[Rosvanian]

40 years into my working life and I've been around a bit - manufacturing, local government, higher education, utilities, and now, my second and final stretch in the NHS. Add all the complexities of all of the former together and they might just match the complexity of a large NHS Foundation Trust covering acute and community services. Throw in a wholly owned subsidiary created from the reforms in 2012 trying to work alongside the Trust and what you have is an organisational behemoth. Reading the pathetic ramblings on the NHS from every arsehole right-wing hack and the fuckwit comments underneath about what needs to happen (bring back matrons, get rid of diversity managers, sack everyone, make the foreigners pay etc) brings a weary smile to my face. 'Clueless' doesn't do them justice.

[satnav]

Littlejohn's article on the latest attempt to take out Trump has an interesting title.

With both sides stoking hatred, is it any wonder lunatics are trying to eliminate political leaders?

A man who makes a living out of stoking up hatred seems to be confirming that such behaviour can lead to physical attacks or even murder.

[Abernathy]

Both sides ?

[Youngian]

This is his woeful both sides pitch

The Democrats and the Left-wing mainstream media have been fuelling the hatred against Trump for years, claiming that re-electing him would destroy democracy in America, even though the anointing of Harris unopposed is a genuine threat to that country’s traditional electoral democracy.

[Bones McCoy]

This is his woeful both sides pitch

The Democrats and the Left-wing mainstream media have been fuelling the hatred against Trump for years, claiming that re-electing him would destroy democracy in America, even though the anointing of Harris unopposed is a genuine threat to that country’s traditional electoral democracy.

In which "traditional electoral democracy" means "Crackers only".

[davidjay]

They fuel hatred. You express genuine concern. I only say what everyone else is thinking.

[Andy McDandy]

Harris was indeed unopposed as Democrat candidate, but if we're going to "both sides" this shit, so was fucking Trump. The Republican primaries were a fucking farce, and everyone knew the result.

As for spreading the blame, well, Littlejohn certainly knows how to pitch it (my emphases):

Biden weaponised the criminal justice system against Trump, whom the Democrats now label a ‘convicted felon’ following the former President’s preposterous, politically motivated prosecution by a partisan New York district attorney over alleged pay-offs to publicity-seeking porn star Stormy Daniels. This is a key line of attack currently being used by Harris.

Equally outrageous was the military style raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, two years ago in search of classified documents allegedly taken when he was evicted from the White House.

The Democrats and the Left-wing mainstream media have been fuelling the hatred against Trump for years, claiming that re-electing him would destroy democracy in America, even though the anointing of Harris unopposed is a genuine threat to that country’s traditional electoral democracy.

Neither side has clean hands when it comes to stoking division. Trump stood back as his more deranged supporters invaded the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, to try to stop Congress endorsing the result of the election. Some of his wilder rhetoric on the campaign trail has been inflammatory, to say the least.

See the pattern? Biden, Harris etc actively do things. They mobilise the state, pursue Trump through the courts, while Trump cannot be held responsible for the actions of a few crazies.

Utter cunt supports utter cunt.

[RedSparrows]

I know I shouldn't be shocked anymore but I genuinely am that not only the crazies, but supposedly 'sensible' (!!!!) writers like Littlejohn and co continue to equate the following two things:

1) A Democratic candidate is rapidly pushed to be the nominee for President in a short-cut process that essentially skips the performativity of democrat selection given more radical candidates will NEVER make it to the nomination; this is in response to an urgent need and has been received, broadly, extremely well in the Democrat party. It is not anywhere near as democratic as it should be, but nor is it

2) A losing candidate stokes a riot that has had every story under the sun told about it, all contradictory, all self-serving, seeking to overthrow a democratic vote in favour of the loser of a FEDERAL ELECTION. People died, people were in fear for their lives, the democratic process was directly, violently assaulted, and Trump wanted it, because he is a cowardly, lying, mendacious, greedy shit. Plus, endless spurious legal claims, fake electors, begging states to 'find' votes. The entire election was assaulted by people who want to do away with things like party nomination processes ENTIRELY.

Yeah, just the same. Cunt.

[Andy McDandy]

traditional electoral democracy

Lovely little phrase. Not actual electoral democracy, but an idea of it. An understanding of it. What democracy ought to be and was when I were a kid and drinking from a hose.

[Andy McDandy]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... ke-up.html

Where to begin? I seriously doubt anything in this column actually happened. Cunt.