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→ Liz Truss plays up the Donald Trump parallels
Noted political oracle Liz Truss has warned the US that she “fears the same forces that came for me will be coming for Trump, if he wins”. In a speech today to the Heritage Foundation, an American think tank, the 45-day PM cautioned that the nebulous global Left — which “wanted to see more big government” and derailed her time in office — still has an agenda to stop the international conservative movement.
No one is safe, Truss suggested, outlining how she tried to “battle the institutional mindset”, which she admitted “didn’t quite work out”. This institutional global elite allegedly involves, among other acronyms and initialisms, the WHO, IMF and COP summit. What’s more, there will be no economic success until we return to a Thatcherite economy. That worked out well before.
→ UCLA study: climate change is homophobic
One might have thought that climate change doesn’t discriminate, but a new UCLA study appears to have put paid to that myth. The report, from the Williams Institute at the university’s School of Law, argues that “same-sex couples are disproportionately located in coastal areas and cities” and “are more likely to reside in communities with poorer infrastructure and less access to resources”. It gets worse for gay citizens, though: according to the study, “LGBT populations face additional disparities in housing, health care, income, and access to food.”
As I suspected, climate change is homophobic. pic.twitter.com/7UdrobUWt3
— Will Kingston (@WillKingston) April 21, 2024
There has been plenty of mirth online at the UCLA findings, with journalist Will Kingston remarking, “As I suspected, climate change is homophobic.” This climate-based discrimination extends to “wildfires, floods, smoke-filled skies, and drought”, according to the report. Washington DC has the highest proportion of gay couples of any county in the US, and is also vulnerable to heatwaves, floods and strong winds. Be careful out there.
→ Gavin Newsom issues pregnancy advice
Women beware: when crossing between blue and red states, a burly police officer may force you to pull over and take a pregnancy test.
So warns the latest TV ad from California Governor Gavin Newsom, airing in Alabama in response to legislation banning adults from helping minors cross state lines for abortions (though the women in the ad both appear to be adults).
Alabama’s abortion ban has no exceptions for rape or incest.
Now, Republicans are trying to criminalize young women’s travel to receive abortion care.
We cannot let them get away with this. pic.twitter.com/gHbYJYlEXk
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) April 21, 2024
Readers might be forgiven for wondering why Newsom is running ads in Alabama, but his choice of network offers some clues. The ad aired on MSNBC during a show hosted by former Joe Biden spox Jen Psaki, seemingly part of the governor’s long-running campaign to bolster his image among Democrats nationwide. Newsom 2028, anyone?
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SubscribeJeremy Hunt is only Chancellor of the Exchequer because Liz Truss put him there. Donald Trump has his faults, but at least he didn’t appoint people to undermine his stated political objectives in a futile attempt to save his own skin.
These new unattributable tabloid-esque missives from ‘UnHerd staff’ can be a bit tiresome and suggestive they think their subscribers largely dim-witted, but in this instance it does seem a bit of ‘tongue in cheek’ was at work. Has someone gone secretly rogue on the News desk?.
Merely keeping the Mad Liz story going shows a sense of humour as the more folks reminded of her the more the Right basks in the reflected glory…or not.
The homophobic Climate change meme almost certainly a spoof to see who’d pick it up.
And helping keep the Alabama ‘nuttiness’ to the fore also shows a streak of liberalism under the camouflage.
Chapeau.
Liz can’t be Trump if she remains a thoughtless neocon. She does make the point that she was around in Westminster when Trump armed the Ukrainians with Javelins. But her boss Boris did the will of the Democrat neocons to doom that poor country, the Ukrainians having defeated the Russian column from Belarus and set to agree a peace settlement which might have given up Crimea but preserved a certain autonomy for the Donbas republics.
No, Biden and his State Department couldn’t have that, if they wanted a war without end to help US gas exports and arms, security or reconstruction corporations. I’m pretty sure Cheney’s still been in the mix there and not just daughter mix.