ignore some of the lessons from history about resistance that the author had fictionalised.
“You think Trump’s going to win?” She asked.
It’s not just Cancel Culture that gifts The White House to convicted felons but the refusal of so-called Liberal-Left parties to realise that until they stop using the economic parameters pf the wealthy, they have no way of understanding that larger and larger proportions of the electorate are being left behind in ‘growing’ economies that use median and mean averages as their metrics.
Keir Starmer will be a one-term PM.
Aye Andrew.
The use of aggregate statistics which purport to show that ‘the economy’ is doing well rather than correctly looking at the widely available dis-agregated data which illustrates just how badly the common working people have been doing, is the major cause of working peoples economic disenfranchisement.
You don’t have to be Karl Marks to see that decades of Thatcherite neoliberalism has decimated the lives of ordinary citizens.
And our North British administrative class still pretend to be leftish or Social Democraticish while adhering to the Whitehall/City of London ideology that ‘There is No Alternative’.
Well there is an alternative.
People just have to recognise it and vote for it.
The marmalade Doncat among the rainbow pigeons.
Happy hunting!
«Plus ça change» but not necessarily «la même chose»
So, the Goatfuck beat the Batshit crazy. Given the choice, the American electors voted for common sense. The rabid msm also have a lot to answer for.
“The Goatfuck”..
What’s this got to do with David Cameron?
Oh, sorry, my bad!
It was pigs that he fucked wasn’t it.
As you were, carry on..
There’s one curiosity that got me thinking. Before the polls closed, Trump shouted on social media that there was huge fraud in Philadelphia and that law enforcement were on the way. Maybe he’s right and maybe the fraud extended to Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina and Georgia that’s the wrong flag emoji, Apple). That wasn’t a very smart comment and, perhaps, indicates that he didn’t expect to win.
Or maybe the Democrats really messed up, starting with the mass crapping of their pants a few months ago.
Bit hard on The Donald. I can yet see him on Mount Rushmore. There’s a space between Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln. Or maybe to the right of George Washington.
LOL good one.
Aye, really far right of Washington. Somewhere like Texas.
In anglosaxon cultures it can seem that politics is all about sex, on the other hand London is the considered money laundering go to and the WEF model is effectively politico-economic corporatism ie «stakeholder» fascism and not a whimper from liberal quarters.
Very queer!
Comedy writers, comedians and comic actors will be breathing a big sigh of relief. 4 more earning years in the bag. As for Americans the Yanks have truly fecked everything.
And four more years of biden the dribbling corpse would have been better somehow?
Stu, the 34 felonies and rapist stuff are lawfare bollocks. Not dissimilar to what was done to Alex (just nowhere near as bad). Trump has some significant flaws but these are bogus ones IMHO.
By far the largest flaw is his support for a state currently executing a gen0cide / ethnic cle@nsing.
Other than that I think the rest of what he saying is totally fine and I think a lot of it will really work.
RFK Jr, again apart from his raging zi0nism, is really excellent and Musk is a stone cold genius. Just for those two alone Trump was the better choice. So apart from all the raging Zi0nism I think they are at least talking a very good game.
But then we come to his second greatest flaw, his ability to appoint the wrong people in key roles. Who then frustrate his agenda… but listening to his last few speeches he is very aware of this. So we will see what happens second time around…
I don’t normally watch any UK media at all, print, TV, nothing. But watching the BBC, Channel 4 etc this morning they are so anti trump and pro democrat I can see why people in the UK are all the same.
Something like 75% of Scots support Harris. That is insane. The funny thing is it really reminds me of the anti-ru$$ia, P-u-tin reactions you get as well.
What blows my mind is that even hard core Scottish nationalists who know that the media are lying sacks of shit still buy into what they say outside of the Scottish independence bubble. Why? it is mind boggling.
They are lying to them about everything Scotland but telling them the truth on everything else… They just buy it. If anything has made me doubt independence it is this ability to engineer and shape public opinion. What would be the fucking point. Independence is about thinking for yourself, at least it is to me.
