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Reply | Sky Sports Reports Ivan Juric Sacked
at 12:56 7 Apr 2025
I think nobody will be sorry to see him leave.
The statement says that he arrived at a difficult time - he did - but I hope that the management realise why it was difficult, i.e. they made it that way by staying the ego previously known as RM too long and failing to recruit well.
I know nothing about Rusk. Lallana I know only as a player. I hope that they can tease a few points out of this team before the end of the season before we appoint a permanent manager. |
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Reply | Handmaids Tale
at 08:43 7 Apr 2025
Part of the issue here Mr Jelly is that you continually offer up a theory that we are all being "controlled" by some sort of secret cabal or elite who care only for money and power but when pushed, you have no proof.
The Trump effect on the weak minded is obvious. Offer them something they think they need; strike a blow against "the man"; assume the imagined reins of power. It's a story as old as politics and one we have seen many times in history.
Is he stupid? No. Is he easily led into thinking he is some sort of intellectual superbeing? Yes. Is he vain? Yes. Is he willing to lie to himself and everybody else in covering up these faults? Yes.
But if you want to claim that he is nothing but a factor of a global cabal, you need proof.
And despite repeated opportunities, none has been offered.
Until it is, I'm afraid that your case lacks any credibility. |
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Thread | Fake tariffs and fake news
at 13:16 3 Apr 2025
I'm not an economist. I'm not expert or even a user of AI. I cannot therefore say whether the "revelation" from various US commentators are correct or just more BS.
The claim however is that the alleged tariffs imposed on the US by various countries (some mentioned on the Felon's big scoreboard have a zero population) are false. There has been no examination of export/import charges.
Instead if you apply a formula which is trade deficit/exports to the US, you get to the tariff the Felon claims exists.
Take Indonesia. Deficit 17.9bn, exports to US $28bn. Deficit is 64% of exports which is the tariff the orange baby claims exists.
Repeat this for each country mentioned for tariffs above the base 10% rate and the equation works every time.
I suspect that the any actual calculation of barriers to import/export are way beyond the intellectual grip or attention span of the Felon and so his minions had to simplify it.
On a different thread Mr Jellybaby asked me if I thought Trump was just a tool of his (Jelly's) cherished "global elite" based on the fact that he was just too stupid to run the USA on his own. No proof of said global elite or their Jedi mind tricks was of course offered).
I have no doubt that the Felon lacks intelligence (he mistakes belligerence as intelligence) and that the cult members around him are too scared to call him out. (Because they will be sacked and the DoJ will be unleashed upon them).
If however there is this cabal which has been at work for centuries and which apparently control dictators like Putin, Orbal, the Chinese Communist Party, etc why would they blow their cover with somebody like Trump?
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Reply | Handmaids Tale
at 08:32 3 Apr 2025
With the proof?
No - thought not. |
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Reply | Handmaids Tale
at 14:29 2 Apr 2025
Please tell me who is controlling the Felon - with proof. |
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Reply | Handmaids Tale
at 12:41 1 Apr 2025
The concentration of wealth into the hands of a relative few is not new, not specific to the last few hundred years nor probably ever. Human nature dictates that if you have opportunity to acquire more resources than your neighbour, then you do that.
There can be many reasons or excuses for that behaviour but it's ingrained as a means of providing security against hunger, enemies, adverse nature, etc.
I recall reading a paper many years ago which it speculated that all the money in the UK was distributed evenly on Day 1 of Year 1, it would be consolidated into a small percentage of hands within a decade.
We also see communist regimes fail because some people always want to be more equal than others.
We also see many people dabble in politics and perhaps become single issue dictators (think Farage) and can guess that they do not have what it takes to actually run a country.
Finally, the great unwashed masses can throw a hero into power from time to time but without the education, the political nous or a willingness to be a dictator, they will crash and burn.
The dream/nightmare of the "lower classes" rising and gaining power would end in anarchy and disaster for untold millions. |
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Thread | The media selling Tyler to the highest bidder
at 12:25 1 Apr 2025
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn4yen2xgrxo
Pretty much a puff piece which I suspect was planted by an agent looking to extract the maximum price.
Tyler's statistics as quoted are certainly top half of any table and in a team that has struggled (and will continue to struggle) are arguably outstanding.
There is an aspect here that really - really - irritates me.
One of the tables is "fouls won".
Fouls are not "won" - they are conceded or committed by the opposition.
By styling this as fouls won it implies that "winning" fouls is now an acceptable tactic and is it any wonder then that player dive at every opportunity? |
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Reply | Handmaids Tale
at 08:33 1 Apr 2025
I think Mr Jelly, that noting the facts and reacting to them is hardly an "epiphany".
Unlike you because I see no facts supporting the idea of a shadowy "elite" (I've given up asking exactly who these people are because nobody knows or nobody is willing to say) directing the Felon and his cabal of idiots, I do not believe in today's favourite conspiracy.
The Democrats failed in the last two cycles to find a leader who could mean something to the majority of voters. The Republicans saw this and prostituted themselves to every influencer they could find from the religious to the Tate loving rednecks to every conspiracy theorist they could find. Their vote base is a demographers nightmare and almost impossible to keep together over the cycle.
I also think that the Felon cares only for personal reputation. Yes he is easily swayed and reacts like a child if provoked, but ultimately he craves recognition because he knows he is a failure.
But adults look for facts and try to interpret them. They don't invent facts or make assumptions which are plainly different from the facts. |
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Reply | Whos Going On Wednesday
at 13:21 31 Mar 2025
I'm working in London on Wednesday and have a mate who is a CP fan who can lend me a ticket.
