Toonpack

Lies are the new truth, it's patently inexorable and I for one am past caring, because THERE IS FUCK ALL I CAN DO ABOUT IT. My fucks have all been given.

Social Media is absolutely evil but your latter point is bollocks, of my contemporaries (socially and formerly workwise) I am the only one who is "online active" must be some other old people you are thinking about. It's not one generation, it's malignant, manufactured and bespoke messaging across them all.

Fuck off 😉

I clipped the sky fairy reference off it

It's received a turbocharger sadly

Gloom is the forum verruca

It can effect my day to day life as much as it wants, I'll deal with it when whatever it is, is in front of me, I dealt with the death of my youngest son, 4 years ago next week as it happens, I sure as hell can deal with anything the world may want to throw at me. I henceforth, categorically refuse to waste breath, or thought, on shit I can't control. Let the fuckers get on with it. If I was younger, and me and the Mrs have had this conversation, there's no fucking way I'd now bring kids into this world. My eldest can face his day to day as best he can, I'll support him as I can, but the "big picture" can fuck off. I have lost my last shred of hope that there is an underlying decency in wider humanity, just look at the state of the place. The bad guys have won (again) as they usually do. Encouraged by a moronic US administration, Reform will likely win or at least become establishec in our next election, in the wider context we are fucked, a pissant little island self isolated from our neighbours. Labour have zero chance of turning this place around in 5 years now. We're not fucked today, we won't be fucked next week, next month or next year to a particularly noticeable degree. Maybe I am a tad over-emotional about it all as it's a tough time of year in this house now and through Christmas, but I am tuning out any and all socio-economic/political noise. Fuck it.

It's piss easy, you deal with what's in front of you when it's in front of you. You don't think about what "might" happen or what you think it means might happen. Live in the moment and fuck it all. I surrender you can call me French.

Welocome to my world fellow curmudgeon

The irony is mainstream Dems are basically torries and were all pissed off the torries lost 😂😂 (I accept worse was elected).

Vance is Thiel's place-man, the tech bro's will rule the world.

I am absolutely sticking my head into the sand now, I'll deal with each day as it comes, some'll be ok, some not so ok. Considerations of what should be happening/what other folks think/what does that mean for the future, can fuck off. Breaxit, the rise of reform and now this !! The thick cunts can be led over the cliff, I REALLY don't care anymore.

I think it's time to accept the a large and growing proportion of the population are ill-educated drones, easily manipulated by the press/TV, social media and it's puppet masters. They think they're free thinkers but they're sheep. The world is fucked, socially and physically (you can kiss climate change mitigation goodbye) thank fuck I'm the age I am and I so am unlikely to have to live through the worst of it. Done with any consideration of a world view, will deal with whatever I see in front of me with my own eyes only. Fuck it.

Fucking thick cunts

https://Twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1853540347604820463?s=61&t=dT18lkv_gtx3CedULmHiZg

And Musk has the algorithms turbo charged to push pro Trump messaging, he's also throttling Dem engagement.

So he’s deranged and likely a serial killer, he probably knows Fist

Digressing I know but I love this blokes nonsense

Absolutely, his foreign policy will be "do nothing" and Putin et al will fill their boots.

It won't happen, Mexico is the 2nd biggest importer of US goods (after Canada), I'm sure Mexico wouldn't respond in any way at all.. Also no-one would get their pools cleaned or gardens trimmed.

Nope, wouldn't be good, but would be the worst for US consumers than anyone. Of course the markets will get upset, but that's their job as there's money to be made (cunts). Tariff is paid by the importer, not the producer, so if you run a business that utilises imported components you can't reduce your demand without impacting your business. Sure you can try and source alternative components but the reason you import them in the first place is because they were either cheaper or unavailable elsewhere (internally). Even if you find alternatives, does the producer have the capacity to satisfy your demand on top of their existing customers ?? If not, they ain't going to expand production (even if they can) just to supply you. Even if they did, the price of the component is going to reflect that expansion. Either way US consumer will pick up the tab. Largest exporters to the US are China and Mexico, I doubt even a US sourced replacement item would be cheaper than a sweatshop Chinese/Mexican item even with a 20% tariff uplift. It's a barking mad idea, but it'd be the worst for the domestic US than anywhere.

Tarriff's don't particularly matter, they're just passed on and the US consumer pays them. But the free hand he'd give to Putin Xi etc. would be disasterous.

If that's whatsapp can you imagine how long a conversation must last !!!