Under the Biden regime a Republican politician can’t get a fair trial, or even a fair prosecution, in New York City or Washington D.C., any more than a black freedom rider could in 1950s Mississippi, or a pro-democracy activist can get in Venezuela or Cuba.
“…the 34 felonies and rapist stuff are lawfare bollocks. Not dissimilar to what was done to Alex…
What blows my mind is that even hard core Scottish nationalists who know that the media are lying sacks of shit still buy into what they say outside of the Scottish independence bubble. Why? it is mind boggling…”
Well-observed and good points –
Take a good look into your mirrors (find your true self) and wake up to reality (it’s your ultimate ally).
Team-Reality knows no bounds (don’t be a forever-loser)…
Independent (2023): Trump: Sturgeon is a ‘negative force’ who ‘hurt Scotland’:
“Donald Trump has said Scotland’s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon is a “negative force” who “hurt Scotland”…
…her resignation as first minister was a “good change for Scotland”. He added: “She has hurt Scotland. She has hurt education and tourism. She should have embraced us… He said he believes “you should embrace people…”
A source close to the former first minister said: “If Donald Trump wants to see a politician who has had a negative impact on a country then he should maybe reach for a mirror…”:
link to archive.ph
Pete Wishart (July 2024):
“He can stand down knowing that he has served his country well. The most important thing now is that Trump is soundly defeated.”:
link to x.com
Elon Musk (07/11/2024):
“For anyone, whether in America or other countries, who finds this result shocking, they should reconsider where they get their information. This trend was obvious on ? for months, but almost all the legacy mainstream media pushed a completely false reality.”
link to archive.ph
The 34 felony charges were appropriate under New York law. Whether that should be the case is neither here nor there. Anyone who does business in that state (or the City, for that matter), especially someone who grew up there, should know that you don’t mess around when it comes to financial matters. The only way a felony will not be charged is if the falsification was not to cover up another crime. So what that means in practice is that recklessness in recording business transactions is a misdemeanor. Doing it to cover up another alleged crime is always going to be charged as a felony. I must say, I am relieved I no longer have any clients in New York.
I actually think the prosecution missed a trick. They might have charged Trump with property tax fraud, with the way he was elevating the value of his properties for loan purposes and, weeks later, deflating them for property tax appeals. Why neither Mr Bragg or the state Attorney-General did not do so is puzzling. If proved, he would have been guilty of defrauding taxpayers, many of whom struggle to pay the painfully high property tax bills that are a feature of the north-east.
We will see in a few weeks how fair Justice Merchan is, at sentencing.
Mac, as you say, “Independence is about thinking for yourself”. Definitely a necessity! Disagreements will inevitably arise between people as a result of observation of the world around, seeing different things.
I have seen use of the term ‘personal autonomy’ in connection with being independent, as an individual person, and maybe it means the same as you say, thinking for yourself. It would be regrettable to give up on Scottish Independence because of a widespread tendency for people to have opinions different from one’s own. The bigger the population, the worse it becomes, look at England; who in their right mind would vote for an MP who would support Starmer, a nasty little authoritarian?
In the UK we have to cope with cliques who are completely unethical and dishonest, who engage in endless joint enterprises, using money-power to fool large numbers of people into ways of thinking often against their own interests or principles. The shaping of public opinion is often disgusting and dishonest.
I have seen reasons for your mention of “gen0cide”, “ethnic cleansing” and “Zi0nism” but others might express disagreement, for their own reasons.
I have read through all paragraphs of your comment, several times, before asking this, so please tell what the “anti-ru$$ia, P-u-tin reactions” are and who was reacting? Your help with clarification would be appreciated. I do read carefully in order to understand.
It is always a struggle to sort truth from lies or delusions. Thanks for any clarification.
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I don’t have a clue about American politics. That became very clear to me when I read about the Amish coming out in force to vote.
