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Got a knock, some ITK on socials suggested this last night so I think it’s legit

Miley, Willock & Bruno in midfield 🤪

@thebrokendoll When does this open? Today?…

Civil war will initially look like local militias attempting by force of arms to take State Capitols. These will be the goons involved with Jan 6. I can’t see federal law enforcement officials or the National Guard receiving an order to stop them tbh

Trump fires some of his most senior military officials apparently for being “woke” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyr2xvn4dpo.amp Then he fires military lawyers https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/us/politics/hegseth-firings-military-lawyers-jag.html So when US citizens take to the streets, there’s now little in the way of an order from the commander in chief to the military to open fire on protesters with live ammunition . He undoubtedly tried to do in his first term as reported by Anthony Scarramuci in his pod. All his generals back then told him it was illegal and against the constitution. General Milley had a secret service detail guarding him for this very act but that’s recently been removed https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-pull-milleys-security-clearance-fox-reports-2025-01-28/ There’s now no one to tell Trump that now….

Yes I’ve been stood in a pub full of cunts all afternoon ☺️ Fin failed on the day with his kicking.. NB: The Scotland rugby team and Newcastle United United have never knowingly won on the same weekend…

This is the most David Moyes game in football history

“My lass”

You’re not a bigot. You’re just thick and easily led . Which, tbf, is the bigotry starter pack…

I want Stotty stationed at the changing rooms at Marks & Spencer checking who had the correct equipment to go in. If someone looks a bit suss in his book I think, seeing as he’s the self appointed defender of women’s rights here, he’s the man to do the on the spot investigation..

Sounds like you’ve come for an argument and now you’re complaining about actually getting one You’re right, we’ve had your hackneyed sweepingly generalised bullshit before dozens of times and it always ends with the likes of you acting like you’ve been the victim of something….

I don’t know what this dough based walloper is complaining about…his view is about to prevail across the planet. The leaders of the US, Russia & China are about to give him precisely the world he wants. You think he’d be happier tbh

Aye Keegan was fuming after the first leg, hugely experienced in European football he knew what was likely to happen, his players not so much

I’d have given a kidney to have been there (and Bilbao) but I was in the US in autumn 94… I think by the time I got back we were out 😑

When we played Lokeren we stayed in Antwerp Zulte Waregem we stayed in Ghent Bruges was Bruges, fairly obviously 😆 When we played Bordeaux we got a cheap flight to Brussels and flew to Bordeaux from there It’s always brilliant. Lots of folk come up and chat about football, what always surprises me the range of clubs lots of them support. Lots of Ajax, Feyenoord, Lille, Lens, Dortmund, Cologne etc depending on where you are…

The Maine Morning Star with news of the Governor carrying out her constitutional duties https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/02/21/gov-mills-said-maine-will-not-be-bullied-into-complying-with-trumps-transgender-athlete-order/

Sharpnel in the Dickebusch 😑

Am not entirely sure if there’s a hard and fast rule on this…. my grandfather was injured on the Somme near a town that was called Dickebusch at the time which sounds distinctly Flemish to me, but its four miles south west (ie closer to France) of the very French sounding Ypres 🤷🏻‍♂️

@Gemmill This you? https://bsky.app/profile/sarahkendzior.bsky.social/post/3lioqlbofvk2r

The now semi-permanent Mrs PL seriously suggested this a few years back. She (tbf to her, fairly astutely) pointed out that there would’ve been no Trump POTUS mk 1 if he hadn’t given the illusion that he was a legitimate and competent businessman on The Apprentice

Aye the thought of Russia waging a war for 3 years then just giving Trump access to Ukraine’s mineral wealth is a sick joke