I'm waiting to see who is in the draw for a starting place in the team before I decide. |
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Reply | Handmaids Tale
at 12:25 31 Mar 2025
The Felon's assumption of any religion - Christianity or any other - is just a false flag designed to appeal to a certain type of voter, already blinded by religion.
The US Constitution is very clear - there is a separation of Church and State. This was partly to allow people who are religious to practice their particular brand without interference from the law but also because the founding fathers had concerns that some religions did not recognise some of the principles upon which the constitution was based.
https://constitutioncenter.org/education/constitution-101-curriculum?gad_source=
I think however that religion (or its absence) is not the point here. The point is that a fundamentalist and therefore limited approach to government and society is one which can survive an educated electorate only by the application of force.
As I said I hope that there are enough good Americans from whom a decent leader can emerge - one who is tolerant and recognises that survival of nations in today's world needs co-operation and not conflict and economic or shooting wars. |
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Thread | Handmaids Tale
at 10:38 31 Mar 2025
I don't know if you've read the book or seen the TV series but basically it's set in a world in which the birth rate has collapsed - it's hinted that this is because humans have poisoned the environment with pollution - and as a result economic activity is stalled and living standards - everywhere - are falling. Using this crisis as a catalyst a group of religious fundamentalists blow up the capital building in Washington DC during a full senate session and in the resulting power vacuum, assume control. Their policy is to take US society back to a time where men ruled the house/world, women are property, dissent from the very strict old testament are punishable by death. The US is also trying to evangelise other countries - Canada in particular - and as a result a series of wars/skirmishes are ongoing. (It's again hinted that one of these is a civil war with the more liberal western seaboard of the US).
Whilst I do not see the religious aspect front and centre of the USA that Trump and his cultists wish to achieve (and his copy cats in Europe aspire to) there are some parallels.
The press is regulated, suppressed; going off message brings exclusion and exile (or worse); dissenters are attacked physically and vocally; outside influences are disregarded and often attacked. There is an elite group (who enjoy many freedoms and pleasures denied others) but the rest of the population is very tightly regulated and forced into submission. There are no Judges or law courts - the law is an extension of the executive. There is no separation of powers, just the application of the religious doctrine, as interpreted by a powerful cabal of "elders".
There is of course a resistance and in this case it's one led by a woman who is separated from her child (given to a childless member of the elite) and who is fighting to get that child back and in so doing exposes flaws and hypocrisy and corruption at the heart of the US ruling elite.
They are great books. The TV show is good (but not as good as the books).
Stripped of the religious aspect, the society described could easily be one to which the US under Felon and crew are heading, especially if he decides that he can ignore the constitution and run for a third term. Authoritarian, intolerant, used to protect and increase the power and wealth of the elite, opposition destroyed by law and physical force.
In the book, the result of the usurping of power in the US is that they are internationally isolated, have internal dissent and are rotting from within as their basis of power (the old testament) is increasingly shown to be unacceptable.
The author, Margaret Attwood, a Canadian so Felon would not regard her as worth anything, uses her make believe world to take a swing at many issues. Most of the central and pivotal characters are female and the make characters are shown as weak, hypocritical, vain, corrupt, cowardly.
Without giving away the ending, ultimately the society collapses under the weight of its own flaws.
I think that I have to see the Felon's USA in the same way. Bear with it. Understand that most people think its too deeply wrong to survive, trust that there remain good Americans, in a few years hopefully the Felon will be broken and serving whatever penance the universe decrees. |
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Reply | With Trump’s 25% tariff on cars, is it time that we stopped buying Teslas?
at 14:53 27 Mar 2025
Yep. The Felon says that America should make its own cars from scratch.
I'm entirely clueless as to the time it takes to built a factory and the all the tooling infrastructure needed, contracts to import raw materials, hiring labour etc, but I'd guess three to five years.
At a time when as you say the value of car companies is falling which will impact their ability to raise capital and fund new plant.
The Oval office definitely needs an adult in room when these announcements are made. |
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Reply | No Fan of Lineker But This Stirs Harassment Via Le Tissier
at 14:49 27 Mar 2025
You don't need my advice Mr Jelly.
Offend - is that the right word?
It was once, but I've thought about it and whilst I can't understand how you can deny mass murder took place just because you "were not there" but are happy to take the "word" of a fantasist which a Court has found to be at best unverified and at worst, outright lies, it did help me place you in the correct category in my brain washed head.
I actually feel quite sorry for you. |
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Thread | New depths across the pond
at 14:43 27 Mar 2025
It's being reported that all the Republican members of the House have voted against prohibiting DOGE from introducing racial segregation.
Truly a nation going backwards. |
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Reply | Lies, damned lies and President Felon.
at 12:24 27 Mar 2025
I've worked and lived in the US and travelled extensively there. One of my sons lives there with his American wife.
There is a very distinct separation in view between Americans who live in cities and those who live in small towns.
Those in cities (in my experience) are cosmopolitan and generally liberal in their views and not inclined to take extreme positions on political matters. They tend to be more concerned about achieving the American dream of wealth, freedom and happiness.
Those in small towns and the countryside tend to be much more polarised in their political outlook and some - by no means all - live in a conflict in which they blame the Gov't for lack of opportunity or social security whilst claiming that it's the Gov't that causes the problems.
Not a real survey of course but just a contribution. |
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Reply | With Trump’s 25% tariff on cars, is it time that we stopped buying Teslas?
at 12:13 27 Mar 2025
Good piece in that papers last week explaining why Tesla is in trouble commercially before you take into account the political affiliations of President Musk.
Outdated design, lack of production capacity, poor build quality, product recalls, lack of attention from the narcissist, etc.
It's not just the political issues that is driving the stock price down.
In the last few days there are reports of a "pump and dump" effort to stop brokers shorting the stock. At best that is a very short term (few days) plan and the market will prevail. |
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