I haven’t heard anything about the Amish since 1985 when Harrison Ford starred in the film ‘Witness’
link to youtube.com
They came out in force to vote for Trump. Their vote was anti woke, pro farmer and fundamentally anti gender woo woo. The latter was the reason the Hispanic vote switched yo Trump too.
I can understand that. Here in the UK we don’t have anyone to vote for who is anti-woke & anti gender woo woo.
Not to sure about pro-farming. We probably don’t even have a party for that.
Ever single political party believes people can change sex and that includes the Tories. (Not quite sure why Stu would vote for them.)
However I’m too busy trying to figure out what on earth is going on in Scotland to have time to get involved in another countries politics.
Just out of interest did you read the series of posts I made here.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
What do you think? Is the Cameron Allan who was recently jailed for 19 years for the rape & murder of a young father the same person who holds the ‘decapitate terfs’ poster behind the group of SNP politicians?
Does anyone know how Ruby’s gem of an observation could be investigated? Were the usual official surveillance photographs taken for follow-up arrests (if that course of action were to be chosen by the State)? If so, the police could easily cross reference to identification photographs of the murderer.
The poster displayed by that man in the photograph is far more threatening than the obscure, virtually private remark for which Mark Hirst was prosecuted.
If the threat was from someone who proceeded to murder then it could hardly be more serious.
It would be very much in the Public Interest for the demonstrator in the photograph to be prosecuted, no shortage of provisions (referring to incitement) under which that could be done. The suspect might aready be in custody which would make police work easy.
Someone made complaint to the police,leading to the Hirst case. Will someone make a complaint against the man in the photograph linked by Ruby?
Rev Stu has probably posted on the matter already.
Lets hope the SNP and the Greens get booted out of office in such a spectacular fashion.
How do you envisage that happening? Which party do you think will beat them & make the most gains & why?
The only thing I envisage is people staying at home and not voting.
If the SNP & the Greens do get booted out if will be with a whimper and not a bang.
Scotland will be left with another lot of clowns who believe women have penises!
It is generally believed on ‘Wings’ that ‘transgenderism/womens rights’ in the grand scheme of things is of very little importance I just wonder if that is true.
I don’t think it’s true, but apparently some people do.
Is it because they actually recognise that the woke element is so deeply entrenched that to root it out would be almost impossible, so the easiest option is to play it down as a fundamental problem?
Even though in doing so they ignore the fact that it’s the idealogues who are the problem, and that nothing is going to change unless they are got rid of.
Whether it’s ‘Wheesht for Indy’ or ‘Wheesht for the Democrats’ – it hasn’t worked here and I can’t see how it’s going to work there.
I’d be interested to know if people honestly believe Harris would have lost so badly if the woke agenda didn’t exist.
Woke is what I did earlier this morning!
Moixx, we need a definition for the term ‘woke’.
I’m afraid I’m probably not the best person to come up with an absolutely precise, iron-clad definition for you. As I’ve said previously on Wings, I’m never quite sure how to refer to this ‘phenomenon’: trans rights; self-id; gender identity; gender woowoo; identity politics; queer theory; TQ+; GRR/GRA; TRAs; trans lobby; etc.
It probably covers people who say they believe in ‘intersectionality’ and who can’t tell you what a woman is.
What do you understand by the term ‘woke’?
hi, Moixx, thank youfor replying.
so far as i had ‘absorbed’ it, it was a term which referred to consciousness (of a political sort), among US black population, of racism on the part of white people and especially indicating black awareness of racism (and the dangers faced by black people) as a systematic phenomenon. I assumed that limited education would account for abnormal grammar.
I might be older than you are. I was young when black people were still being lynchmurdered by the Klu-Klux-Klan, the Civil Rights movement was developing, US schools were being de-segregated and the first Black Power salutes were given by USA sprinters at the Olympics, must have been 1964.