Donald Trump first came to the attention of Soviet intelligence through their Czechoslovak subsidiary when in April 1977, aged 31, he married Ivana Zelnickova, a 28-year-old model and citizen of communist Czechoslovakia. The couple first experienced Moscow in 1987 on a visit arranged by the Soviet ambassador to the US, Yury Dubinin, and organised by the KGB. Dubinin told Trump that the leading Soviet state agency for international tourism, Goscomintourist, had expressed interest in “pursuing a joint venture to construct and manage a hotel in Moscow”. The Trumps stayed in the Lenin Suite at the National Hotel near Red Square, rooms which would have been bugged and well covered by hidden cameras. Although nothing appears to have come from this trip, in his book, The Art of the Deal, Trump describes how the visit fired him with the ambition of developing real estate in Russia, including a Trump Tower in Moscow. Trump later made three further solo trips to Moscow before becoming President: in 1996 to examine a development opportunity; in 2007 to promote “Trump Super Premium Vodka 24K” (the bottles were decorated with pure 24k gold) at the Millionaire Fair; and finally for the 2013 Miss Universe pageant. Trump is insistent that he didn’t spend a single night in Moscow during this pageant, even though in his letter to Putin he said he would be spending two nights there. Flight records show that his plane did arrive two days before the event, so perhaps Trump has a failure of memory about the two nights, or maybe he simply wants to deny what happened. According to the defector Oleg Kalugin, once the youngest general in the KGB and former head of KGB political operations in the US, “Trump had fun with a lot of girls during that trip and that it is certain that the KGB had compromising material from it”. This was later backed up by the Steele dossier used as evidence in the Muller investigations on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections. Much has been said about the Steele dossier, heavily criticised by an apprehensive Trump team. They continue to shower scorn on the claims about Trump without providing any evidence for their scepticism. A colleague in the British Embassy in Moscow in the early 90s, Chris Steele was an energetic 3rd Secretary and built up an impressive list of contacts in Russia during his three years. He was rated “a very professional operator” by a former UK ambassador. Between 2006 and 2009, he ran the MI6 Russia desk in London, before retiring to form his consultancy company Orbis. Because of Steele’s extensive knowledge and credibility on Russia, prior to the 2016 presidential election, Orbis was contracted by the Washington consultancy Fusion GPS, acting for a Republican donor, to create the “dossier” examining links between Donald Trump and Russia. In the dossier, Trump’s alleged sexual activity during his 2013 trip to Moscow was described in colourful detail, causing severe embarrassment to the White House, which in the traditional way described it as “fake news”. Countless businessmen and diplomats have been compromised over many years by Soviet or Russian videos taken by concealed cameras during “arranged” sex sessions in hotels. Students of Soviet/Russian intelligence will confirm that “Kompramat” has been the weapon of choice by Moscow since cameras were invented. So it would be extremely surprising if hidden cameras had not been used during Trump’s various stays in Moscow for “future use”. In fact, as Kalugin says, it is virtually certain that Donald Trump was compromised on each occasion. However, until the numerous tapes locked away in the Putin-controlled KGB stores in the bowels of the Lubyanka become available, we shall have no absolute proof. But such activity would be in line with thrice-married Trump’s proclivity for sexual misconduct. He has already admitted to grabbing women inappropriately and to paying off multiple women with whom he allegedly had affairs. Perhaps you agree with Donald Trump that he is too decent and honest a man to fall for sexual blackmail. OK, so let’s consider another area of opportunity for Putin to blackmail Trump—money. It’s widely believed that when faced with multiple bankruptcies Trump was “saved” on countless occasions by Russian money, the reason why he fights so hard to keep his financial returns out of the public eye. In 1992, he admitted to New York Magazine that two years earlier he was $5bn in debt, with a whopping $980m in personal guarantees. He managed to reduce this to $115m by selling off a string of yachts and planes and restructuring his debts, but by July 1991 his flagship Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City New York was in financial trouble and filed for bankruptcy. Bondholders, believed to be Russian mobsters, rushed to the rescue and the casino was saved. But now the Taj Mahal became the place where “no questions were asked” about the vast amount of Russian money flowing through the casino, where Russian racketeers flocked to pay $100,000 a time for “special treatment”. In this way, the casino became a favourite venue for laundering the “black” cash pouring out of Russia, organised by the KGB in cohorts with Russian mobsters after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 2015, the casino admitted to having “wilfully violated” anti-money laundering regulations for years and was fined $10m, a paltry sum but the highest penalty ever levied by the US Federal Government against a casino. In her best-selling new book ‘Putin’s People: How the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West’, the highly respected Financial Times journalist, Catherine Belton, describes in intimate detail how Russian “black cash” repeatedly came to Trump’s aid in the nick of time to prevent disaster. Belton worked in Russia for many years, from the time Putin came to power until 2013, during which she built up a formidable list of contacts. Detailing her sources, she describes how numerous Russian mobsters laundered black cash into Trump’s businesses over a number of years. As almost any deal, even as low as $20m, had to be authorised by President Putin, he will have a complete record of Trump’s indebtedness to him. Such information is power. Mark Morris.

@Gemmill will this affect the books I have on kindle app on my phone?