Wikipaedia looks similar to what I had picked up, it included historical detail.
Until the recent deluge of useage, i would have expected to encounter the term only from black people.
I find the useage of the term problematic for grammatical reasons, but now it is even more problematic because it is used so widely that it could end up with almost no meaning though you have sketched out a modern version, rather different from the original.
It seems that economic pressures are generally the most influential on voters but plain idiocy should drive voters away. Rev. Stu is good at highlighting some of it.
What I found notable in his victory speech was he said something like his central policy theme second time around is going to be ‘Promises Made and Promises Kept’.
So Trump knows he was largely thwarted first time around and the way he is making this explicit and front and centre I think is a very good early sign. This is definitely going to be interesting.
They have fucked up here, they should have let him win in 2020 and he would have been containable as he was in the previous 4 years.
Now they have created a monster with a monster mandate who has had four long years to understand what went wrong in his first term and how.
Trump could now actually fuck the ‘deep state’ up in a meaningful way (and I really hope he does).
If they had let him win in 2020 I don’t think he would have been capable of it, now I do.
Millions of lives will be spared by Trump’s election. He will end the Ukraine war and resist attempts by Deep State to drag the US into other wars. Kamala Harris is the Deep State’s puppet and would have done the opposite.
Trump will avoid global conflict because that is the most profitable course of action for him and the gangsters he represents. They want to milk the US taxpayers for their own benefit rather than spend $trillions conquering the world on behalf of Globalists who mostly aren’t even American.
For all the wrong reasons, the world is a safer place with Trump as president rather than Harris. Unfortunately both candidates are in thrall to Israel so the Palestine slaughter will continue.
Umpteenth Steve, if Trump cuts off weapons for the Ukraine war being fought by hundredsof thousands of Ukrainians to preserve their Independence and protect millions of their civilians from the neighbouring Imperialist/colonialist regime (remember Cromwell, General Wade?) what will happen?
Then do you really think Trump has the power or the inclination to end the Special Military Operation being conducted into Ukraine from the east?
Trump probably has no more concern for Ukrainians than he has for people formerly under British Mandate in the Near East and what is happening to them?
If the Special Military Operation (as distinct from the war). does not stop, then how many refugees, on your estimate, will come throught to the borders of Poland, Romania, Lithuania and other countries?
Approximately how many people died when Stalin conducted the previous campaigns against Ukrainians?
Alongside your analysis of the economic, political and social consequences, please give your calculation for “the millions of lives to be spared”.
And of course, on the 7th November 2025, and every year afterwards on the same date, you will be back here to remind us all of your confident predictions, and how they all came true!
BTW, it’s a strange kind of slaughter that could be ended by this time next week if the side holding the hostages in their tunnels and bunkers were to give them up and come out with their hands in the air.
Too busy preserving their yellow hides I guess.
Still, it hints at a reality you don’t recognise. Pres P, Xi, the Humous boys, the Orcs, the medievalist lassie killers – all these undesirables will continue to do their things – and the new orange face in the White House won’t change that.
So when you predict the world will be a safer place, it won’t be for those currently on the receiving end of the aggressors I’ve listed. I’m guessing you’ll be fine though, and so I’m pleased for you.
Millions of lives spared? You’re having a laugh.
Oh C*rist here’s this yin started noo. lol
I won’t have to wait that long. He’ll start disengaging from Ukraine immediately.
If Harris had won, the US military would already be gearing up for war against Iran. It remains to be seen whether Trump can resist the dark forces which will try to force that outcome. If he succeeds, many millions of lives will be spared.
hey Steve, what about some answers to my response to your previous comment?
Also, considering that Skip NC has taken us into some real detail of US political process, it would be interesting to know, in more detail, what the dark forces are, and who controls them. Please let us, readers, know.
No don’t think so, Mac is about right on reading the situation.
Regarding end-ex being called upon release of hostages; todays news that the Hebes aren’t letting the camel jockeys back home in the north counters your assessment, it’s all a rerun of biblical Ghat again as far as the Hebes are concerned.
I had no skin in the US election game but it gave me a certain amount of satisfaction that the utterly anti Trump BBC, ITV and Sky News are weeping bitter tears. What I hope Trump DOES do is complete the investigation of Hunter’s laptop and expose the bribery and corruption of the Biden crime family, release ALL the names of Epstein’s guests who visited peedo island, and clean out the anti Republican CIA and FBI.
Ahem… Trump himself was Epsteins’s guest on that island (I believe). The CIA will probably have the tapes and if there is compromat he will be a CIA puppet president. If not…….
You’re lying,you know Trumps never been on that island. Clinton and Gates on the other hand…
If I am wrong about that then I am wrong but I wasn’t lying
Don’t believe anything Joe Scarbrough tells you.
Who told you, brains?
Trump met Epstein once and afterwards stated that he wanted nothing to do with him. Epstein invited Trump to his island, but Trump declined.
I think he wants America to be independent of Washington, the Deep State and Wall St.
Maybe independent-minded people would understand that.
He is a flawed candidate -but hey, Bush, Bush Jr, Hillary Clinton, O’Bamma, Biden and Harris -come on. The Democrats haven’t offered up anyone in decades.(not a very democratic bunch as far as I can see). Bill Clinton not a crook? Anyone who flags Trump as a ‘convicted felon’ is a hypocrit.
He wants small government, the Harris option was purposely taking away all freedoms.
He wasn’t Adolf’lite last time around, won’t be this time around, and is trying to bring in talented people from outside DC. Give him a break, it’s a primitive country and it works best with simple solutions (not that we can talk)
Are you one of the Druze people?
Years ago when I transitioned into Wally (not Walid) I was stuck between going for Wakky Bakky (who was an East African prime minister I recall), or Wally Jumblatt, so sorry, nothing deeper than that.
Never planned to comment on serious stuff but the world changed
I hope Trump is mad enough at Swinney to release all the info re the Alex stitch up.
I’m not so much glad Trump won as the reaction to his win from all the Brit media, celebs, woke politicians
It’s hilarious
I believe our politicians should court Trump to raise our profile re independence but they’re too busy being woke twats for that
Hmmmmm… maybe. But I seem to recall Trump and Salmond weren’t exactly best buddies.
What Trump should do is pretty obvious.
The US spends $3 Trillion maintaining, I think it was 800 military bases all over the world, but for all that eye watering cash spent, Western weaponry has been exposed as obsolete and ineffective… (mostly). Trump needs to think about his own rhetoric, and focus upon lesser foreign commitment, bringing the boys home, and finding some R&D funding at home. Make American “guns” Great Again.
That catch is, while that course of action may be obvious, Trump has the wee problem of a lunatic wee Zion1st who donated $1billion dollars to his campaign, and now expects Trump to deliver for Netanyouknowwho, because you know, the US has the best democracy that money can buy. Is it a billion? 100 million… I think that’s a billion to the yanks… Big fat cheque anyway…
(As an aside: Do you recall how many people were chewing wasps about alleged interference and nefarious contact with the Ru$$ians? Yet a $Billion bung from the Genocidal maniacs in the Middle East is perfectly fine… Nothing to see, move along there).
I think Trumpy Boy has a $Billion tiger by the tail, and at some point, he’s gonna have to let it go.
Europe is kinda screwed… at least until the Ru$$ians have grown tired of all the grovelling and endless democratic crises, not to mention fallout from global car companies contemplating bankruptcy. Europe will grovel, grovel some more, and “R” will do business, in a BRICS friendly way of course… See your wee Euros? How do you say it, err, “Non,… Nein…”
As for the UK? Oh! Oh! I suspect a Storm Shadow missile to the foot is gonna take a long time to heal, in a friendless and bitter world. Don’t invest in gold folks, my advice buy land, and stick some oats, neeps and tatties in it. You know the drill…Lots of carbs and fibre to fill you up and keep you warm. Yum! Yum!
Please excuse me doing the mini-me Rev Stu, but those of you paying attention might remember wee Breeks bringing all of this tragic potential to your notice several years ago… But don’t feel bad. Apart from Indy in 2014, or 2016, pretty much all of this was, and is, beyond our control. (Although shutting down Trident would have got us mega Brownie points…)
Scapa Flow is still sitting there, all deep and empty, and it would still make a lovely BRICS friendly freight handling terminal for uber-Container Ships continually frustrated by shipping congestion in Western Europe.
All we need to do is find the deepest water, furthest from the shore, maybe add a Killer whale or two, and throw all our dysfunctional tre@cherous dipshit politicians overboard for a swim; see if they can outrun the Ferry on course to run them down. Then we do exactly the same for continued Westminster rule by those Imbeciles.
Back to Trump… Who knows with Donald, but Miriam Adelson might be in line for a wee cultural reminder that you really shouldn’t pay the ferryman until you’re standing on the other side… even when the fare is for a $billion. I’m gonna stick my neck out and take a guess she’s a bit too much money on her hands anyway.
The genocidal maniacs might get upset, as is their want, and send a wee drone to take out another Leader they disapprove of, but I hope Trump gets lucky again, because Oor Donald being a wee bit of a shite to Miriam, might just save us all from nuclear annihilation…. Maybe…
FFS Donald, don’t stop being a wee shite all of a sudden… If ever the world needed a dodgy wee c*#%t with somebody else’s money…
Western weaponry has been exposed as obsolete and ineffective… (mostly)
Phew, that’s a relief.
There will be no threats of nuclear retaliation if anybody uses it.
And of course, no Jenny Side to anybody on the receiving end of it! I always knew the JS was fake news.
those of you paying attention might remember wee Breeks bringing all of this tragic potential to your notice several years ago
Come on now. You’re not claiming you ever expected us to take you seriously!
Trump could well be dead by next Jan – then it would be Mr Vance, worth discussing.
Also an excellent candidate. His book Hillbilly Elegy is brilliant.
hahahahahaha!!!
It was worth watching Trump winning if just to make Swinney look like the embarrassment he is, and see all the UK establishment apparatchiks and the cocks in frocks in frantic meltdown.
I hope the first thing Trump does is to eviscerate the deep state and release another load of secret documents. Who knows? We might even find out if this gender id frenzy shite is a form of warfare that has been sponsored and encouraged from the rotten bowels of USA’s secret service.
Looking at how utterly useless Harris, never mind Biden, were at speeches or interviews, one wonders who the hell was the unelected hand governing the USA for the last 4 years.
I heard that black gloves “we did this for Beth” Cole-Hamilton was also supporting the democrat puppet Harris. Goodness, are our entire political class in Scotland puppets on demand from the USA’s Democrats? Looks that way, doesn’t it? Didn’t Dugdale at some point go to support Hillary Clinton’s campaign? Didn’t the political fraud Sturgeon have nothing but praise towards the warmonger Hillary Clinton?
What about the “Greens”, any of them went to support the democrat puppet as well?
When did Scotland become an extension of USA’s deep state?
I imagine if any Greens had come here to campaign in the election it would have been to support the Green candidate. Otherwise, they’d look pretty stupid.
When Trump becomes President,will be order the man in the naval uniform to dress like a man and use men’s facilities
Are men in the British Armed Forces allowed to wear skirts?
(No daft comments about kilts please)
Admiral Levine’s post as an Admiral stems from being the US Assistant Secretary for Health. This is held at the pleasure of the President. He will be gone on January 20th unless he resigns beforehand.
“He”..
Your place of residence will be no defence when the hate police come calling for that piece of “hateful misgendering” language; a gift incidentally of the Democrat idolising Wokerati in government here..
Best form your wagons in a circle pardner..